News Room Manager Job Vacancy in Kenya (200K)

Our client a well established Media Company with a local news website and a print magazine is looking for a News Room Manager. 

The ideal candidate MUST have experience managing people.

Key Responsibilities;

• Manage the editorial team.


• Train and empower new senior editors.


• Tech Liaison.

Qualifications;

• Minimum 3 years concrete experience directly managing a team of 10+.


• Great leadership skills: organised, strict, excellent long-term planning skills.


• Strong voice / good speaker.


• Experience writing performance reports, disciplining, designing promotion system.


• The ability to recruit new sub-editors (keep a database of applicants, set trials, negotiate terms).


• Experience maintaining/enforcing staff schedules (24hr coverage, record sick/off/leave days).


• Experience reading/recording data.


• The ability to come up with creative feature requests to optimise the editorial process.


• The ability to develop strategies to obtain more news story submissions.


• Good general knowledge of online content, content creation.


• Tech savvy.


• Active on social media.

Monthly gross salary: Ksh. 150,000 – 200,000/= (Approx. 1,500 – 2,000 USD) depending on experience

Deadline: 30th March 2016   

Applications:

To apply, please follow the link: 

Blixen Court, Karen Road, 

Karen.

We endeavour to make contact with all of our applicants, but unfortunately high volumes of applications make this unrealistic. If you do not hear from us within two weeks your application has not been successful on this occasion. This does not mean you will not be considered for future roles so please keep an eye on our job board and apply for positions that match your skills and experience.