Correspondent – Nandi Job Royal Media Group

Job Ref No. HRD/EDCF/CORRE/10/ 2024.

Key roles & Responsibilities

• Ability to produce content, report, write, edit and produce stories on deadline for multiple platforms – Tv, Radio, digital and social media platforms
• Offer creative and innovative ideas for elevated storytelling
• Excellent writing skills, with solid news judgment and ethical decision-making skills
• Generating ideas for news stories and news features
• Following leads from news agencies, the police, the public, press conferences and other sources
• Generating ideas to head of desks , editors and producers
• Writing scripts for bulletins, headlines and special reports
• Exercising judgment on the best story angle
• Preparing material for both pre-recorded and live pieces
• Developing and maintaining useful contacts and relations with news sources

Academic and professional/work Experience

• Degree in journalism, mass communications or any other related field
• At least one year relevant experience as a reporter / correspondent in a busy media house.

Essential Competences

• Excellent written and spoken, Kalenjin – Nandi dialect, English and Swahili (Attach voice demo in mp3 format)
• An edge for news or features, ability for quick thinking, persistence, personal initiative and a good memory
• Sound knowledge of the local and international social, political and economic news-shaping environment
• A clear communicating voice
• Ability to report accurately and impartially.

How To Apply

If you are interested and qualified, please email your CV, voice demo and an application to recruitment@royalmedia.co.ke by Friday 18th October 2024 at 5pm. Clearly cite Job Ref No