Position title: Production Mentor/Trainer
Job Title: Production Mentor/Trainer
Duty Station: Uganda – Kampala
Reports to: Project Manager
Duration: 18 months with possible extension subject to funding and performance
Start Date: TBD
Job Description:
Overall Purpose of the Job
Reporting to the Project Manager the Production Mentor/Trainer will help partner media organisations, and local journalists to develop quality programmes and packages in their daily output that can inform, empower and connect local communities with a focus on governance. He/she will be responsible for the capacity building of media partners, using the insights from research and a detailed understanding of the media ecosystem. The Production Mentor/Trainer will also be responsible for producing short form media content in collaboration with freelancers.
Context
BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international development charity. We use media and communications to help poverty, address development goals, and support people to understand their rights. We do this through partnering with media, civil society, and others to produce creative media content which informs and engage audiences on key development issues. We also strengthen the media sector through building professional capacity and infrastructure of local media organisations in the countries in which we work.
BBC Media Action is implementing a media development project in Uganda and is seeking an experienced Producer Mentor/Trainer to lead the capacity building and mentoring of our media partners as well as oversee the production of some short form social media/radio content.
Main duties
The Production Mentor/Trainer will work with partner stations producers to develop their creative skills and help them to produce high-quality radio content that engages and informs listeners. He/She will also be responsible for delivering training and mentoring on content production including research and all aspects of story production.
- Provide regular on-job mentoring to the selected local partner stations to ensure they can produce high-quality content as per the needs of the audiences.
- Co-design and produce creative content radio/social media (with freelancers if necessary) that meets the project’s communications objectives.
- Use the insights from research to support media partners and develop the project activities.
- Assist media partners in producing creative content in multi-media formats which inform and engage audiences around key governance issues.
- Carry out needs/capacity assessments of partner stations including an assessment of the station’s equipment and the journalists’ capabilities/skills.
- Provide training, advice, support, ideas, and help through a mixture of email and phone contact, in person and online training to partner stations and local journalists.
- Manage relationships with the local media partners.
- Monitor the training programme’s effectiveness and successes regularly, and report regularly on activities and impact.
- Maintain a keen awareness of developments in the media ecosystem in Uganda particularly with regard to mis/dis information.
- Produce mentoring reports using the agreed template and timeline.
- Support the design of training workshops and managing logistics and arrangements for training and mentoring sessions.
- Advise local media partners and local journalists to help them maintain strong production and editorial values.
- Ensure that all production activities are designed with safeguarding in mind, and that production risk assessments reflect this.
- Perform other duties as requested by the manager and liaise with other teams as required.
Job Requirements:
- An impressive track-record in an editorial role as an editor, producer or journalist.
- At least 3 years of media training experience and at least 5 years of experience in broadcast/online journalism.
- Excellent understanding of the Uganda media ecosystem
- A keen interest in media research and countering mis/dis information.
- Proven experience of and enthusiasm for training and mentoring.
- Demonstrable creative ability, with a proven track-record in coming up with innovative ideas for training and content creation.
- Familiarity with a wide range training methods (mentoring, coaching, on-the-job, in classroom training, e-learning, workshops, simulations etc.)
- Experience of making multi-media programming on a range of topics.
- Ability to assess safety and security issues involved in media production and reporting.
- Ability to travel around Uganda for training and mentoring purposes.
- Strong planning and organizing skills, including some understanding of project management.
Submission Guideline:
Please send an email with your CV and cover letter to [email protected] please put Uganda Production Mentor/ Trainer as the subject line of the email. The deadline for applications is end of day 23rd March 2025.
