Current Opportunities at eMedia Investments

Repairing and Testing

• Repairing all destitution boxes as required.
• Testing all electrical equipment.
• Fault finding inhouse as well as onset.
• Assisting with the wiring of generators.

Management

• Assisting supervisors and managers with their daily tasks.
• Providing regular feedback to management.

Requirements

• A National Diploma in Electrical Engineering and/ or Mechanics
• A minimum of 2 years experience in a similar role within a mechanical workshop

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Key Performance Area

Performance Outputs

Interpersonal and Team Relationships

• Build, support and maintain interpersonal and team relationships to ensure stable working environment and achievement of team objectives

Personal Development

• Complete Individual Development Plan. Attend learning and development courses. Participate in peer and team learning initiatives.

Budget Compliance

• Comply with work rules, standards and methods. Take care to minimise waste.

Quality Assurance

• Analysing audio and video quality of programmes in real time.
• Ensuring the technical quality of all media operations material in line with e.tv and other broadcasters broadcasting specifications.
• Ensuring that all timings and other relevant info is correct and correctly loaded on BMS.
• Ensuring that the programmes required for broadcast are ingested and a quality assurance review is performed on ingested material as per the given schedule.
• Editing and dubbing material as and when required.
• Ensuring the correct material is captured and conforms to broadcast standards, including aspect ratio.
• Evaluating images and processes through a PSE (Photosensitive epilepsy) test if and when required.
• Mastering finished products in time and archiving existing projects.
• Flagging any classification queries to be reviewed.
• Gathering all the relevant components (audio mixes, textless elements, etc.) on International Masters.
• Reviewing and responding to daily shift report, when on standby.
• Reviewing and responding to daily missing media report, when on standby.

Editing

• Selecting shots that need to be taken out or faded after consultation with relevant stakeholders.
• Formatting multiple file wrappers and codecs.
• Logging and digitizing of media delivered on tape or any analogue delivery format.
• Printing to tape and doing insert editing on material to be played out or delivered to analogue formats or systems. 
• Editing the title as per distributor / broadcaster specifications (video type, audio configurations etc.). Formatting according to delivery format required (DVD master, broadcast file or master file) for redistribution.
• Responsible for creating viewing copies for potential clients to view and uploading to our digital online viewing platform (Egnyte).
• Sending links and media digitally to clients.
• Converting selected media according to clients’ specifications.

Requirements

• A National Senior Certificate
• A National Diploma in Video Editing - Advantageous
• A minimum of 1 years experience within a similiar role

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Description

• The incumbent would be required to report on news stories of the day through, live content and packages.  

Interpersonal and team relationships

• Build, support and maintain interpersonal and team relationships to ensure stable working environment and achievement of team objectives.

Personal development

• Completing Individual Development Plan.
• Attending learning and development courses.
• Participating in peer and team learning initiatives.

Budget Compliance

• Comply with work rules, standards and methods. Take care to minimise waste. 

Conducting Research

• Conducting research and writing scripts on topics prior to broadcasts.
• Identifying newsworthy events and developments and generating unique story ideas from this.
• Attend weekly diary meetings to pitch, discuss story ideas and developments and plan the week ahead with the team.
• Generating thought provoking and compelling stories.
• Checking electronic media (wires), social media and articles of interest.
• Checking archives for specified and appropriate visuals.

Conducting Interviews

• Representing the organization at conferences, press briefings, events, and interviews.
• Interviewing eyewitnesses, authorities, and people of interest in news stories.
• Assigning & Briefing the Camera Operator and Interviewee prior to broadcast.
• Conducting preliminary telephonic interviews.
• Asking probing follow-up questions.
• Ensuring interviews contain a variety of voices and/or angles.

Writing Scripts

• Writing scripts in line with visuals.
• Transcribing and summarizing events for further news purposes.
• Providing time coded short list with all scripts for Sub-Editors.
• Checking facts with relevant stakeholders to ensure that stories are accurate and unbiased.
• Deliver a well-researched story including a video that has unique angles for eNCA`s online audience.

Reporting

• Updating and maintaining a strong contact base for story ideas.
• Knowledge of current local, national and international news.
• Traveling to events and ensuring the proper maintenance, security, and care of recording equipment.
• Working collaboratively with Cameramen and other members of a reporting team.
• Attending and reporting on events that are of interest to the public.
• Delivering scripted, spontaneous, live, and prerecorded reports on newsworthy events.
• Provide compelling packages with content for television.
• Conducting live and on camera interviews that are hard-hitting and probing.
• Conducting live reports from the field ensuring accuracy and objectivity.
• Ensuring stories have depth and quality.
• Doing in-studio lives that are professional and informative.
• Providing the news desk with regular updates on stories by adhering to the editorial deadlines.
• Adhering to story deadlines.
• Taking a multi-media approach to individual stories done by use of graphics and animations thereby ensuring good sound quality, still pictures as well as moving visuals and overall content are shared, prepared and edited properly – ready for air.
• Ensuring a professional appearance, language use, and manner throughout reports.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• 3-year National Diploma in Media Studies/ Television/ Journalism and/or Communications - Essential

Experience

• 5 years as a Reporter in News/Television and/or Broadcast Journalism - Essential
• Driver's License - Essential
• Own Vehicle - Recommended

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite - Advanced

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Ethical and professional research and reporting skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Able to form and ask probing questions to interviewees.
• Passionate about the news and current events.
• Well-spoken, engaging, and knowledgeable about news events.
• Critically-minded, meticulous, and excellent recall of facts.
• Adventurous, calm under pressure, and determined to uncover the truth.
• Great interpersonal and rapport-building skills.

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Description

• The incumbent would be responsible for mixing all elements on-air and off-air for all studio productions, live and pre-recorded, as well as special projects and outside broadcasts as might be required from time to time, and to assist the Technical Director with the visual and technical look of the production.

Interpersonal and team relationships

• Build, support and maintain interpersonal and team relationships to ensure stable working environment and achievement of team objectives.

Personal development

• Complete Individual Development Plan. Attend learning and development courses. Participate in peer and team learning initiatives.

Budget Compliance

• Comply with work rules, standards and methods. Take care to minimise waste. 

Technical Operations

• Check desk if everything is working and all relevant elements is loaded for production and report any irregularities to engineering.
• Rebuild effects if they are not running properly.
• Create special effects such as multiple boxed pictures, via the vision desk as per production requirements.
• Ensure that the keys are assigned to the correct graphical elements.
• Ensure all relevant elements are loaded.

Mixing

• View different types of images from a variety of sources, i.e. pictures from several cameras, digital video effects, graphics and outside broadcast materials.
• Under instructions from the Technical Director, selecting the required images and combining them, ensuring a smooth transition between shots – this involves ‘cutting’, ‘mixing’ and ‘wiping’.
• Create and rebuild special effects for outside broadcast and special projects.

Supporting Technical Director

• Stand in for Technical Director when required and ensure with the Director a smooth technical and visual production.
• Cut between sources independently or as directed by the Technical Director.
• Display relevant images on the set monitors and the video wall using the relevant house style.
• Ability to troubleshoot during live broadcasts.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• 3 Year National Diploma in Broadcast, Television, Film and/or Video Technology - Essential

Experience

• 4 years in Vision Mixing in Media or Broadcasting Industry - Essential
• Drivers License - Recommended

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite - Recommended 

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Decision-making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills

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Description

• The incumbent would be responsible for operating and flighting created graphics in on-air or live production and pre-recorded environments. Ensuring that all graphic elements are free from spelling errors. 

Interpersonal and team relationships

• Build, support and maintain interpersonal and team relationships to ensure stable working environment and achievement of team objectives.

Personal development

• Complete Individual Development Plan. Attend learning and development courses. Participate in peer and team learning initiatives.

Budget Compliance

• Comply with work rules, standards and methods. Take care to minimise waste. 

Preparation 

• Perform equipment test at the beginning of day/shift.
• Ensure the correct Rundown is loaded and tests of all rundown elements are done prior to any bulletin going on air or recording.
• Ensuring that the correct show graphics & elements are loaded for each show.
• Once all tests are done check for spelling errors on graphics all full screens, CGs and lower third straps.
• Running on air tests when required.
• Ensure all graphics are in the correct format prior to going on air.
• Liaise closely with the Technical Director and Vision Mixer on show requirements to activate Backgrounds, split screens and keys such as clock and channel logo.
• Liaise with the Editorial Team when there are changes to be made to graphics before taking to air.
• On outside Broadcast create on screen graphics and sequences. Input data provided in the necessary templates created for every production, (Charts/Graphs and any graphical requirement).

Coordination 

• Completing graphics requests using provided templates on the Graphics Computers, as per the required standards.
• Operating graphics play-out computers during live and pre-recorded programs.
• Building animations using template driven computer graphics.
• Edit graphics at the request of the editorial team.
• Ensure that graphics correspond with the script provided.
• Typing in all titles, supers and credits.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• 3 Year National Diploma in Graphic Design and/or Broadcast - Essential

Experience

• 2 years Graphics Production in Live/On Air Environment - Essential
• Drivers License - Essential

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite - Basic

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Decision-making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Persuasiveness
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills

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Description

• The incumbent would be required to ensure all technical aspects of the bulletin are met. To assist with producing creative and compelling content for the Channel.

Interpersonal and team relationships:

• Build, support and maintain interpersonal and team relationships to ensure stable working environment and achievement of team objectives

Personal development:

• Complete Individual Development Plan.
• Attend learning and development courses.
• Participate in peer and team learning initiatives.

Budget Compliance:

• Comply with work rules, standards and methods.
• Take care to minimise waste. 

Writing:

• Manage the editorial process for all news stories from conception to broadcast.
• Coordinate with production staff members to create scripts and gather footage for stories.
• Write and edit news stories for broadcast on television. Research topics using online databases and other sources.
• Help to create content for newscasts, including writing scripts, writing to visuals and booking guests
• Write factual content with mininal supervision and with accuracy.

Technical:

• Understand the newsroom workflow systems( Dalet).
• Cut bytes and edit visuals and cut headlines according to script.
• Conduct research on programme topics.
• Check electronic media, social media and articles of interest.
• Check archives for specified and appropriate visuals.

Communication:

• Ability to work in a team.
• Good inter-personal skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a breaking news environment.
• Being able to problem solve especially in a breaking news environment.
• Have valuable contacts to enhance the channel’s news coverage through unique tip-offs.
• Be persuasive and convincing to newsmakers that the channel needs to be on top of news.
• Compile and provide info pack for the Anchors for guest interviews.
• Arrange and suggest guests for the various shows.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• Advanced Diploma in Broadcast and/or Journalism - Essential
• Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast and/or Journalism - Advantageous

Experience

• 3 years in Broadcast and/or Journalism and/or Producing - Essential
• Driver's Licenses - Essential

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite

Functional /Technical Competencies

• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Decision-making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Facilitation skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills

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Description

Operations Management

• Responsible for planning, coordinating & controlling resources required in providing the services of the company.
• Ensuring organizational processes are running efficiently and effectively.
• Ensuring delivery of services offered is proficient.
• Being involved in the operational and financial strategies to improve and optimise performance.
• Monitoring and analysing workflows for optimization and improvement.
• Oversight of the planning of inventory with regards to demand and capacity.
• Communication of company strategies to staff.
• Resolving customer complaints and queries with the aid of the team.
• Forecasting requirements – budgets, procurement and training.
• Reviewing expenditures at the branch
• Working closely with the Managing Director ensuring effective management and performance.
• Working closely with inventory and technical personnel for the effective purchasing of the correct equipment.
• Overseeing the precision and accuracy of inventory data.

Client & Crew Relationships

• Maintaining and foster good relationships with clients and crew.
• Attending industry functions and events.
• Reporting and communicating all responses to Managing Director and staff as appropriate

Marketing & Advertising

• Strategic planning for the marketing and advertising of the
• Company brand & services.

Requirements

• A relevant qualification in Film
• A minimum of 3 years experience within Management
• A minimum of 5 years experience in a relevant Film Industry