Latest Job Vacancies at eMedia Investments

Description

• The incumbent would be required to oversee the team of Marketing Intelligence Specialists who are responsible for supporting the sales teams by arming with media consumption information and facts and providing go to market presentations for them to go out and sell airtime.

Ensure adherence to Company Policies

• Adhere to and ensure adherence to statutory regulations, organisational standards, policies and procedures

Team Performance and Development

• Assist in planning, scheduling, coordinating and supervising subordinate activities to ensure efficiency and achievement of goals

Research 

• Understand research and analyse data using specialist industry resources.
• Receive, understand, analyse and make industry research available to relevant sales staff and presenting findings to relevant stakeholders.
• Evaluate effectiveness of campaigns in order to inform future campaigns.
• Monitor, track and analyse all competitor activity.
• Identify target audience/s and analyse their characteristics, behaviour and media habits.
• Provide updates on all CPP deals.

Monitor Marketing Intelligence

• Supply competitor information, media landscape, audience insights, and brand insights information to sales department to relevant internal stakeholders in order to retain and grow business.
• Compile and submit reports to the Chief Commercial Officer, Group Head of Sales and other reports that may be required from time to time.
• Proactively identify trends that may affect current or potential revenue streams across channels.
• Prepare and submit media landscape updates to relevant internal stakeholders.

Client Liaison

• Manage Account Executive (AE) and client/agency relationships to build respect and trust in your judgment.
• Attend client/agency meetings, with AE’s.
• Attend external meetings such as BRC, Telmar, and The Nielsen Company.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Marketing and/or Research and/or Media

Experience

• 3- 5 years in Media Research and Planning
• Language
• English - Advanced

Technology Proficiency

• MS Office Suite - Intermediate
• Arianna - Intermediate
• Telmar - Intermediate

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Specific Tasks and Outcomes

• Editing
• Creating of imaginative edits which will continue to set The Show apart.
• Syncing sound to raw footage.
• Inserting offline and online edits of segments.
• Building and designing motion graphic and design holding devices.
• Creating effects and transitions.
• Manipulating raw film and video images to create consistent colour tones throughout the edit.
• Choosing compelling and effective music for each edit.
• Sourcing and creating sound effects.
• Assisting camera department with ingest of raw footage.
• Editing, packaging, and delivering of weekly and monthly promos.
• Packaging final episodes.
• Delivering episodes and promos to final mix.
• Liaising with freelance team members and final mix.
• Delivering final episodes for broadcast.
• Editing and sending weekly social media cuts and WhatsApp promos to the Executive Producer.
• Providing the highest quality of work, both artistically and technically, while working within the limits imposed by available deadlines.
• Ensuring weekly deliveries of promos and episodes are made on time in accordance with the broadcast date to the correct internal server.
• Prepping and delivering weekly promos and episodes to online.
• Contributing to weekly editorials (when not editing) with the sole purpose of generating entertaining and informative television.
• Liaising with the Executive Producer, Managing Editor, and Producers daily.
• QC’ing weekly episodes.
• Media Management/Archiving
• Ingesting of raw footage and the creation of insert specific working files.
• Ensuring back-ups of active files and effective management of hard drive space.
• Assisting in sending interviews to the relevant team members for transcriptions.
• Managing hard drives, servers and editing equipment, in an effort, to maximise storage space and minimise wastage.
• On going checks on relevant hardware, ensuring all resources are in working order.
• Ensuring back-ups of all active projects are created and maintained.
• Archiving aired programmes, B-roll and Final Cut projects.

Key Performance Indicators

Performance Criteria

Key Performance Indicator 1

• Ensuring weekly back-ups of active files and effective management of hard drives, servers and editing equipment, in an effort, to maximise storage space.

Key Performance Indicator 2

• Providing the highest quality of work daily, both artistically and technically, while working within the limits imposed by available deadlines.

Key Performance Indicator 3

• Editing, packaging, and delivering of weekly and monthly promos as well as episodes.

Key Performance Indicator 4

• Editing daily and weekly offline and online versions of episodic segments as well as implementing QC notes after viewings.

Key Performance Indicator 5

• Creating of daily imaginative edits which will continue to set The Show apart.

Key Performance Indicator 6

• Building and designing motion graphics and design holding devices as well as creating effects and transitions for weekly episodic edits. Implementing colour grading and choosing compelling and effective music for each edit.

Requirements

• A National Senior Certificate
• A minimum of 1-2 years' experience within a similar role

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Specific Tasks and Outcomes

Research  

• Researching and pitching investigative story ideas on a continuous basis.
• Researching stories and handling this over to the external producers by means of a pitch document, this will include relative research, supporting/proof documents and contact details.
• Planning visual treatment for stories and setting up shoots to this effect.
• Ensuring a full filming schedule.
• Daily managing of The Devi Show email addresses.

Content Collation

• Collating all content related to the story (Once assigned, after a commissioning process), this will include relevant undercover, setting up interviews, supporting/proof documents, writing questions, shooting interviews and overlay with cameraman and working with an editor and final mix.
• Collating all relevant documentation, including transcriptions and handover documents to the script writing department.

Ad-Hoc 

• Contributing creatively to week editorials with the sole purpose of landing entertaining and informative television.
• Transcribing interviews and delivering to the relevant producers.
• Assisting in studio as and when required.
• Attending legal viewings.

Communication

• Liaising daily with the Managing Editor and Executive Producer on new story ideas as well as the progress of current stories.

Script Writing 

• Plotting and writing story scripts, including all relevant interviews, undercover and confronts, keeping the Devi Show script formula in mind.
• Incorporate visual treatment within the script writing process.
• Qc’ing edited stories and scripting relevant changes.

Key Performance Indicators

Performance Criteria

Key Performance Indicator 1

• Pitching at least one successful story idea per week.

Key Performance Indicator 2

• Compiling well researched questions for all interviewees and supplying this to the managing editor and executive producer for approval, 48 hours prior to the filming.

Key Performance Indicator 3

• Planning visual treatment for stories and setting up visual treatment meetings with the camera crew and editors at least 48 hours before the filming of the first interview for applicable story, to discuss visual treatment.

Key Performance Indicator 4

• Setting up all interviews, undercovers and confronts and complete filming within 2.5 weeks of pitch approval.

Key Performance Indicator 5

• Compile complete story handover files, with all transcriptions and supporting documents, within 3 days of completion of filming.

Requirements

• A National Diploma in Journalism
• A minimum of 1-2 years' experience within a similar role

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Description

• The incumbent would be responsible for creating and operating sequential graphics for display on the video wall during live and pre-recorded productions.

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

• Prepare the video wall graphics as per running order.
• Loading and testing the rundown.
• Ensuring that all the graphic elements are loaded and play out correctly.
• Running on air tests when required.
• Checking all graphics before going on air.

Production

• Create effects for video wall use.
• Route live feeds to the video wall.
• Play out video wall elements as per running order, during live and pre-recorded programme.

Design

• Have the ability to design on Photoshop.
• Conceptualise graphical elements for use on the video wall.
• Come up with new designs in conjunction with the rest of the Graphics Team.
• Complete graphic requests using the applicable system.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• 3-year National Diploma in Graphic Design / Broadcast - Essential
• Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design / Broadcast - Recommended

Experience

• 3 years' experience in Graphic Design within Television / Live Broadcast - Essential
• Drivers License - Recommended

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite - Basic
• Viz Artist - Basic
• Photoshop - Intermediate
• Functional/Technical Competencies
• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Decision-making skills
• Persuasiveness(input)
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills
• Adaptability