Purpose
The incumbent would be required to report on news stories of the day through, live content and packages.
Job Output
Interpersonal And Team Relationships
- Building, supporting, and maintaining interpersonal and team relationships to ensure a stable working environment and achievement of team objectives
- Completing Individual Development Plan.
- Attending learning and development courses. Participating in peer and team learning initiatives.
- Complying with work rules, standards, and methods.
- Taking care to minimise waste.
- Conduct research and write scripts on topics prior to broadcasts.
- Identify newsworthy events and developments and generate unique story ideas from this.
- Attend weekly diary meetings to pitch, discuss story ideas and developments, and plan the week ahead with the team
- Generate thought-provoking and compelling stories.
- Check electronic media (wires), social media, and articles of interest. Check archives for specified and appropriate visuals.
- Represent the organization at conferences, press briefings, events, and interviews.
- Interview eyewitnesses, authorities, and people of interest in news stories.
- Assign & Brief the Camera Operator and Interviewee prior to broadcast.
- Conduct preliminary telephonic interviews. Ask probing and follow-up questions.
- Ensure interviews contain a variety of voices and/or angles.
- Write scripts in line with visuals.
- Transcribe and summarize events for further news purposes. Provide a time-coded shortlist with all scripts for Sub-Editors.
- Check 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.
- Update and maintain a strong contact base for story ideas. Knowledge of current local, national, and international news.
- Travel to events and ensure the proper maintenance, security, and care of recording equipment.
- Work collaboratively with cameramen and other members of a reporting team. Attend and report on events that are of interest to the public.
- Deliver scripted, spontaneous, live, and prerecorded reports on newsworthy events.
- Provide compelling packages with content for television.
- Conduct live and on-camera interviews that are hard-hitting and probing. Conduct live reports from the field ensuring accuracy and objectivity.
- Ensure that stories have depth and quality.
- Conduct in-studio lives that are professional and informative.
- Provide the news desk with regular updates on stories by adhering to the editorial deadlines.
- Ensure that there is adherence to story deadlines.
- Take 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, and ready for air.
- Ensure a professional appearance, language use, and manner throughout reports.
Qualifications:
National Senior Certificate NQF level 4
National Diploma Media Studies/Television/Journalism and/or Communications NQF 6
Experience
5 years of experience in news, Television, and/or Broadcast Journalism is essential.
Competencies
- Code EB, an Articulated motor vehicle license is essential.
- Own Vehicle is recommended
- Intermediate knowledge of MS Office Suite
- 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.
Mutual Respect
- Acts and behaves in accordance with his/her words.
- Commits to honesty/truth in every facet of behavior and demonstrates ethical and legal conduct.
- Keeps confidence, admits mistakes, and does not misrepresent self for personal gain.
- Fully supports and implements decisions taken.
- Is 100% committed to achieving agreed-upon targets Pursues targets with a need to finish.
- Does not give up, especially in the face of adversity.
- Communicates in an open, clear, complete, timely, and consistent manner.
- Listens effectively and invites response.
- Genuinely cares for people and demonstrates empathy Is a team player.
- Sets clear performance targets and a well-defined playing field with corresponding personal accountability
- Involves the right people, in the right situation, at the right time
- Fully utilizes diversity of team members to achieve superior business success
- Shares consequences of results with all involved
- Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas that can enhance workflows and the business environment.
- Draws logical and insightful conclusions from diverse information.
- Is able to adapt to changes in the business environment and implement changes in workflows in area of expertise.
