Senior Journalist Team Manager, Dars

Essential Criteria

• Fluency in Modern Standard Hausa and English, with the ability to translate accurately between both languages; proven ability to communicate effectively in English (written and spoken), and to translate content from English to Hausa and vice versa; excellent writing and sub-editing skills, including the ability to rewrite and restructure digital scripts and stories to a high standard.

• Demonstrable ability to script, film, produce, and edit high-quality digital video content; strong presentation skills across digital video, television, and audio, with the ability to engage and appeal to young audiences; experience in producing TV recordings in a studio environment and managing on-screen presenters.

• Sound editorial judgment, with a strong understanding of the BBC’s child safeguarding guidelines; proficiency in maximising the use of existing and emerging technologies.

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to make proactive decisions, working both independently and in close collaboration with the Assistant Editor; ability to work effectively across multiple teams and resolve conflicts when necessary.

• Strong resource management skills, including staff, technical facilities, and budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness; effective planning and prioritisation skills, taking into account deadlines, staffing, and resource constraints; flexibility and adaptability, with the ability to maintain high performance under pressure and manage changing priorities; a demonstrated commitment to improving diversity within the BBC, with an understanding of how individual differences add value.

• Commission Dars output for multiple platforms through liaising with education consultants.

• Assign and commission stories, briefing presenters/producers/VJs. Steering treatments, with an emphasis on multiplatform output while maximising value for money.

• Support digital growth through effective application of analytics and best practices

• Oversee production and delivery of digital/social output content as required while also outputting for TV and radio consistently.

• Maintain a high level of journalistic, linguistic and production standards in the output. Giving proper editorial consideration to all output and making decisions based on risk, safety, suitability, quality and emergency changes.

• Ensure material is fact-checked, legally clear and compliant with BBC editorial policy, including flagging up issues and discussing them with member of editorial hierarchy

• Supervise, support and motivate a team of journalists to produce lively, interesting and high-quality content relevant to young audiences (11–16-year-olds). Liaise proactively and collaborate with Hausa service colleagues.