# Senior Presenter

**Company**: BBC
**Location**: Nairobi, KEN
**Experience**: senior
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Media & Entertainment

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Presenter for BBC Somali, a leading international news service for Somali-speaking audiences. As a Senior Presenter, you will be part of a journalistic team responsible for preparing content for broadcast and digital publication across various formats.

The successful candidate will present live news, current affairs programmes, and digital content in video and/or audio formats. You will react on air to breaking stories, introduce live events and pre-prepared material, and conduct live interviews with people in the news.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing timely, specialist, and self-assured news coverage and analysis on events of interest to BBC target audiences

- Planning and conducting interviews with different platforms in mind, tailoring the format and approach for radio, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook

- Presenting live and adapting to unfolding stories while on air

- Generating ideas and stories, contributing to the creative treatment and production of items or programmes

- Making effective use of new technologies, particularly developments in social media, to deliver journalism to audiences

Essential criteria:

- Experienced and principled presenter with a strong relationship with the audience

- Strong radio production and digital writing skills, including the ability to produce clear, accurate, well-structured articles in Somali

- Strong radio and podcast presentation skills

- Demonstrates balanced and impartial judgement

- Shows flexibility and adaptability to sustain performance under pressure

- Proven ability to produce content across multiple digital platforms

Benefits include fair pay, flexible benefits, excellent career and professional development, and support in your working life.

## Skills

### Required
- radio production
- digital writing
- presentation
- social media
- interviewing
- impartial judgement
- adaptability
- content creation
- Somali

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