# Video Journalist

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

**Apply**: https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Nairobi-Video-Journalist%2C-BBC-Swahili-Service-0-0100/1376553357/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

BBC Swahili, one of the BBC World Service's largest and fastest-growing language services, delivers trusted journalism to millions across East Africa via radio, TV, and digital platforms. As a Video Journalist, you will create high-quality visual content for multiple platforms, independently filming and editing stories, identifying compelling visual narratives, and producing accurate, engaging journalism.

Your key responsibilities and impact:

- Research, plan, film, and produce high-quality video content, including news stories, interviews, features, and breaking news coverage.

- Independently edit video from raw footage to final delivery, creating accurate, engaging narratives that meet BBC editorial, technical, and accessibility standards.

- Identify the strongest visual approach to stories, exercising sound editorial judgement and ensuring all content is accurate, impartial, verified, and compliant with BBC Editorial Guidelines.

- Produce and adapt content for multiple platforms, including digital, social, television, and podcast outputs.

- Contribute to both immediate news coverage and longer-term planned content, maximising the value of original reporting through multiple video outputs and formats.

- Collaborate with editors, journalists, producers, and other colleagues to plan coverage, coordinate production requirements, and deliver effective visual journalism.

- Manage competing priorities and tight deadlines while maintaining professional standards.

Your skills and experience:

- Significant journalism experience with strong expertise in video production, including filming, camera operation, visual storytelling, and self-shooting.

- Advanced video editing skills, with the ability to create compelling narratives using footage, interviews, natural sound, graphics, and captions.

- Strong editorial judgement, with a sound understanding of BBC Editorial Guidelines, accuracy, impartiality, verification, and current affairs coverage.

- Proven ability to identify, develop, and communicate stories through engaging visual formats.

- Fluency in written and spoken Kiswahili and English, with excellent scripting, editing, translation, interviewing, and communication skills.

- Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet tight deadlines, and adapt quickly to changing news environments.

Benefits:

- Fair pay and flexible benefits specific to your location and contract type.

- Excellent career and professional development.

- Support in your working life.

- A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

## Skills

### Required
- video production
- filming
- camera operation
- visual storytelling
- self-shooting
- video editing
- Kiswahili
- English
- scripting
- editing
- translation
- interviewing
- communication

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