Senior Journalist, Regional Journalism (Planning)

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Senior Journalist, Regional Journalism (Planning)

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• The Planning team plays a central role within Africa regional journalism. The team plays a vital role in directing editorial priorities, commissioning and content across Africa and World Service Languages. Working across teams, regions and platforms, we provide the editorial coordination that helps ensure strong, distinctive journalism is identified early, planned effectively and shared as widely as possible.

• We are the key link between the production hubs, World Service language teams and English-language output, communicating forward plans, identifying opportunities for collaboration and promoting content with the potential to travel across audiences and platforms. The team helps bring greater visibility and coherence to Africa regional journalism, enabling teams to work together effectively and maximise the reach and impact of our best stories.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

• We are looking for an experienced Senior Journalist to join the Africa regional service planning team, helping to connect teams, content and editorial priorities across languages and platforms.

• The role requires strong editorial judgement to anticipate the news agenda, coordinate forward plans and identify opportunities for original journalism and collaboration. Working with teams across African languages,  World Service and wider BBC output, the Senior Journalist will help ensure our strongest journalism is visible, shared and reaches the widest possible audience.

• The postholder will deputise for the Assistant Editor as required.

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