Four new roles with the Gates Foundation project – two in Lagos and two in Nairobi – are vacant for covering West and East Africa respectively, at the BBC Africa.
In each location, BBC Africa says it is hiring a Senior Journalist reporter and a Journalist to work as part of a small team on a 12-month attachment/FTC.
” You’ll need to be full of ideas for stories and creative treatments that will bring the key issues of water, sanitation and hygiene to life.
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” We’re looking for stories that focus on people’s lives and innovative solutions, with a focus on reaching audiences across the continent on digital, social, TV and radio.
“The stories will reach audiences across a host of platforms from our own BBC language services and genre programmes to World news, and Instagram to YouTube.
” These are local roles, so you’ll need to be based in Nigeria or Kenya respectively in order to apply. Deadline Monday 1st February 2021.”
https://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/Journalist-Gates-Foundation-Project-Lagos/51961
https://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/Journalist-Gates-Foundation-Project-Nairobi/51962
“We also want to work with reporters and teams elsewhere on the continent, so if you’re not eligible for these roles but have a brilliant idea there will be a chance to get involved.
” The advertisement for the London-based Assistant Editor to run the project is here: https://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/Assistant-Editor-Gates-Foundation-Project-Africa/51877 Deadline for this role is the 24th of January.”
Any questions, do get in touch!
Lucy Walker
Multimedia News Editor, BBC Africa
BBC World Service
Tel: +44 7711 386 356
