Senior Digital Content Producer

About the role

The BBC World Service is expanding its Regional Journalism team in Southern Africa. As a Senior Digital Content Producer you will create distinctive digital journalism, combining filming, reporting, editing and production to reach and engage audiences across platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Identify under‑reported stories, emerging trends and fresh angles to differentiate BBC output in a crowded digital space.
• Support coverage of major news and special events, balancing planned output with agile response to breaking developments.
• Develop source networks and secure exclusive visual, audio and digital content.
• Shape stories visually at the newsgathering stage, deciding on sequences, characters and narrative structure.
• Exercise editorial independence, making informed decisions on story direction and prioritisation with minimal supervision.
• Ensure visual storytelling clarity through sequencing, pacing and shot selection, enabling understanding without heavy narration.
• Apply an audience‑first mindset, considering consumption and sharing potential at every production stage.

Required profile

• Strong visual judgement with an instinct for scroll‑stopping video content.
• Advanced story‑structuring skills, especially for capturing attention in the first 3–10 seconds.
• Understanding of multi‑format capture techniques.

Required skills