Organisation: Monitor Publications Limited (MPL)
Reports to: Online Editor
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Monitor
Publications Limited, A Nations Media Group Company operates Uganda’s most
influential media house boosting of the Daily Monitor, Sunday Monitor
newspapers, 93.3 KFM and 90.4 Dembe FM Radio Stations, Nation Couriers and the
Monitor Business Directory.
Job Summary: The Social Media Specialist will manage all MPL
social media platforms to ensure a connection with the various audiences,
promote MPL websites and stay ahead of their competition.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Shares editorial content from Monitor
platforms on Monitor social media platforms tastefully, making sure to
look for facts, accuracy, taste, house-style, language use, clarity, details
and objectivity - Edits and takes videos to be used on social
media and digital platforms - Keeps the social media platforms vibrant by
keeping them updated daily with information from various platforms and
sources that have been verified and whose information is trustworthy - Develops and strengthens the Monitor social
media platforms as a medium of breaking news - Creates graphics for social media and digital
platforms - The jobholder shares information promoting
Monitor content, events and programmes on Monitor social media platforms - Responds to feedback, complaints and
suggestions from social media audiences - Initiates and develops content for the
Monitor social media platforms
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate should hold a Bachelor’s Degree
in Mass Communication or any related field from an accredited institution - A minimum of three years’ journalism
experience and demonstrated writing and editing experience in a newsroom - Excellent writing and editing skills, with
good understanding of online writing and editing requirements such as the
use of keywords, hyperlinks and navigation - Keen eye for detail
- Excellent spelling, grammar and punctuation
skills. - Good organizational skills and ability to
work effectively with the team and collate material from multiple sources - Forward thinking and able to strategize for
all social media platforms - Internet and social media experience with
good understanding of new media and web analytics. - Goal driven with the ability to adapt to
change and to new opportunities. - Advanced computer skills
- Demonstrable and proven experience in meeting
deadlines - Innovative and creative
If
you believe that you are our ideal candidate, please submit your application, detailed
CV and academic documents with a daytime telephone number to via E-mail to: resourcing@ug.nationmedia.com
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