Digital Journalist, BBC Hausa at BBC Media Action

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Create and publish accurate, engaging and SEO-friendly news content for the BBC Hausa website, ensuring timely updates and high editorial standards.
• Produce, present, shoot and edit short-form video content for platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, using strong storytelling and visual production skills.
• Develop compelling social media content that drives audience engagement, expands reach and supports content discovery across digital platforms.
• Respond quickly to breaking news, maintaining a consistent flow of content across the website and social channels throughout the day.
• Use audience analytics and performance insights to inform content decisions and continuously improve digital output.
• Contribute to BBC Hausa’s visualised radio programming, presenting confidently on air and on screen for both broadcast and streaming audiences.
• Repurpose live radio and interview content into engaging digital clips, maximising audience reach across social media, YouTube and the BBC Hausa website.

Your Skills and Experience
Essential Criteria:

• Proven experience creating engaging content across digital, social, radio and video platforms, with a strong understanding of audience needs and platform best practice.
• Excellent writing, editing and storytelling skills in Hausa, with the ability to produce accurate, engaging and SEO-aware content to tight deadlines.
• Strong video production skills, including presenting, self-shooting and editing content for platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook.
• Confident using audience analytics, headlines, thumbnails and metadata to optimise content performance, discoverability and engagement.
• Experience sourcing, verifying and reporting news accurately and impartially, including handling breaking news and user-generated content.
• Strong broadcast skills, including radio production, interviewing and presenting for live, on-demand and visualised programme formats.
• Fluent in Hausa and English, with a good understanding of the political, social and cultural landscape of Nigeria and wider West Africa, and the needs of Hausa-speaking audiences.