Producer – Drama (Nigeria) at BBC Media Action

Job Purpose

• The Producer will initiate and drive the entire production process of our Hausa language radio drama, creating, designing, planning, and producing the radio drama on agreed-upon themes.
• The Producer will facilitate script writing, editing, and recording of the drama, ensuring compliance with our established production processes.
• The Producer will be responsible for ensuring that the produced radio drama fulfils thematic objectives whilst having significant appeal within the target audience[s].
• The role requires collaboration with other members of the production and training department to produce high-quality radio drama.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify, organise and oversee the activities of writers, actors, directors, technical producers, assistant producers and other personnel throughout the production process for a radio drama, including contracting, logistics, scheduling, research, writing, recording, and editing.
• Conduct planning and budgeting to cover the entire process of radio drama production: pre- production, production, and post-production.
• Ensure that all scripts and recordings meet project objectives and are in line with BBC Editorial values and standards, by working with scriptwriters in developing story outlines and editing final drafts and working with actors in rehearsals and recordings.
• Coordinate and conduct research on themes and ensure all content information is accurate, clear and unambiguous across languages
• Take the lead in the organisation of writing and script editing workshops. This includes creating storylines and writing scripts in Hausa and English.
• Take the lead in the recording of the radio drama on the production set. This involves ensuring that all necessary resources for the activity are provided and collaborating with other relevant staff to ensure a smooth production process. It also involves directing the radio drama in Hausa and English.
• Work with technical producers in the post-production process of the drama and ensure that the final product is delivered within established timelines.
• Coordinate with other departments as appropriate to ensure that production outputs are meeting project objectives, drawing on research findings, informing training, and being distributed on time.
• After appropriate training, be able to use a range of audiovisual & digital equipment and information technology to research, write, assemble, edit and deliver programmes in the appropriate medium, to the highest professional standards.
• Any other tasks assigned by Media Action to achieve project and organisational objectives.

Required skills, knowledge, and experience

• Experience in producing engaging, creative content for social media, television or radio.
• Creative writing and content presentation skills in English and Hausa
• Strong attention to detail and an ability to work within established deadlines.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and experience using these skills in a media production setting.
• Evidence of imagination and an enthusiasm for generating new ideas, particularly those with the broadest possible audience appeal.
• Strong understanding of the role of communications in development.
• Demonstrable experience applying sound editorial judgement in the production of social media, television or radio content.
• Demonstrable understanding of BBC editorial values.
• Sound Editorial judgement.
• Strong attention to detail and an ability to work within established deadlines
• A self-starter excited by the potential of working in a small, dynamic and growing team.
• Sound understanding of the BBC Media Action Brand.