International News is at the heart of the BBC. BBC News
Group employs approximately 800 staff
in around 70 international bureaux. It provides multimedia
services to a global weekly audience of
over 250 million in English and 27 languages around the
clock, every day of the year. The bureaux
react to breaking news, provide news updates and analysis
and produce live programme output.
In a highly competitive market, delivering to both UK
Licence Fee payers and commercial partners,
BBC News services must be reliable and consistent. In 2011,
Newsgathering, World Service and
Monitoring teams came together into one News Group and from
April 2014, all World Service and
Monitoring activity transferred to Licence Fee funding
.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Junior
Designer, Infographics & UX (Africa Hub)
Job Reference BBC/TP/672269/22188
Contract Type Permanent – Full Time
Job Category Creative
Design
Business Unit News: W2020
Location: Lagos
Job Introduction
The BBC World Service is embarking on an exciting journey
with unprecedented investment in digital content for Africa and your role will
be critical to us in meeting our ambitions. The BBC will be launching a new
digital innovation hub in Lagos with the ambition to develop digital journalism
in Africa. Your role as Junior Designer, Infographics and UX will play a key
role in helping our content reach underserved audiences – such as younger, more
female and more diverse demographics in Africa. We have an exciting opportunity
to create new forms of digital storytelling and journalism that reaches 111
million people in Africa. As Junior Designer, Infographics and UX you will join
a new multi-disciplinary digital team in Lagos made up of news gatherers, data
journalists, software developers and social media specialists who will be working
with journalists working across 12 language services (English, Amharic ,
Tigrinya, Afaan Oromo, Swahili, Somali, French, Great Lakes , Pidgin, Yoruba,
Igbo, Hausa)
BBC Africa aims to make, explain and connect African and
global stories by providing a unique insight into the main stories of the day
in original formats. The African service digital offer consists of websites,
mobile sites and social media with all services providing multimedia content in
text, video, interactive and audio for radio, online, TV, mobile and social
media platforms.
Role Responsibility
Day-to-day responsibilities
Contribute design expertise to project teams made up of
journalists, product managers and developers.
Communicate conceptual ideas and design decisions to project
teams.
Collaborate with design colleagues to produce sketched
concepts, user journeys, wireframes and navigational prototypes that reflect
user needs.
Provide designs across multiple screens for projects that
deliver coherent user experiences.
Ensure accurate data representation and accessible design
solutions.
Deliver maps, charts, information graphics and branding to
support daily output.
Develop the visual design and user experience and refine
towards a polished design, taking into consideration typography, iconography,
layout and brand identity.
Prioritise your own workload under guidance of other
designers.
Deliver information graphics and user experiences that can
be easily re-worked to accommodate multiple languages.
The Ideal Candidate
You’ve got a track record of outstanding Infographics and UX
work across various different screens, be they mobile, connected TV, tablet or
desktop and you’ve got the portfolio to prove it.
You might tend towards data visualisation, information
graphics and mapping, or layout, colour and typography. Either way you will
have skills you can use to create the ideal user experience. Maybe you have
even got something special up your sleeve, like you’re an amazing prototype
builder, responsive design expert or 3D animator.
You will have a keen interest in news and current affairs, a
firm grasp on how design can make a story comprehensible, compelling and
relevant. You will also be able to pitch your work to people from all sorts of
backgrounds.
You’re comfortable applying your skills to whatever
situation arises, be it a new device or an unfamiliar design package. You’ve
got a great degree in design or the equivalent on-the-job experience.
Package Description
Contract -
Continuing
Local terms and conditions apply
How to Apply
Interested persons should click here to apply
Application Deadline
2 August, 2017
