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The BBC is an international multimedia broadcaster on radio, TV, online and social networks with a weekly global audience of 320 million. As part of an historic multi-million pound expansion of BBC Africa, the BBC World Service is introducing a wide range of new and exciting language and regional content to serve African and global audiences.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Supervisory Producer – Drama (Nigeria)

Location: Nigeria (Right to work in Nigeria required)
Contract: Fixed-term employment
Duration: 2 years
Reports to: Head of Production

Job purpose

• The BBC Media Action office in Nigeria is seeking a Supervisory Producer Drama for a multi-component Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) programme focused on reproductive health and family planning in Northern Nigeria.
• The Supervisory Producer will work with the Head of Production and the Creative Lead to support the production of a Hausa television drama from ideation to the end of post-production.
• The role involves working closely with the production company producing the drama to ensure the television drama series reflects the values and principles of BBC Media Action.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in producing a Hausa-language drama series from ideation through delivery of the final outputs.
• Support the production company throughout the production process to ensure the drama series is delivered within budget and within agreed timelines.
• Ensure that all scripts and recordings meet project objectives and are in line with BBC Editorial values and standards by working with scriptwriters to develop story outlines and edit final drafts, and working with actors in rehearsals and recordings.
• Work with the production company in determining work schedules for the different stages of the production process
• Lead the scripting process for the drama series. This includes working with the writers provided by the production company and guiding the process to develop storylines and scripts that align with project objectives and have premium entertainment value.
• Support the production process by interpreting and applying relevant research resources in the production of the television drama series.
• Foster a collaborative working relationship between the production company and BBC Media Action.
• Work with colleagues in BBC Media Action to elicit and collate periodic feedback to share with the production company at different stages of the television drama series production process.
• Work with the production company in the pre-production process of the television drama series. This includes auditioning, casting, determining filming locations and other associated activities.
• Ensure periodic approvals and sign-offs from BBC Media Action to support a smooth flow of activities from ideation through delivery of the final outputs.
• Work with and support the production crew appointed by the production company during principal photography and post-production to ensure that project objectives and BBC editorial values are reflected in the filming and post-production of the drama series.

Required Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Proven track record of 5 – 7 years or more in creative leadership, preferably across television drama production or social impact.
• Proven ability to develop creative concepts and translate strategic objectives into compelling creative ideas.
• Experience leading creative teams and managing multidisciplinary creative and production functions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work within tight deadlines and resource constraints.
• Strong understanding of the Nigerian creative, digital and popular culture landscape.
• Understanding of BBC editorial values and the ability to apply them to creative and drama content.
• Demonstrable ability to work effectively across development, communications and creative environments.
• Evidence of imagination and an enthusiasm for generating new ideas, particularly those with the widest possible audience appeal.
• Drama production background and experience, preferably in the area of developing television scripts and coordinating script-writing processes.
• Creative writing skills in Hausa and English.
• Possess the ability to analyse and critically evaluate editorial content, identifying strengths and weaknesses in programme content and ways to improve it.
• Proven organisational, communication and interpersonal skills

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV with a cover letter (in English, in PDF or Microsoft Word format) that outlines their experience and suitability for the role, and their availability status to: hr.recruitment@ng.bbcmediaaction.org using the job title as the subject of the mail.

Note

• Only applicants with a separate cover letter will be considered.
• Please do not send certificates or other attachments.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Job Title: Creative Lead (Nigeria)

Location: Nigeria (Right to work in Nigeria required)
Contract: Fixed-term employment
Duration: 2 years
Reports to: Head of Production

Job purpose

• The BBC Media Action office in Nigeria is seeking a Creative Lead for a multi-component Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) programme focused on reproductive health and family planning in Northern Nigeria.
• Under this programme, the Creative Lead will work with the Head of Production to shape the creative vision, brand, quality and delivery of BBC Media Action’s media content.
• The role will develop compelling, audience-centred creative ideas and ensure the BBC MA brand is consistently and effectively represented across all platforms.
• Working closely with the Senior Digital Producer and the wider digital content team, the Creative Lead will translate programme and communication objectives into strong creative concepts, digital campaigns, and social-first content.

Key Responsibilities
Creative Leadership & Brand:

• Provide creative direction and approval for all creative outputs.
• Protect and strengthen BBC MA’s brand identity, ensuring consistency across all creative outputs and platforms.
• Establish and maintain effective creative processes, standards and quality controls within the team
• Lead the overall creative vision and creative direction for BBC MA’s digital content.
• Provide creative leadership across campaigns, projects and ongoing digital content.
• Set creative standards, tone, visual direction and storytelling principles for the digital team.

Creative Strategy & Concept Development:

• Translate programme objectives, audience insights and communication challenges into compelling creative opportunities.
• Lead the development of creative concepts, campaign ideas and content territories
• Work closely with the Senior Digital Producer to ensure creative strategy and digital strategy are aligned.
• Ensure creative ideas are audience-centred, culturally relevant, engaging and appropriate to the platforms on which they will appear.
• Develop creative approaches that make complex development issues accessible, relevant and compelling to audiences.

Digital-First Content:

• Provide creative direction for social-first and digital-first content across relevant platforms.
• Ensure content is designed specifically for the behaviours, expectations and formats of digital audiences rather than simply adapted from traditional media.
• Guide the development of short-form video, social content, visual storytelling, campaigns, digital assets, graphics, animations and other creative formats.
• Oversee the development and adaptation of creative content across platforms while maintaining a consistent brand and creative idea.
• Foster experimentation and innovation in formats, storytelling and creative approaches.
• Ensure content is both creatively strong and appropriate for the technical and creative requirements of different digital platforms.

Creative Team Leadership:

• Set expectations for creative quality, delivery and professional standards.
• Lead, motivate and develop the in-house creative and digital content team.
• Provide clear direction to the Senior Digital Producer, Art Director / Visual Designer and wider production team.
• Foster a collaborative environment in which strategy, creative development and production work closely together.
• Review team performance and identify skills gaps and opportunities to strengthen internal capability.
• Build a culture of creative problem-solving, experimentation and continuous improvement.

Content Production & Quality Assurance:

• Oversee the creative development and production of digital content from brief through to final delivery.
• Identify when specialist external creative or production support is required and provide the creative brief and oversight for such work.
• Work with the Senior Digital Producer to ensure production plans, timelines and resources support the creative ambition.
• Provide creative direction to the Art Director / Visual Designer, Video Producer / Editor and Digital Producer.
• Review and approve key creative outputs before publication.
• Ensure that all internally produced and externally commissioned content meets agreed creative, brand and editorial standards.
• Ensure content is delivered to the required quality, within agreed timelines and available resources.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:

• Work closely with programme, research, communications and technical teams to translate organisational objectives into effective creative outputs.
• Work with the Senior Digital Producer to incorporate audience insights, platform intelligence and performance data into creative development.
• Collaborate with the Research team, where appropriate, to ensure audience insights and evidence inform creative decisions.
• Build strong working relationships across BBC MA to ensure the creative function is responsive to programme needs.
• Engage and manage external creative specialists, freelancers and production partners where required.

Performance, Learning & Innovation:

• Use audience feedback, content performance and digital insights to inform creative decisions and improve future content.
• Encourage a test-and-learn approach to digital content and creative development.
• Ensure learning from campaigns and content production is captured and applied to future work.
• Champion innovation and identify new approaches to digital storytelling and audience engagement.

Budget & Resource Management:

• Ensure creative activity is delivered within agreed budgets and available resources.
• Work with the Senior Digital Producer to prioritise production requirements and allocate resources effectively.
• Ensure external creative and production support is commissioned strategically and represents value for money.
• Balance creative ambition with the financial and operational realities of a development organisation.

Required Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Proven track record of 8–10 years or more in creative leadership, preferably across digital, advertising, communications, media or social impact.
• A strong and demonstrable creative portfolio showing high-quality digital and social-first work.
• Proven ability to develop creative concepts and translate strategic objectives into compelling creative ideas.
• Strong understanding of digital and social media content, formats and audience behaviours.
• Experience leading creative teams and managing multidisciplinary creative and production functions.
• Experience across multiple digital content formats, including social video, graphics, campaigns, visual storytelling and digital-first content.
• Strong understanding of audience insight and ability to translate insight into creative ideas.
• Strong understanding of the Nigerian creative, digital, and popular culture landscape

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV with a cover letter (in English, in PDF or Microsoft Word format) that outlines their experience and suitability for the role, and their availability status to: hr.recruitment@ng.bbcmediaaction.org using the job title as the subject of the email.

Note

• Only applicants with a separate cover letter will be considered.
• Please do not send certificates or other attachments.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Job Title: Senior Digital Producer (Nigeria)

Location: Nigeria (Right to work in Nigeria required)
Contract: Fixed-term employment
Duration: 2 years
Reports to: Head of Production and Training

Job purpose

• The BBC Media Action office in Nigeria is seeking a Senior Digital Producer to lead the design and production of a digital strategy and content stream for a multi-component Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) programme focused on reproductive health and child spacing in Northern Nigeria.
• The Senior Digital Producer will utilise their editorial knowledge and digital skills to oversee the production of high-quality and impactful digital outputs across platforms. The role will hold responsibility for extending storytelling from TV/radio formats into digital, social media, and interactive formats.
• The Senior Digital Producer will collaborate with colleagues across the Production & Training department to deliver high-quality audio, visual and digital outputs that fulfil thematic objectives while maximising relevance and appeal among target audiences.
• The role will initiate and drive the full digital production lifecycle, from concept development through to final delivery, ensuring strong editorial quality, strategic alignment, and audience impact across platforms.
• The role will provide strategic oversight of digital production, ensuring that all digital outputs are platform-optimised, audience-responsive, data-informed and aligned across channels.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design, planning, and delivery of multi-platform digital outputs, ensuring strong integration between broadcast and digital content from concept through production and post-production
• Lead digital content strategy and platform optimisation, using audience insights and analytics to strengthen engagement, reach and behavioural impact
• Lead the development of a cohesive multi-platform narrative approach, ensuring consistency and continuity of storytelling across digital, radio and community touchpoints
• Line manage and provide technical oversight to the Digital Producer and Assistant Producer (multimedia), ensuring strong alignment between digital and radio outputs
• Collaborate closely with strategy, research and SBC teams to translate behavioural objectives into compelling, insight-driven digital content with measurable impact
• Direct studio and field recordings, ensuring high-quality digital production and effective coordination of logistics and resources
• Monitor content performance and recommend adaptive improvements to maximise reach, engagement and effectiveness across platforms
• Ensure effective digital production workflows, including compliance, safeguarding and data protection across all outputs and platforms
• Ensure that all content or language published on BBC Media Action digital platforms adheres to BBC editorial guidelines
• Any other tasks assigned by BBC Media Action to achieve project and organisational objectives.

Required skills, knowledge, and experience

• Proven experience producing engaging and creative content across digital platforms.
• Demonstrable experience leading multimedia or digital production teams, including editorial oversight and management of social media and digital outputs.
• Excellent understanding of Nigeria’s social media landscape, including the relevant platforms for different audience segments.
• Creative writing skills in English and Hausa, with the ability to develop ideas that resonate with broad and diverse audiences.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with experience working collaboratively in a media production environment.
• Experience using digital insights and analytics to inform content refinement and audience engagement.
• Working knowledge of multimedia production tools and workflows.
• Strong experience producing and posting content for social media websites, and digital platforms to reach a diverse range of audiences.
• Strong editorial judgement, with a clear understanding of BBC editorial values and standards.

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV with cover letter (in English, and in PDF or Microsoft Word format) which outlines their experience and suitability for the role, and availability status to: hr.recruitment@ng.bbcmediaaction.org using the job title as the subject of the mail.

Note

• Only applicants with a separate cover letter will be considered.
• Please do not send certificates or other attachments.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Job Title: Senior Research Officer – Data Management (Nigeria)

Location: Nigeria (Right to work in Nigeria required)
Contract: Fixed-term employment
Duration: 2 years
Reports to: Head of Research & Learning

Job purpose

• The BBC Media Action office in Nigeria is looking for a Senior Research Officer- Data Management to support the timely and efficient implementation of all aspects of research for a BBC Media Action reproductive health project in northern Nigeria, working closely with the Research and Data Manager and Senior Research Officer- Digital.
• The role will report directly to Head of Research and Learning, whilst working day to day with the Research and Data Manager and Senior Research Officer- Digital. The position is based in Abuja and will require travel to other states within the country.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day management of research agency and freelance researchers, including
• overseeing data collection and management, and other deliverables.
• Lead day-to-day data cleaning and analysis of weekly quantitative audience tracking survey data.
• Manage data input into the dashboard, adapting it to stakeholder needs, supporting others to use it and generating visualisations from it.
• Support the design and implementation of qualitative research to help inform project strategic reviews and decision-making.
• Work with the Research & Data Manager and Senior Research Officer- Digital on insight generation (from all aspects of research for the project) and communication to stakeholders, including supporting monthly and quarterly learning review sessions, and ad hoc datan requests/deliverables.
• Support/contribute to communicating complex research clearly to diverse audiences, including the Gates Foundation leadership, non-research staff, donors, and media partners. This includes preparing and presenting research presentations and insights that inform the production process, partner outreach activities and feedback to Gates Foundation.
• Seek technical research assistance from the Cross-Country Team where required to support delivery and communication of research.
• Work closely with the Head of Research and Learning, the Research and Data Manager and other relevant teams to ensure that all research activities are designed and communicated with safeguarding in mind, and that research design documents and tools reflect this.
• Participate in relevant mandatory training on Safeguarding and Respect at Work, and apply it across all aspects of work.

Required Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• The Senior Research Officer-Data Management will be an experienced researcher with demonstrable research design, implementation, data management, analysis and reporting skills.
• Strong demonstrable skills in conducting quantitative research, including quantitative survey data management and analysis for development projects or similar experience in conducting social/market research in any research agency and/or media and communication research.
• Ability to plan, design, implement and manage mixed-methods research.
• Proven experience evaluating social impact interventions using a range of methods, adapting to challenging and resource-constrained conditions, with strong experience in undertaking or managing fieldwork, including in rural and geographically challenging areas
• Experience of writing precise and clear reports and briefing documents, with good communication skills, being able to clearly communicate research findings and what these insights mean for the users of the data.
• Good knowledge of family planning, especially for the northern Nigeria context.
• Knowledge and understanding of the importance of and application of ethical and safeguarding procedures in research.
• Demonstrable understanding of cultural diversity and cross-cultural research within Nigeria.
• A good grasp of, or enthusiasm to learn about, communication strategies and development issues.
• Good IT and data dashboard management skills, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and data analysis software such as SPSS, Atlas.ti, NVivo etc.
• Ability to work closely with non-research teams in applying research findings to media outputs.
• Ability to speak and write Hausa is highly desired.
• Previous research experience working with NGOs or development projects would be an advantage.

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2026 by 4pm.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV with cover letter (in English, and in PDF or Microsoft Word format) which outlines their experience and suitability for the role, and availability status to: hr.recruitment@ng.bbcmediaaction.org using the job title as the subject of the mail.

Note

• Only applicants with a separate cover letter will be considered.
• Please do not send certificates or other attachments.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.