Recruitment at Mwananchi Communications Limited , January 2016

Mwananchi Communications Limited publishers of leading Tanzania newspapers,' Mwananchi, Mwanaspoti and The Citizen is looking for highly motivated and experienced individuals to' fill the position of:

Legal And Administration Manager
Job Purpose:

To advise and obtain advice on legal issues affecting MCL including advising the Board of Directors on all legal matters impacting the company, ensuring MCL complies with the statutory requirements of• the Companies Act, attending to, preparing and distributing management reports to the Board of Directors and preparing and circulating minutes of the Board meetings, Board Committees' and Management meetings, coordination, preparation and distribution of Annual Reports, organise AGMs, and create an enabling working environment through efficient provision 'of quality and cost effective administration services for MCL to realize its business objectives.

Qualifications and Experience:
Academic
Bachelor of Laws Degree with honors
Professional training in Administration will be an added advantage
Professional
Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania
. Experience
5 -7 years working experience

 Features Editor
Job Purpose:
To coordinate and manage- operations of features desk to ensure continuous generation of strong content that conforms to journalistic ethics, editorial objectives and house style within set deadlines.

Main Responsibilities:
Generates features articles for Mwanaspoti papers.
Coordinates editing and production of features pages.
Checks and corrects editorial for facts, accuracy, taste, house-style, language use, clarity, details, objectivity, spellings etc.
Assigns features articles to writers.
Re-writes the copy as necessary for simplicity, clarity, style etc.
Writes or rewrites the appropriate headline for the copy, ensuring it reflects the overriding message of the story.
Design features pages.
Checks all headlines, captions, pictures, copy text and page logos and all other page elements to sign the pages within set deadlines.
Checks the printed soft copy and corrects any errors, signs off the pages to go to press
Supports preparation and realization of long-term and short-term editorial plans regarding the features sections based on continuing consultations with the Managing Editor
Supervises the performance by subordinates in features section
Prepares page one promos for highlighting special features

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Interested and suitably qualified individuals should forward their applications enclosing a detailed CV and copies of professional certificates, and a day time telephone contact direct to the Human resources manager by 10th February 2016 to: .

Human Resources Manager
Mwananchi Communications Ltd
P. O. Box 19754.
Dar es Salaam.

NB: Only short listed candidates will be contacted