News Editing spacialist at Code for Africa in Nigeria

About the Position

Your regular duties will comprise of coordinating the iLAB diary and due dates for investigation documentation, findings, and online content for our online channels and associates, making sure that it is fulfilled on time, is clearly articulated and meets thorough editorial guidelines.

Duties

• Coordinating the editorial generation process and content diaries for the iLAB, generating reasoned and investigation documentation.
• Planning and running the on a weekly basis ‘findings diary’ used to shape iLAB documentation and investigation results.
• Making sure that logical and investigation results are in sync with company's strategic objectives and head to meaningful results.
• Selecting and prioritising editorial directs for iLAB reporters based on the practices and findings of analysts and forensic investigators, in addition to algorithmic ‘listening’ or media tracking software, to assist ensure we concentration our attention on the most harmful misinformation/conspiracies.
• Coordinating editorial organizing sessions at which editorial directs/tasks are brainstormed and assigned to in-country reporters/researchers, with clear editorial summaries and entry due dates.

Credentials

• At least 10 years of editorial leadership background, preferably in high-pressure, investigation, or data-intensive newsrooms (business, finance, or politics are a plus).
• Investigation status updates or editing profile, with clear expertise managing sensitive topics, disinformation, structured crime, or unauthorized financial flows.
• OSINT or disinformation supervising expertise — understanding with foreign information manipulation tactics and visual stories tracking is a key advantage.
• Robust editorial judgment, with the capability to turn messy analysis into sharp, organized stories.
• Outstanding editing and skilled in writing, especially for dynamic, high-visual precision content.
• Competence in cooperative editorial resources like Google Docs, Trello, Slack, etc.
• Trust coordinating remote, multilingual teams and various story data layouts.
• Close focus to description, with the capability to operate jointly in a due date-driven environment.
• Demonstrable capability to self-oversee, producing your own and wider team timelines and achievements with clear operational structures/methods.

Necessary Competencies:

• Demonstrated expertise in investigation journalism or editing investigation content, with a strong insight of OSINT methods like social platforms mapping, metadata evaluation, digital footprinting, and acquire confirmation.
• Exhibited capability to extract story angles from dense, data-rich, or politically sophisticated material and convert it into captivating, well-organized editorial goods.
• Comfort coordinating and supplying a range of results, from long-form inquiries to radar summaries, donor documentation, and bulletins, in a dynamic, due date-driven environment.
• Sharp comprehension of African media and political ecosystems, especially around shape processes, visual stories manipulation, hate speech, and the foreign actors shaping online discourse.

Preferred Competencies:

Expertise in coordinating remote teams and operating in a multilingual environment. Capability to participate diplomatically and work alongside productively with teammates under tight due dates.