Senior Reporter Campaign Middle East

This is an
excellent opportunity to join Campaign Middle East's team as a
Senior Reporter. This is a role based out of Dubai, UAE, although the senior
reporter will be required to travel within the UAE and the region, when
required. The candidate will develop content for Campaign Middle East’s digital, magazine, newsletter and social media channels, in both English and
Arabic, reflecting the latest news, views, trends, challenges and key moves
across the brand, marketing, advertising, creative, media, digital, adtech,
influencer, experiential and integrated communications landscape in the Middle
East. 

Key Responsibilities

• Build
  close relationships with brand -side marketers and agency leaders across
  the Middle East.
  
• Write
  and publish 2 online Arabic articles per day, including one exclusive news
  story per week.
  
• Write
  and publish 2 online English articles per day, including one exclusive
  news story per week.
  
• Write
  and publish 1 exclusive feature for print magazine per quarter.
  
• Prepare
  content for specific pages for the magazine including News and Work,
  Appointments, Private View, and monthly directories.
  
• Copy -edit
  feature articles for the monthly Campaign Middle East magazine and
  the annual Saudi Report.
  
• Work
  with the team to take online, magazine and event content across Campaign
  Middle East's social media channels.
  
• Work
  with the team to commission and edit thought leadership articles from
  brand and agency leaders.
  
• Contribute
  to the weekly wrap -up videos, Gen Z podcasts, and other video -led
  initiatives for Campaign Middle East’s social media.
  
• Attend
  on -ground industry events, activations and review campaigns for online and
  print coverage.
  
• Head
  the Campaign Middle East events team. This includes working with
  the Campaign Middle East team to come up with themes, topics of
  discussion, and finding the right speakers for events, as well as ensuring
  seamless communications between speakers, moderators and event sponsors.
  
• Lead
  the Campaign Middle East Breakfast Briefing events as the Master
  of Ceremonies on stage.
  
• Ensure
  the event website is updated and help the events and marketing teams with
  the right social media, website and email marketing collateral from an
  editorial perspective.
  
• Maintaining
  an updated database of speakers and their expertise/specialties.
  
• Generate
  ideas for longer -form coverage in line with key industry trends and
  challenges.
  
• Work
  closely with the editor, and the wider editorial and commercial team to
  elevate the quality of content and add value to new and existing
  commercial partnerships.
  
• Maintain
  high standards of copy and adhering to group -wide compliance policies.
  

Benefits

• At
  least 3 -4 years of experience in reporting in English and Arabic within
  the Middle East.
  
• Preferred:
  Strong knowledge of the brand, marketing and advertising landscape, as
  well as contacts and recommendations from respected leaders within the
  regional industry.
  
• A
  strong, verifiable portfolio of published content, articles and exclusives
  in the Middle East.
  
• Proven
  record of breaking news for a media organisation, as well as writing in -depth
  features and analyses.
  
• Ability
  to spot trends in market data and conduct research to identify and produce
  stories.
  
• Track
  record of ability to build network of sources to produce reports.
  
• Basic
  knowledge of Wordpress CMS, Canva, Photoshop, InDesign and video editing
  tools.
  
• Excellent
  team dynamics – a smooth and seamless cultural fit into a curious,
  hard -working, diligent and trustworthy team that delivers outcomes without
  micro -management.
  

About
Campaign Middle East:

The MENA
region's leading business media authority on brand, marketing, advertising, and
the creative industries, Campaign Middle East was launched in
Dubai in October 2008 by Ian Fairservice, Managing Partner and Group Editor -in -Chief
of Motivate Media Group. 

When Campaign
Middle East launched 16 years ago, it was set on
the firm foundations of the global Campaign brand, published by
Haymarket in the UK, which had already cemented its position as the world's top
advertising publication for more than 50 years.

Since then, Campaign
Middle East has set the tone and raised the bar for market -leading coverage
of the brand, marketing, advertising, creative, media, digital, adtech,
influencer, events and experiential, integrated communications, as well as the
wider creative industries across the MENA region.

As such,
it has claimed the top spot on the podium as the most -respected B2B
publication reflecting and resonating the news, work, research, data -led
insights, pitches, appointments, expertise and opinions from the
industry.

Motivate
Media Group is the
region’s leading multi -platform content producer with a diverse portfolio of
media interests comprising magazines, digital, social, video, exhibitions and events,
cinema, OOH and books.

Interested candidates may apply
attaching a copy of their CV, sharing a portfolio of recent articles, and a
one -page cover letter.