Social Media Manager

[** Shokunbi Street, off Ogunlana Street,Egbeda, Lagos, Nigeria] [+234**********] [*******.******@*****.***] Egbeda, Lagos

OBIDIKE OKAFOR [phone] [e-mail]

Objective

I am a hard working professional with good communication skills, the ability to work well under pressure, and an eagerness to learn. I aim to contribute effectively to the improvement of the standards in any establishment. Professional

Highlights

CONTENT PRODUCER

Generating content for the following websites, News24Nigeria, 234NEXT, BusinessDay and Innovation Village/ Develop content that increase web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue.

Conceptualize and execute creative content for the multimedia arm of News24 in Nigeria/ Pioneered the video section of News24 in Nigeria

Creating content for television, film and documentaries/Creating innovative content

Creating content for the official newsletter of the Dakar Art Biennale for the Anglophone African countries/ I was the only journalist selected from the English-speaking countries in West Africa TRAINER

Training journalists on Data visualization with Infogram/Sensitizing journalists on the power of data visualization in democracy and development.

Training journalists on writing for a digital audience/ training culture journalists in a writing workshop organized by British Council in Nigeria

JOURNALIST

Reporting for the arts, culture and lifestyle and entertainment desks both in print and online/ 2009 Art Journalist of the year, Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA), Lagos Chapter

Managing the social media pages and aggregating stories for different sections of News24Nigeria, 234NEXT and BuisnessDay/ Getting over 55-million page views for News24 during the 2015 elections in Nigeria.

Freelance journalist/ Articles published in Germany, Kenya, London, South Africa and Nigeria Evaluator

While working in News24 I have researched, designed and delivered projects used to evaluate issues of national relevance. This include:

Evaluation of the impact of Lassa fever in Nigeria

An assessment of why states in Nigeria are unable to pay minimum wage

An investigation on the impact of Boko Haram’s suicide squad in 2015

An evaluation of the most expensive state to live in Nigeria, based on price of petrol. Skills Providing content for television, print,

online, film, documentaries, and social

media management and innovation

development.

News reporting for Television and print

Managing the social media, rewriting

stories from the wires, searching for

stories from the internet, rewriting

headlines and creating concepts for

videos.

Data journalism to promote transparency in

government.

Employment

History

Content Consultant OBDK Media September 2012- date Content

producer/Multimedia

manager

News24, Lagos, Nigeria November 2013-Date

Assistant Online Editor

BusinessDay, Lagos, Nigeria

February 2012-

November 2012

Reporter/online

producer

234NEXT, Lagos, Nigeria November 2008-

September 2011

Education Btech, Applied

Microbiology

Diploma, Broadcast

Journalism

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University,

Bauchi, Bauchi State

New York Film Academy(NYFA),

Nigerian workshop

October 2006

September 2011

References References are available on request.

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