Head of Quality – The Citizen at Mwananchi Communications

Head of Quality – The Citizen at Mwananchi Communications

Positon: Head of Quality – The Citizen

Mwananchi Communications Limited 

Mwananchi Communications Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Nation Media Group (NMG), is Tanzania’s largest independent news news network with an award-winning presence in print and digital media, and exciting new ventures in innovation and events ecosystems. We are publishers of leading national news brands Mwananchi, The Citizen and Mwanaspoti in print and digital formats, and proprietors of the Mwananchi Digital suite of products and Mwanaclick. We are audience-led, market-driven with a clear mission to empower the nation.

We are looking for a motivated and highly experienced individual to fill the position of:

Head of Quality – The Citizen

Purpose The Head of Quality is responsible for maintaining the highest editorial standards across print and digital platforms. The role oversees sub-editing operations, ensuring accuracy, clarity, consistency, legal compliance, and timely publication of content.

Main Responsibilities

Editorial Quality & Standards

• Edit, refine, and approve copy for print and digital platforms, ensuring accuracy, balance, grammar, style, and clarity.
• Enforce house style, editorial guidelines, and ethical journalism standards.
• Ensure headlines, captions, standfirsts, and pull quotes are accurate, facts, compelling, names, and platform-appropriate.
• Verify facts, figures, names, and sources to minimise corrections and legal risk.

Print & Digital Production

• Oversee daily print pagination and digital publishing workflows.
• Adapt content for different formats, including web, mobile, and social media.
• Ensure stories are optimised for digital consumption, including SEO best practices.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and manage the sub-editing team, allocating workloads and managing shifts.
• Mentor and train digital editors, sub-editors, and junior staff.
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to skills development planning.
• Foster a culture of accuracy, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Newsroom Coordination

• Liaise with reporters, section editors, photographers, and multimedia teams to improve story quality.
• Participate in editorial meetings and contribute to content planning.

Legal & Ethical Compliance

• Ensure compliance with media laws, defamation standards, and editorial ethics.
• Work with legal advisers on sensitive or high-risk stories.
• Ensure corrections and clarifications are handled promptly and transparently.
• Flag potential editorial, ethical, or legal issues and escalate when necessary.

Additional details from responsibilities

• Work closely with designers, production teams, and digital editors to meet deadlines.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

• Academic: Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Mass Communication, English, or a related field.
• Experience: 5 years’ newsroom experience, with significant time in sub-editing roles, and digital-first storytelling.
  NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Mode of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via our career portal https://careers.mcl.co.tz OR [email protected] by February 15, 2026.

Applications should be in PDF format.