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Nicholus Were is a young evolving Journalist with bias in broadcast/electronic media. His contribution in the past has been in the areas of videography, photography, video and photo editing, social media promotion, Media monitoring, marketing, voice talent, radio production, translation, news writing, research, broadcasting and news reporting. Other than this Nicholus has taken on other duties on voluntary basis that have benefited youths in his society; primarily in his church community. Nicholus has the ability to achieve strong grasp of operations of various departments in the organization within a short time. This was demonstrated well when he was part of media monitoring team and social media promotion team in Intrako Limited Kenya. Through the contribution given to his department, a major success was achieved, which is the current president of the republic of Kenya. Equally, Nicholus possess exceptional voice for radio and television both for adverting and news casting which is an important tool in the media industry. Through his experience in the field Nicholus has acquired sound ability to handle multitasks, set priorities and meet deadlines set for him as a team lead or part of the team. Other than this he has strong analytical and organizational skills, and commendable follow-up skills, which has earned him a good spot as a team player in any work station placed.

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skills

Actor
Continuity
Editor
Journalist
Photographer
Voice Overs

education

Diploma 

experience

Intrako LTD              Social Media Promoter                   May- Dec 2017

Intrako limited Kenya is a media agency that focuses mainly in media monitoring and data journalism with focus in politics and data space. Its main aim is to bring solution to presidential run up candidates and possible success.

  • Implement the social media strategy, coordinating with stakeholders across the party to ensure its effectiveness. While ensuring social media tools are kept up to date.
  • Manage social media campaigns through establishing the organization's presence in social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter and other similar community sites, posting on relevant blogs and seeding content into social applications as needed. Duties include online advocacy, writing editorial, and community–outreach efforts promotions.
  • Monitor effective benchmarks for measuring the impact of social media programs, and analyze, review and report on the effectiveness of the campaigns in an effort to maximize the results.

 

 

 

 

Kenya Power                                    Control Room Operator      Mar - Jul 2017

Kenya power is currently the only energy lighting company in Kenya with main focus of lighting up every village, town and city within the country. Through the control room operations Kenya Power

  • Monitored camera within Kenya power and filling daily report.
  • Responded to any fire emergencies within the building.
  • Prepared reports on status of cameras countrywide for substations.
  • Activated access card biometrics for new staff.   

 Jubilee Insurance                Bancassurance Sales Officer        Jan - Aug 2016

Jubilee Insurance is one of the household insurance names in Kenya with its presence in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. Its main objective is to provide to its clients life assurance, medical and general covers that are to ease unforeseen circumstances. During my tenure I

  • Represented Jubilee Insurance in I&M Bank.
  • Sold Education and Savings policy plan to I&M clients.
  • Helped in opening new accounts for I&M Bank
  • Educated client on financial management.

 

 Africa Infrastructure Digest.        Marketing Executive                       Nov 2014-Dec 2015

AID is a media agency that has interest and focus in the Infrastructure industry and has been focusing on the projects that the government has implemented and covers such stories. Other than that it sells media space.

  • Planning and executing all webs, SEO/SEM, Marketing database, email, social media and display advertising campaign.
  • Designing, building and maintaining our social media presence.
  • Planning executing and measuring experiment and conversion tests.
  • Collaborating with internal team to create landing pages and optimizing user experience.

 

 Luniy Africa                         Executive Producer             Nov 2013 to Present (On demand)

  • Team leader and key project organizer in the Pre-production, Production and Post – production

CWC Media Monitor Consultant    Internews Network                        Sept 2012-Oct 2013

Internews Network is a Non-Government Organization with headquarters in London. Its interests are in Data journalism, Health journalism and democracy in various parts of the world.

  • Monitoring Governance, devolution and hate speech in the media in Kenya before during and after the election that was held in March 4th 2013
  • Coming up with a daily data of happening in the media and in the general public in the buildup to a society without corruption, hate speech and malice.
  • Writing and compiling reports from my findings and then reporting my findings during the Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and giving possible solutions to my findings on the ground.

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