Highly computer literate or Computer graduate who might find “radio” interesting as a career.
RCS (Africa) is a wholly owned subsidiary of RCS in the USA, which is owned by iHeart Media, the largest broadcaster in the USA with over 800 stations under their banner. We have been based in Johannesburg for more than 30 years. However, since Covid, we have operated with all our engineers working from their own home offices.
We have an opening for a trainee/apprentice.
In Africa, some 21 countries speak mostly French, and there are another eight where French is widely spoken. Therefore, those countries have remained unable to approach, sell to, train and support without contracting them to our Paris office. I need to change this situation. Hence our need for a fully bilingual (French/English) speaking/writing person to join us.
Initially, we might require this person to, at RCS’s cost, spend some time in South Africa for training. However, the majority of this training can be done remotely so, after the initial training, they can work from home (wherever that is – in Africa or Mauritius – where RCS will be responsible for their required equipment and Internet access.
We are looking for a fully computer literate young person who is comfortably French/English Bilingual. Preferably someone with a Computer Graduate degree. Note that in Africa we do not do any computer programming, so that is not expected. RCS will be investing considerable money and time into this person to inculcate them into the Broadcasting Industry and RCS products. As such, we expect that they will need a minimum of a year of training and experience before they begin to be of value to RCS. We will train them further and pay for any such training ourselves. Microsoft Certification and an RCS Certification in our major products, which are accepted worldwide, would be paid for by us. You would be trained as an RCS Support Engineer servicing our clients in Africa.
It should be noted this person will be considered an intern/apprentice. As such, they would, initially, not perhaps be earning as much as their peers. But, once trained and productive, they certainly should be earning at least as well as their peers.
The person we take on will be entering the world of Radio Broadcasting, and as such be exposed to the best (and the worst) of International broadcasting practices. Whilst I have been with RCS for more than 35 years, working for RCS in Europe, England, Australia, New Zealand and the USA, and as our Chief Engineer for close to 20 years, we expect that this trainee would probably want to move on after three to five years to some other position in the Broadcast industry. The job is most definitely high-stress, and not handsomely renumerated, unfortunately.
Provided they have assisted in training their replacement we would willingly, and actively seek to assist with this move which could be to somewhere in Africa, or anywhere in the World. If they have spent three to four years supporting RCS products they will have attained an extremely comprehensive level of expertise which would open doors to any RCS office, or radio station in the world. We would undertake to actively assist in seeking such employment in whatever country they wish to move to.
Radio Computing Services Inc. is a longstanding company of more than 40 years invested exclusively in the manufacture and support of Broadcast Software. RCS Products and services are widely recognised to be among the best in the World. RCS has more than 15,000 worldwide clients and is represented by wholly-owned subsidiaries in more than 23 countries, with Clients in more than 100 countries. With a worldwide staff of over 800 people and our huge client base, RCS proudly meets its claim to be the Largest Broadcast Software Supplier in the World.
RCS invests a disproportionately high percentage of their annual revenues in ongoing Research and Development, so much so that RCS’s annual research and Development budget alone far exceeds the entire annual sales turnover of most of our competitors in the Industry. Presently all of our products are being rewritten to be entirely Cloud-based.
We are the only Broadcasting Software supplier to have offered a full complement of Broadcast Engineers delivering 24/7/365 levels of Support in South Africa for over thirty years. In addition, we can offer access to the entire World of RCS support Broadcast and Software engineers on call 24 hours per day, seven days per week, 365 days per year.
RCS’s commitment to supporting our more than 120 clients in Africa includes a present complement of four (4) Broadcast Professional Support Engineers with a combined Broadcast Engineering experience exceeding a combined approaching 100 years of service. RCS prides itself in having offered cutting-edge software technology to broadcasters and also delivering superior, exemplary levels of support to our RCS Mission Critical Broadcasting clients for more than 40 years around the World and over 30 years in Africa.
With our continued huge investment in Research and Development combined with more than 15,000 station client base ( >120 in Africa), we can respond far quicker to Industry developments and requirements than any other Broadcasting Software manufacturer. This is evident in the continued flow of development, enhancement and delivery of new and improved products to industry requirements; witness the fact that RCS continues to be rated as the World Leader in terms of Digital Audio Production and Playout systems, Scheduling Software, News and Traffic software and Media Management systems.
With the release of RCS’s current 21st Century Suite of Broadcast Software products including GSelector Scheduling, Zetta Digital Playout, RCS News, ZettaCloud and Revma Professional grade streaming services, and Aquira Traffic systems we have once again, raised the bar in terms of true multi-product integration, comprehensive feature-sets, capability and user-friendliness.
It should be noted that there are, Internationally, more than 2,252 Zetta Digital Playout system client companies. These clients are often multi-station, multi-site, multi-user users. For example, In Europe alone, we have approximately 5,000 Zetta, Zetta Cloud, and Zetta Disaster Recovery sequencers operating. In England, Bauer and Global are using Zetta for virtually all their stations. In Africa, we have over 200 Zetta sequencers in daily operation.
For more information and to express your interest, please contact: Robin Prior: [email protected]