JUMBE OMARI JUMBE

Seasoned journalist with a strong background in reporting on pivotal world events, such as the Rwandan genocide and the Berlin Wall's collapse. Fifteen years of experience at BBC, alongside contributions to Al Jazeera Arabic TV as an expert on African affairs. Managed UN peacekeeping communications across Sudan, Chad, DRC, and Libya, holding leadership roles as Head of Programs and Chief of UN Radios. Focused on promoting ethical journalism and amplifying underrepresented voices in the media landscape.

• 19 November, 2025- Highfield Level 2 Award for Door Supervisors in Private Security Industry (SIA), Birmingham, UK.
• 04 November, 2025- Highfield Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF), Birmingham, UK.

• FOUAD, Abdel Razek, former head, BBC Arabic Section., fouadrazek@hotmail.com
• Chris, Lom, former head, IOM communications., Clom@iom.int
• Valerie, Msoka, former peer, BBC & UN Peacekeeping., sione23@gmail.com, +255 785 237 301, +44 744 324 5796

• 1992. BBC: Broadcast Journalism I-II-III (Production, Editorial & technical skills)
• 1993. BBC: Reporting from the field
• 1994. BBC: Press Laws, Human Rights
• 1995. BBC: Ashridge Course for senior journalists
• 1996. BBC: Ashridge Course for Leadership
• Hitherto, annual training on a wide range of journalism and leadership skills.

-Initiated and led voluntary work for UN staff in peacekeeping missions, inluding water access for women in Darfur, Sudan, women's organization development in Chad, and community-based financial support in South Sudan.

- Designed and delivered communication and radio training programmes for youth, and capacity-building workshops for local journalists.

-Promoted inclusive public broadcasting by making UN radio platforms accessible to all age groups, ensuring community voices were represented and heard.

-Designed and delivered radio journalism courses in several countries and locations, including Tanzania, Kenya, DRC, UK etc

• 1 As a junior radio producer: newsgathering, reporting, editing, production, interviewing, presenting, broadcasting, and touring for newsgathering.
• 2. As a senior radio producer: supervising a team of 12 junior producers, audience engagement, overseeing the team upholding journalism ethics (integrity, accuracy, impartiality and respect of privacy, press laws etc), travelling for training and capacity building.
• 3. As Head of programmes at UN radio: supervising a team of radio producers, chairing day's editorial meeting, planning content calendars, assigning duty tours to senior producers, designing and managing radio shows, integrating radio with other media (digital,social media, podcasts etc), managing outside contributors.
• 4. As Chief of UN radio: Strategic leadership & Planning- defining the editorial vision and broadcasting strategy, leading a team of 30-40 national and international radio journalists, producers, technicians and support staff, safeguarding radio's editorial independence, ensuring content supports peace building and reconciliation, facilitating a two-way communication between mission and hosting communities, coordinating with other mission components, training and mentoring local journalists, building sustainable local radio capacities, building partnership with local media, NGO's and international broadcasters, carrying annual performance assessments, representing the radio in high-level mission meetings, acting as a spokesperson or advisor on media matters.
• 5. As Spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration, IOM: acting as the official voice of the IOM, providing timely, accurate and consistent information on IOM's operations, policies and positions, conducting interviews, press briefings and statements on migration trends, serving as a frontline communicator during migration trends, highlighting IOM's humanitarian assistance, communicating IOM's priorities in areas such as safe migration, using storytelling and data to humanize migration issues, briefing IOM leadership on media trends and public perceptions, advising leadership on communication strategies, avoiding politicization of migration issues while amplifying migrants’ voices.

• 06:30 Scan overnight media coverage; flag any misinformation; share a short brief with IOM leadership.
• 08:00 Join coordination calls with IOM's field teams, UN partners, agree on key messages.
• 09:30 Respond to journalists requesting interviews; prepare press lines that highlight IOM's humanitarian role.
• 11:00 Draft a press release, ensuring accuracy and clarity; and get quick clearance from the upline; distribute to the media, post on IOM website etc.
• 13:00 Live interviews with TVs, radios …
• 15:00 A field visit to a migration reception centre, police or Immigration department to explain migration issues.
• 18:00 Internal Briefing & Social Media interaction.

Exercised leadership and sound judgement in managing a misinformation crises at UN peacekeeping radio in South Sudan, in 2008, by leading a 16-member team to counter false rumours and help avert an imminent inter-communal violence between two rival tribes, the Dinkas and the Nueirs. My team under my instructions took a rapid measure to interview the leaders of the two groups on a live broadcast to ask their followers to de-escalate. The prompt act prevented a certain bloodshed on that day.