English Editor in Chief - Balkan Transitional Justice Balkan
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN, www.birn.eu.com) seeks a qualified editor in the English language for its newly launched regional project on transitional justice in South Eastern Europe.
This is a highly demanding post, which requires a dynamic candidate with a lot of imagination and enthusiasm as well as a proven ability to work under pressure and with deadlines. In return, the chosen candidate will work at a highly rewarding position in a young and dynamic organizational team, which regularly sets the news agenda in the Balkan region.
The Editor will ensure full logistical support for editorial output of BIRN’s Regional Transitional Justice project including full responsibility for editorial content quality and communications with the rest of BIRN’s editorial and regional team. The editor will be responsible for analytical, investigative and courtside reporting, management of BIRN’s Regional Transitional Justice editorial team and development of online publication, radio, and TV under this project.
This is a full-time position for a set period of 21 months.
All candidates need to be available as of January 2012 for a training session (the full scope of work will start as of February 2012).
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2011
Application procedure: Please send your CV, letter of motivation, and two professional references to jessie.hronesova@birn.eu.com.
Description of the project:
BIRN is launching a new two-year multi-media regional project funded by the European Commission and the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The project aims to increase a general public understanding of transitional justice in the post-Yugoslav countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) and improve the state of media through a regional network of six locally based specialized journalists that would create a new Transitional Justice Regional Journalistic Team. The project consists of online news reports covering regional issues related to war crimes, radio programmes that provides monthly reports about all issues related to post-war processes related to transitional justice, and a series of six documentaries and one film tracking the investigative work of the Transitional Justice Regional Journalistic Team. The fundamental goal of the project is to makes sure that the public in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro have free and open access to impartial news and analyses about regional transitional justice as a founding stone to a successful democratization, functioning rule of law, respect for human rights, and sustainable peaceful future.
Principal responsibilities:
According to BIRN’s strategy and project plans, the Chief Editor will:
? Commission, edit, write, and publish articles related to the project;
? Organize editorial team through daily and weekly editorial meetings, and daily oversight of team performance’;
? In cooperation with the Programme Manager and Director, ensure editorial output that fully complies with the project strategy and details;
? Maintain and develop the Regional Transitional Justice sub-website including uploading articles, activities, and related materials;
? Actively work on a further development of the project and publications: research, analysis and reporting for internet, print, radio and TV publications;
? Develop new ideas and topics for the Balkan Insight output and all other BIRN publications, as well as continuously working on their improvement and development.
Other duties:
? Provide the Programme Manager and Director with monthly narrative report of publication performance during the given month and plans for the next one;
? Maintain appropriate contacts with government authorities and officials of various local organisations, necessary to ensure correct execution of the above duties;
? Maintain appropriate contacts with personnel of BIRN Regional Network, as well as all BIRN country offices and personnel, necessary to ensure correct execution of the above duties;
? Help the set up and subsequent maintenance of database of justice related contacts;
? Carrying out any other unforeseen duties that may be required to ensure the smooth operation of BIRN’s work, such as substituting for absent colleagues, etc.
Qualifications and characteristics of a successful candidate:
? Native English speaker;
? At least five years of experience in journalistic language editing (advanced degree in journalism or related discipline desirable);
? Experience with international standards of journalism, investigative journalism, news and news analysis reporting;
? Special interest in investigative and field-reporting desirable;
? Special interest in Balkan politics, society and transitional justice issues in the Balkans (war crimes, retributive legal processes, gender-based violence, reconciliation efforts, memorialisation efforts, role of the media in facing the past, missing persons);
? Strong interpersonal skills, dynamic, open, hard-working and committed;
? Ability to work independently and pro-actively;
? Ability to act as a team player in a deadline-driven environment;
? Excellent computer skills.
About BIRN
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network – BIRN (www.birn.eu.com), is a nongovernmental organisation organization based in Bosnia-Herzegovina, working on development of investigative journalism on the Balkans from the Balkans. It emerged from the Balkan programme of the London-based Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) in 2005 and currently consists of a group of editors and trainers that enable journalists in the region to produce in-depth analytical, investigative, and multimedia journalistic reports on complex human rights, political, economic, social, and cultural topics.
More information and Contact
The chosen candidate will preferably be based in the Balkans but we also welcome applicants currently living in the GMT, CET or GMT+2 timezones.
BIRN encourages applicants of both genders, and it offers an equal chance to all interested persons, without any prejudice based on their religious, ethnic or political background.
For more information about the project or application procedure please contact jessie.hronesova@birn.eu.com.
This is a highly demanding post, which requires a dynamic candidate with a lot of imagination and enthusiasm as well as a proven ability to work under pressure and with deadlines. In return, the chosen candidate will work at a highly rewarding position in a young and dynamic organizational team, which regularly sets the news agenda in the Balkan region.
The Editor will ensure full logistical support for editorial output of BIRN’s Regional Transitional Justice project including full responsibility for editorial content quality and communications with the rest of BIRN’s editorial and regional team. The editor will be responsible for analytical, investigative and courtside reporting, management of BIRN’s Regional Transitional Justice editorial team and development of online publication, radio, and TV under this project.
This is a full-time position for a set period of 21 months.
All candidates need to be available as of January 2012 for a training session (the full scope of work will start as of February 2012).
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2011
Application procedure: Please send your CV, letter of motivation, and two professional references to jessie.hronesova@birn.eu.com.
Description of the project:
BIRN is launching a new two-year multi-media regional project funded by the European Commission and the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The project aims to increase a general public understanding of transitional justice in the post-Yugoslav countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) and improve the state of media through a regional network of six locally based specialized journalists that would create a new Transitional Justice Regional Journalistic Team. The project consists of online news reports covering regional issues related to war crimes, radio programmes that provides monthly reports about all issues related to post-war processes related to transitional justice, and a series of six documentaries and one film tracking the investigative work of the Transitional Justice Regional Journalistic Team. The fundamental goal of the project is to makes sure that the public in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro have free and open access to impartial news and analyses about regional transitional justice as a founding stone to a successful democratization, functioning rule of law, respect for human rights, and sustainable peaceful future.
Principal responsibilities:
According to BIRN’s strategy and project plans, the Chief Editor will:
? Commission, edit, write, and publish articles related to the project;
? Organize editorial team through daily and weekly editorial meetings, and daily oversight of team performance’;
? In cooperation with the Programme Manager and Director, ensure editorial output that fully complies with the project strategy and details;
? Maintain and develop the Regional Transitional Justice sub-website including uploading articles, activities, and related materials;
? Actively work on a further development of the project and publications: research, analysis and reporting for internet, print, radio and TV publications;
? Develop new ideas and topics for the Balkan Insight output and all other BIRN publications, as well as continuously working on their improvement and development.
Other duties:
? Provide the Programme Manager and Director with monthly narrative report of publication performance during the given month and plans for the next one;
? Maintain appropriate contacts with government authorities and officials of various local organisations, necessary to ensure correct execution of the above duties;
? Maintain appropriate contacts with personnel of BIRN Regional Network, as well as all BIRN country offices and personnel, necessary to ensure correct execution of the above duties;
? Help the set up and subsequent maintenance of database of justice related contacts;
? Carrying out any other unforeseen duties that may be required to ensure the smooth operation of BIRN’s work, such as substituting for absent colleagues, etc.
Qualifications and characteristics of a successful candidate:
? Native English speaker;
? At least five years of experience in journalistic language editing (advanced degree in journalism or related discipline desirable);
? Experience with international standards of journalism, investigative journalism, news and news analysis reporting;
? Special interest in investigative and field-reporting desirable;
? Special interest in Balkan politics, society and transitional justice issues in the Balkans (war crimes, retributive legal processes, gender-based violence, reconciliation efforts, memorialisation efforts, role of the media in facing the past, missing persons);
? Strong interpersonal skills, dynamic, open, hard-working and committed;
? Ability to work independently and pro-actively;
? Ability to act as a team player in a deadline-driven environment;
? Excellent computer skills.
About BIRN
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network – BIRN (www.birn.eu.com), is a nongovernmental organisation organization based in Bosnia-Herzegovina, working on development of investigative journalism on the Balkans from the Balkans. It emerged from the Balkan programme of the London-based Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) in 2005 and currently consists of a group of editors and trainers that enable journalists in the region to produce in-depth analytical, investigative, and multimedia journalistic reports on complex human rights, political, economic, social, and cultural topics.
More information and Contact
The chosen candidate will preferably be based in the Balkans but we also welcome applicants currently living in the GMT, CET or GMT+2 timezones.
BIRN encourages applicants of both genders, and it offers an equal chance to all interested persons, without any prejudice based on their religious, ethnic or political background.
For more information about the project or application procedure please contact jessie.hronesova@birn.eu.com.
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