Journalist from Serbia - Transitional Justice Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
Journalist on Transitional Justice in Serbia
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) seeks a qualified reporter from Serbia for its newly launched regional project on the topic of transitional justice in South Eastern Europe. The Journalist will be responsible for analytical, investigative and courtside reporting and directly report to the Editor of the project, Programme Manager, and Coordinator as well as other authorised supervisor/s, who will assign duties as appropriate. The chosen candidate will work at a rewarding position in a young and dynamic organisation that sets the news agenda in the Balkan region.
This is a highly demanding full-time position for a set period of 21 months. All candidates need to be available as of January 2012 (the full scope of work will start as of February 2012).
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2011
Application procedure: CV, a letter of motivation, and two professional references sent via email 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.
Position’s summary:
? Courtside reporting, research, and daily courtside reports;
? Research and write-up of analytical reports for the online publication, radio, and TV outputs of this project;
? Investigative reporting that includes research, interviews, data collection and analytical reporting;
? Daily media clipping of articles republished in the local media including identification, cutting, collection, preparation of daily, weekly and monthly summaries;
? Development of new ideas and topics for the online news portal, radio, and TV outputs of this project, as well as continuously working on improving and further developing the project;
? Actively contributing to Regional Transitional Justice Radio development and the subsequent TV production
? Actively contributing to other relevant project activities;
? Maintaining Regional Transitional Justice sub-site including postings of articles, activities, and related materials.
Other duties:
? Maintaining appropriate contacts with the government authorities and officials of various local organizations, necessary in order to ensure correct execution of the above duties;
? Maintaining appropriate contacts with the personnel of BIRN, as well as all BIRN country offices and/or personnel in order to ensure correct execution of the above duties;
? Assisting 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 covering for absent colleagues.
Qualifications and characteristics of a successful candidate:
? Native speaker of Serbian;
? Excellent command of the English language (writing, reading, comprehension, and speaking);
? At least three years of experience with online, print or broadcast media (advanced degree in journalism or related discipline desirable);
? Experience with international media;
? Knowledge of Balkans politics;
? Special interest in transitional justice issues (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 personality;
? Ability to work independently and pro-actively;
? Ability to act as a team player in a deadline-driven environment;
? Excellent computer skills.
BIRN encourages applicants of both genders and offers an equal chance to all interested candidates, irrespective of their religious, ethnic or political background.
About BIRN
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (www.birn.eu.com), is a nongovernmental organization based in Bosnia-Herzegovina, working on the development of investigative journalism on 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.
For more information about the project or application procedure please contact jessie.hronesova@birn.eu.com.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) seeks a qualified reporter from Serbia for its newly launched regional project on the topic of transitional justice in South Eastern Europe. The Journalist will be responsible for analytical, investigative and courtside reporting and directly report to the Editor of the project, Programme Manager, and Coordinator as well as other authorised supervisor/s, who will assign duties as appropriate. The chosen candidate will work at a rewarding position in a young and dynamic organisation that sets the news agenda in the Balkan region.
This is a highly demanding full-time position for a set period of 21 months. All candidates need to be available as of January 2012 (the full scope of work will start as of February 2012).
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2011
Application procedure: CV, a letter of motivation, and two professional references sent via email 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.
Position’s summary:
? Courtside reporting, research, and daily courtside reports;
? Research and write-up of analytical reports for the online publication, radio, and TV outputs of this project;
? Investigative reporting that includes research, interviews, data collection and analytical reporting;
? Daily media clipping of articles republished in the local media including identification, cutting, collection, preparation of daily, weekly and monthly summaries;
? Development of new ideas and topics for the online news portal, radio, and TV outputs of this project, as well as continuously working on improving and further developing the project;
? Actively contributing to Regional Transitional Justice Radio development and the subsequent TV production
? Actively contributing to other relevant project activities;
? Maintaining Regional Transitional Justice sub-site including postings of articles, activities, and related materials.
Other duties:
? Maintaining appropriate contacts with the government authorities and officials of various local organizations, necessary in order to ensure correct execution of the above duties;
? Maintaining appropriate contacts with the personnel of BIRN, as well as all BIRN country offices and/or personnel in order to ensure correct execution of the above duties;
? Assisting 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 covering for absent colleagues.
Qualifications and characteristics of a successful candidate:
? Native speaker of Serbian;
? Excellent command of the English language (writing, reading, comprehension, and speaking);
? At least three years of experience with online, print or broadcast media (advanced degree in journalism or related discipline desirable);
? Experience with international media;
? Knowledge of Balkans politics;
? Special interest in transitional justice issues (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 personality;
? Ability to work independently and pro-actively;
? Ability to act as a team player in a deadline-driven environment;
? Excellent computer skills.
BIRN encourages applicants of both genders and offers an equal chance to all interested candidates, irrespective of their religious, ethnic or political background.
About BIRN
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (www.birn.eu.com), is a nongovernmental organization based in Bosnia-Herzegovina, working on the development of investigative journalism on 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.
For more information about the project or application procedure please contact jessie.hronesova@birn.eu.com.
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