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Farm Radio International Tanzania Jobs 2024
Editor, Part-time (English – fluent) at Farm Radio International May 2024
BACKGROUND
Farm
Radio International is a Canadian organization that has been working
since 1979 to harness the power of radio to meet the needs of
small-scale farmers. We work with more than 1,300 radio organizations
located in more than 37 African countries to fight poverty and food
insecurity. With the benefit of FRI resources and training, our
broadcasting partners deliver practical, relevant, and timely
information to tens of millions of farmers, including women farmers. We
also work with a range of partners to implement radio projects that
address specific development challenges and community needs.
Farm
Radio International has a network of more than 1,300 radio partners
across sub-Saharan Africa, who are supported with information and
training resources, services, and opportunities to improve the quality
and quantity of radio programming for rural audiences. One of these
resources is Barza Wire, an online news service sharing stories about
rural communities and small-scale farmers in Africa, published
bi-weekly. Each edition shares 3 news stories (500-700 words), which are
written by freelance journalists from across Africa.
Barza Wire
is published at wire.farmradio.fm and is shared by email with more than
7,000 subscribers. Another one of these resources is our Script packs,
comprising interview and drama scripts, backgrounders, radio spots, and
other information documents. These are about 3,000 words in length and
are found at scripts.farmradio.fm
Radio Resources values
All
of our resources focus on family farmers and rural people. We strive to
represent the innovations, solutions, opinions, and concerns of rural
people in order to provide them with accessible information that is
useful to them. We are particularly
interested in promoting environmentally-sustainable agricultural
practices, especially those whose effectiveness has been proven by
African family farmers, as well as best practices for good health, food
security, and advancing gender equality.
We strive to represent
the voices of women and men. We research and produce our work in a way
that highlights the work of women as farmers, as well as community
leaders, public servants, etc. We strive to cover issues that rural
women consider important, but we also explicitly seek female and male
sources for all stories.
KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
In collaboration with the Resource Coordinator,
Coordination of assignments
-
Identify, from a list of FRI-trained / approved writers, someone
available / interested to write on the topic assigned, in the country
identified, within the timeline. - Communicate this name & contact info to FRI’s Resource Coordinator, who will draft the contract.
- There will be 4-6 resources to assign per month.
- Offer feedback to the writer on their pitch document
- Follow up with the writer to ensure that the script or story is on topic and will be received before the deadline.
- Ensure a photo will also be shared.
Editing
- With
the writer, review, edit, and fact-check scripts and stories produced
by anglophone writers until it is publishable. It can then be shared
with the Resource Coordinator for separate rounds of review and editing
before the story is translated and published. - Ensure scripts and stories are written in a style that is easily read on air and that values rural people, particularly women.
- There will be 4-6 items per month to edit.
Writer recruitment and training
- As necessary, identify potential writers, particularly women, in key countries of FRI operation to contribute.
- As necessary, support online writer training.
The editor may also be asked to support the revision of other documents, including Broadcaster how-to guides.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Hold a diploma in journalism or communications or any other related training
- 3+ years of professional experience in journalism
- Excellent ability to write and revise texts in English
- Fluency in English, both orally and in writing
- Experience in capacity building and coaching of journalists
- Good command of writing for radio
- Excellent command and monitoring of African agricultural and rural news
- Excellent command of IT tools, including good familiarity with WhatsApp
- Excellent time management skills, with a good ability to work independently and in a team remotely
- Demonstrate interpersonal skills and openness
- Previous experience supervising and managing a team of freelance journalists (an important asset)
- Knowledge of gender issues, agriculture, rural development, environment, health.
How to apply
APPLICATIONS
FRI
values diversity and inclusion, and welcomes applications from all
candidates that meet the qualifications. Women, people with disabilities
and members of other equity-seeking or marginalized communities are
strongly encouraged to apply. Reasonable accommodations are available
upon request in all aspects of the recruitment process.
FRI also participates in the inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (https://misconduct-disclosure-scheme.org/).
As such, upon hire, we will request information from job applicants’
previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual
abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under
investigation at the time of departure. By submitting an application,
the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment
procedures.
If you wish to apply for this position, please send the following to Jobapps@farmradio.org indicating the job title “Editor” in the subject line and include:
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- CV and cover letter
- Three writing samples
- Rate for editing a 500-700 word story and for editing a 3000-word radio script
Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. No telephone calls please.
