IREX is hiring an Investigative Journalism Expert for Maputo, to lead an investigative journalism fellowship project, starting in February 2013.
Duties
- Mentor of a group of six emerging journalists in investigative journalism for six months, both training and guiding them to complete reporting projects
- Teach final year students at least 3 hours per week on investigative journalism at Eduardo Mondlane University’s School of Communications and Arts (ECA)
- Provide and/or develop additional seminars and workshops
- Contribute to the scouting of talented journalism students and young reporters to be selected for MSP fellowships
- Manage the performance of the mentee journalists and conduct regular checks on their work. In addition, provide detailed feedback at regular meetings, conducting a monthly appraisal with mentees, address issues of performance and identify training and development needs.
Requirements
- Strong written and oral communication skills in Portuguese and English
- Ability to train, teach, and mentor young journalists and journalism students
- Ability to write and copy edit accurately and quickly
- Strong technical and computer skills, including multimedia production skills and digital reporting
- Experience in teaching and facilitating
- Minimum of 15 years of proven journalism practice
- Ability to be patient and systematic
- Editorial judgement
- Strong planning and organization skills
- Excellent interpersonal and team work skills
- Creative thinking, Resilience, Flexibility and Superior leadership skills
Notes
Candidates must submit their application (a detailed resumé and a letter of motivation in English) to our e-mail address, displayed on the right side of this page.