Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 30, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Internews Zambia is seeking to recruit a qualified Senior Journalism Trainer to provide journalism training services to its project in Zambia
Job Title: Senior Journalism Trainer
Job Type: Full-time
Location: Lusaka, Zambia
Supervisor: Programs Manager

Internews seeks to fill in the position of a Senior Journalism Trainer, The Senior Journalism Trainer will be responsible for developing and delivering journalism training programs to national media outlets. S/he will work with relevant stakeholders to facilitate curricula design, ensuring that they are locally relevant. S/he will work closely with the M&E Specialist to design training evaluations and collect and Incorporate feedback to make training more effective and responsive to the needs of beneficiaries. S/he will also work closely with the M&E Specialist and project staff to collate information and draft reports on a weekly. monthly and quarterly basis as required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include the Following:
• Develop and implement media training programs - this includes the design and delivery of high-quality media training and mentoring (online and offline) activities that are locally relevant
• Lead and Conduct training and mentoring of journalists
• Work with other project trainers and mentors to ensure that mentoring is done in accordance with the guidelines provided and reports on mentoring are provided in a timely manner.
• Maintain close contacts with trainees and Support content produced for publication/broadcast under the Internews stipends and ensure it meets high quality standards.
• Maintain close contacts with trainees for ongoing remote mentoring and to ensure their participation in media monitoring and other feedback needs from around the country
• Assist with the selection of small grant recipients, trainers, speakers, etc.
• Maintain close contact with Internews subgrantees and attend their events when relevant
• Present and moderate events on behalf of Internews
• Be the focal point between Internews and the Community Radio Stations
• Assist M&E Specialist in designing evaluations and providing feedback to make training more effective and responsive to the needs of beneficiaries.
• Prepare comprehensive training and mentoring reports.
• Assist the project in the preparation of reports. Ensure comprehensive reports are compiled on training activities including participation records and other M&E data as required
• Establish and maintain an active database and strong relationships with Zambia media fraternity
• Propose topics and draft success stories for the Project
• Undertake any other related duties as requested

Qualifications
• BA Journalism and/or Communications (minimum)
• 5 years of experience in a reputable media house and journalism trainings/mentoring

Skills
• Knowledge of several of the following issues: Health digital media, climate change, gender and governance in Zambia
• Experience in producing Human interest stories
• Media savvy with a good knowledge and experience producing content for different digital platform and social media
• Competence in online and radio (voice recording, copy editing, script and sound editing)
• Good research skills Demonstrated computer typing speed and skills in Microsoft Office Suite applications

(Qualified and experienced Zambian female applicants are encouraged to apply)

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure
Please email your CV and cover letter to ZM-recruitment@internews.org by 5PM, by 9 August 2021.

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