West/Central Africa: Editor PlusNews HIV/AIDS Service
IRIN is looking for an editor to expand and enhance its current coverage of HIV/AIDS issues for sub-Saharan Africa. The successful candidate will be charged with expanding IRIN's PlusNews HIV/AIDS service by increasing the news flow from West and Central Africa, using both personal contacts and IRIN's extensive stringer network in the two regions. They will be expected to write and edit well researched and sensitively written stories about HIV/AIDS in both English and French.
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Editor PlusNews HIV/AIDS Service for West and Central Africa
IRIN is looking for an editor to expand and enhance its current coverage of HIV/AIDS issues for sub-Saharan Africa. The successful candidate will be charged with expanding IRIN's PlusNews HIV/AIDS service by increasing the news flow from West and Central Africa, using both personal contacts and IRIN's extensive stringer network in the two regions. They will be expected to write and edit well researched and sensitively written stories about HIV/AIDS in both English and French. They will also supervise the work of a newly created translation unit charged with producing a French language online news service about HIV/AIDS in Africa. They will liase closely with the existing PlusNews editorial unit in Johannesburg South Africa and IRIN's West Africa bureau. They will be expected to travel occasionally within Africa to report directly on HIV/AIDS issues, individual countries and to attend conferences on efforts to control the pandemic and improve the lives of people living with AIDS.
The deadline for applying is 5 December 2003.
Apply to: Robert Powell, Managing Editor IRIN West Africa e-mail: [email protected] (cc application to [email protected])
The job description has been posted to the ReliefWeb vacancies page on 26 November 2003 (http://www.reliefweb.int/vacancies/). Copies can also be obtained by sending a request to Joanne Clark - [email protected]