Develops English human interest stories by visiting communities to collect the stories and/or edit human interest stories. In all written products the following considerations must be made:
▪ Protecting the rights of the child must be given priority above all considerations when collecting and writing stories and other materials
▪ Ensuring clarity, readability, logic, appropriateness as well as engaging writing in each story
▪ Ensuring language accuracy. The final product must not require further editing/copyediting
▪ Consulting with supervisor and other colleagues to ensure adherence to the stylebook and guidelines, and alignment with the country programme
▪ Ensuring factual accuracy including accurate representation of the issues and programmes.
- Lebanon
- Beirut
• At least 5 years’ experience of writing stories, articles, features, human interest stories or reports on social issues for public audiences in English preferably in a media or development environment. Experience as a writer-editor is essential.
• Perfect, professional fluency in written and spoken English (Evaluation of sample work)
• Experience in the humanitarian field.