{"id":23821,"date":"2012-02-29T11:15:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=23821"},"modified":"2012-02-29T11:29:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:29:36","slug":"job-voice-starter-a-regional-lead-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/29\/job-voice-starter-a-regional-lead-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: “Voice Starter” a Regional Lead Position"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via JET alum Janelle Jimenez (former JETAANY Secretary)<\/strong>. Posted by Dipika Soni<\/a> (Ishikawa-ken<\/a>, 2003-06)<\/strong>. Dipika has recently moved back to London but is interested in hearing about any Japan-related opportunities across the globe.<\/em><\/p>\n

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***Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JETwit. Thanks.***<\/em><\/p>\n

Job Position:<\/strong> “Voice Starter” a Regional Lead Position <\/p>\n

Job Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Summary of Position<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Regional Lead (RL) position is a contracted position lasting from January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012. The role reports to the VP of Social Media. The RL is responsible for building a community of citizen journalist in their region and maintaining an \u2018ear to the ground\u2019 on important, trending and above all breaking news stories in their region. The RL is responsible for organizing citizen journalists to respond to the regions newsworthy stories as determined by that community. The RL should be fully versed in utilizing grass roots strategies that find the best citizen journalists, motivate them and keep them engaged and delivering the region\u2019s important stories to the [company] platform.
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\nDuties and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Finding new citizen journalist recruits in target regions
\n\u00b7 Organizing and motivating citizen journalism recruits through offline workshops, events and news media challenges
\n\u00b7 Organizing and motivating citizen journalism recruits through online workshops, events and news media challenges
\n\u00b7 Acting as the main contact point for [company] for all breaking and important news stories within the designated region
\n\u00b7 Educating people on the tools and capabilities of [company]\u2019s platform<\/p>\n

Starting discussions with other citizen journalists, bloggers and media practitioners and engaging them with the [company] platform
\nLeading street level citizen journalism efforts as needed
\nSelf-educating on the best tools and practices for citizen journalists and educating what they learn back to their community
\nReporting back to the [company]e team weekly and quarterly
\nTracking to goals<\/p>\n

Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n

A proven track record using social media to grow and engage audiences
\nA strong and working knowledge of citizen journalism within the region, including functional ability (tools of the trade, best practices, legal matters and public safety) as well as contacts within the field
\n2+ years professional working experience in a professional organization (for profit, non-profit\/NGO and gov\u2019t are all ok)
\nPersonal and professional experience and proven success organizing both offline and online events and building engaged communities
\nAbove average comfort and ability leading discussions and generating interest
\nStrong knowledge of political landscape within the region (historical and current trends, concerns, issues of the day and the everyday person) and placing those within a global context
\nBachelors degree (or within 1 semester)<\/p>\n

Preferred: bloggers\/social media practitioner with a strong and active following
\nPreferred: deep working and proven knowledge of social media as tool for social activism<\/p>\n

How to apply:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please send your resume to Janelle Jimenez (janellemj@gmail.com<\/em><\/strong>) by March 9, 2012 to be considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via JET alum Janelle Jimenez (former JETAANY Secretary). Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika has recently moved back to London but is interested in hearing about any Japan-related opportunities across the globe. ———————————————————————————————————————————- ***Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JETwit. Thanks.*** Job Position: “Voice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-6cd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23833,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions\/23833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}