Mobile Journalism Expert

Assignment Description: Preparing and delivering two full-day training workshops on mobile journalism.

Assignment Location: Beirut, Lebanon

Employment Type: Short-term consultancy 

Assignment Period: May – June 2024

Level of Effort: Three expert days   

How to apply: Please send the application documents to [email protected], cc’ing [email protected], by 21 April 2024, 11:59 PM local time. 

DRI is looking for an expert in Mobile Journalism to deliver two full-day training workshops to 25 Lebanon-based content creators and field correspondents.

Background

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) is a non-partisan, independent, not-for-profit organisation registered in Berlin, and established in Lebanon since 2016. DRI promotes political participation of citizens, accountability of state bodies and the development of democratic institutions worldwide. Democratic discourse is the basis of our mission and vision. In our work, we facilitate discussion and exchange about democratic government and the need for a continuous discourse adhering to democratic rules.    

In the framework of its project entitled: “Independent Voices: Supporting Innovative & Citizen-centric Content Creation in Lebanese Media”, DRI is facilitating collaboration between a network of journalists, media makers, and digital content creators following a rights-based approach to shed light on political reform issues and the expansion of civic space. The project aims at countering mis- and disinformation and the spread of fake news in mainstream media. To do so, we envision a young media community that works together to deliver high-quality media content about topics that are typically overlooked by mainstream media.  

In this context, DRI is recruiting a Mobile Journalism expert to deliver two full-day training sessions to a group of 25 content creators and field correspondents between May and June 2024. The training objective is to enhance participants’ digital media and storytelling skills. The participants will learn how to produce video news reports and reels by shooting proper footage, conducting interviews, and editing audio and visual storytelling using their mobile phones.

Your duties and responsibilities

Under the supervision of DRI’s Programme Manager, the Expert will:   

• Develop interactive and detailed training modules, a training session plan, and all accompanying background materials (½ expert day);   
• Prepare pre- and post-training test modules to be shared with the participants before and after the training sessions, once validated by DRI;  
• Deliver two full-day training sessions for 25 content creators and field correspondents following an interactive, engaging approach, e.g., discussion activities, and exercises (two expert days);   
• Once the trainings are completed, submit a training report summarising the training outcomes and the pre- and post-training tests results, reflecting the trainees’ increase in knowledge as per the template provided by DRI (½ expert day).   

 Your skills and experience  

• A university degree in media studies, communications, journalism, or other related field; 
• At least 5 years of experience in the digital and social media field;
• At least 5 pieces of mobile journalism published;
• Proven experience in training in mobile journalism and video production;
• Excellent verbal and writing communication skills; 
• Gender and cultural sensitivity; 
• Working proficiency in Arabic and English.