Balkan Investigative Regional Reporting Network – BIRN Hub, is opening a call for the following position:
• Correspondent from Montenegro – with more than 3 years of relevant experience.
BIRN Hub, based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is looking for a correspondent from Montenegro for BIRN’s English-language website Balkan Insight.
We are offering the chance to work in a highly interactive and dynamic environment at one of the biggest media networks in the region. Due to the continuing growth of our network and the implementation of various projects, we are looking for a hardworking, dedicated, motivated professional to join our ever-growing team.
Terms: Full-time, 45 hours per week
Working Language: English
Experience Level: More than 3 years of relevant experience
Start Date: As soon as possible
Deadline to Apply: 31 March, 2025
Location: Podgorica, Montenegro
Position – Correspondent
Major duties and responsibilities
- Reporting on daily events and producing analysis, interviews, features and photo or video stories on the main events in the country, including politics, the economy, security, the environment, culture, etc.
- Producing country-based and cross-border investigative articles
- Developing new ideas and topics for Balkan Insight
- Maintaining appropriate contacts with government offices and officials of various local and international organisations, necessary to ensure the correct execution of the above duties.
- Contributing to regional thematic stories
- Mentoring young journalists as part of BIRN projects
Required profile:
- Interested candidates need to be dynamic, open, hard-working and committed, and possess the following characteristics:
- At least three years of experience as a news or TV/radio reporter
- Excellent command of the English language (writing, reading, understanding and speaking)
- Familiarity with online reporting, interest in web and mobile journalism; knowledge of promotion methods via social networks
- Excellent computer skills
- Preferable advanced user of content management system, being responsible for uploading and illustrating own and other stories.
- Interest in digital rights, the rule of law, transitional justice and other topics BIRN regularly follows
Other duties and responsibilities
- Developing a network of sources within the field of coverage;
- Maintaining appropriate contacts with experts (government, NGO and other officials);
- Maintaining appropriate contacts with personnel of the BIRN Regional Network, as well as all BIRN country offices and/or personnel necessary to ensure correct execution of the above duties;
- Carrying out any other duties that may reasonably or exceptionally be required to ensure the smooth operation of BIRN’s work, such as substituting for absent colleagues, etc.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Please submit a detailed CV (no more than 2 pages), three of your best stories and a cover letter with three references, with subject line BIRN Montenegro Correspondent, not later than 31 March 2025, to our HR Officer, at [email protected]
Only shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview.
The selected candidate should start work as soon as possible.
About BIRN
BIRN Hub is a nongovernmental organisation, secretariat of the BIRN Network, working in the field of media production and media development, promoting freedom of speech, human rights and democratic values in Southeast and Central Europe. BIRN has local organisations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia, while the Network is editorially also present in Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Turkey.
More information on www.birn.eu.com and www.balkaninsight.com.
BIRN encourages applicants of from individuals of all genders, and offers an equal chance to all interested persons, without any prejudice based on any grounds.
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