Nepal Now - Content Editor Wanted

Nepal Now, latest news updates

We’re looking for a few good, actually a few great people to drive, manage and curate content on the new Nepal Now site. If you’re smart, focused and above all an excellent people person with a talent for sharp, fresh word- and image-mastery, we’d love to hear from you!

About Nepal Now Have a look at the site http://www.nepalnow.org/

Reading this offline? Here’s the basics:

Nepal Now is the official site for tourism-related updates, part of a campaign that seeks to bring you a picture of Nepal as it is now. We offer reliable information, interesting facts and inspiring stories from travellers to Nepal. With blogs, interviews and news updates, Nepal Now provides a virtual portal into our beautiful Himalayan country.

Ours is a land of contrasts, a land of breath-taking beauty and a land of unrivalled diversity. We want to welcome you to our country and share with you the bounty that nature and humanity have bestowed upon us.

Why

In the spring of 2015, Nepal suffered a devastating earthquake that took more than 8,000 lives. Much property and heritage was lost in the disaster, but so much more remains untouched. Nepal Now is a response to that very disaster, in that we seek to provide you with a true picture of Nepal as it stands. Despite widespread media coverage of the earthquake, we would like to reassure you that we Nepalis and Nepal remain strong and standing. Most of our age-old monuments, our hiking trails, our mountains and our hills and rivers all continue to persevere. The earthquake was terrible, no doubt, but it did not destroy us. And so, we bring you stories from travellers who have come here and seen for themselves the resilience of this land and its people. The hard data we provide will give you an accurate picture of when and where to make your trip. What is we want most of all is for you to enjoy your trip to our country, safely, securely and without apprehension.

Who

Nepal Now is a collaboration between tourism experts, both national and international, and the Nepal Tourism Board, with support from CBI, a development cooperation agency from the Government of the Netherlands, focussed on support for exports from developing countries.

So the key to the site is delivery of evidenced (checked back to source) facts and up to the minute info communicated in an easy to access, interesting and juicy way. Well researched updates and inspiration to travel!

Role focus

Ensure the site achieves its goals of providing up to date, verifiable information and inspiring content that builds audiences and engagement.
Ensure compliance with funders and partners guidelines

Responsibilities

Producing new content and writing it in an interesting and appealing manner.
Sourcing image, artworks and data. Commissioning sources if needed.
Stimulating audience generated content and curating this
Ensuring full, open and regular communication with the NepalNow Team
Ensuring all content goes live is accurate and correctly cited

About you

Proven working experience as content writer or editor.
Have excellent communication skill: written and oral
Able to meet a range of audience’ needs and appetites
Confident and capable technology user (hard and software)
Able to sniff out and source excellent original material and fabulous new talent
Able to create and work to schedules and deadlines
Developing editorial policies, copyright, data protection
Well motivated, self starter able to take the initiative and run with it – makes it happen
Team player – draws on the strengths of others for the good of the whole
Creative, flexible, thoughtful and not afraid to speak their mind

Commitment needed

We’ll need your full commitment when working on NepalNow – but not your whole life. The role is up for grabs to ambitious, sparkling people who can commit a minimum of 2 days (equivalent) over a week and for at least 3 months. If you can commit more time than that, that’s good too. We’re flexible, we’d like you to be too. Compensation will reflect your commitment – the more / better you work, the more the money and benefits. Max is 50,000 NRS / month for a full time fabulous editor.

Interested?

Write us an inspiring factually correct cover letter telling us why you’d be brilliant in this role, what your outstanding qualities and experience are, where your gaps are (what you’re not so hot at – the stuff that others in the team / other editors would be able for), and what your commitment level would be (hours / week) and from what date.
Send the Cover Letter, your resume and a few samples of your most recent work (web links ideally) to jobs@nepalnow.org before September 15th 5pm NST
If you’re one of the best we’ll invite you for a short interview / get to know session on 18th September and let you know if you’re on the team by 20th 5pm

Any questions? Email us on jobs@nepalnow.org