BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international development charity. We use various forms of media and communications to tackle poverty and contribute to long-term change in some of the world’s poorest places. Our aim is to inform, connect and empower people around the world. We work in partnership with broadcasters, governments, non-governmental organisations and donors to share reliable, timely and useful information.

Our work in Nepal focuses on governance, resilience and humanitarian preparedness and response. We support democratic governance through producing a high-profile radio and TV discussion programme, which encourages accountability through enabling people from all over Nepal to question public figures. We support community and national broadcasters to build management, technical, and editorial and production capacity to produce local discussion, drama, and lifeline programmes.

After the 2015 earthquake, detailed damage surveys carried out by UNOPS and GoN showed that over one million private houses were damaged across 31 districts of Nepal. As the earthquake affected communities are moving to reconstructing their homes, we are working with UNOPS on a DFID funded project focused on reconstruction titled “Seismic Retrofitting of Unsafe Housing” by seismically strengthening existing houses through retrofitting in preference to demolition and rebuilding.

BBC Media Action’s role within the project will be to support communities across Nepal, particularly in 31 disaster-affected areas through media and outreach to reinforce their housing structures using earthquake-resilient retrofitting techniques (where appropriate) with the support of CBOs, the government, technical experts, and community leaders. Specifically, the media and outreach communications will aim to:

Create demand through increased motivation and efficacy to build earthquake-resilient housing using retrofitting techniques to secure homes and buildings where appropriate. Increase awareness of retrofitting and its potential benefits. Increase knowledge of retrofitting techniques and understanding of processes that can be followed to enable retrofitting to be implemented. Bring communities together to discuss new ways to build back safely using retrofitting techniques and overcome challenges around rebuilding. Consider the specific needs of women around rebuilding and elevate the status of women and those from disadvantaged communities within the rebuilding process.

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Radio/TV Mentor

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Department: BBC Media Action

Grade: 6

Reports To: Project Director

Based: Kathmandu with possible travel to field locations

Duration: 1 year with the possibility of extension subject to funding

Job purpose

Reporting to the Project Director, the Radio/TV Mentor will be the prime person and fully responsible for all training and mentoring local radio partners. S/he will work collaboratively with BBC Media Action’s Research and Learning team on the design and roll-out of a Training Needs Assessment to ensure that all training is relevant and clearly aligned to learning needs and preferred learning styles.

Main Duties

Provide support to the Research Team in conducting Training Needs Assessment of the local stations to identify learning and training priorities
Design and provide intensive training and mentoring to Radio/TV producers at selected local stations. Develop training/mentoring plans and ensure coordination with other BBC Media Action teams
Provide training and mentoring to local scriptwriters and actors on how they can create engaging, audience led programmes
Provide regular reports to the supervisor on progress of training/mentoring and production activities
Identify opportunities to make the radio and TV programmes and drama accessible to a much wider audience through the sharing of content with local NGOs, CSOs and other local stations
Other project activities as assigned by the Project Director

Essential skills and experience

Minimum University degree in the relevant field, preferably in media-related field
Radio/TV production skills including producing editorial content and technical recording and post-production skills
Demonstrable creative ability
Minimum 3 years of experience in training and mentoring teams to produce engaging radio and television content for local audiences
Minimum 3 years of experience in the design of training programmes and a well-developed understanding of different learning styles
Ability to work on own initiative and organise time effectively within a range of often conflicting deadlines
The ability to forge strong working relations quickly and gain the trust of project stakeholders, including partners
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Excellent written and spoken Nepali and English

Desirable skills and experience

Experience using media for developmental goals.
Understanding of the reconstruction practices in rural areas and the issues earthquake-affected communities are facing in the rebuilding process.

Key competencies:

The following competencies (behaviours and characteristics) have been identified as key to success in the job. Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate these competencies.

Imagination/Creative: Thinking: Is able to transform creative ideas/impulses into practical reality. Can look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and come up with creative solutions
Managing Relationships: Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Team working.
Communication: The ability to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information
Analytical Thinking: Able to simplify complex problems, process projects into component parts, explore and evaluate them systematically. Able to identify causal relationships and construct frameworks, for problem-solving and/or development
Influencing and Persuading: Ability to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change
Planning and Organising: Is able to think ahead in order to establish an effective and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources requirements
Self-Development: Able to identify and apply opportunities for learning and development

TO APPLY:

If you are interested in applying for this position, please send a CV and covering letter outlining your interest in the role, and demonstrating how you fulfil the essential skills and experience, by May 30 2018, to [email protected] (with the job title in the subject line).

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