Vacancy: IRIN PlusNews Editor
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PlusNews HIV/AIDS Service for West and Central Africa
IRIN is looking for an editor to expand and enhance its current
coverage of HIV/AIDS issues for sub-Saharan Africa. The success-
ful candidate will be charged with expanding IRIN's PlusNews
HIV/AIDS service by increasing the news flow from West and Cen-
tral Africa, using both personal contacts and IRIN's extensive
stringer network in the two regions. They will be expected to
write and edit well researched and sensitively written stories
about HIV/AIDS in both English and French. They will also super-
vise the work of a newly created translation unit charged with
producing a French language online news service about HIV/AIDS in
Africa. They will liase closely with the existing PlusNews edito-
rial unit in Johannesburg South Africa and IRIN's West Africa bu-
reau. They will be expected to travel occasionally within Africa
to report directly on HIV/AIDS issues, individual countries and
to attend conferences on efforts to control the pandemic and im-
prove the lives of people living with AIDS.
The deadline for applying is 5 December 2003.
Apply to:
Robert Powell
Managing Editor IRIN West Africa
mailto:robert@irin.ci
copy application to Joanne Clark
mailto:Joanne.Clark@un.org
The job description has been posted to the ReliefWeb vacancies
page on 26 November 2003 (http://www.reliefweb.int/vacancies/).
Copies can also be obtained by sending a request to
Joanne Clark
mailto:Joanne@IRINnews.org
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