Senior Digital Editor, CTTV

vacan­cy num­ber: BRU5656-2201

We are look­ing for a Vil­nius-based Senior Dig­i­tal Edi­tor for Cur­rent Time TV  to lead a group of dig­i­tal savvy jour­nal­ists com­mit­ted to deliv­er­ing objec­tive and com­pelling report­ing for the Belaru­sian audi­ence. You will be respon­si­ble for the pro­duc­tion and pub­li­ca­tion of Cur­rent Time prod­ucts on var­i­ous dig­i­tal plat­forms, includ­ing social media and sub­scrip­tion ser­vices, so that they reach new audi­ences, deep­en­ing loy­al­ty and build­ing trust. 

Pro­duc­tion is inte­gral to RFE/RL’s edi­to­r­i­al process and suc­cess, and as a full-time team mem­ber, you will be too. You must have a good eye for pre­sen­ta­tion of jour­nal­is­tic con­tent on Cur­rent Time’s web­site and across dig­i­tal plat­forms used in the cov­er­age region. 

We are a team that places high val­ue on col­lab­o­ra­tion, both in our dai­ly work and in our efforts to con­tin­u­al­ly improve how we work. You should be able to car­ry out all the func­tions of oth­er dig­i­tal edi­tors on the team. You com­mu­ni­cate proac­tive­ly with stake­hold­ers across var­i­ous divi­sions and teams, includ­ing writ­ers and edi­tors, to ensure that pub­lished con­tent meets expec­ta­tions across plat­forms. You’ll work close­ly with a self-direct­ed team to meet dai­ly pub­lish­ing dead­lines. 

You will be join­ing an inno­v­a­tive, mis­sion-dri­ven orga­ni­za­tion at a time of rapid change. This role is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to explore the role RFE/RL’s jour­nal­ism can play in soci­ety and exper­i­ment with diverse ways of engag­ing audi­ences and com­mu­ni­ties. You should be keen­ly inter­est­ed in the best prac­tices and lat­est devel­op­ments in dig­i­tal jour­nal­ism and nav­i­gate the team’s pro­duc­tion process­es accord­ing­ly. You are expect­ed to pur­sue inno­v­a­tive forms of sto­ry­telling and audi­ence devel­op­ment across plat­forms. 

A com­mit­ment to our mis­sion, jour­nal­is­tic impar­tial­i­ty and integri­ty is a must. You will pro­vide edi­to­r­i­al over­sight of con­tent pro­duced by the team, ensur­ing that all con­tent adheres to RFE/RL’s edi­to­r­i­al stan­dards and its best prac­tices. 

This posi­tion reports to the Man­ag­ing Edi­tor of Cur­rent Time Dig­i­tal based in Prague. 

Responsibilities 

• You pre­pare con­tent to be pub­lished. You share respon­si­bil­i­ty for post­ing fac­tu­al­ly accu­rate and com­pelling con­tent to dig­i­tal plat­forms, includ­ing social media and web­sites, with an eye to use on mobile devices 
• You man­age con­tent and copy flow in coor­di­na­tion with oth­er edi­tors. You con­duct qual­i­ty tests on con­tent pre- and post-pub­lish, fix errors in pub­lished con­tent, and test new site changes and fea­tures. 
• Togeth­er with the Man­ag­ing Edi­tor, you will work with RFE/RL’s Dig­i­tal Strat­e­gy team to active­ly share expe­ri­ences of your team’s work with the entire orga­ni­za­tion and adapt accounts, process­es and out­put to align with cen­tral guide­lines and com­mon stan­dards. 
• You take a proac­tive role in edi­to­r­i­al meet­ings, keep­ing up with the news and pitch­ing com­pelling sto­ry ideas. 
• You man­age and assign tasks to mem­bers of the dig­i­tal team and put togeth­er sched­ules for con­tent and shifts. 
• If request­ed, you take on writ­ing, edit­ing, and pro­duc­tion assign­ments. 
• You sup­port the growth, goal set­ting, pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment, and per­for­mance of staff. 
• You per­form relat­ed work as assigned. 

Requirements 

Edu­ca­tion 

• Degree in jour­nal­ism, or relat­ed field or the equiv­a­lent in expe­ri­ence is pre­ferred. 

Work Expe­ri­ence 

• 8+ years of expe­ri­ence in dig­i­tal jour­nal­ism in news orga­ni­za­tion 
• 5+ years of expe­ri­ence man­ag­ing teams 
• Exten­sive expe­ri­ence in pub­lish­ing projects across plat­forms 
• Exten­sive expe­ri­ence in project man­age­ment 
• Expe­ri­ence in posi­tions of increas­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty 
• Strong report­ing and edit­ing back­ground. 

Com­pe­ten­cies 

• Strong edi­to­r­i­al judg­ment, and abil­i­ty to edit oth­ers’ con­tent in a pro­fes­sion­al man­ner for dig­i­tal media use. 
• Team-based work ethics. 
• Under­stand­ing of dig­i­tal con­tent dis­tri­b­u­tion and suc­cess met­rics. 
• Famil­iar­i­ty with social media sto­ry­telling and search engine opti­miza­tion. 
• Abil­i­ty to deliv­er fast, accu­rate and com­pelling copy and visu­al pro­duc­tion. 
• Abil­i­ty to mul­ti­task and pri­or­i­tize with lit­tle super­vi­sion under tight dead­lines. 
• Adapts to and works effec­tive­ly with­in a vari­ety of sit­u­a­tions, and with var­i­ous indi­vid­u­als or groups. Flex­i­bil­i­ty entails under­stand­ing and appre­ci­at­ing dif­fer­ent and oppos­ing per­spec­tives on an issue, adapt­ing one’s approach as the require­ments of a sit­u­a­tion change, and chang­ing or eas­i­ly accept­ing changes in one’ s own orga­ni­za­tion or job require­ments. 
• Abil­i­ty to work var­i­ous shifts, as assigned and on short notice. 
• Expect­ed to work week­ends and work from home, as and when required. 
• Broad knowl­edge of polit­i­cal, eco­nom­ic, and social sit­u­a­tions and inter­na­tion­al affairs acquired through stud­ies, research, writ­ing, trav­el, or oth­er rel­e­vant expe­ri­ence or expo­sure. 

Famil­iar­i­ty with html and video edit­ing are a plus. 

Languages 

• Russ­ian (flu­ent), manda­to­ry 
• Belaru­sian (pro­fi­cient), manda­to­ry 
• Eng­lish lan­guage (pro­fi­cient), manda­to­ry 

Radio Free Europe/Radio Lib­er­ty (RFE/RL) is an inter­na­tion­al news orga­ni­za­tion head­quar­tered in Prague, Czech Repub­lic and Wash­ing­ton, D.C., with 21 bureaus through­out Rus­sia, Cen­tral Asia, Afghanistan, and Cen­tral and East­ern Europe. Report­ing in 27 lan­guages across 23 coun­tries, RFE/RL is one of the most com­pre­hen­sive news oper­a­tions in the world, pro­vid­ing respon­si­bly report­ed, fact-based news in coun­tries where media free­doms are under threat or banned out­right. From Iran and Pak­istan to Hun­gary, Ukraine, and Azer­bai­jan, RFE/RL jour­nal­ists give audi­ences what they can’t always get from their own local media: uncen­sored infor­ma­tion and open debate. Report­ing via dig­i­tal, TV, and radio plat­forms, RFE/RL has a mea­sured week­ly reach of 38.1 mil­lion peo­ple. A pri­vate non­prof­it, RFE/RL is fund­ed by the U.S. Con­gress through the U.S. Agency for Glob­al Media. RFE/RL’s edi­to­r­i­al inde­pen­dence is pro­tect­ed by U.S. law.

Digital Video Producer, CTTV

vacan­cy num­ber: BRU5555-2201

We are look­ing for a Vil­nius-based Dig­i­tal Video Pro­duc­er for Cur­rent Time TV to be respon­si­ble for pro­duc­ing com­pelling mul­ti­me­dia con­tent for the Belaru­sian audi­ence on dig­i­tal plat­forms. 

You will be part of Cur­rent Time’s ded­i­cat­ed dig­i­tal team for Belarus and pro­duce con­tent on mis­sion-ori­ent­ed and trend­ing top­ics togeth­er with the team and through enter­prise dis­cov­ery. A com­mit­ment to RFE/RL’s mis­sion, adher­ence to its edi­to­r­i­al stan­dards and best prac­tices is a must. 

You will be join­ing an inno­v­a­tive, mis­sion-dri­ven orga­ni­za­tion at a time of rapid change. This role is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to explore the role of RFE/RL’s jour­nal­ism can play in soci­ety and exper­i­ment with diverse ways of engag­ing audi­ences and com­mu­ni­ties. You should be keen­ly inter­est­ed in the best prac­tices and lat­est devel­op­ments in dig­i­tal jour­nal­ism. You are expect­ed to pur­sue inno­v­a­tive forms of sto­ry­telling across plat­forms. 

This posi­tion reports to the Senior Dig­i­tal Edi­tor of Cur­rent Time in Vil­nius office. 

Responsibilities: 

• Pro­duces high qual­i­ty and share-wor­thy mul­ti­me­dia con­tent for a wide array of dig­i­tal plat­forms and TV 
• Mon­i­tors dis­in­for­ma­tion activ­i­ties across the major plat­forms (dig­i­tal and tra­di­tion­al) in tar­get region for poten­tial sto­ry leads 
• Uses jour­nal­is­tic acu­men to find sto­ries that are both like­ly to be shared and meet RFE/RL stan­dards. 
• Works with web-ready news and fea­ture con­tent mix­ing tra­di­tion­al sto­ry-forms with dig­i­tal and social-cen­tric report­ing. 
• Keeps the team updat­ed through­out the day on dis­in­for­ma­tion-relat­ed sto­ries worth explor­ing. 
• Per­forms oth­er relat­ed duties as assigned. 

Requirements 

Edu­ca­tion 

• Bachelor’s degree in jour­nal­ism, or relat­ed field or the equiv­a­lent in expe­ri­ence is pre­ferred. 

Work Expe­ri­ence 

• 4+ years of expe­ri­ence in dig­i­tal jour­nal­ism in news orga­ni­za­tion 
• Exten­sive expe­ri­ence in pro­duc­ing mul­ti­me­dia projects for dig­i­tal plat­forms 

Com­pe­ten­cies 

• Strong news judg­ment 
• Pro­fi­cien­cy in mul­ti­me­dia sto­ry­telling for dig­i­tal plat­forms 
• Team-based work eth­ic 
• Under­stand­ing of dig­i­tal suc­cess met­rics 
• Abil­i­ty to mul­ti­task and pri­or­i­tize with lit­tle super­vi­sion under tight dead­lines. 
• Adapts to and works effec­tive­ly with­in a vari­ety of sit­u­a­tions, and with var­i­ous indi­vid­u­als or groups. Flex­i­bil­i­ty entails under­stand­ing and appre­ci­at­ing dif­fer­ent and oppos­ing per­spec­tives on an issue, adapt­ing one’s approach as the require­ments of a sit­u­a­tion change, and chang­ing or eas­i­ly accept­ing changes in one’ s own orga­ni­za­tion or job require­ments. 
• Abil­i­ty to work var­i­ous shifts, as assigned and on short notice. 
• Expect­ed to work week­ends and work from home, when required. 

Lan­guages 

• Russ­ian (flu­ent), manda­to­ry 
• Belaru­sian (pro­fi­cient), manda­to­ry 
• Eng­lish lan­guage (pro­fi­cient), manda­to­ry 

RFE/RL Stan­dards: RFE/RL is proud to be an equal oppor­tu­ni­ty employ­er. All qual­i­fied appli­cants will receive con­sid­er­a­tion for employ­ment with­out regard to race, col­or, reli­gion, gen­der, gen­der iden­ti­ty or expres­sion, sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion, nation­al ori­gin, genet­ics, dis­abil­i­ty, age, or vet­er­an sta­tus. Posi­tions at RFE/RL are con­sid­ered Pub­lic Trust Posi­tions, with appoint­ment con­tin­gent upon the pos­i­tive out­come of a back­ground inves­ti­ga­tion.

Graphics Editor, CTTV

vacan­cy num­ber: BRU1111-2201

We are look­ing for a Vil­nius-based Graph­ics Edi­tor for Cur­rent Time TV  who will focus pri­mar­i­ly on com­pelling and engag­ing sto­ry­telling on mul­ti­ple dig­i­tal plat­forms using visu­al graph­ics, ani­ma­tion, and inter­ac­tive tools. 

You will be part of Cur­rent Time’s ded­i­cat­ed dig­i­tal team for Belarus and pro­duce con­tent on mis­sion-ori­ent­ed and trend­ing top­ics togeth­er with the team and through enter­prise dis­cov­ery. A com­mit­ment to RFE/RL’s mis­sion, adher­ence to its edi­to­r­i­al stan­dards and best prac­tices is nec­es­sary. 

You will take a direct role in the dai­ly analy­sis of data pro­duc­tion of info­graph­ics, charts, graphs, etc. Expe­ri­ence in all phas­es of cre­at­ing visu­al­iza­tions is nec­es­sary. Excel­lent peo­ple skills and a cus­tomer-ori­ent­ed atti­tude are equal­ly impor­tant, as you will be work­ing every day in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with staff based in Vil­nius and Prague. You are expect­ed to stay on top of world news, attend edi­to­r­i­al meet­ings, com­mu­ni­cate with clar­i­ty, and keep a flex­i­ble sched­ule. 

You will be join­ing an inno­v­a­tive, mis­sion-dri­ven orga­ni­za­tion at a time of rapid change. This role is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to explore the role of RFE/RL’s jour­nal­ism can play in soci­ety and exper­i­ment with diverse ways of engag­ing audi­ences and com­mu­ni­ties. You should be keen­ly inter­est­ed in the best prac­tices and lat­est devel­op­ments in dig­i­tal jour­nal­ism. You are expect­ed to pur­sue inno­v­a­tive forms of sto­ry­telling across plat­forms. 

This posi­tion reports to the Senior Dig­i­tal Edi­tor of Cur­rent Time in Vil­nius office. 

Responsibilities: 

• Designs info­graph­ics, native visu­al sto­ries for dig­i­tal plat­forms, online inter­ac­tives, and design ele­ments for fea­ture con­tent. 
• Works close­ly with writ­ers, edi­tors, and oth­er design­ers to cre­ate visu­al projects under tight dead­lines. 
• Makes sense of dif­fi­cult data sets and presents com­pelling sto­ries around them. 
• Stays cur­rent with state‑of‑the‑art data visu­al­iza­tion prac­tices, graph­ic pre­sen­ta­tion, inter­ac­tiv­i­ty, and oth­er rel­e­vant areas; pro­vides guid­ance and sup­port in those areas. 
• Per­forms oth­er relat­ed duties as assigned. 

Minimum Qualifications 

Edu­ca­tion: 

• Edu­cat­ed in Graph­ic Design, Jour­nal­ism or a relat­ed field (BA ‑ Bach­e­lor degree desir­able), knowl­edge of cod­ing is an advan­tage 

Work Expe­ri­ence: 

• 5+ years of expe­ri­ence devel­op­ing com­pelling and engag­ing visu­al sto­ries for dig­i­tal plat­forms (ide­al­ly in a media orga­ni­za­tion). Expe­ri­ence in cre­at­ing visu­al­iza­tions with HTML, CSS and JavaScript based on data is an advan­tage. 

Com­pe­ten­cies: 

• High­ly moti­vat­ed and well-orga­nized with the abil­i­ty to gen­er­ate orig­i­nal ideas con­sis­tent­ly. 
• Excel­lent team­work and the abil­i­ty to mul­ti­task and pri­or­i­tize with lit­tle super­vi­sion. 
• A proac­tive, can-do atti­tude, with excel­lent inter­per­son­al skills need­ed to build pos­i­tive rela­tion­ships with­in RFE/RL and out­side broad­cast­ers. 
• Exper­tise in Illus­tra­tor and Pho­to­shop or equiv­a­lents. 
• Knowl­edge of JavaScript, HTML & CSS, data visu­al­iza­tion tools and tech­nolo­gies is an advan­tage. 
• Desire to grow pro­fes­sion­al­ly and an inter­est in gen­er­al under­stand­ing of busi­ness are wel­come 

Lan­guages: 

• Russ­ian (flu­ent), manda­to­ry 
• Belaru­sian (pro­fi­cient), manda­to­ry 
• Eng­lish lan­guage (pro­fi­cient), manda­to­ry 

Salaries for employ­ees in RFE/RL’s broad­cast regions are com­pet­i­tive, based on pre­vail­ing local con­di­tions. Employ­ee ben­e­fits in RFE/RL’s broad­cast regions are in accor­dance with the local labor law spe­cif­ic to the coun­try.
Note: In response to chang­ing oper­a­tional require­ments, RFE/RL retains the dis­cre­tion not to make an appoint­ment, or to mod­i­fy the job spec­i­fi­ca­tions for a par­tic­u­lar vacan­cy.

Journalist, CTTV

vacan­cy num­ber: BRU2222-2201

We are look­ing for a Vil­nius-based jour­nal­ist for Cur­rent Time TV. You will ini­ti­ate, pre­pare, pro­duce, and deliv­er wide vari­ety of edi­to­ri­al­ly strong and com­pelling jour­nal­is­tic mate­r­i­al on mul­ti­ple dig­i­tal plat­forms, and takes an active part in dis­tri­b­u­tion of the con­tent online. 

You will be part of Cur­rent Time’s ded­i­cat­ed dig­i­tal team for Belarus and pro­duce con­tent on mis­sion-ori­ent­ed and trend­ing top­ics togeth­er with the team and through enter­prise dis­cov­ery. A com­mit­ment to RFE/RL’s mis­sion, adher­ence to its edi­to­r­i­al stan­dards and best prac­tices is nec­es­sary. 

You will be join­ing an inno­v­a­tive, mis­sion-dri­ven orga­ni­za­tion at a time rapid change. This role is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to explore the role of RFE/RL’s jour­nal­ism can play in soci­ety and exper­i­ment with diverse ways of engag­ing audi­ences and com­mu­ni­ties. You should be keen­ly inter­est­ed in the best prac­tices and lat­est devel­op­ments in dig­i­tal jour­nal­ism. You are expect­ed to pur­sue inno­v­a­tive forms of sto­ry­telling across plat­forms. 

This posi­tion reports to the Senior Dig­i­tal Edi­tor of Cur­rent Time in Vil­nius office. 

Responsibilities: 

• Cre­ates orig­i­nal dig­i­tal-first con­tent on a wide vari­ety of top­ics and issues for the web­site and dig­i­tal plat­forms. 
• Works in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with team mem­bers online and offline on pro­duc­tion of com­pelling col­lab­o­ra­tive projects. 
• When nec­es­sary, acts as an edi­tor respon­si­ble for mul­ti­me­dia and data visu­al pro­duc­tion. 
• Research­es mate­r­i­al and selects reli­able infor­ma­tion from a var­ied range of rep­utable sources. 
• Takes an active part in dis­tri­b­u­tion of the con­tent on var­i­ous dig­i­tal plat­forms 
• Keeps dead­lines and strives to meet or exceed RFE/RL stan­dards for the qual­i­ty of the out­put. 
• Adheres to RFE/RL edi­to­r­i­al stan­dards at all times and takes edi­to­r­i­al respon­si­bil­i­ty for all own mate­r­i­al. 
• Active­ly par­tic­i­pates in feed­back ses­sions. 
• Is expect­ed to reg­u­lar­ly sug­gest viable cov­er­age ideas and to con­tribute to edi­to­r­i­al plan­ning. 
• Com­mis­sions, selects, and edits the rel­e­vant mate­r­i­al. 
• Expect­ed to explore inno­v­a­tive angles for cov­er­age, ensur­ing rel­e­vance for the audi­ence. 

Minimum Qualifications 

Edu­ca­tion 

• Degree in jour­nal­ism, or relat­ed field or the equiv­a­lent in expe­ri­ence is pre­ferred. 

Work Expe­ri­ence 

• 4+ years of expe­ri­ence in dig­i­tal jour­nal­ism in news orga­ni­za­tion. 
• Good famil­iar­i­ty with polit­i­cal, eco­nom­ic, and social sit­u­a­tions in the tar­get area as well as with region­al and inter­na­tion­al affairs. 

Com­pe­ten­cies: 

• Abil­i­ty to tell com­plex sto­ries in an engag­ing man­ner for dig­i­tal audi­ences with min­i­mal edit­ing and edi­to­r­i­al super­vi­sion. 
• Strong dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy skills – proven abil­i­ty to use a wide array of new media tools for jour­nal­ists. 
• Has devel­oped a net­work of orig­i­nal sources and cul­ti­vat­ed one or more spe­cif­ic beats, in addi­tion to being capa­ble of all-round report­ing and writ­ing. 
• Strong abil­i­ty to mul­ti­task under tight dead­lines and pri­or­i­tize with lit­tle super­vi­sion.  
• Under­stand­ing of dig­i­tal con­tent dis­tri­b­u­tion and suc­cess met­rics. 
• Sound edi­to­r­i­al judg­ment. Abil­i­ty to edit the work of oth­ers and to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for an out­put seg­ment. 
• Under­stands and shares RFE/RL mis­sion and val­ues. 
• Will­ing­ness and abil­i­ty to learn and to work with dif­fer­ent mul­ti­me­dia pro­duc­tion tools, infor­ma­tion research tools and new tech­nolo­gies and media plat­forms as well as to acquire or enhance the knowl­edge of jour­nal­is­tic prac­tices rel­e­vant to the assign­ment. 
• Expect­ed to work week­ends and work from home, when required. 

Lan­guages: 

• Russ­ian (flu­ent), manda­to­ry 
• Belaru­sian (pro­fi­cient), manda­to­ry 
• Eng­lish lan­guage (pro­fi­cient), manda­to­ry