RUWWAD, Palestinian Youth Empowerment Program, is a USAID-funded program implemented by the Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). Ruwwad empowers young Palestinians to become leaders of social change by providing advanced leadership opportunities through the National Youth Corps (NYC), which is composed of young men and women, aged 14-30 years. Ruwwad also supports the creation of a network of three Youth Development Resource Centers (YDRC) and affiliated youth clubs, and is working to support the three YDRCs to develop their managerial and programming capacity so that they are better equipped to serve Palestinian youth. Specifically, Ruwwad will provide technical assistance to the YDRCs in strategic planning, IT capacity, management systems, and program oversight.

The Ruwwad Program is currently looking for candidates for the following three positions:

•  Media Coordinator at the Beit At-Tifl YDRC- Hebron .

•  Media coordinator at the Al-Bireh YDRC- Al-Bireh.

•  Media Coordinator at Jabal Annar YDRC- Nablus

Job Description Carry out the daily activities of the Media Centers at the YDRCs.

The Media Coordinator will report to the Media Center Manager.

Duties/Responsibilities:

•  Supervise youth to produce Newsletters, Video News Releases, Radio Reports, Documentary films

•  Manage the daily activities in the media center under the supervision of the Media Centers' Manager.

•  Assist the Regional Media Centers' Manager in training youth intern in journalism and media field.

•  Develop strong relationships with local and international media networks, to ensure widespread broadcast \ promotion of Media Center materials.

•  Document and report all YDRC activities through Media outlets.

•  Create new ideas and initiatives to promote the media center work in the society.

Required Qualifications:

• University degree in public relation, journalism, media or communications.
• Minimum of two years experience working in media sector, preferably with youth.
• Good familiarity with digital video camera-work.
• Good command of Video and Audio editing software (FinalCutpro, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Soundbooth).
• Excellent media writings skills.
• Very good command of English and Arabic.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.

Duty Station :

•  Al Bireh YDRC/ Al Bireh

•  Beit At Tifel YDRC / Hebron

•  Jabal Annar YDRC/ Nablus

Contract Duration :

1 year renewable.

Notes :

• Interested candidates may fax their CVs and a cover letter stating the position to 02 – 242 3544, or send these documents by email to cv@ruwwad.org .
• The deadline for submitting CV's is November 10, 2009.
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.