CARE International Indonesia Vacancy: Newsletter Writer & Design - Makassar

CARE International Indonesia (CII), as an international NGO, has carried out large scale operations in Indonesia, encompassing emergency operations, transitional activities centered on agriculture and nutrition and a range of development initiatives in such areas as water and sanitation, health and enterprise & economic development.

CARE International Indonesia in Makassar (South Sulawesi) is currently recruiting the following position for its project:

JOB TITLE: NEWSLETTER WRITER & DESIGN CONSULTANT
DEPARTMENT/PROJECT: PROGRAM/BINTANG MUDA
REPORTS TO: REGIONAL PROGRAM MANAGER (RPM)

BACKGROUND 

Indonesia’s population is 253,609,643 with youth making up approximately 43 million or 17.1% of this figure. Youth unemployment presents a major challenge for Indonesia. Indonesian youth often do not possess strong educational backgrounds. 50% of the Indonesian population has an elementary school education, 40% have graduated from junior or senior high school, and only 10% possess a college or university degree.

Some of the major challenges facing Indonesian youth, in particular young women, are:

• Limited access to education (schooling often comes at a high cost, transportation, accommodation, school supplies, and in many cases school fees); 
• Limited household economic resources often force children in poor families, most often girls, to leave school early and begin working to help their families;
• Quality and relevance of education do not meet job market standards;
• Graduates of local vocational schools and universities often lack the skills to effectively enter the workforce;
• Women are adversely affected in emergencies and are often unprepared and lack resilience when faced with financial crises and natural disasters;

Girls and young women often lack self-confidence and rely on their male guardians, usually their fathers, older brothers or husbands, for approval of decisions that affect their future development, resilience, and empowerment, including economic empowerment. The Bintang Muda project will support the government’s focus to stimulate local development by supporting girls and young women to develop, or enhance micro or small businesses thereby supporting community development.

Bintang Muda Project have been implementing since juni 2015. Since that, the project has been doing activities training, awareness and technical assistant in the area of entrepreneurship, financial literacy and disaster preparedness. To share the lesson learned and to motivated the young entrepreneurship, Bintang Muda will develop a newsletter.

Newsletters will be published with a main focus on entrepreneurship issues and sections on financial literacy, and disaster risk reductions and other relevant topics. Newsletter will be distributed to all SIAP and SIAGA training participants, and household/community. It is expected that the newsletter will create awareness on business start up and development, capacity to respond resilience.

This process require supporting items such as documentation, reportage, and design on that need expert’s work, thereby this proposal created as a reference in hire consultants for
Newsletter writing and design. 

OBJECTIVE 

• Making story of project event and participants business development. 
• Develop newsletter layout. 

OUTPUTS

• Documentation and story (narrative and photograph). 
• 2 editions Newsletter designed and delivered to communities.

TIME

• First edition: January 2016 
• Second Edition: May 2016

QUALIFICATIONS
The consultant(s) will have:

• Skilled in narrative writing. 
• Experienced in journalism activities. 
• Understand web content management. 
• Willing to travel in Makassar City. 
• Experienced in developing story for community development, especially in youth entrepreneurship project. 
• Ability in interviewing and story writing. 
• Mastering Adobe photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe In Design, Corel Draw. 
• Experienced in making illustration for story magazine. 
• Skilled in Photography and mastering D-SLR Camera.
• Experienced in Human Interest Photography.

TERMS OF OFFER
Interested parties must submit the following documentation:

• Comprehensive curriculum vitae of team members involve in the activities. 
• A detailed implementation plan/technical proposal in accordance with the scope of work, expected outputs and deliverables provided for herein. 
• Financial Proposal.

Please submit before January 04, 2016 to CARE International Indonesia, Human Resources Unit: recruit_829@careind.or.id

"Only qualified applicants will be shortlisted"