Content Lead Role

OVERVIEW

Title: Content Lead

Location: Enugu, Nigeria

Salary: 65k NGN per month

Perks: Data stipend, Travel Stipend, Paid time-off

Commitment: Full-time 35-hours/week

Our mission is to celebrate the global Igbo experience through storytelling and research. We are looking for a content lead who will head our field journalism team.

Are you passionate about documenting Igbo culture and helping make our rich history more accessible to the world? If this sounds like you, we'd love to have you on our team!

YOUR BACKGROUND

* You have experience conducting research, interviewing subjects, and mining raw information to tell compelling stories


* You are fluent in the Igbo language and have demonstrated interest in Igbo traditions and culture


* You are self-directed, organized, sociable, can communicate effectively (verbally and otherwise), and capable of working well in a remote team setting


RESPONSIBILITIES

* Travel locally 1-2 times weekly/as needed (and occasionally across Igboland) as you brainstorm, plan, and execute stories centered on traditions and historical and cultural topics of interest


* Attend weekly meetings and bring knowledge of local traditions to team conversations


* Maintain relationships with key project stakeholders and leads in local communities


* Review raw and edited work, offer feedback, and create storyboards


ROLE DETAILS

As the Content Lead, you will head our field content team and be the face and voice of NZUKO to our stakeholders in the field. Professionalism and relationship-building skills are key to success in this role, as our work will put you in contact with traditional rulers, community leaders, elders, government officials and other stakeholders of all ages and backgrounds. A successful Content Lead should have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and familiarity with media production.

1. You: Working alongside the Photographer/Videographer, you will brainstorm and curate content from across Igboland. The idea of the content procurement is to amplify and preserve Igbo history while documenting the “history” that’s currently unfolding today.

The content can be related to local Igbo traditions (i.e. rights of passage), fashion, food, lifestyle, and etc. Bear in mind that contextualized storytelling is best––stories of elders and their families can make excellent content if it captures an engaging aspect of Igbo culture or past events.

The content team will then travel to proposed locations after identifying and reaching out to sources. First-person interviews should always be conducted and all correspondence should be properly documented and preserved.

2. Pitches: Once the team has solidified ideas about what they want to look into and where, they will describe the proposed project to leadership. The description should include a formal shot list detailing the types of shots that will be gotten (photo? video? of what? people? objects? art?) You will then need to list potential sources. From there, you must submit a proposed list of questions that your sources will be asked.

3. Reaching out to sources: Once sources have been identified (local leaders, craftspeople, elders, etc.) and a pitch has been approved, the team should reach out to them via WhatsApp, email, or phone. They should ask if they are willing to speak about Igbo history on record. If they agree, tell them you’ll set up a time and date in the coming days.

4. Travel: Will mainly work in the locale in which you are based. If the need for long-distance travel comes up, it can be discussed with leadership. We will handle all transportation costs.

5. Content procurement: All names and ages of all sources must be accurately written down or spoken out loud on film. You should make it a habit to ask people where they were born, where their mother is from and where their father is from. If it’s relevant to the content, you should ask about any stories they have of their parents and what life was like for them in their day. You can then move on to ask questions about the content that brought you there.

Once back from a content procurement trip, you should spend days combing through the content to find the most historically relevant and interesting pieces of information you collected and save it to our content bank along with detailed descriptions of the town, surroundings and any history you can drum up from verifiable online sources, history books, encyclopedias, etc. All information must be cited. If you don’t know who told you something or don’t know where it came from, it cannot be included. If someone you interviewed spoke to you about a first-hand experience, you can include it, but unverified second hand information should not be included.

APPLICATION PROCESS

* Stage 1: fill out the application form available at: https://forms.gle/7zkWxZAh3otPaxVx6

* Stage 2: selected applicants are invited for a formal interview with the NZUKO IgboHistory team


* Stage 3: offer