Job Opening: English Editor for Qatar Charity

13 March 2011
Job Opening: English Editor for Qatar Charity
English Editor - Qatar Charity

Key Responsibilities:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and proofreading skills
- Experience in communications and website management
- Oversee publication production, including artwork, layout, computer typesetting, and printing, ensuring adherence to deadlines and budget requirements.
- Experience in print production from the first stage of editorial decision-making to design, approval and print
- a flexible and patient can do approach, and ability to work to tight deadlines
- Familiarity with an international non-profit / charity helpful, but not required
- Prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
- Allocate print space for subject text, photos, and illustrations
- Plan the contents of publications according to the publication's style, editorial policy, and publishing requirements.
- Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.
- Review and approve proofs submitted by department prior to publication production.
- Develop Subjects or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.
- Assign topics, events and to individual writers or reporters for coverage.
- Read, evaluate and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.
- Monitor news-gathering operations from Different departments to ensure utilization of all news sources.
- Make manuscript acceptance or revision recommendations to the publisher.

Skills

- Bachelor in Media or journalism.
- 3-5 Years Experience
- Fluency in English and Arabic languages desirable
- Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

Company Profile

Qatar Charity (QC) is a non-government organisation which was established in 1992 in order to support the Qatari society and other needy communities abroad. Its mission is to support the abilities of the most needy groups to fulfil human dignity and social justice in cooperation with partners. Its vision is to be an example, a pioneering, distinguished Islamic institution which combines originality, creativity and professionalism in the field of humanitarian aid and development.

QC is one of the largest charities in the Gulf, its activities covering more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe, through its registered field offices in various countries or local civil societies as implementing partners. QC is registered in Qatar and governed by law No (2) of 1974, which is amended by decree-law No (17) 1989, and law No (8) of 1998, which regulates work of private societies and foundations. QC has been in consultative status with UN ECOSOC since 1997.

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