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Form of work- Culturally diverse newsroom
- Ongoing, Full Time Role
- Southbank VIC: Convenient CBD location in the heart of Melbourne
- Create authentic and high-quality content across multiple platforms
- $75K to $83K plus 15.4% Nominated Super
The ABC strives for diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and to promote a culture of opportunity. Through its services the ABC seeks to represent, connect and engage with all of the Australian community. In line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTIQA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.
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About the Role
Exciting opportunity for an experienced journalist to join the Asia Pacific Newsroom's Indonesian Language team, to create high quality news stories with a focus on Indonesia and the Indonesian Diaspora. The role will include:
- Sourcing original stories from the Indonesian community and within Indonesia to add context and depth to the ABC’s coverage of the region.
- Collaborating with other newsroom teams (Chinese, Tok Pisin, Digital Storytelling Team, The World, and Pacific Beat) on the digital and social media treatments of international content.
- Working across areas including assisting with the cross-platform roll-out of bilingual stories and accurately translate stories from across the ABC for in-language news platforms as required.
About You
You speak and write Bahasa Indonesia fluently and have well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a culturally diverse team. Your skills and experience will include:
- Ability to demonstrate editorial judgement.
- Practical experience as a journalist in radio, television and or digital platforms, with relevant tertiary qualifications.
- Understanding of and ability to identify trends in digital news consumption, new media technologies and platforms.
- Understanding of audience behaviour, including ideas to build new audiences for and enhance the experience of the ABC’s international news content.
- Willingness to adapt and change in an evolving digital environment.
For further details on the role and requirements, please refer to the full position description: 30001419 MULTI-PLATFORM JOURNALIST (INDONESIAN).pdf
We would love to see your work. Please submit material with your application online (include examples, links to websites or attach audio/video files up to 5MB).
For further information on this position please contact Erwin Renaldi, Supervising Producer, Indonesian at erwin.renaldi@abc.net.au
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We are unable to accept email applications, please ensure that you submit your application via the online portal.
We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.
Applications Close: 11:55 pm, 21 March 2024
