OnIslam.net Job Vacancies & Volunteering Opportunities 2013
OnIslam.net, the leading Islamic content portal is announcing the availability of open vacancies. We are looking for creative, enthusiastic and willing to work for the cause of Islam employees and volunteers.
The available vacancies are:
- News Editor (Job & Volunteering)
- Spirituality Senior Editor (Job)
- Humanitarian Development Senior Editor (Job)
- Politics Assistant Editor (Volunteering)
- Homepage Assistant Editor (Volunteering)
- Public Relations Officer (Job)
- Social Media Assistant Editor (Volunteering)
- Multimedia Assistant Editor (Volunteering)
News Editor (Job & Volunteering)
Job Description
- Write, report and edit news stories for OnIslam.net about issues of interest to Muslims.
- Aggregate relevant news items from other news sources.
- Regularly contribute to the daily flow of social-media outlets by placing news items and videos on social-media websites.
- Work with the rest of OnIslam staff to create the daily news output of the website.
- Suggest ideas for OnIslam production
Job requirements
- A minimum two-year experience in news editing.
- An excellent command of English.
- A strong interest in current events and developments.
- Ability to work well under daily pressure.
- Team spirit.
- Preference to residents of 6 October and Sheikh Zayed cities.
Interested Candidates can apply by sending their CV to onislam@onislam.net
Spirituality Senior Editor (Job)
Job Description
- Identify priority needs and topics for new articles and videos in the area of spirituality that suit different types of Onislam audiences (New Muslims, born Muslims and also non-Muslims - Youth, Women, … etc.)
- Identify suitable resource people for the implementation of the yearly Onislam Spirituality Plan, including high quality writers & speakers.
- Edit and publish spirituality-related materials at the web site using Joomla CMS.
- Recommend other spirituality oriented activities to enhance the spiritual and tazkiyah contents of Onislam.net website.
- Establish contacts with other sister organizations and work to identify joint projects and activities of benefit to the web site.
- Attend conferences and meetings in Egypt and abroad on spiritual topics and issues of concern to Onislam audience and report on the proceedings of these activities.
- Prepare a comprehensive on-line course on Spirituality and Tazkiyah for Onislam audience.
- Conduct Live Sessions on Spirituality though the web site, and respond to spirituality-related questions received from our audience.
- Write periodic articles on spirituality and conduct comparative research in the field of spirituality for da’wah purposes and publish findings at the web site.
- Perform other tasks and manage other assignments received from Onislam Managing Editors, Editor-in-Chief and top management.
Job Requirements
- Graduate with degree in Mass Communication, Arts, Journalism, with preference to Post-Graduate degree holders in these areas.
- Excellent command of the English language, written and spoken, with preference to English native speakers.
- Excellent background in Islamic sciences, with preference given to candidates who completed formal Islamic studies.
- A minimum of seven years editorial work experience in the area of Islamic spirituality, preferably in a sister Islamic web site or academic institution.
- Excellent IT skills, with experience in the use of Joomla (CMS), Microsoft Office, and advanced Internet searching skills.
- Preference to be given to candidates with video editing skills, using Youtube editor and similar packages for video production.
- Good connections in the academic fields of Islamic spirituality and a wide international network of Islamic writers and resource people in the field
- Preference to residents of 6 October and Sheikh Zayed cities.
Interested Candidates can apply by sending their CV to onislam@onislam.net
Humanitarian Development Senior Editor (Job)
Job Description
Editorial
- Prepare edited articles for the publication process.
- Write feature and conduct interviews that relate to the project’s goals and sections
- Process outsourced material online in line with the editorial policy
- Prepare the humanitarian project online campaigns, etc.
- Manage, monitor, and activate the project’s databases
- Prepare material for multimedia production
- Follow the daily news to provide ideas for producing material.
- Interact with the website's staff by providing ideas for the project’s development.
- Correspond with the website's contacts and writers.
- Network with relief, humanitarian, and development organizations for exchanging benefits.
- Follow up the project’s editorial plan
- Prepare material for other publications like eBook or eMagazine
- Liaise with other departments on joint special folders
Administrative
- Prepare any reports related to the project’s activities.
- Update the project’s database of contacts and writers.
- Suggest topics for interaction with readers for various online formats.
- Prepare offline activities that relate to the project’s target like salons and workshops
- Participate in the project’s offline activities including attending/covering events, organizations related to the project’s interests. This may include travel.
- Respond to feedback that reaches the website.
- Manage the project’s existing network of writers and contacts and recruit new writers, and contacts.
Departmental
- To organize feedbacks, and news into issues for topics of interest for discussion
- To set a library of books and brochures related to the project
- Present the website to visitors, contacts.
- Prepare, attending, organizing department meetings.
- To assist managing editor in methods of implementing newly acquired training skills
Training
- Continue to improve editorial, networking and writing skills.
- Attend training/relevant work experience when required.
Job Requirements:
Employees in this position should:
- Have an appropriate degree or higher (in Humanities/ sustainable development, Social Sciences)
- Have a minimum of 3 years work/voluntary experience in related fields
- Have an excellent command of the English language written and spoken especially writing and research skills (highly preferable to be a native speaker)
- Have a good interactivity with organizations working in the field of relief, humanitarian activities, and development
- Demonstrate understanding of social/mental health issues in ones community enough to understand Western communities with non-Muslims and Muslims
- Have basic Islamic knowledge, although no previous formal studies are necessary
- Be able to work in a team and prioritize ones workload
- Have the ability to cover for any managing editor
- Have excellent computer and Internet skills
- Demonstrate a level of understanding that is transferable to online multimedia formats
Interested Candidates can apply by sending their CV to onislam@onislam.net
Politics Assistant Editor (Volunteering)
Job Responsibilities
1. Following up on current affairs and issues related to Muslims worldwide
2. Actively participating in departmental meetings and brainstorming sessions
3. Performing Internet, library, and on-the-ground research (which may require leg work) on specific issues and providing information and material that can be used in content or for brainstorming
4. Networking with writers and correspondents, and assigning articles to be written
5. Editing articles received by writers and preparing them for publication
6. Writing feature articles, editorials, and analysis pieces
7. Preparing for and running online Live Dialogue sessions, which requires searching for and contacting possible guests, and scheduling and moderating sessions
8. Maintaining and widening the department's network of contacts, writers, and correspondents
9. Communicating with the department's contacts via phone or e-mail, or at in-person meetings
10. Organizing and categorizing data.
Job Requirements
1. A degree in journalism, political science, or any social science, or any other field.
2. Interest in current international and domestic affairs
3. Excellent command of written and spoken English and Arabic
4. Excellent research and writing skills
5. Outspoken with excellent communication skills
6. Presentation skills and ability to speak to public audience
7. Close eye for detail
8. Ability and interest in learning
9. Good organizational skills
10. Ability to work under stress
Interested Candidates can apply by sending their CV to onislam@onislam.net
Homepage Assistant Editor (Volunteering)
Job Description
1- Assisting the homepage editor to keep the Home Page of the website constantly updated and dynamic.
2- Conduct daily follow-up with all sections to secure the mobilization of work, as requested by the Chief Editor
Keeping an eye on important events to be oriented about the current affairs and to update the HP accordingly.
3- Assisting Home Page editor in presenting a daily quick news report about current affairs, to be presented to the Chief Editor
4- Assisting Home Page editor on some administrative tasks as requested by the Chief Editor and in line with what the job demands
5- Attending editorial and non-editorial meetings as requested
6- Other editorial and administrative related tasks as instructed by the editor-in-chief
7- Setting the proxy manager schedule each month and reminding the managers before the weekends.
8- Soliciting in gathering periodic reports and plans from the editors and presenting them to the Chief Editors as requested or his deputies
9- Contributing with the Marketing Unit in promoting the website on social media and other important outlets, but without creating any overlap with the concerned section
10- Assisting the Home Page editor in taking care of writers & corresponds’ file with regard to constantly updating the file and help in keeping them dynamic, without overlapping with the roles of sections
11- Participating with the Home Page editor in attending the Editorial weekly meetings , taking notes and sending the minutes immediately after the meeting or on the following maximum on an exceptional basis
12- Assisting the editor in chief with any coordination or communication with the staff.
Position Requirements
1- BA degree in Humanities, with great preference on mass communication
2- Adequate knowledge of English language, Arabic and other languages is a plus (Preferably non-Arabic speaker for cultural diversity)
3- Strong computer skills.
4- Flexibility of working around the clock, including weekends.
5- Possibility of attending events and conferences on behalf of the homepage editor.
Interested Candidates can apply by sending their CV to onislam@onislam.net
Public Relations Officer (Job)
Job Description
- Prepare or edit organizational publications for internal and external audiences.
- Respond to requests for information from the media or external organizations & individuals.
- Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with sister organizations, websites, famous figures and public interest groups.
- Interacting with the website department for collection of information required for building prospected and current partners database and working on its activation for the interest of the website.
- Prepare and deliver speeches to further public relations objectives.
- Preparation of different surveys to be used by the website on periodic events to collect information for certain areas of interest.
- Communicating with sections managers and chief editor for required relevant reports.
- Searching for and approaching potential advertisers on the website to develop and implement advertising solutions for them. Seeking other form of business opportunities is included.
- Arranging for different off-line events and activities which help in enhancing the branding of Onislam image. Good representation of OnIslam is part of such arrangement.
- Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Writing and producing presentations and press releases
- Monitoring coverage of OnIslam production through online and offline outlets like websites, search engines, etc and responding to such coverage with suitable actions when needed.
- Works harmoniously with employees at other sections.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
-BA degree in Public Relations, Mass Communication, Business Administration or other relevant field.
-Fluent in English, spoken and written
-Strong computer skills.
-Fresh graduates or less than 1 year working skills are preferred.
-Candidates living in 6th of October or Giza are more preferred.
-Candidates living outside these areas are more than welcomed to apply for the job.
Interested Candidates can apply by sending their CV to onislam@onislam.net
Social Media Assistant (Volunteering)
Job Description
- Creation of Diversified Daily Content to make our channels friendlier with audience and eliminate the form of being promotional channels only targeting figures of visits and pageviews.
- Follow up of the promotion workflow agreed upon and initiating ideas on its optimization. Weekly and monthly reports for the workflow performance are required.
- Daily check-up of interaction from our audience on social media channels and replying to any feedback.
- Periodical update and change of the channels’ design to keep them with the sense of being active and changing.
- Keeping all content promoted on the social media channels consistent with the brand and image of OnIslam.
- Keeping eye on partnership and networking opportunities from the engagement of the social media channels’ audience.
- Keeping eye and follow up of daily updates and trends in the social media industry news to raise new ideas for optimization and new channels that can be added to the current ones.
- Searching for pages and profiles of writers, authors and people mentioned in our articles to include them when promoting articles so that we get higher possibility of more visits.
- Preparation of surveys and questionnaires to promote them on social media channels and get feedback from our audience and know their interests.
- Having contact with active members and followers on our social media channels so that they can help us with ideas and activate the channels.
- Providing weekly and monthly plans for planned promotion and ideas to be implemented to raise level of interactivity, engagement and expanding our social media channels’ pool of audience.
- Providing weekly and monthly reports and analysis on the level of interactivity and engagement of the audience with the materials promoted and recommendations for better performance.
- Updating the editors with new materials about social media to keep them updated with best uses and practices.
Job Requirements
-Adequate knowledge of Social Media websites and skills.
-Fluent in English, spoken and written
-Strong computer skills.
-Fresh graduates or less than 1 year working skills are preferred.
-Candidates living in 6th of October or Giza are more preferred.
-Candidates living outside these areas are more than welcomed to apply for the job.
Interested Candidates can apply by sending their CV to onislam@onislam.net
