Overview
International consultant to facilitate media training on "Stories that move: Reporting on gender and migration" to strengthen ethical, gender-responsive, trauma-sensitive, and human rights-based reporting on migration, with a focus on migrant women.
Key Responsibilities
- Adapt and strengthen training content on gender-responsive migration reporting.
- Integrate ethical, trauma-sensitive, survivor-centered, and GBV-sensitive journalism approaches.
- Address misinformation, digital harm, hate speech, and emerging media risks.
- Incorporate multimedia and digital storytelling approaches.
- Develop a structured learning pathway with introductory and advanced levels.
- Integrate migrant women’s voices as experts, contributors, and/or co-facilitators.
- Design hands-on learning components, including story labs, editorial clinics, and peer-review sessions.
- Deliver two day in-person training sessions in Gauteng and Western Cape provinces.
- Facilitate interactive sessions using adult-learning methodologies.
- Deliver a dedicated session for editors and producers.
- Prepare a training agenda and presentations.
- Organize a resource pack for participants.
- Prepare and administer pre- and post-training evaluation tools.
- Engage the IOM South Africa Country Office as a co-design and implementation partner.
- Collaborate with journalism schools, media training institutes, and professional bodies.
- Support UN Women in establishing communities of practice, mentorship, or peer-learning mechanisms.
- Provide remote technical guidance on story development and media outputs.
- Prepare a concise lessons-learned summary.
Required Experience
- Minimum five years’ working experience in Gender Studies, International Relations, Development Studies.
- Expertise in gender, migration, and media.
- Proven experience in facilitating media training.
- Strong communication and participatory facilitation skills.
Qualifications
- Masters in social sciences, Gender Studies, International Relations, Development Studies or related field required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of a master’s degree.
