Remote Volunteer / Intern Needed at NK News

We are currently looking for 1 or 2 English language speaking interns to help daily operations on a remote basis.  These position would be great for someone who is already employed or studying full or part-time and looking to contribute a 2-3 hours per day in an area of interest to them.

Duties will include:

• Monitoring of English language news and analysis pertaining to the DPRK to assist in the production of the “Daily Update” service
• Devising questions for website polls, analyzing responses and presenting findings in news articles
• Authoring of unique content for the ‘Featured Content’ section of the website, including analysis, articles and research pieces (dependent on subject knowledge)
• Posting of news stories to NKNews.org website and formatting news clippings correctly for the Daily Update service
• Monitoring of job websites for professional DPRK related opportunities to include on the website
• “Seeding” of social media assets with interesting content on a daily basis

Experience:

• Excellent English language skills
• Fine attention to detail
• Experience in working with social media
• Ability to contribute at least two hours of work per working day for core duties
• Undergraduate degree in the field of International Relations / International Security / Media / Journalism
• Has Computer & Internet access
• Can commit to at least three months (preferably six)
• Experience using WordPress (desirable)
• Image manipulation experience (desirable)
• Academic or professional writing experience on North Korea (desirable)
• Knowledge of N.E Asian English language news outlets (desirable)

To Apply:

Please send a cover letter explaining why your experience is suited to the duties, also outlining your motivation to apply for this opportunity.

Please also include one or two writing samples of no more than 800 – 1000 words each (either academic or journalistic)

Send applications to us at vacancy@nknews.org