This is a two-year contracted position with the potential for long-term employment.
Program Overview: Today, the Foundation produces and delivers safety curricula, resources, and materials to aspiring journalists primarily through partnerships with colleges and universities and ad-hoc engagement with local newsrooms. With funding from the Knight Foundation, JWFLF will develop an online journalist safety education toolkit for aspiring, freelance, and local journalists who often lack access to quality safety training.
Journalists face a myriad threats to their safety and well-being including physical violence, online harassment, digital vulnerabilities, and harassment in the workplace. Today, local newsrooms are shuttering at an increasing rate and many that remain are forced to tighten budgets meaning safety education for journalists is scarce. This project aims to ensure that journalists accessing JWFLF materials will receive safety resources that will help them mitigate physical, mental, and digital risks.
To develop these tools, the Foundation will adapt its existing curricula to enable an interactive, self-guided online platform for recipients to access, engage with, and learn its content. This will entail collaborating with academic researchers, industry experts, nonprofit partners, and co-design work with the intended users of the platform to ensure their requirements are addressed.
The individual selected for this role will perform three critically important duties:
- Partner with a JWFLF-selected IT developer in an agile process to create the online platform;
- Adapt and enhance JWFLF safety education content for interactive delivery online;
- Conduct outreach to and engage potential users of the toolkit and subject matter experts.
To apply, send resume, cover letter, and references resume@jamesfoleyfoundation.org
