Interesting about this job
You will be part of a friendly and informal team (m/f) with consideration for each other and mutual respect.
There is plenty of support with relaxed familiarisation opportunities. You will function under the direct responsibility of the editor-in-chief/foundation chairman. Our team consists of ladies and gentlemen from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Job tasks and duties
As a journalist, you will gather and research facts about current affairs or other newsworthy situations or events of particular interest to older people. You will write your articles and/or make reports. Your journalistic work will be published via our news medium: the online senior citizens' magazine “Vlaiger” so that our visitors are informed.
You can specialise in, for example, neighbourhood and village activities, care for the elderly, road safety (especially for the elderly), culture, music, technology/ICT to make the elderly more familiar with it, nature and sustainability and so on. You receive your assignments from the editorial team, of which you are also a member, but you have the freedom to tell the story in your own way. In the editorial meetings, you can come up with your own topics. You will occasionally work together with a photographer, camerawoman/man or fellow editors.
Your tasks include:
- Consulting editors.
- Online and on-site information gathering.
- Studying information on the relevant topics.
- Selecting information.
- Accessing people for interviews.
- Interviewing.
- Writing.
Minimum education level: lbo/mavo/vmbo
Job skills and qualities
- Creative, entrepreneurial and inquisitive.
- Written expression, language level B2.
- Creative thinking.
- Have courage.
- Having conversations.
- Taking initiative.
- Have integrity.
Extra information
The editorial board meets once every 2 weeks on Tuesday afternoons, from 12:30 to 14:00 in a meeting room, adjacent to our office in the Vondelflat.
A computer is available in our office with Office 365, among other things, if necessary, this can be used.
Outside the editorial meetings, there is regular contact by phone or WhatsApp.
Job information
| Job type | Volunteer Work, Thuiswerk mogelijk |
|---|---|
| Services | travel expenses |
| Duration | indefinite |
| Hours per week | at least 2 hours, max 14 hours |
| Work hours of your own choosing? | Yes |
| Location | Overleg op hoofdlocatie, overig werk vanuit huis of locatie |
Organisation address and information
Stichting Senioren in Woord en Beeld
Vondellaan 77
9721 LC Groningen
Website: http://www.vlaiger.nl