India Water Portal is looking for editors, based in East and North-east India - Apply by 15 March 2012

[India Water Portal]

The India Water Portal is an open, inclusive web-based platform for sharing water management knowledge amongst practitioners and the general public. The Portal effort has grown significantly since its launch in 2007, and we are now looking for more people to join and help us expand our work.

Title of the position

Editor - India Water Portal.

Nature of position

The position is on a part-time, consultancy basis, working from home. You must be able to put in at least 25 hours of work every week (100 hours a month). Work timings within the day are flexible.

After a 3-month induction period, your appointment will be confirmed for one year, and can be extended.

Location

You must be based in any of the following States of the country:

Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa, Chattisgarh, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura.

Day to day coordination of the work, will be through phone and email. You must be able to make at least two 7-day visits in a year to Bangalore (travel, lodging costs will be reimbursed), for half-yearly review and planning meetings.

Start date

April 2012

Experience

You must have a minimum of 10 years of field, research, documentation, program, community or related experience in working with water and environment-related initiatives in India, in any sector - Government, Development (Non-profit) or Industry.

Academic qualifications

Post-graduates in Development / Environment / Water / Engineering / Social Sciences and related disciplines maybe preferred. If you have the relevant work experience however, academic qualifications will not matter.

Desired skills

• Excellent English writing / communication skills. Ability to read and write in Hindi is desirable.
• Be comfortable with using basic Office software and various Internet-based tools.
• Have good computer and high-speed (broad-band) internet access at your home.

Work description

You will be responsible for the various content, communications and community tasks of the Portal. The work will involve:

• Sourcing and processing content onto the India Water Portal. This will involve extensive reading, summarising and writing stand firsts, editing, cataloguing and organising of suitable content for the website.
• Doing secondary internet and field-based research for developing new original content. This will involve identifying and sourcing relevant content from the internet and offline sources, based on key water-related themes, events, organisations etc.
• Working with water sector practitioners, experts, agencies, individuals for sourcing and developing original content related to water, participating in local water events, answering user queries and comments.
• Managing outreach and user participation on the site.

Compensation

Pay will be based on actual hours of work put in. The rate of pay will be Rs. 170 / hour (Rupees one hundred and seventy only), and will vary depending on your capacity, skills and related experience. TDS will be deducted.

Work-related expenses such as computer use, electricity, internet etc will not be reimbursed.

Deadline for receiving applications

Please upload your application here: http://www.indiawaterportal.org/work-with-us, on or before 15 March 2012. Selection will be based on a telephonic interview. You maybe called for a personal interview at Arghyam, if necessary.

Only short-listed applicants will be informed.