Supervisory International Broadcaster (China Branch)

Place description

This place is positioned in USAGM, VOA, East Asia and Pacific Area, China Department. The Supervisory Worldwide Broadcaster (China Department) is chargeable for managing the Cantonese and Mandarin Companies. The incumbent can be chargeable for main the Companies, managing budgets, and ensures workers necessities are met to take care of positions comparable to journalists, producers, broadcasters, and contract personnel, for producing international information by way of TV, radio, social medial, and the web.

As a Supervisory Worldwide Broadcaster for the China Department you can be chargeable for duties to incorporate, however usually are not restricted to:

This Service Chief of the China Department is chargeable for the general high quality and content material of the Mandarin and Cantonese Companies, guaranteeing adherence to the VOA Constitution and Journalistic Code. He/she enforces journalism greatest practices and ethics, together with that content material is correct, truthful, and balanced.

Manages the general supervision of service operations comparable to directing and coordinating workers, contractors, and stringers, to incorporate the price range and administration, service technique planning, and improvement of recent programming.

Assigns work to subordinates based mostly on priorities, selective consideration of the issue and necessities of assignments, and the capabilities of staff. Prepares efficiency components and requirements and information annual Efficiency Appraisal stories for group leaders and supervisory workers. Demonstrates consummate management skill with an emphasis on constructing giant groups and managing them.

Oversees and manages the manufacturing of web, radio, tv, and social media content material and programming. Develops plans and strategic targets, together with establishing the China Department’s normal scope of operations.

Recommends modifications or enhancements to broadcast insurance policies, broadcast operations, and plans for future radio, TV, digital and Web broadcasts.

Advises on political, financial, social and cultural developments in China which can be of relevance to VOA programming and alerts Division and different VOA components of developments that require protection or analytic therapy. Prepares stories on Mandarin and Cantonese actions and problems with significance.

Recommends modifications or enhancements to broadcast insurance policies, broadcast operations, and plans for future radio, TV, digital and Web broadcasts. Advises on political, financial, social and cultural developments in China of relevance to VOA programming and alerts the Division and different VOA components of developments in China requiring protection or analytic therapy. Prepares stories on Mandarin and Cantonese actions as wanted, together with Service profiles, annual Technique papers and protection stories.

Works carefully with the Workplace of Advertising and marketing and Technique to coordinate placement of Mandarin and Cantonese language packages, scripts, and stories on radio and TV stations within the Folks’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and different overseas areas and which give e mail subscription companies. This entails remaining accountability for all issues associated to programming, format, manufacturing, acceptable requirements, high quality, and tone.

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Circumstances of Employment

• You have to be a U.S Citizen or U.S. Nationwide.
• This can be a public belief place. If chosen, this place requires the completion of the SF-86.
• Suitability Willpower: If chosen, you can be topic to a background investigation to ascertain your suitability for federal employment. The background investigation could embody, amongst different facets, a overview of your credit score and authorized historical past.
• This place just isn’t lined by a Union Settlement.
• This place has been designated supervisory requiring that the selectee serves on an preliminary appointment as a supervisor or supervisor, serve a one-year probationary interval.
• If chosen for this emptiness, you can be required to file the OGE Kind 450 (Confidential Monetary Disclosure Report).
• The complete efficiency grade degree for this place is GS-14.
• This place could require working nights, weekends, and holidays.
• In case you are a male applicant who’s born after 12/31/59, you might be required to be registered for the Selective Service.

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Display out issue: Candidates should have fluency in English and Mandarin or Cantonese languages that allows you to communicate, learn, write, report, and translate in these languages. This display out issue MUST be listed in your resume in an effort to obtain consideration for this place.

Forthe GS-14 place: Candidates should have a minimal of 1 (1) 12 months of specialised expertise at a degree of problem and accountability similar to the GS-13 levelor pay band within the federal, public, or personal sectors. Specialised Expertise is expertise that has geared up the applicant with the actual information, expertise, and talents to carry out efficiently the duties of the place and which is in and/or immediately associated to this line of labor. Specialised expertise contains the entire following and is required:

• Experience in journalism and main a group of journalists producing multimedia content material for the area of China.
• Expertise masking quite a lot of subjects regarding China, comparable to worldwide relations, economics, tradition, and socio-political improvement, together with creation and manufacturing of multimedia newscasts and manufacturing of content material for broadcasting.
• Experience within the Chinese language media market that allows the incumbent to plan and create content material and advertising and marketing technique for the China Department.
• Proficiency in main workers with expertise making ready and managing budgets, together with execution of plans that meet the mission and focus of an company. As well as, expertise managing a various workers of journalists, producers, and contract personnel within the U.S. and overseas.
• Intensive expertise and talent in China’s politics and surrounding territories and areas, which incorporates Cantonese or Mandarin-speaking areas and america targets and coverage towards every territory of the nation, comparable to democracy and human rights points in China. Understands U.S. coverage on creation and improvement of multimedia content material for audiences in varied areas surrounding China, comparable to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and neighboring areas.

Schooling

Schooling just isn’t required for this grade degree. It can’t be used for qualification functions.

 

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