Assistant Editor, BLOOM/summer position
Rate of pay: $12 per hour
Hours/week: 30 hours (to be discussed)
Duties: Conduct phone, in-person and video interviews and research and write stories with parents, scientists and clinicians, primarily for the blog; edit copy to Canadian Press style; research resources valuable to parents of kids with disabilities; track disability news stories of interest to our readers; do outreach to promote blog and magazine; help to coordinate our speaker series; post pieces on the blog and act as back-up moderator.
Skills/experience: Self-starter, compelling storyteller, ability to translate technical/academic language into plain language, excellent listener, proactive researcher, stickler for detail, experience writing to Canadian Press style (a CP expert please!), understanding of disability issues or sensitivity to issues of marginalized populations, passionate, conscientious, reliable, curious and not afraid to ask questions. Ability to work with a wide range of families and children’s rehab professionals. Experience with Blogger an asset, but not essential. Willingness to question conventional thinking.
About us: BLOOM is a magazine and blog on parenting kids with disabilities produced by Holland Bloorview, Canada’s largest children’s rehab hospital. BLOOM gives voice to the joys and challenges of special-needs parenting by combining firsthand family insights and the best professional advice. BLOOM blogs, which reach readers in 114 countries, have been reprint in the New York Times, the Huffington Post and on AOL online. In 2011 the blog was named one of the best non-profit blogs by Mark W. Schaefer, social media educator at Rutgers University.
Contact information: Louise Kinross
http://bloom-parentingkidswithdisabilities.blogspot.ca/
A deadline for applications: April 30, 2012
