Radio Ambulante is hiring a Director of Development and two interns (Production Assistant & Community Management). Please forward widely. You can find more information on our website:

http://radioambulante.org/en/About_Us/Jobs

Director of Development

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Development Director is the chief fundraising staff member of Radio Ambulante. In conjunction with the rest of the team (Executive Director, Executive and Senior Producers), the Development Director will manage and oversee all aspects of Radio Ambulante’s fundraising strategy. Responsibilities will include identifying and soliciting funds from individual donors, maintaining relationships with past donors, researching and writing grants that can support the work of Radio Ambulante, and leading the organization of fundraising events in the Bay Area and beyond. An ideal candidate has contacts in the US and across Latin America, and is comfortable in the role of spokesperson and champion for a new journalistic venture. He or she must believe in the mission of Radio Ambulante, understand the important role stories can play in the life and culture of a community, and be able to articulate the significance of the project to potential funders in both Spanish and English.

ABOUT RADIO AMBULANTE:

We are a Spanish language journalism and storytelling project based in San Francisco, CA, with partners throughout Latin America. Our goal is to merge the immense talents of Latin American journalists with the sophisticated audio production aesthetics of radio here in the United States. We’re currently working with journalists and producers from more than a dozen countries, and have already created partnerships with prestigious institutions like the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (Colombia), as well as the magazines Etiqueta Negra, Cometa (Peru), and Anfibia (Argentina). We are currently in our pilot season. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting serves as our fiscal agent, and KALW Public Radio 91.7 in San Francisco serves as our home station.

We are offering a starting salary of $2,500 month, with two months guaranteed, after which the Development Director will be expected to raise his or her own wages, in addition to operating costs for Radio Ambulante.

REQUIREMENTS:

– Fully bilingual in English and Spanish
– Excellent written and oral communication skills
– Organized, self-motivated and detail-oriented
– 1-3 years experience working in media, philanthropy, or related fields
– Local (SF Bay Area) candidate preferred

Interested candidates should forward a cover letter, in English or Spanish, as well as a résumé to:

Carolina Guerrero
Executive Director
carolina@radioambulante.org

Thank you all!

Dear Friends,

Davia Nelson of The Kitchen Sisters is holding two recording and interviewing workshops on Thursday, July 19 in San Francisco. These three-hour sessions are designed for people who want to acquire and hone their skills in an array of audio projects–radio, online storytelling, oral histories, audio slide shows, family histories, news, documentaries, podcasts, and other multimedia platforms.

In the workshops, Davia will cover interviewing, miking techniques, sound gathering, use of archival audio, field recording techniques, how to make interviewees comfortable, how to frame evocative questions that make for compelling storytelling, how to build a story and how to listen (which is harder than it looks).

The workshop is customized to fit the projects you are working on. People who attend come from radio, film, multimedia, newspapers, journalism, photography, oral history, historical societies, farms, music, writing, libraries, archives, web design, detective agencies, restaurants, health care organizations, and beyond. The groups are always lively and good contacts are made.

The workshops are held in Francis Coppola's historic Zoetrope building in North Beach at 916 Kearny St. Of course, a snack will be served.

Morning Workshop: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Afternoon Workshop: 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Each session is $115.

If you, or someone you know is interested, email kitchen@kitchensisters.org. Please pass this along to your community.

Expand your skills, meet new people, support the work of The Kitchen Sisters.

See you there,

The Kitchen Sisters

Hi all,

So Radiolab is doing something a little different for our next episode and it involves… involvement. The concept is pretty simple but the deadline is super soon. So jump in with both feet if you're so inspired.

Here's the scoop:

We’ve put up the “stems” of 8 Radiolab segments… just the raw elements we used to mix those stories… onto a website called "Indaba." The idea is that you, or someone you love, would download any of the stems you want to use and construct something new out of them.

You can remix a single story. You can take elements from multiple stories and mash them up together. You can use outside elements as well as what we’ve provided. Anything goes.

In the end, our top two favorites are going to become part of the next episode. Plus, our ABSOLUTE favorite gets money. 

Here’s the catch: you only have a week from today to do it.

The web-site, with lots more details, is here: http://www.indabamusic.com/opportunities/wnyc-radiolab-remix-contest

– Dynamic interaction among a network of talented peers.

– Direct exchange with visiting artists and industry experts.

– A structured environment for research and experimentation.

– Mentoring on the production of original work and regular group critique.

– Exhibition opportunities for the year's collaborative project.

The CoLAB represents a new and alternative fellowship model, offering residency and visa support for six participants coming from abroad and an equal number of spots for local, non-resident participants. It is designed to be affordable and, although participants are asked to make the UDC their primary creative focus, the schedule does accommodate full-time or freelance work. Rather than applying with a project proposal or rough cut, all participants are selected on the basis of previous work and enter the program at square one, open to discovery and fresh connections. The CoLAB has presenting original work at premiere venues such as MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, the Harvard Film Archive, the Visible Evidence Conference, Camden International Film Festival, Hot Docs, and Direktorenhaus, Berlin, among other venues. We expect a very competitive group of applicants, representing some of the most exciting emerging talents in documentary.

http://www.uniondocs.org/uniondocs-collaborative/