Publishers and Digital artists Job at Save the Children - Career Opportunity in Rwanda

Vacancy title:
Publishers and Digital artists

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Media, Communications & Writing ]

 

Jobs at:

Save the Children

Deadline of this Job:
15 April 2020  

Duty Station:
Within Rwanda , Kigali , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, March 23, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:
PROJECT OVERVIEW:
The Reading Ready project will address the challenges of low production and use of locally made pre-primary books highlighting gender, inclusion, and STEM by incentivizing the production of at least 50 new Kinyarwanda pre-primary level supplementary book titles highlighting these themes using a Results-Based Financing (RBF) approach. The project will also address the local limitations on the use of technology to teach reading to the youngest children by digitizing these newly created Kinyarwanda books and making them available on the Global Digital Library linked to the National Early Childhood Program website. By doing this, children and their families, teachers, and librarians will be able to access a wealth of pre-primary digital books on-line as well as off-line (for those without internet) in addition to printed books.
In addition to the newly developed pre-primary book titles, a number of already existing Kinyarwanda supplementary book titles for early grades (P1-P3) age group will be translated into English. All books will have audiobook versions. The proposed program will use results-based financing (RBF) approach to:
• Build the capacity of the authors, illustrators, publishers, and designers to create and digitize the new books and translate already existing books;
• Work with pre-primary teachers, librarians, and children to effectively use the new books in both print and digital versions.
For Save the Children to be able to achieve this, we are calling publishers and digital artists to send their expression of interest. Below are the key pre-conditions for the publishers who are willing to participate in the project .

KEY CONDITIONS:
• Be a Rwandan publisher with the business indigenous to Rwanda (born and has the parent company created and registered in Rwanda); this means the publishing house is not affiliated, representing, or sub-contracted by any other publishing house founded in other countries than Rwanda.
• Demonstrate evidence of publishing Kinyarwanda children’s books for the 0-10,
• Demonstrate that the Publishing house has been operational in the last four years,
• Demonstrate evidence of work, collaboration, or partnership with any institution of the government of Rwanda (REB, MINISPOC, RALC, etc.), civil society, and other relevant institutions,
• Work mainly with Rwandan writers and Rwandan illustrators,
• Be willing to continuously receive feedback to edit and improve new title development
• Nominate at least 2 authors, 2 illustrators, 1 designer they will work with and submit their work samples of nominated collaborators while applying. Winning teams will have to demonstrate how every member of the team will be motivated to fully participate in the project. Publishers are free to have exclusive or open contracts with collaborators; authors and illustrators may work with one or more publishers depending on the terms and conditions of each applicant.


DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS:
• Applicants who co-apply with digital media partners to work on animations adapted from the newly developed titles,
• Proven aptitude in adopting/using digital solutions from simple ones (website, active social media account) to more complex (selling on e-stores, partnerships with digital libraries, digital publishing, using open licenses),
• Preference for proven interest in making books for early learners (0-6 years old),
• Proposal for strong non-financial incentives to reward the development of new titles for pre-primary or translation/versioning of P1-P3 books.


DELIVERABLE(S):
Working with selected publishers the project intends to produce;
• 50 new titles for pre-primary school
• 50 audiobooks
• 50 short animated films with highlighted text
• 50 books for P1-P3 translated from Kinyarwanda to English


Job Education Requirements: Not Specified


Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified


Work Hours: 8

 

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Job application procedure
Interested candidates should send their application to rwanda.logistics@savethechildren.org  not later than 15th April 2020 at 5:00 PM, with the subject line: Expression of Interest To The Reading Ready Project Competition.
Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. They should be ready to submit an existing book title for pre-primary with outstanding creative content and presentation (text, design, illustrations). Preference is drawn to most creative projects cleverly featuring positive messaging on gender, inclusion, and STEM. Books must be mistakes-free at the time of submission. Mistakes will lead to immediate disqualification.


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Job Info
Job Category: Accounting/ Finance jobs in Rwanda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job:  15 April 2020
Duty Station: Kigali
Posted: 23-03-2020
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 23-03-2020
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 23-03-2065
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