Scriptwriters Wanted at the Population Media Centre (Nigeria)

Deadline: 22 March 2013

Population Media Centre (PMC) is a non-profit, international non-governmental organization working worldwide to promote use of effective communication strategies for promoting positive behaviour change around social and health issues.

PMC uses the reach of mass media and the power of drama and storytelling to stimulate behaviour change. PMC has created or advised on serial dramas that have changed people’s attitudes and behaviours in 41 countries of the world including Nigeria. Our dramas have produced behaviour change on a wide range of issues such as family planning, environmental conservation, violence against women, child trafficking, girls’ education, and HIV avoidance.

PMC is proposing to research, write, produce, and broadcast four radio serial dramas addressing a selection of timely public health and social issues facing Nigerians. The programs will be written and broadcast in Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and Pidgin English to support the efforts of the Nigerian government in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The programs will be written, produced, and acted by Nigerian professionals, and will be broadcast in the four languages.

The new phase of the serial drama production will commence soon, thus PMC Nigeria requires the service of the following professionals:

SCRIPTWRITERS (Abuja)
Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and Pidgin English

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To open opportunities for movie and stage assignments as well as create a network of movies, production executives, directors and actors.
• Collaborate with the director and producer in finalizing the script
• Submit final script version for review and production.
• Revise scripts as requested by director or producer.
• Incorporate valid suggestions from actors and crew when revising.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be a professional script writer
• Must be fluent in the preferred language
• Must have years of experience in the chosen field
• Should have outstanding communication, social and interpersonal skills
• Should have outstanding organizational skills and imaginative talents to compose elements of character, situations, sound, music, dialogue and visuals into a cohesive storyline.

Interested persons should forward their CVs and suitability statement on or before 5pm Friday 22nd March 2013. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: populationmediacenter.nig@gmail.com or ndiche77@yahoo.com

Website: http://www.populationmedia.org/where/nigeria/

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