What we're looking for

What The Denmark is seeking talented, curious people interested in communicating stories about Danish culture. You'll be working as part of a team to create a high quality podcast explaining things that seem peculiar about Denmark. This is a great opportunity to develop journalistic skills and be part of building an exciting national brand.

Responsibilities

The initial plan is that you will have an integral role in the pre-production of podcast episodes

• Ideation: workshopping topics and segments for episodes, and guests that can feature
• Planning: turning the ideas into an action plan, including booking guests
• Creativity: coming up with creative ways to make the final episode "wow factor"

You’ll have responsibility for managing these parts of the process as well as having the full support of the rest of the team to guide, teach and mentor you.

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Characteristics

Must haves

• Growth mindset: you care about your work and enjoy looking for ways to improve
• Clear communication: we work as a “remote first” team meaning written communication (in English) needs to be concise and unambiguous
• Organised: we’re structured in how we work and so it’ll be best if you are too
• Creativity: you have a good eye for stylish ways to summarise big ideas
• A potential listener: it’s important that you “get” what we’re doing with the show!

Nice to haves

• A desire to work in journalism: this role is excellent experience for a career as a journalist. Having newspaper, media or communications as part of your medium term goals will mean you get the most out of this position