The Financial Coconut Network Hiring! Full Time Journalist in Johor, Earn up to MYR 2,000 - Ricebowl

We are a Financial Literacy Network, looking to hire a full-time Journalist to take on financial-related content ranging from Market News, Business Deep dives, and Investment trends.

The role will require you to work closely with our Head of Content to create content that will invigorate our personal finance community. You will help manage the recording session, determine the story of each episode/ show, use equipment to edit the content, and evaluate content pitches from the hosts of the shows. Producers also fulfill a variety of other duties, such as interviewing sources, fact-checking, managing talent, and ensuring all new podcasts meet internal deadlines.

Scope:

• Conducting research to uncover interesting and significant news
• Assessing leads and pitching captivating story ideas to editors.
• Gathering, corroborating and interpreting data
• Interviewing key persons (witnesses, sources etc.) to obtain more information
• Using all your findings to prepare clean, concise, and factual articles and content pieces
• Reviewing and editing work for editorial approval.
• Creating trustworthy relationships with contacts and sources for use in future research.
• Keeping up-to-date on the latest news developments by attending events, studying different papers, opinion pieces, and social media.

Our team is fully remote and we expect you to be an independent teammate while being supported by the resources and capabilities of our content network. We are process and results-driven and we actually appreciate radical candor.

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Feel free to share samples of your work or portfolio of your published articles, along with your application.

We are looking for you if you...

• Have a Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, English, or relevant field and, or experience.
• Have an interest in Financial industry
• Have a burning passion for writing and love telling stories in a multitude of ways (NOT just pen and paper)
• Have a strong attention to detail
• Are able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Are willing to learn
• Able to meet deadlines.
• Have superb communication and networking skills, along with an aptitude to effectively extract information.
• Are proactive, and able to work autonomously
• Are organised and able to juggle varied workload

Please submit your resume, portfolio of relevant work, and a brief note about why you'd be perfect for this role.

Please note that due to the high volume of applications, we may not be able to respond to all candidates. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. We wish you the best of luck in your job search!

Job Types: Permanent, Full-time

Pay: From RM2,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Opportunities for promotion
• Professional development
• Work from home

Application Question(s):

• What is your expected monthly payment? (RM)
• How would you rate your knowledge level in Financial/ investment area? Please elaborate where applicable.
• Do you have any sample work for us to review?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Johor Bahru (Johor Bahru)