Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast is recruiting a brilliant and inclusive new team of volunteer members to help produce accessible, critical content about human rights for our global and diverse listenership for our Season 9.
As part of the Declarations team, you will have the opportunity to shape the podcast’s orientation, guests and content. In Season 8, we reflected on the 75 years of the UDHR and asked questions such as: who are human rights for? Where is the ‘human’ in ‘human rights’? What have we learned about human rights conceptually, as well as in practice, over the last 75 years? We discussed various topics including the western hegemony in human rights debates, politics, human rights defenders, captivity and prisons, gender-based violence, rights through protest and revolution in Syria and human rights due diligence in sports events.
As always, the theme for Season 9 (2024-25) will be open for the team to collectively agree upon. Declarations has a back catalogue of 104 episodes on a diversity of global human rights topics and guests who are activists, practitioners and academic experts. Declarations is run out of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) at Cambridge POLIS.
Applicants can be any member of the university, from undergrads to MPhils, PhDs or distinguished professors, politics junkies or physicists. What’s important is your passion for human rights, social justice, and podcasts. Previous experience is welcome, but not necessary. Commitment to diversity is a must. People from underrepresented backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. Check out previous episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. You can also find us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram, and our website.
Open positions:
- Communications Manager: You will design creative outreach campaigns and run social media. This includes our long-term branding vision and short-term weekly episode marketing. You will conduct quarterly social media analytics and help to grow our audience base across platforms. Experience with Adobe suite and design skills are desired.
- Panelists: You will join our rotating cast of articulate voices, who are passionate about human rights. Most episodes have 1-2 panelists. You brainstorm topics, organise guests, and bring great questions.
- Executive Producer: You will organise and run our meetings, monitor workflow, and budgeting/liaise with CGHR. You will also need to listen to episodes prior to publishing and help the sound editor in putting them together. You will also help with sound editing when required. Experience with sound editing/production is desirable.
- Sound Editor: You will ensure that the audio quality of the podcast is of the highest possible level. You will sound edit each episode and provide support in related aspects such as recording equipment. Experience with sound editing/production is desirable.
- Shownotes Writer: You write show notes to complement each episode. These companion pieces summarize the best points, list references mentioned, and give more background information or a unique perspective the episode didn’t cover. You will use SEO and work with the comms team to ensure the notes are getting enough traction.
- Host: You will host most episodes and direct the conversation. You will oversee panellist questions and review questions prior to each episode. You will have to be an eloquent speaker with the ability to mentor team members and craft spontaneous thought-provoking questions.
If you’re interested, please apply by writing to CGHR Coordinator: Claudia Rehm (cr502@cam.ac.uk) by Sunday, 20 October 2024, midnight. Please make sure that your application email includes the following:
– The role(s) you are applying for (in order of preference)
– A CV (max. 2 pages) and cover letter of max 500 words/1 page (explaining, with examples, how you fit the role)
If you have any inquiries, please email Podcast Lead: Shubham Jain (sj550@cam.ac.uk), and cc Podcast Faculty Lead: Dr Ashwin Varghese (av690@cam.ac.uk). You can also get in touch in case you have accessibility needs you would like to discuss at this point.
Interview dates will be emailed to shortlisted applicants (likely to be towards the end of October 2024).
See you soon and all the best,
The Declarations Team
