Company: Canada Wood

Position: Director – Corporate Communications

Location: Shanghai

Salary: Negotiable

Canadian forest industry in China, Canada Wood China in cooperation with Forestry Innovation Investment (also known collectively as the China Enterprise) has been instrumental in the successful first phase of a strategy to introduce wood frame construction to the Chinese market and significantly increase the volume of Canadian lumber consumption in China. The next phase of the China strategy is to build on opportunities that advance Canadian wood use in China’s construction sector to increase the export of high value wood products to China.

This role is created to work collaboratively with staff across the organization, the incumbent is responsible for ensuring the development and delivery of a comprehensive corporate communications function.

Responsibility:

-Foster and maintain strong professional working relationships with Canadian stakeholders to understand and meet their communication requirements and manage their expectations.

-Develop and manage the internal communication activities to build workforce unity, promote information sharing and facilitate the achievement of Canada Wood’s strategic goals and priorities.

-Provide strategic and operational advice to the Country Director and other function heads within Canada Wood China on internal and external strategic communication issues.

Education and Experience:

–Graduate Degree or equivalent combination of knowledge, work experience and education in areas of, Communications, Marketing, or Public Relations;

-At least 5 years’ experience in a mid- to senior-level in a related field;

-Experience writing professionally in English;

-Experience working collaboratively as part of a team.

The job will involve traveling as required

Contact: Beibei Wu /  beibei.wu@canadawood.cn

Company: PRISM

Position: AUTOMOTIVE REPORTER/PRODUCER

Location: Shanghai

Salary: Negotiable

OVERVIEW

A major global automaker’s regional content operation for Asia Pacific, based in Shanghai, is expanding. We play a central role in helping the company tell its story to a wide variety of audiences through news and topical content consumed through multiple platforms, including digital, print and television media outlets as well as social media channels. We are looking for people with a background in journalism, editorial content and media production who are passionate about telling innovative stories. 

ROLE

At the very heart of our Content Factory is storytelling our brand, its people, products and services. This results from developing distinctive, creative stories that are highly relevant for a mass audience of consumers throughout the Asia Pacific region. We are looking for a brand journalist to bring us these skills. The role requires a mix of strong reporting skills, the ability to cultivate relationships with internal experts and a strong awareness of the media landscape in Asia. A keen interest in cars and transportation issues is helpful.

Our ideal candidate should possess:

• Excellent English writing skills (native)
• Journalistic training and experience is essential (print, digital or broadcast)
• Proven ability to tell stories in interesting and innovative ways and to recognize what

makes a good news story

• Voracious appetite for the news and strong awareness of the Asian media landscape
• Energetic reporting skills to develop stories and cultivate expert sources, and strong

curiosity to explore, propose and pursue story ideas

• Ability to deal with a broad array of stakeholders
• Ability to collaborate well with other content production disciplines
• Familiarity with editorial operations is helpful
• Flexibility to respond to unanticipated demands/opportunities
• Familiarity with the automotive marketplace and mobility is preferred but not required.

Contact: Eric Olander, eolander@primsteam.com

This role is created to be an important member of the APAC internal communications team, with the purpose to capture and highlight business dynamics and existing passion of co-workers in the region, thus contributing to the Company’s transformation journey by elevating the OHI and realizing the ambition of being the “Employer of Choice”. The daily tasks of this role include, but not limited to writing/editing/polishing news stories, feature articles, presentations, as well as conducting TV interviews and related production etc. He/she will be a member of the APAC/Global internal communication network and will lead the editorial board in news-desk planning and execution.

Ideal candidate will need to have strong journalistic skills, being able to identify, develop and promote internal news in a timely and interesting manner. The individual will be working in a very dynamic and fast-paced environment with heavy focus on interaction amongst various departments and individuals within the Company.

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The Marketing and Communication department at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is seeking to offer a full-time position to a talented English language native professional writer and editor to join XJTLU’s Content and Media team.

The ideal candidate is passionate about telling the stories that will help build XJTLU’s international reputation as a leader in learning, teaching and research and is committed to international engagement and promoting higher education. The incumbent will have impeccable professional skills in writing, editing, content development, story research, interviewing, fact-checking; s/he will also possess excellent coaching skills to help others develop their best writing abilities.

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Bloomberg News is looking for an Asia consumer editor and hoping someone in the U.S. or Europe may want to find out what the fuss is all about in one of the most exciting regions in the world. We’ve got a great team of reporters who are super-engaged, and consumer is one of the most fun and visible beats. We do a good mix of breaking news and fun enterprise that gets published in Businessweek. The position is ideally in Beijing or Shanghai, but we’re open to other Asian hubs too.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is one of the leading daily newspapers in Germany. Our Shanghai Bureau is looking for a Chinese assistant.

Description:

You will work closely with our China correspondent, support him in gathering news from Chinese websites, social media and newspapers on a daily basis, pitching original stories, conduct research, translate, arrange and take interviews. You will also be required to help with administrative work such as paying bills and filling claims. The job requires constant travel across China. The work language will be English.

The successful candidate should be an independent new Chinese with critical thinking. You are someone who knows your own country well, not only from what is told, but also from what you see and read from various sources. You don’t take for granted of everything going on in today’s society, but will reflect on them.

It is crucial that you are good at communicating with people from all walks of life, and are able to approach potential sources with ease. And used to working to tight deadlines.

Location: Shanghai

Salary: Competitiive

Please send your CV and a cover letter to h.ankenbrand@faz.de