AAJA Asia JOB LISTING: N3CON Executive Producer Position

As many of you are aware AAJA Asia will host the annual N3 New.Now.Next Media Conference in HONG KONG this year!… Bringing our 7th regional conference back to HK late May, 2017.

This is a big event and we need a dedicated Executive Conference Producer to continue with our growing and continued success!   This will be an exciting opportunity to produce one of Asia’s signature media conferences, bringing together 300+ journalists and media professionals across the region.  It is also important as Hong Kong will be marking its 20th anniversary of the hand over  and we are planning special programming to mark the occasion.

We are accepting applications until midnight Jan. 2, 2017 (but may extend the deadline if we need to collect a wider pool of candidates).

It is a five-month PAID POSITION (of which interested applicants will submit a proposed bid for their work) and the candidate will be expected to scale-up hours leading up to the conference late May, 2017.

The Executive Conference Producer will ideally:

*Be based in Hong Kong

*Work with AAJA-Asia board and N3 committees on strategic goals and objectives for the conference

*Evaluate and negotiate contracts with conference venue and suppliers

*Work with board, develop and manage a cost-effective, sound conference budget

*Identify speakers, panelists and guest speakers for signature conference

*Oversee all events and logistics for the conference

*Design a marketing plan with goal of bringing in record attendees

*Implement a social media campaign to bring exposure to conference, AAJA-Asia and sponsors

*Serve as AAJA-Asia liaison to sponsors and partners

*Contribute to AAJA Asia’s how-to manual for subsequent conferences on best practices

Please email any questions to [email protected]

Apply via: cover letter, resume and your salary bid proposal for the project to [email protected] by Jan. 2nd, 2017 midnight.  

We are looking for someone who is proactive, passionate, and has journalism experience who can help us put together a great conference!  If this is you, we can’t wait to hear from you!  If you know of someone who can help us, please don’t hesitate to forward this to any potential candidate.  Help us spread the word and find our candidate.