Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 27, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The successful candidate will join CfA’s transnational CivicSignal research team, which drives analysis of the continent’s media ecosystem and emerging civic technology sector. You will be the editorial sherpa for Code for Africa’s multinational and multilingual team that uses digital collaboration tools and machine intelligence toolkits to create research reports and datasets for a global audience and international institutional partners.
Candidates must have demonstrable experience in managing investigative processes and research diaries, driving content production pipelines that involve collaboration across multiple multinational and multilingual teams across Africa to ensure they deliver world-class reports and data-driven insights to an agreed-upon schedule.
The ideal applicant is fluent in English. Additional proficiency in French and/or Arabic would be an advantage.

About the Role:
The successful candidates will join CfA’s transnational CivicSignal research team, to craft and manage the content production process and output for CfA’s content production teams. These include iLab, our digital forensics investigative team, and PesaCheck, our fact-checking team, as well as the CivicSignal research team. Outputs take the form of research reports, briefing documents and presentations, among others.
As part of a multinational team within a growing organisation, you must be agile and able to thrive in a multicultural environment. You will need to work easily with people from different backgrounds who may speak different languages.

Required:
• Demonstrable newsroom management skills in a mainstream media or equivalent digital publishing environment.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and demonstrable aptitude for operationally managing multiple content production teams across countries.
• Demonstrable ability to create team timelines and milestones with clear systems/processes.
• A solid understanding of journalistic or other media-related production systems and workflow methodologies.
• Digital workplace skill sets, including proficiency in collaborative digital work solutions such as Google Drive (Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc.), Slack (or equivalents such as Teams), and project management tools like Trello (or equivalents).
• An understanding of media ecosystems and/or digital advocacy and/or digital civic engagement.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present research insights and shape research outputs.
• The ability to collaborate with a diverse set of multidisciplinary project stakeholders.
• Experience in working with remote, distributed teams with agile methodologies.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented approach to problem solving
• Ability to work under tight deadlines with good prioritisation and time management skills
• Ability to work with minimal instruction in a teamwork environment
• Strong organisational, analytical and interpersonal skills
• High professional standards and ethics

Preferred:
• Competence in open source intelligence (OSINT) research techniques, including data scraping, data mining and other intelligence gathering techniques.
• Competence in computational linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and specifically the methodologies and tools offered by the MediaCloud.org platform.
• Multiple languages, such as French, Arabic and other languages spoken in Africa.

Language and Location Requirements:
• Location: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal or South Africa. Exceptional candidates from elsewhere in Africa will be considered.
• International Language: English
• Preferred but not required: Arabic, French, KiSwahili or any other major language spoken in Africa.

Responsibilities:
• Managing the editorial production process and content diaries for CfA’s teams producing analytic and investigative reports.
• Scheduling and running the weekly ‘insights diary’ used to shape CfA’s reports and investigative outputs.
• Ensuring that reports, presentations and briefing documents are delivered on time by the relevant teams.
• Ensuring that analytical and investigative outputs are aligned with organisational goals and lead to meaningful outcomes.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
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