Position: Project Manager Advisory, WAN-IFRA Women in News, Africa
Engagement Date:15 February 2021 through to 31 January 2022
Engagement type: (Milestone-based contract; approximately 15 days per month)
Location: Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
WAN-IFRA Women in News (WIN) aims to increase women’s leadership and voices in the news. It does so by equipping women journalists and editors with the skills, strategies, and support networks to take on greater leadership positions within their media. In parallel, WIN partners with media organisations to identify industry-led solutions to create environments that embrace equality, and navigate the transition to digital to build toward greater financial and operational stability.
Our Vision is a media industry in which women and men are equal. Equal in the way they are portrayed in news content and equal in their professional roles and treatment in the newsroom within stable media organisations.
Women in News has been running capacity building programmes and in-house training and coaching for 10 years in Sub-Saharan Africa, and 5 years in the Arab region via support from the Swedish International Cooperation Development Agency and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Most recently we launched in Myanmar and Vietnam as part of WAN-IFRA’s strengthening independent programme, which is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
WAN-IFRA Women in News is seeking a Project Manager to support the Africa division of the programme, notably working with our advisory partners in the region and any other related activity.
Position details
The Project Manager, Women in News Africa, is an essential position within the Women in News team. The Project Manager is expected to work closely and collaboratively with the Women in News leadership group to implement WIN’s shared vision and strategic objectives. They will work openly and collaboratively with their counterparts in the Arab region, South East Asia, as well as other key members of the leadership group. This is a 12-month contract position.
Applicants should ideally be located in one of the markets of Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia or Zimbabwe
Specific deliverables of this role include:
Communication
MREL
Competencies
WAN-IFRA Women in News is committed to diversity and inclusion, and creating an environment which embraces collaboration and equality. Women, non-binary, LGBTQI+, disabled and visible minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the media industry. www.womeninnews.org
Interested applicants should send their CVs to HR@womeninnews.org by Monday, 1st February 2021.
Please include the position in the subject line of your email. Please note, only successful candidates will be contacted.
About WAN-IFRA
WAN-IFRA is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers, representing more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. WAN-IFRA is unique in its position as a global industry association with a human rights mandate to defend and promote media freedom, and the economic independence of news media as an essential condition of that freedom.
WAN-IFRA applies a dual approach to supporting media freedom. It addresses political and structural constraints to media freedom through advocacy and at the same time works to strengthen the capacity and networks of the media and their representative institutions. This dual approach allows WAN-IFRA to address challenges to media freedom from multiple perspectives, leveraging experiences and synergies between advocacy and development projects, partnerships and the wider expertise of WAN-IFRA’s international community to encourage meaningful change.
www.wan-ifra.org
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