BACKGROUND
In 2014 Internews set up the “Information Changes Lives” Project that currently produces and broadcasts “Ebola Chrono,” a daily 20-minute radio show dedicated to providing audiences with a wide range of information about Ebola and related issues. The success of the radio show will provide the basis for an expanded project that increases the quality and quantity of informative and engaging media content available to Guinean citizens on Ebola and other health issues; opens two-way information flows between citizens, media and health responders; promotes informed citizen dialogue on health related issues; and cultivates a core cadre of competent health reporters in support of overall health systems strengthening in the country.
In the coming year Internews will be rolling out an SMS-based rumour-tracking system, modeled after similar projects in Liberia and Nepal. It will also trial a “humanitarian dashboard” to track online-conversations as another rich source of information about information flows and gaps at community level. All work under this project aims to make the media and communication interventions during the Ebola response more community driven, and allow local media and humanitarians to fully play their role in increasing resilience among the affected population.
GENERAL FUNCTION
The Project Director will manage a small team of staff and consultants responsible for setting up and developing information management components (Rumor Tracker, dashboard, media maps) that will complement and add value to the original stream of project activities (production of the radio program and training of local journalists). The Project Director will be responsible for coordinating all journalism training and mentoring activities across both project streams, and for ensuring that information gathering, data analysis and community engagement produce information from the community that is then used to inform the activities of health and humanitarian actors and is useful to local media as a tool for promoting community dialogue on key health issues. The Project Director will be required to plan, lead and budget all activities, delegate and organize, conduct local recruitment, procurement, logistics, administration, workplans, reporting.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure timely delivery of the different components of the project;
- Manage a team of profesionnals with diverse skills, tasks, working from different locations with different deliverables;
- Ensure optimal coordination of the different components of the project;
- Create optimal synergies between activities within the project and among those existing activities of partners;
- Ensure quality of the different outputs and activities, monitor the quality of the activities among partner organisations and intervene if necessary to increase it;
- Manage relationships with all partners and stakeholders;
- Deliver timely and accurate financial and narrative reporting on the project.
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Required
- Fluent spoken and written French
- 3-5 years project management experience of a team in the field
- 3-5 years of humanitarian experience
- Understanding of current trends in humanitarian communication, accountability to affected populations, communicating with communities, social media and information management in humanitarian contexts.
- Strong experience in managing budgets
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Knowledge or experience in the Africa region
- Ability to adapt to changing project and department needs and priorities
- Ability to “manage-up” to maintain project timelines
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple on-going assignments
- Self-sufficient and able to highly function with minimal supervision
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
- Experience with internet research
- Ability to meet tight deadlines
- Willingness to travel extensively in Guinea and work in uncomfortable and low tech environments.
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