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About the Role

Lead a regional program in Europe, delivering complex campaigns and programs with media partners and civil society organizations. Ensure high-quality outputs and meaningful outcomes by collaborating with project partners and multidisciplinary teams. Manage overall project aspects including financial oversight, risk, compliance, stakeholder engagement, contractual reporting, and delivery governance. Coordinate internal teams and external partners to meet client objectives and serve as a key client contact. This is a full-time position until March 31, 2028, with potential extension based on funding.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day management of project activities, ensuring delivery against agreed workplans, timelines, budgets, and client objectives.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, consultants, and partners for effective collaboration and high-quality delivery.
• Monitor project progress and performance, identifying challenges and implementing corrective actions.
• Ensure deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and to the required standard.
• Support the Project Director in planning, prioritization, and resource allocation.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, partners, and key stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across the project ecosystem, fostering collaboration and trust.
• Manage client expectations, partner priorities, and project requirements for successful delivery and sustainable partnerships.
• Support partners in activity delivery while respecting editorial independence, local expertise, and organizational mandates.
• Manage project budgets, forecasting, and financial reporting in collaboration with programme leadership and finance teams.
• Oversee contractual obligations and compliance requirements, ensuring adherence to client and donor standards.
• Maintain project risk registers and implement mitigation measures across operational, financial, and reputational risks.
• Support the development and refinement of project strategies, workplans, and results frameworks.
• Lead project reporting processes, coordinating inputs from internal teams and external partners.
• Support the integration of monitoring, evaluation, and learning into project delivery.
• Support and manage project staff, consultants, and implementing partners.
• Contribute to project growth, extension opportunities, and wider business development efforts.

Requirements

• 4+ years' experience managing complex projects or campaigns in media development, strategic communications, information integrity, or related fields.
• Responsibility for budgets, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and programme implementation.
• Experience managing donor-funded, partner-delivered programmes and operating within contractual, financial, and compliance frameworks.
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, priorities, and deadlines.
• Strong client and stakeholder management skills, with experience working with media organisations, civil society partners, and other external stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing reports, presentations, and client-facing materials.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and fostering effective collaboration across technical, operational, and programme functions.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently.
• Professional fluency in English.
• Understanding of monitoring, evaluation, and learning approaches within donor programmes.
• Eligibility for UK or NATO security clearance.

Skills

• Project management
• Campaign management
• Budget management
• Financial reporting
• Stakeholder engagement
• Programme implementation
• Client management
• Partner management
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Multidisciplinary team coordination
• Collaboration
• Organizational skills
• Attention to detail
• Independent work
• English fluency
• Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) understanding
• Regional languages (desirable)

Location

• Europe
• UK
• NATO

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 4+ years' experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's or master's degree in international development, communications, journalism, political science, or a related field
• Equivalent professional experience

About the Company

• Committed to hiring a diverse workforce from different professional and cultural backgrounds.
• Encourages a variety of people to apply to represent the diverse range of subjects associated with projects.

Equal Opportunity

• Committed to hiring a diverse workforce from different professional and cultural backgrounds.
• Encourages a variety of people to apply to represent the diverse range of subjects associated with projects.
• Candidates receiving a job offer must disclose any previous disciplinary action from a substantiated safeguarding or workplace investigation.
• Candidates receiving a job offer must undergo background checks including employment verification, sexual offender registry (as available), identity confirmation, and anti-terrorism vetting.
• Accommodation for recruitment process available upon request.