Senior Project Manager, Media Action at BBC Media Action

BBC Media Action’s communication initiatives are rooted in local folks’s experiences and understanding. Our intensive analysis programme – known as “world class” by the UK authorities’s Department for International Development (DFID) – gives perception into audiences’ lives to make sure that our initiatives mirror their wants and circumstances. We additionally use our data to observe how successfully our programmes have interaction folks and stimulate change; classes discovered are then constructed into future initiatives. To share our findings and studying as extensively as potential, we publish coverage and analysis experiences and briefings to tell communication for growth practitioners and policy-makers. Since we aren’t funded by the licence payment, none of this work can be potential with out the backing of our beneficiant donors – governments, foundations, companies and people. In Nigeria, BBC Media Action run various multiplatform and capacity-strengthening initiatives together with well being radio exhibits tackling maternal and neonatal well being, HIV and AIDS and pneumonia and diarrhoea. A protracted-running radio drama and journal exhibits in each Hausa and Pidgin English deal with governance points.

• Location Abuja

Purpose of the Role

• The function leads a crew offering help to BBC Media Action’s nation workplaces in areas corresponding to programme design, high quality of supply, donor compliance and logistics.
• Working intently with our regional administrators and nation groups round the world, you and your crew may also help the assortment and sharing of excellent follow from initiatives throughout areas and facilitate information sharing connections between international locations.
• The function additionally performs a key function in figuring out and serving to to handle organisational boundaries to efficient supply of programmes and helps to attach nation groups to experience throughout BBC Media Action and the wider BBC.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Work with nation and cross-country groups to make sure undertaking supply and compliance, contributing to undertaking design and supply and securing help from inside and exterior technical specialists.
• Manage particular person and crew efficiency via line administration of programme help crew staff.
• Encourage and allow help to move between nation workplaces; and help nation groups to attract on recommendation and help from cross-country features. 
• Drive enhancements in processes and techniques to extend effectivity of undertaking supply whereas making certain compliance with all editorial, finance, authorized, HR and different necessities.
• Contribute to information sharing and coverage growth throughout the organisation. Identify and contribute new concepts, alternatives and partnerships to form regional and international technique.

Your Skills and Experience
Essential Criteria:

• Strong expertise in worldwide growth in a undertaking design or supply function
• Experience managing and growing staff, with a dedication to sustaining a tradition of inclusion
• Good interpersonal abilities with a document of forming efficient relationships, particularly with colleagues or stakeholders throughout a spread of nations
• Strong communication and writing abilities in English
• Strong analytical considering and organisational abilities, in a position to simplify complicated issues, handle competing priorities, and ship beneath stress.

Desired however not required:

• Direct expertise of initiatives involving each media and worldwide growth
• Change administration expertise.

Why Join The Team

• BBC Media Action is the BBC’s worldwide charity, and we imagine in the energy of media and communication for good.
• We work in additional than 30 international locations round the world, supporting the independent media important to democracy and growth.
• Each 12 months our initiatives and programmes attain over 100 million folks dealing with poverty, inequality and insecurity with information they’ll belief, serving to to bridge divides, problem prejudice, and save and alter lives.
• We observe the editorial requirements and values of the BBC, however we depend on funding from donors and partners to hold out our work.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to BBC Media Action on careers.bbc.co.uk to use

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