IWPR is currently accepting applications from professionals with significant media development and media industry experience to lead a potential USAID funded Media Sector Development Programme in Mozambique.
Summary
IWPR is currently accepting applications from professionals with significant media development and media industry experience to lead a potential USAID funded Media Sector Development Programme in Mozambique. We are looking for an experienced decision-maker with exceptional understanding of driving a modern media organisation. S/he will have a well-proven ability to manage complex multi-disciplinary projects in a multi-cultural environment and to communicate effectively in written and spoken Portuguese.
Project Info:
The goal of the programme is to support the professionalization and empowerment of independent media in Mozambique. The expected outcomes are:
- Increased professional capacity of the Mozambican Media Sector;
- Strengthened business management/organisational capacity of media organisation to improve long-term financial viability;
- Improved quality of journalism education at the School of Communication and Arts at UEM;
- Increased ability of community radio stations to provide more and better information to listeners;
- Strengthened ability of Mozambican organisations to advocate for press freedom and an improved legal enabling environment for media.
The program will focus on improving the quality of reporting about health using mass media, particularly radio and addressing the situation of victims of trafficking in persons, both women trafficked for sexual purposes and children abducted or sold into labor.
Function of Position:
To be responsible for the day to day management of IWPR programme in country, inclusive of managing local staff and international consultants; ensuring delivery against all programme activities, financial probity in field office, timely and accurate reporting (narrative & financial), and the development of new programmes for IWPR in country; representing the organisation at a local and international level, ensuring appropriate and effective communications across the IWPR network.
Main Duties:
- Implement programmes according to work plans and grant commitments, ensuring timely filing of narrative and expenses reporting.
- Implement programmes according to budget and agreed targets for field, Headquarters and Overhead expenditure/cost recovery.
- Implement programme monitoring and evaluation processes according to grant commitments and IWPR strategy, including assessment against IWPR standards, grant requirements and key performance indicators.
- Ensure articles are commissioned from local journalists and edited under the direction of the Editorial Department.
- Ensure the training of local participants as part of IWPR’s projects.
- Ensure the management of local staff and offices.
- Oversee the writing and sending of monthly narrative and financial reports on all the activities of IWPR in Country.
- Promote IWPR’s output from throughout Country to local and regional media, for republication, and to keep up to date records of this in accordance with Programmes Department specifications.
- Represent IWPR to local donors, editors, NGOs, government and international organizations and to lead IWPR’s local fundraising activities.
Requirements:
- Experience managing media development programmes/ large-scale media components within aid projects.
- Recent media management experience, at a senior level with recognised international company or public institution.
- Proven financial management skills, having recently directed multi-million dollar/ euro programs.
- Proven ability to conclude key tasks to the satisfaction of donors.
- Proven ability to establish strong and constructive working relationships with local media professionals and interest groups within countries of expertise.
- Ability to work in remote areas, providing timely reports, to the donor and their own organisation.
- Ability to working in multi ethic environment; capability to achieve results in complex, difficult environments and work effectively with multi ethnic teams.
- Commitment to working in areas of conflict/ post conflict.
- Ability to adapt quickly to new environments.
- Fluent in written and spoken Portuguese.
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