Insights Manager at Code for Africa (CfA)

The ideal applicant is fluent in English. Additional proficiency in French and/or Arabic would be an advantage.

Required: minimum requirements include:

• Demonstrable newsroom management skills in a mainstream media or equivalent digital publishing environment.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and demonstrable aptitude for operationally managing multiple content production teams across countries.
• Demonstrable ability to create team timelines and milestones with clear systems/processes.
• A solid understanding of journalistic or other media-related production systems and workflow methodologies.
• Digital workplace skill sets, including proficiency in collaborative digital work solutions such as Google Drive (Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc.), Slack (or equivalents such as Teams), and project management tools like Trello (or equivalents).
• An understanding of media ecosystems and/or digital advocacy and/or digital civic engagement.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present research insights and shape research outputs.
• The ability to collaborate with a diverse set of multidisciplinary project stakeholders.
• Experience in working with remote, distributed teams with agile methodologies.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented approach to problem solving
• Ability to work under tight deadlines with good prioritisation and time management skills
• Ability to work with minimal instruction in a teamwork environment
• Strong organisational, analytical and interpersonal skills
• High professional standards and ethics