Deadline of this Job: 20 November 2022
About the Role:
The successful candidates will join CfA’s CivicSignal Research team to conduct and publish research projects focussed on African media ecosystems. For examples of CfA’s previous research with partners, see the Global Disinformation Index Media Market Analyses for South Africa and Kenya, as well as Reuters Institute for Journalism’s Digital News Reports for South Africa and Nigeria.
Fundamentally, CivicSignal addresses issues and topics that impact democracies and civil society, seeking to provide the data and analysis necessary for government and citizens to make informed decisions. The projects range across a broad spectrum, including internal and external mis/disinformation, media sustainability, monitoring of hate speech and xenophobia, and general media ecosystem mapping.
As part of a multinational team within a growing organisation, you must be agile and able to thrive in a multicultural environment. You will need to work easily with people from different backgrounds who may speak different languages.
You will join CivicSignal’s ML/AI-driven multinational research team, working on mapping media ecosystems within your respective country, writing monthly and quarterly reports on themes affecting media such as mis/disinformation, media sustainability, and media market analysis. The reports will be featured on civicsignal.africa and disinfo.africa as well as monthly newsletters.
About the Role:
The successful candidates will join CfA’s CivicSignal Research team to conduct and publish research projects focussed on African media ecosystems. For examples of CfA’s previous research with partners, see the Global Disinformation Index Media Market Analyses for South Africa and Kenya, as well as Reuters Institute for Journalism’s Digital News Reports for South Africa and Nigeria.
Fundamentally, CivicSignal addresses issues and topics that impact democracies and civil society, seeking to provide the data and analysis necessary for government and citizens to make informed decisions. The projects range across a broad spectrum, including internal and external mis/disinformation, media sustainability, monitoring of hate speech and xenophobia, and general media ecosystem mapping.
As part of a multinational team within a growing organisation, you must be agile and able to thrive in a multicultural environment. You will need to work easily with people from different backgrounds who may speak different languages.
You will join CivicSignal’s ML/AI-driven multinational research team, working on mapping media ecosystems within your respective country, writing monthly and quarterly reports on themes affecting media such as mis/disinformation, media sustainability, and media market analysis. The reports will be featured on civicsignal.africa and disinfo.africa as well as monthly newsletters.
Deadline of this Job: 10 November 2022
Key Responsibilities & Duties
• Lead the design, testing and implementation of all MEL system components for the program.
• Support the refining of the program logic and approaches, including contributing to intervention designs, sector strategies and MEL frameworks to adequately incorporate MEL considerations into the program.
• Working closely with the Director of Research, he/she will plan, coordinate, and supervise assessments and evaluations for the program. This will entail development of Scopes of Work, development of survey tools, trainings and management of data collectors, report write and facilitating results discussion (Or recruit and supervise evaluation consultants where necessary).
• Regularly document and share learnings from program implementation.
• Provide relevant inputs into monthly, quarterly, annual, and other program reports.
• Maintain an up-to-date database that reflects program progress against all indicators.
• Visit sites and partners to collect supplementary data, stories and conduct qualitative research.
• Facilitate regular reflection and analysis of program monitoring information that feeds into programming and learning.
• Participate in on-going MEL advisory and support for all program staff and partners.
• Advise and support the process of testing and adopting relevant technologies for improving the efficiency of the program’s MEL function.
• Work with the Director of Research and other staff to ensure that activities are implemented on plan, through regular planning and review meetings.
• Maintain an active advisory role with the program team to help guide them towards robust and relevant data collection.
• Actively participate in all implementations, providing advice and feedback for quality results at any point.
Others
• Attend, and fully participate in staff meetings and retreats as required.
• Write bimonthly and annual progress reports and use these as the basis for monthly and annual engagements with the line supervisor.
• Perform other duties as may be required from time to time.
Other Vacancies
Deadline of this Job: 31 October 2022Key Responsibilities & Duties
• Lead the design, testing and implementation of all MEL system components for the program.
• Support the refining of the program logic and approaches, including contributing to intervention designs, sector strategies and MEL frameworks to adequately incorporate MEL considerations into the program.
• Working closely with the Director of Research, he/she will plan, coordinate, and supervise assessments and evaluations for the program. This will entail development of Scopes of Work, development of survey tools, trainings and management of data collectors, report write and facilitating results discussion (Or recruit and supervise evaluation consultants where necessary).
• Regularly document and share learnings from program implementation.
• Provide relevant inputs into monthly, quarterly, annual, and other program reports.
• Maintain an up-to-date database that reflects program progress against all indicators.
• Visit sites and partners to collect supplementary data, stories and conduct qualitative research.
• Facilitate regular reflection and analysis of program monitoring information that feeds into programming and learning.
• Participate in on-going MEL advisory and support for all program staff and partners.
• Advise and support the process of testing and adopting relevant technologies for improving the efficiency of the program’s MEL function.
• Work with the Director of Research and other staff to ensure that activities are implemented on plan, through regular planning and review meetings.
• Maintain an active advisory role with the program team to help guide them towards robust and relevant data collection.
• Actively participate in all implementations, providing advice and feedback for quality results at any point.
Others
• Attend, and fully participate in staff meetings and retreats as required.
• Write bimonthly and annual progress reports and use these as the basis for monthly and annual engagements with the line supervisor.
• Perform other duties as may be required from time to time.
Other Vacancies
Deadline of this Job: 04 November 2022