# Programme Manager - AI and Media

**Company**: Thomson Reuters Foundation
**Location**: Nairobi or Lagos
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

This role will lead a transformative 12-month initiative across Nigeria, Kenya, and Zambia empowering 100+ content creators to combat AI-enabled disinformation during critical election periods.

You will manage four integrated workstreams: deploying AI tools to enhance editorial workflows; building content creator resilience against synthetic media threats; providing legal safeguards against risks arising from publicly publishing information; and developing AI infrastructure.

You will also manage delivery partners, oversee workshop delivery across at least three countries, and ensure cost-efficient logistics.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex international programmes

- Manage and develop a Senior Project Coordinator

- Coordinate cross-functional teams, consultants, and stakeholders

- Establish and maintain effective project governance

- Build and manage strategic partnerships

- Lead programme monitoring, evaluation, learning, and reporting activities

- Provide strategic oversight of programme risks and stakeholder engagement

- Represent the Foundation externally and travel internationally as required

**Required Qualifications:**

- Demonstratable experience of outstanding project and/or programme management (5+ years)

- Experience of project delivery at pace and to a high standard

- Experience of working with content creators, young journalists and or in the AI and media intersection

- Experience of working in close partnership arrangements

- Experience of managing disbursed project teams and technical consultants

- Experience in monitoring and evaluating the impact of projects

- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work with changing priorities and time pressures

- Ability to manage remote and disbursed partnerships responsibly

- Pro-active and problem-solving attitude

- Ability to apply context-sensitive approaches to design and implementation of activities

- Excellent grant financial acumen and excel skills

- Ability to work under pressure and deliver at pace

- Excellent interpersonal skills

- Fluency in English

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience of leading projects focused on AI and Tech or the AI-Media nexus

- Experience in the media development sector in Kenya, Nigeria or Zambia

**What’s in it For You?**

- Global Perspective and Impact

- Unique Approach

- Industry Competitive Benefits

- Learning & Development

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- programme management
- AI tools
- media development
- partnership management
- grant financial management
- excel skills
- interpersonal skills
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- AI and Tech
- media development in Kenya, Nigeria or Zambia

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