Project Manager, AI and Tech - Thomson Reuters Foundation

Job 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 and potentially support other AI and Tech projects. You will manage four integrated workstreams: deploying AI tools to enhance editorial workflows; building content creator resilience against synthetic media threats (mis/disinformation); providing legal safeguards against risks arising from publicly publishing information including defamation and intellectual property; and developing/ AI infrastructure (content moderation and editorial quality tools).
• You will also manage delivery partners, oversee workshop delivery across at least three countries, and allow for any useful and logical flows to other countries.  You will ensure cost-efficient logistics, monitor adoption outcomes, and document learnings for ecosystem-wide impact.

Please note that this is a 1yr Fixed Term Contract

Location: Nairobi, Kenya or Lagos, Nigeria

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex international programmes, ensuring compliance with technical, contractual, donor, and organisational requirements.
• Manage and develop a Senior Project Coordinator, providing coaching, support, and oversight of project delivery activities.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, consultants, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality programme activities across Africa, including Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, and other relevant countries.
• Establish and maintain effective project governance, including project plans, budgets, risk registers, forecasting, reporting, and financial controls.
• Build and manage strategic partnerships, serving as the primary point of contact for external partners and ensuring strong collaboration, compliance, and delivery against agreed objectives.
• Lead programme monitoring, evaluation, learning, and reporting activities, including donor reporting, impact measurement, internal updates, and the capture of project outcomes and success stories.
• Provide strategic oversight of programme risks, stakeholder engagement, and the evolving political, legal, economic, and technological landscape to ensure programme relevance and effectiveness.
• Represent the Foundation externally and travel internationally as required to support programme implementation, strengthen partnerships, and ensure delivery quality.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstratable experience of outstanding project and/or programme management (5+ years),  
• Experience of project delivery at pace and to a high standard. 
• Demonstratable experience of working with content creators, young journalists and or in the AI and media intersection.
• Experience of working in close partnership arrangements, where co-design and co-delivery is expected.
• Experience of managing disbursed project teams, and a wide range of in-house and external technical consultants to deliver a wide range of deliverables on time and on budget. 
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating the impact of such projects (developing logframes, theories of change, KPIs and reports). 
• 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, able to take on new or existing projects and drive quality and impact.    
• Ability to apply context-sensitive approaches to design and implementation of activities.  
• Excellent grant financial acumen and excel skills. 
• Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines and deliver at pace. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills – able to establish and maintain positive working relationships both internally and externally, with people from diverse backgrounds including under challenging circumstances. 
• Excellent outreach and networking skills 
• Fluency in English. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience of leading projects focused on AI and Tech or the AI-Media nexus will be an asset.
• Experience in the media development sector in Kenya, Nigeria or Zambia will be an asset.