Code for Africa Latest Job Vacancies

Code for Africa is the continent’s largest federation of independent civic technology and data journalism laboratories, which build digital democracy solutions giving citizens unfettered access to actionable information that empowers them to make informed decisions and that strengthen civic engagement for improved public governance and accountability.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Insights Editor – Drive CfA’s investigative research and analysis

Location: Nigeria

Summary

We have an immediate vacancy for a full-time Insights Editor to join our CivicSignal research and analysis team.
The Insights Editor will coordinate the data-driven investigative reports and analysis generated by CivicSignal and other CfA research teams, to produce actionable insights into the continent’s media ecosystem and emerging civic technology sector.
The position is based at one of our hubs in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal or South Africa. We’re also open to exceptional applicants from elsewhere in Africa.
The successful candidate will join CfA’s transnational CivicSignal research team, which drives analysis of the continent’s media ecosystem and emerging civic technology sector. You will be the editorial sherpa for Code for Africa’s multinational and multilingual team that uses digital collaboration tools and machine intelligence toolkits to create research reports and datasets for a global audience and international institutional partners.
Candidates must have demonstrable experience in managing investigative processes and research diaries, driving content production pipelines that involve collaboration across multiple multinational and multilingual teams across Africa to ensure they deliver world-class reports and data-driven insights to an agreed-upon schedule.
The ideal applicant is fluent in English. Additional proficiency in French and/or Arabic would be an advantage.

About the Role

The successful candidates will join CfA’s transnational CivicSignal research team, to craft and manage the content production process and output for CfA’s content production teams. These include iLab, our digital forensics investigative team, and PesaCheck, our fact-checking team, as well as the CivicSignal research team. Outputs take the form of research reports, briefing documents and presentations, among others.
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.

Responsibilities
Your daily responsibilities will include:

Managing the editorial production process and content diaries for CfA’s teams producing analytic and investigative reports.
Scheduling and running the weekly ‘insights diary’ used to shape CfA’s reports and investigative outputs.
Ensuring that reports, presentations and briefing documents are delivered on time by the relevant teams.
Ensuring that analytical and investigative outputs are aligned with organisational goals and lead to meaningful outcomes.

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

Preferred
Candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

Competence in open source intelligence (OSINT) research techniques, including data scraping, data mining and other intelligence gathering techniques.
Competence in computational linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and specifically the methodologies and tools offered by the MediaCloud.org platform.
Multiple languages, such as French, Arabic and other languages spoken in Africa.

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Language and Location Requirements:

Location: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal or South Africa. Exceptional candidates from elsewhere in Africa will be considered.
International Language: English
Preferred but not required: Arabic, French, KiSwahili or any other major language spoken in Africa.

What We Offer

A competitive salary, subject to experience, with opportunities for performance-based growth, both in terms of career path and public stature.
A dynamic workplace, with a transnational team, occasional international travel, and generous vacation benefits.
Ongoing opportunities to learn new cutting-edge skills and techniques/technologies to future-proof yourself in a rapidly evolving industry.
A chance to shine on a global stage, writing for international audiences and interacting with colleagues around the world.

Application Closing Date
30th November 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: News Editor – Manage a Pan-African Newsroom that Fights Misinformation

Location: Nigeria

Employment Type: Full-time

Overview

We have an immediate vacancy for a full-time News Editor to help coordinate our multinational PesaCheck fact-checking team.
As News Editor, you will be responsible for a team of multilingual researchers/fact-checkers across 13 African countries who debunk misinformation on social and traditional media platforms for an international audience.
The team works in a fast-paced virtual newsroom, applying global editorial verification/fact-checking standards to hard-hitting issues ranging from complex conflict situations in countries as diverse as Ethiopia and Mali, to conspiracist anti-vaxx or health claims, and extremist hate speech or election related political claims.
Candidates must have demonstrable experience managing a mainstream newsdesk, with proven success working on editorial initiatives that consistently produce high-quality and impactful content on tight deadlines.
The News Editor’s primary international language will be English, with additional proficiency in Amharic, Arabic, French and/or kiSwahili being an advantage.
PesaCheck is the continent’s largest indigenous fact-checking initiative, by geographic coverage, with teams in 13 African countries.
It researches and debunks misinformation published both online and elsewhere in more traditional media, publishing over 2,000 fact-checks per year, in partnership with major platforms ranging from Facebook and TikTok, to traditional media.
PesaCheck also tracks promises by public officials and shines a light on public finances to ensure the public is not misled. PesaCheck forms part of Code for Africa (CfA), which is Africa’s largest non-profit digital/data journalism initiative.
The successful candidate will be responsible for PesaCheck’s main newsdesk, supported by a Deputy News Editor and two Newsdesk Assistants, who collectively manage a team of ~25 multilingual journalists. The News Editor reports to PesaCheck’s Managing Editor.

About the Role

The successful candidate will join Africa’s largest fact-checking initiative: PesaCheck.
PesaCheck currently works across 13 African countries, publishing in two international languages (English and French) and a range of major regional indigeonous languages (including Amharic, Afaan-Oromo, Tigrinya and Kiswahili).
Its debunks are syndicated by a range of traditional media across the continent, and is also used by major social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc, to combat misinformation.
Facebook alone labels over six million posts a year as harmful/misleading based on PesaCheck debunks.
PesaCheck’s newsroom is structured with a central multilingual newsdesk, managed by the News Editor, that finds and researches misinformation to produce public debunk reports.
The newsdesk is supported by a copydesk, managed by the Chief Copyeditor, which reviews and revises all content from the newsdesk to ensure that it meets our factual, language and ethical standards.
A special projects team works alongside the newsdesk, under supervision of a Special Projects Editor, to drive election monitoring, newsroom partnerships and a large training initiative. PesaCheck is overseen by a Managing Editor, who answers to CfA’s Editor-in-Chief who also manages the organisation’s other investigative and data journalism newsrooms.
The PesaCheck newsroom is staffed by editorial staff including journalists/researchers, data analysts, translators, editors and multimedia producers.
The News Editor will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the newsdesk, managing the frontline journalists/researchers across multiple time-zones, with key duties including setting editorial targets and production schedules (strictly enforcing publication deadlines where necessary), helping journalists identify appropriate leads/issues for research, and ensuring that journalists get the data analysis or multimedia support needed to produce impactful content.
A major mechanism for achieving this will be the News Editor’s management of an editorial diary, or editorial calendar, that allows for seamless synchronisation of editorial production with the copydesk and other support teams.

Responsibilities
Your daily responsibilities will include:

You will manage and nurture PesaCheck’s in-country journalists, overseeing their day-to-day research, helping develop their skills and knowledge, and keeping them on-schedule to meet agreed deadlines and other deliverables.
You will select and prioritise editorial leads for your journalists from PesaCheck’s various editorial tip-lines or algorithmic ‘listening’ or media monitoring tools to help ensure we focus our attention on the most harmful misinformation/conspiracies
You will facilitate daily editorial planning meetings at which editorial leads/assignments are brainstormed and allocated to in-country journalists/researchers, with clear editorial briefs and submission deadlines.
You will, with the support of your Newsdesk Assistants, ensure that journalists meet agreed editorial targets and production schedules, while adhering to PesaCheck’s ethical and editorial policies and standards.
You will ensure the accuracy, clarity, fairness and appropriateness of all draft content, and will ensure that journalists respond promptly to any queries or requests by the copydesk or other support teams.
You will, in consultation with other editors, make suggestions on explanatory infographics or other multimedia/visual elements for the graphic or data teams to produce to accompany fact-checks.
You will, with the support of Newsdesk Assistants and CfA’s technology team, manage PesaCheck’s various databases and digital tools for tracking, matching and analysing misinformation.
You will, in consultation with other editors, proactively identify editorial challenges, ranging from skills-gaps to conflict or censorship, that impact on PesaCheck’s research and you will also proactively identify other production bottlenecks that erode PesaCheck’s ability to quickly debunk emerging misinformation narratives.
You will, with input from the Managing Editor, drive the refinement of PesaCheck’s editorial style guide and newsdesk ‘playbook’ (operational manual) and editorial policies to help journalists better understand their role and content production guidelines.

Minimum Requirements

Demonstrable newsdesk editorial management skills, honed during at least five years managing teams of journalists in a mainstream media or equivalent digital publishing environment.
Demonstrable understanding of the step-by-step production process for creating well researched and substantiated news reports, including familiarity with editorial diaries/schedules, editorial workflow, and content assignment/deadline management.
Meticulous attention to detail, with the ability to work with congeniality in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment. This includes being an organisational whiz who is able to prioritise multiple simultaneous tasks, while at the same time having the people skills needed to engage diplomatically and collaborate effectively with colleagues under tight deadlines.
Robust critical thinking, and strong research and investigative skills, with good general knowledge and interest in current affairs.
Proven track-record for creative problem solving in fast-paced impact-driven environments, where solutions involve balancing human and production considerations.
Demonstrable ability to self-manage, creating your own as well as wider team timelines and milestones with clear systems/processes.
Proficiency in collaborative work solutions such as Google Workplace (Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc.), Slack (or equivalents such as Teams), and project management tools like Trello (or equivalents).

Preferred:
Candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

Previous experience in a fact-checking or editorial verification newsroom.
In-depth knowledge about ‘information disorder’ and the differences between misinformation and disinformation and mal-information, as well as conspiracist content and hate speech.
Working knowledge of French, and/or Arabic, in addition to the African languages within PesaCheck’s 13-country focus area.

Language and Location Requirements:

Location: East Africa, or anywhere else in Africa.
Languages: English required (French, Arabic, Kiswahili, Amharic helpful).

What We Offer

A competitive salary, subject to experience, with opportunities for performance-based growth, both in terms of career path and public stature.
A dynamic workplace, with a transnational team, occasional international travel, and generous vacation benefits.
Ongoing opportunities to learn new cutting-edge skills and techniques/technologies to future-proof yourself in a rapidly evolving industry.
A chance to shine on a global stage, writing for international audiences and interacting with colleagues around the world.

Application Closing Date
31st December, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Research Manager (Steer the work of CfA’s Investigative Researchers and Analysts)

Location: Nigeria

Summary

We have an immediate vacancy for a full-time Research Manager to join our CivicSignal team.
The position is based at one of our regional hubs in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal or South Africa. We’re also open to exceptional applicants from elsewhere in Africa.
The successful candidate will join CfA’s transnational CivicSignal research team, which drives analysis of the continent’s media ecosystem and emerging civic technology sector. You will be part of a multinational and multilingual team that uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine intelligence tools and digital surveys/analysis to create research reports and datasets for a global audience and international institutional partners.
Candidates must have demonstrable experience in managing research teams, in planning and coordinating the execution of data-driven digital research projects, and transforming the research insights into publishable formats.
The ideal applicant is fluent in English. Additional proficiency in international languages such as French and/or Arabic would be an advantage.

About the Role

The successful candidates will join CfA’s CivicSignal Research team, managing, conducting and publishing research projects focussed on African media ecosystems. Previous research partners included the Global Disinformation Index Media Market Analysis for South Africa and Kenya, as well as several Reuters Institute Digital News Reports.
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.

Responsibilities
Your daily responsibilities will include:

Setting the research agenda, overseeing research projects, and coordinating and managing the research team
Standardising research methodologies/taxonomies/schema, research approaches and documentation according to international benchmarks.
Ensuring research outcomes are aligned with organisational goals and lead to meaningful outcomes.
Designing, and reporting on, research projects for external and internal partners.
Collaborating with the CfA tech and data teams to ensure that CivicSignal is in sync with larger organisational goals.
Work proactively and think critically to help improve data and research capabilities in CfA’s research department.
Liaise with the Senior Programme Manager for our Engagement and CivicSignal teams, to coordinate report launches and related events.

Required
Minimum requirements include:

Evidence of managing a substantive research project, or research team.
Experience in building design approaches and methodologies for research teams, and a familiarity with taxonomies and schema that inform research projects.
Strong analytical and logical skills, with a demonstrable track record translating data into actionable insights.
An understanding of media ecosystems and economies and/or digital advocacy and/or digital civic engagement.
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write for publication, present research insights and shape research proposals.
Meticulous eye for detail to ensure data integrity and analytical precision.
The ability to collaborate with a diverse set of multidisciplinary project stakeholders.
Experience in working with remote, distributed teams with agile methodologies.
Previous experience of contributing to reports and research publications
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

Preferred
Candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

Competence in open source intelligence (OSINT) research techniques, including data scraping, data mining and other intelligence gathering techniques.
Competence in computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), and specifically the methodologies and tools offered by the MediaCloud.org platform.
Multiple languages, such as French, Arabic and other languages spoken in Africa.

Language and Location Requirements:

Location: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal or South Africa. Exceptional candidates from elsewhere in Africa will be considered.
International Languages: English
Preferred but not required: Arabic, French, KiSwahili or any other major language spoken in Africa.

What We Offer

A competitive salary, subject to experience, with opportunities for performance-based growth, both in terms of career path and public stature.
A dynamic workplace, with a transnational team, occasional international travel, and generous vacation benefits.
Ongoing opportunities to learn new cutting-edge skills and techniques/technologies to future-proof yourself in a rapidly evolving industry.
A chance to shine on a global stage, writing for international audiences and interacting with colleagues around the world.

Application Closing Date
30th November 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online