Background
Form of Employment: Full-time
Starting Date: As soon as possible
Duration: One year, with the possibility of extension
Location: Berlin, Germany
Democracy Reporting International (DRI) is a non-partisan, independent, not-for-profit organisation registered in Berlin. DRI promotes political participation of citizens, accountability of state bodies, and the development of democratic institutions worldwide.
DRI is currently recruiting a full-time Manager - Digital Democracy Programme for its Headquarters in Berlin. Under the supervision of the Director of Programmes, the Manager Digital Democracy will move forward, advise on and implement DRI’s global work on digital democracy, including monitoring political discourse on social media across several countries and different situations, analysis of global disinformation threats, regulatory issues around online discourse and designing and providing training on these issues. The Manager will focus on designing and implementing programmes in these fields while also equipping colleagues and partners with the tools to monitor and respond to disinformation campaigns as they happen. The incumbent will manage DRI’s Digital Democracy Team and closely collaborate with teams in DRI HQ and Country Offices and beyond, the Manager Europe and other colleagues.
Your tasks
Areas of responsibility:
- Lead and coordinate strategic leadership on digital democracy issues across DRI HQ and Country Offices, including strategy development of the DD programme, monitoring political developments and assessing opportunities for DRI;
- Leading on the development and implementation of the digital democracy programme, including supervision of all project activities in line with donor regulations;
- Ensure human resource management for the digital democracy programme, including line-managing DRI HQ digital democracy team, project teams, staff members and interns;
- Liaising with donors and stakeholders and ensuring continued funding for DRI programmes, including the development of concept notes and project proposals;
- Ensuring compliance with donor and DRI policies and regulations;
- Ensuring and overseeing the development of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) systems for projects;
- Representing DRI at events;
- Overseeing research and analysis on developments relevant to digital democracy field and DRI;
- Overseeing and contributing to analyses, briefing papers and publications;
Other relevant duties, as assigned by the supervisor.
Specifically, the incumbent will:Lead on design, development and implementation of activities to monitor and analyse social media and other open data with a focus on elections, referendums, hate speech or political discourse as well as CSO capacity building, training, regulatory reform, over the horizon threats as well as other emerging issues in the field;
Advise and support DRI’s programmes and country offices on social media monitoring and analysis;
Analyse findings, provide contextual analysis, draft, edit and finalise reports for publication;
Lead on the design of dissemination strategies for DRI’s findings and analysis;
Develop and keep updated a fundraising strategy for DRI’s digital democracy programme;
Identify project funding opportunities, draft and pitch project ideas to different donors;
Write concept notes and project proposals for submission to different donors;
Lead on further developing DRI’s methodology on digital democracy, including identifying existing research and methodologies for collecting social media data and adapt these methods to DRI’s areas of work;
Lead on the design and facilitation of events and trainings on social media and policy-making in areas such as elections, referendums, privacy, surveillance, artificial intelligence;
Advise and support coordination between programme coordinators, country offices, researchers, academics and other external experts involved in social media components of projects;
Establish and maintain partnerships with social media researchers, academics, technology platforms or other non-profit groups working on civic tech initiatives;
Any other tasks, as assigned by the supervisor.
Your skills and experience
Required:
- Seven or more years of relevant experience such as social media research, democracy and election monitoring;
- Experience implementing projects in the field of tech and democracy;
- Degree-level qualification in a field relevant to the role;
- Understanding of issues surrounding online disinformation, polarisation, online hate speech democratic debate and/or related topics;
- Experience in team management;
- Experience and knowledge of political communication, methodologies of social media monitoring/listening and data analysis;
- Complex analytical and critical thinking skills;
- Strong written and oral communication skills;
Fluency in English.
Preferred:
Experience and knowledge of online analytical tools and approaches, including but not limited to Crowdtangle;
Experience in data gathering and quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis as well as structuring investigations;
Data visualisation and mapping skills, including experience with tools such as Tableau, Gephi, Maltego;
Knowledge and proficiency in programming languages, such as Python or R. Experience in collecting data via APIs as well as experience with marketing research platforms such as Talkwalker, Buzzsumo and others;
Additional languages will be considered an asset (especially those of DRI countries of operation).
What we offer
DRI offers you a job with flexible working hours, 30 days of annual leave, a contribution to public transport (company ticket with BVG), travel health insurance, vocational training for every employee, and the opportunity to work in a diverse team in the heart of Berlin, where everybody is on first name terms with each other.
About us
Democracy Reporting International (DRI) is an international, not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to political participation and democratic governance around the world. DRI headquarters (HQ) is located in Berlin; DRI has country offices in Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Lebanon, and Ukraine and works with local partners in a number of other countries. The working language is English.
How to apply:
Application Instructions
If you are interested in this position, please submit your application (cover letter and CV) here. This position is subject to funding.
Closing date for applications: Sunday, 2 January 2022**. The position may be filled before the deadline has been reached, so early applications are encouraged.
DRI is committed to diversity and treats everybody equally, independent of gender identity, sex, pregnancy, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, age, ability, socio-economic status, political opinion (as long as respectful of democratic principles), or any other status protected by the laws in the locations where we operate.
Organisation responsible for this vacancy:
Democracy Reporting International gGmbH
Elbestr. 28 / 29
12045 Berlin, Germany
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