Project Manager, AI and Tech – Thomson Reuters Foundation

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.