BBC MEDIA ACTION
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: Senior
Projects Manager
REPORTS TO: Country
Director
GRADE: 9D
DURATION: 24 months (with
possible extension)
BBC Media Action
BBC Media Action uses
media and communications to reduce poverty and promote human rights in
developing countries. To achieve this, the Media Actions partners with civil
society, local media and governments to:
- Produce creative programmes based on robust research in multi-media formats which inform and engage audiences around key development issues.
- Strengthen the media sector through building professional capacity and infrastructure.
BBC Media Action delivers
a portfolio of media projects in Tanzania. It seeks to expand this portfolio of
work, but also ensure that existing projects are delivered to time, to budget
and to the highest standards, and in accordance with BBC editorial values as
well as Media Action methodologies.
Overall Purpose of Job
The Senior Projects Manager
will be responsible for the overall management and delivery of the projects involving the
delivery of a range of diverse media projects. The projects will utilise the
power of media to tackle issues of health, governance and resilience and the Senior
Projects Manager will ensure the agreed
targets and objectives of country projects are met while ensuring the quality
and cohesion of project outputs.This will include managing project managers as
well as radio and possibly TV and online teams who will be producing content
for the projects.
The Senior Projects
Manager will be responsible for overseeing financial management of projects and
reporting on editorial and operational progress to the Country Director and
liaising with the relevant teams in the London headquarters and donors.Upon request of the Country Director the Senior Projects Manager will represent Media Action in country to key stakeholders and will ensure effective relationships and
partnerships with a wide range of partners including broadcasters, NGOs,
international development agencies and others.
Main duties and responsibilities
1.
Reporting to the Country Director, to take responsibility for overseeing
the planning and implementing country projects and activities.
2.
To manage a
diverse team of staff including project managers and programme content
producers, and to support team members to meet agreed objectives, develop their
skills so that they are able to make an effective contribution to planned
activities.
3. To ensure that the design
and implementation of project activities adhere to workplan and logframe
commitments and remain in line with BBC editorial standards and values and
Media Action’s best practice. To negotiate and mediate if conflicting
views/priorities arise within the project, working through these to reach a
satisfactory conclusion.
4.
To participate in the design and coordination of monitoring and
evaluation and conduct regular feedback sessions, adjusting project delivery as
necessary upon approval.
5.
To set up robust systems to review project outputs and ensure quality.
6. To manage project budgets
and ensure the delivery of the outputs is in accordance with that budget and in
line with Media Action’s financial procedures and the funder’s operating
guidelines.
7. To develop good working
relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including the BBC World Service
and local broadcasters
8. To develop good working
relationships with partner media, NGOs etc. and ensure these relationships are
managed effectively.
9. To support business
development activities as required. This will involve working with the Country
Director and local staff to pursue appropriate funding opportunities in
country, as well as working as part of a global team responding to
international and sub-regional funding opportunities.
10. To work with the other
BBC Media Action staff in country and in London to identify training
priorities linked to the needs of staff, including greater development of
in-house capacity, and ensure that training meets Media Action’s high
standards.
11. To lead the reporting of
progress, both internally to the BBC and externally to partners, the donor, and
other interested parties.
Skills, knowledge and experience requirements:
- Experience of senior project management, in a developing country context, preferably in Africa with demonstrated capacity to manage large-scale projects effectively.
- A proven track-record in international development; experience in the use of media to achieve development goals is an advantage. Experience of working in one or more of the governance/health/resilience sector an advantage.
- Experience of managing teams of local and international staff, preferably within a developing country context, at a level which demonstrates experience in developing and leading on systems and processes.
- Strong financial management skills, with proven experience managing large budgets, including accurate and timely reporting to donors.
- Awareness of the BBC's editorial values and an instinct for how to apply these to media development projects.
- The potential to acquire strong media editorial leadership skills in order to make sensitive editorial judgements at a senior level.
- Developed understanding of radio broadcast and programme making.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise time effectively within a range of often conflicting deadlines.
- Capacity to juggle competing priorities and a busy programme of work while working to an agreed strategy.
- The ability to forge strong working relations quickly and gain the trust of media house managers, editors, participating NGOs and senior staff in the region.
- Previous experience of all aspects of writing successful proposals, including project research and development, logframes, budgets, etc
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrable creative ability, with a proven track-record in project design development and implementation.
- Experience of developing and leading staff from different backgrounds
- Excellent written and spoken English
Desirable:
a) Knowledge
of regional and international current affairs
b) Experience
of Tanzania, or at least awareness of its geopolitics, culture, religions
etc.
c) Proven
experience of working in media projects is highly desirable Applicants with extremely sound ideas, but little
production experience will be considered on evidence of creativity
and potential.
d) Working knowledge of Swahili
Key competencies
1. Managing relationships and team work: able to build and maintain
effective working relationships with a range of people. Works co-operatively
with others to be part of a team, as opposed to working separately or
competitively. Values individual's differences and demonstrates a commitment to
knowledge sharing and informal learning, for the benefit of the team.
2. Strategic thinking: Able to identify a vision and create plans for
implementation of that vision to meet the end goal. Evaluates situations,
decisions, and issues in the short, medium and long-term
3. Leadership: Ability to inspire others to realize an identified vision.
4. Analytical Thinking: Able to simplify complex problems, processes or
projects into component parts, explore and evaluate them systematically. Able
to identify causal relationships, and construct frameworks for problem solving
and/or development.
5. Change Management: Able to understand and anticipate the need for change
and to build frameworks for planning and managing the continuous process of
change.
6. Planning and Organisation: Able to think ahead in order to establish an
efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others; planning of
activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as
deadlines, staffing and resources requirements.
7. Resilience: Can maintain personal effectiveness by managing own emotions
in the face of pressure, set backs or when dealing with provocative situations.
Can demonstrate an approach to work that is characterised by commitment,
motivation and energy.
8. Decision Making: Able to take the initiative, originate action and be
responsible for the consequences of the decision made.
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