The IWPR regional office announces 5 vacancies for the position of Go Viral Country Ambassador.
Information about the organization:
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) is an international organization that provides support to the media, supports local reporters, citizen journalists and civil society activists in three dozen countries around the world. IWPR has been operating in Central Asia since 1999 with a regional head office in Bishkek.
Since October 2021, IWPR has been implementing the Go Viral Festival & Network project. The project’s primary goal is to enhance regional connectivity, support economic development, and strengthen civil society in Central Asia by creating and sustaining deep partnerships among an emerging generation of innovative Central Asian thought leaders. In 2022/2023 we plan to continue working on forming a new pool of content creators able to create content related to business, media, culture, technology, or social issues.
Summary:
Five country Ambassadors (one per country) will play a leading role in building an active, engaged community among Go Viral members, facilitating increased networking and collaboration of professionals across Central Asia and internationally. Country Ambassadors will work closely with Project Coordinators in order to engage leading social media influencers in business, media, culture and technology as core network members.
We are seeking five country Ambassadors to support for implementing a 1-year long project aimed at building an active and engaged community that is able to create content related to business, media, culture, technology, or social issues. Country Ambassadors will be responsible for initiating, organizing and coordinating several activities in their respective country (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan).
Locations/Five Vacancies
- Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
- Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
- Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
- Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
Management:
- Ensuring appropriate and effective communications with partner organizations, beneficiaries and IWPR CA staff and donor organization.
- Work with partner organizations in and out of the region, and IWPR staff to coordinate cross-border activities, meetings and training.
- Work with other IWPR staff to maintain and improve the quality of all training, editorial and other project outputs.
- Initiate, organize, conduct and coordinate project activities including network events, trainings, workshops and Festivals.
- Produce scheduled narrative reports for IWPR and the donor in line with their requirements.
Outreach
- Establish effective partnerships with partner organizations, think tanks, business, experts and media in Central Asian; inviting them to participate in project activities.
- Facilitate dialogue between key national and regional actors, particularly civil society leaders and social media influencers in business, media, culture and technology sectors.
- Promote Go Viral brand among potential network members, CSOs, public spaces and their own audience.
Education
- High education in social science or other relevant fields
Experience:
- At least 3-year experience of work in one of four key sectors: business, media, culture or technology
- Media development project’s management experience is an asset
- Financial management
- Ability to implement systems and procedures
- Working on multiple priorities to very tight deadlines
Language:
- Strong command of written and oral English and Russian
- Fluency in CA countries’ language is desirable
Travel:
- Ability to travel within the region
Other requirements:
- Strong analytical and reporting skills
- M&E technical skills
- Excellent computer skills
- People-management skills
- Ability to analyse and distil financial and narrative information
- Ability to establish and maintain contacts with representatives of government, think tanks, experts, CSOs and media outlets
- Ability to show initiative and creativity
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Interested candidates must fill out a special application form at the link: https://iwpr.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=282
The deadline is September 15, 2022.