Location: Lagos/Nigeria
Date of Joining: February 2017
Reporting to: Centre Coordinator
Job-Type: 2-year renewable contract
About the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is a non-governmental organisation with a vision to stimulate the emergence of a socially just community defined by the ethics of inclusion, transparency and accountability through the mechanism of investigative journalism. Initially known as the Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting Award (WSIRA) at inception in 2005, the change in name became necessary in 2008 to reflect the intentions of the coordinators to embrace a more robust line of activities that have greater capacity for engendering the right values of investigative journalism in the Nigerian media. The Centre is named after Professor Wole Soyinka in recognition of his life-long work in support of the freedom of expression, freedom to hold opinion, and freedom to impart them without fear or favour and without hindrance or interference.
Position Summary: The WSCIJ is currently seeking to engage someone with a passion for excellence and commendable work ethics to support its programme work spanning across various thematic issues. The prospective candidate will be expected to bring a combination of intellectual curiosity, strategic thinking, interest in working with others, respect for the dignity of all human beings, ‘never-say-die’ spirit, passion for social justice, love for veracity, competence with social media and keen interest in investigative reporting.
We are interested in gaining a colleague who is up for daring and exciting challenges and willing to join the team to get to a higher next level of the WSCIJ work.
Duties/Assignments:
The Programme Officer will:
- Provide input for WSCIJ’s strategic programme planning, development and implementation
- Plan activities to achieve programme objectives
- Perform monitoring and evaluation of activities
- Make inputs for funding submissions and reports
- Prepare and submit activity reports, meeting minutes and financial reports on regular basis as may be required
- Produce and manage content for webpage and social media and support in local campaigning
- Relate appropriately with key stakeholders within private, public and civil society sector in Nigeria and abroad
- Verifiable ability to lead and inspire others
- Demonstrated understanding of the media and its workings in relation to the Nigerian polity, regional trends and global affairs
- Excellent project management skills
- Ability to be discreet and manage sensitive information
- Good Information Technology skills and ample grasps of the use of social media tools including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for public engagement
- Capacity to take initiative and work under pressure with or without supervision
- Commendable interpersonal relationship etiquette
- Entrepreneurial spirit and creative mind-set
- Demonstrated ability to work sensitively with diverse people, interests and issues
- Ability to think outside the box
- Readiness for travels (sometimes at short notice)
- Proof of higher education and or experience
- At least four years’ experience working in a similar role with a record of relevant accomplishments
- Excellence communication skills with evidence of good writing and verbal English diction
- Experience with project managing, rolling out, leading or coordinating programme operations especially those related to the media
- Good grasp of data analysis and the use of info graphics
- Experience from a media focused non-governmental organisation will be regarded as additional merit
- Journalism experience may be an advantage
WSCIJ remuneration and benefits are competitive with similar roles in the sector.
Application mode
To apply, kindly send your resume along with a motivation letter (maximum two pages), stating how you fit the bill and why you would like to work with WSCIJ to career@wscij.org
Deadline – Thursday 29 December, 2016
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
*WSCIJ is an equal opportunity employer. We are happy to work with all persons despite their gender, age, ethnic origin, religious inclination or physical disability as long as they are able to prove their competence.
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