Project Director – Consultant

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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Centre for Information Resilience

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

🌍 Social Impact

Consulting • Legal • Social Impact

The Centre for Information Resilience is an independent organization focused on exposing human rights violations and threats to democracy through open source research and digital investigations. The organization works on a multitude of project areas, including Myanmar, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Russia, often collaborating with media and local partners to amplify its impact. CIR has also established the CIR Open Source Film Awards to recognize impactful open source investigations in journalism. Their work involves verifying footage, gathering evidence, and publishing reports on issues like police violence, military tactics, and disinformation.

📋 Description

• Define and oversee the strategic impact of a multi-country, donor-funded programme • Determine the nature and scale of programme outputs and outcomes in alignment with organisational values and donor goals • Direct project management teams on resource allocation across countries and workstreams • Maximise programme impact, value for money, and commercial performance where relevant • Build and maintain relationships with senior donors • Lead discussions with existing and potential new donors to expand or extend the programme • Advocate technical approaches and collaborate with leadership on resourcing and budgets • Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and leadership to senior OSINT analysts, investigators, and communications specialists • Review key outputs, challenge assumptions, and steer analytical and communications approaches • Develop a cohesive, collaborative multidisciplinary team across countries and disciplines • Oversee the Monitoring and Evaluation framework, including Theory of Change, Results Framework, and data collection and synthesis mechanisms • Ensure risk management incorporates team knowledge and supports organisational risk-register requirements and donor reporting schedules

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience as a confident manager and leader of diverse, senior teams in changing, high-pressure, multi-country environments • Experience applying adaptive management and establishing a productive working culture where team members collaborate effectively and deliverables are consistently met to a high standard • Strong networking, stakeholder relationship-building, and management experience, including with government departments and other senior institutional actors • Experience overseeing projects in complex or conflict-affected settings, with skilled use of adaptive programme risk management • Understanding of OSINT methods and their application within complex contexts • Strong strategic communications experience, including work on narrative development, audience understanding, and challenging harmful narratives in support of policy or programme objectives • Familiarity with donor-funded programmes focused on information integrity, counter-disinformation, CVE/PCVE, or related fields • Experience of working on conflict-affected or fragile contexts, including understanding of political, media, and cultural dynamics • German language is desirable • Ability to work on UK/EU time zone • Submit a CV and cover letter and answer application form questions

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working • Option to work from CIR’s offices in London • Office-based, hybrid, or remote working arrangements • Working pattern agreed to suit the successful applicant