Project Manager, Western Balkans
Zinc Network, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Job Description
Zinc Network is a global international development company headquartered in London with a focus on behaviour change and strategic communications. Zinc works with a range of government and private-sector clients to tackle complex social issues and simulate meaningful, measurable, change by working with and through communities and local actors on the ground.
We conceptualise and create award-winning programs, interventions, and campaigns that change the way that people think, feel, and behave across a whole range of pervasive social issues including disinformation and misinformation, violent extremism, poor governance, threats to children and young people’s online safety, gender-based violence and more.
The role:
We seek a Project Manager with expertise or experience in the Western Balkans, to support the delivery of an upcoming project to counter disinformation in the region.
What you’ll be doing:
- Provide management, coordination, and technical direction for all activities and outputs, ensuring alignment with the project’s mission, objectives, and Theory of Change.
- Drafting Monthly and Quarterly Reports
- Supporting the development of Annual Workplans
- Staying up to date on the political context and disinformation landscape in the Western Balkans, leveraging deep knowledge of the region itself and the international context it sits within.
- Facilitating collaborations, workshops, and meetings between diverse stakeholders to support programme activities.
- Contributing to monitoring, evaluation, and learning of the project.
- Identify issues and risks associated with project implementation in a timely manner and guide appropriate adjustments.
- Embody the values of Zinc Network.
Requirements
- To be based in London or the Western Balkans, with ability to travel in the region as needed.
- Minimum of three years’ experience of project management supporting the delivery of donor funded international development programmes.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the Western Balkans required; knowledge of the media landscape and the broader political context in the region is preferred.
- Fluency in English is required; working proficiency in at least one Balkan language is a plus.
- Knowledge and understanding of information integrity, disinformation and/or conflict analysis would be an asset.
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge of project management
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating and cooperating with a wide range of stakeholders, including government officials, and civil society organisations.
- Prior experience with FCDO operating procedures, regulations, and reporting requirements is preferred.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills.
Benefits
What we offer you
The opportunity to work with colleagues from a diverse range of professional and cultural backgrounds, including strategic communications specialists, democratic governance and conflict prevention experts. digital media strategists, linguists, researchers, and behavioural scientists from both the public and private sector.
Across Zinc Network, there’s a commitment by everyone to deliver meaningful, measurable change across all the subject areas, social challenges, and policy goals we’re striving to achieve.
Lastly, we’re committed to hiring a diverse workforce from different professional and cultural backgrounds, and to that end we encourage a variety of people to our company to represent the diverse range of subjects associated with our projects.