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Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Job Title: Venture Officer, OSF [Contractor]
Department: Global Programs & Initiatives
Job Sub-Family: Multi-Discipline
Location: South Asia
Workplace: Fully Remote
Term: 6 – 9 months
Pay Range: $2,875 - $2,917 per month
Funding: 100% Direct
About This Engagement
This Scope of Work defines the specific outputs and deliverables the Consultant/Contractor is engaged to produce. The Consultant/Contractor operates independently and is responsible for managing their own professional obligations accordingly.
Responsibilities
Program and Logistics Support
- Provide strategic programmatic support for at least one South Asia project, including analysis of project progress against contracted deliverables.
- Prepare correspondence and reports from meetings, conferences, and discussion panels and assist with research.
- Coordinate logistics for defined special events and partner meetings, including coordinating and travel logistics; represent team and Internews at events as specified in the project plan. Deliver written event cost summaries following each event.
- Develop operational tools such as templates, trackers, dashboards, workflows, and SharePoint structures to streamline program delivery.
- Organize webinars, launch events, and internal review workshops, handling logistics, communications, and stakeholder coordination.
- Draft, edit, and prepare project presentations, quarterly progress reports, proposals, and other project-related reports: write, edit, proof, revise, and assemble finished materials.
- Act as the primary point of contact for administrative needs of all partners: ensure smooth applicant onboarding, and timely completion of defined deliverables.
Operational and Administrative Support
- Ensure that documentation complies with funder requirements and the terms of this SOW. Prepare project-specific financial documentation, including partner payment requests and budget reconciliations for project-related expenses. Deliver tracking tools for grant-related administration such as travel plans, personal service contracts, outside service contracts, and data collection systems.
- Grant management: develop tracking systems and monitor the project’s contracts and funding pools for local partners, including budget/agreement negotiation with partners, development and monitoring of budgets, processing payment requests, and review of programmatic reports.
- Conduct research in support of ongoing projects and new initiatives.
Impact and Learning
- Coordinate with designated client contacts, including the MERL team on tracking progress towards program deliverables and assessing impact, including adherence to data collection protocols and technical review of performance data.
- Prepare periodic writeups for donor or internal reports covering monitoring results, trends, training progress, risk analysis, and adaptations.
Requirements
Core Skills
- Strategic programmatic support
- Donor reporting
- Donor and local partner relations
- Communications
Secondary Skills
- Research
- Event coordination
- Operational tools development
- Webinars organization
- Project presentations
- Grant management
- Impact and learning coordination
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Expense reports preparation
- Editorial or information curation
Qualifications
- Minimum 7 years of relevant programmatic experience, preferably with donor programs and projects in the media development or civic tech sector.
- Experience developing and implementing digital security protocols, including use of technologies to foster secure practices.
- Ability to coordinate effectively across geographies and time zones.
- Strong English fluency and writing skills.
- Familiarity with and experience in implementing projects to strengthen organizational capacity and inclusion of marginalized communities.
- Monitoring and evaluation experience; familiarity with logic models and program management plans.
- Experience preparing expense reports and budgets.
- Editorial or information curation experience.
We Offer
- Competitive salary range of $2,875 - $2,917 per month.
- Fully remote work opportunity.
- 6 – 9 months contract term.
About the Company
Internews Network is a global non-profit organization that supports independent journalism and media development worldwide. We are committed to empowering journalists and media organizations to produce and disseminate accurate and impactful information.
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