Project Manager, AI and Tech

About the role

The Thomson Reuters Foundation is looking for a Project Manager, AI and Tech to lead a 12-month initiative across Nigeria, Kenya and Zambia that empowers 100+ content creators to combat AI-enabled disinformation during election periods. The role manages four workstreams: AI tools for editorial workflows, creator resilience against synthetic media, legal safeguards against defamation and IP risks, and AI infrastructure such as content moderation tools. It is a 1-year fixed-term contract based in Nairobi, Kenya or Lagos, Nigeria.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex international programmes, in line with technical, contractual, donor and organisational requirements.
• Manage and coach a Senior Project Coordinator and coordinate cross-functional teams, consultants and stakeholders across Africa.
• Set up project governance: plans, budgets, risk registers, forecasting, reporting and financial controls.
• Build and manage strategic partnerships, acting as main contact for external partners.
• Lead monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting, including donor reporting and impact measurement.
• Oversee risks, stakeholder engagement and the political, legal, economic and technological landscape.
• Represent the Foundation externally and travel internationally as required.

Required profile

• 5+ years of project and/or programme management experience.
• Experience delivering projects at pace and to a high standard, and with content creators, young journalists and the AI and media intersection.
• Experience managing disbursed teams and in-house and external consultants on time and on budget.
• Experience monitoring and evaluating project impact (logframes, theories of change, KPIs).
• Preferred: experience leading AI and Tech or AI-Media projects, and in media development in Kenya, Nigeria or Zambia.

Required skills

• Excellent grant financial acumen and excellent writing skills.
• Fluency in English.
• Monitoring and evaluation, project governance and stakeholder management.

What we offer

• Competitive salary package and market-leading benefits.
• Learning and development through in-house and external training.