The Guardian Global Media Campaign to End FGM is currently looking for a Program Director who will have full overall responsibility for the financial management, human resources, monitoring and evaluation, administration, staff oversight, and governance of the Guardian’s highly successful media campaign to end FGM, as it extends across Africa.
The Programme Director will have full management and administrative oversight of the project, working to ensure accountability and effectiveness of all new and ongoing incountry programs, including partnership agreements, contracts, hiring, monitoring and evaluation and financial oversight; ensuring the creation and management of effective systems for timely reporting and financial accountability; and effective monitoring and evaluation. The Programme director will work closely with the campaign coordinator/project and editorial lead of a media led team, as they create opportunities and commission campaign content, including film content, and train journalists and fieldworkers to work effectively with the media/including social media platforms and Guardian vertical content outlets such as You Tube and Guardian Facebook to amplify ongoing work to end FGM.
The post will report to the Guardian Philanthropic Strategic Partnerships Director, and by extension to the Guardian managing editor’s office. It is initially a 6 – 9 month contract based at the Guardian offices in London, but will also involve some travelling to Africa to oversee program operations and incountry monitoring and evaluation processes.
Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the largest English-speaking quality newspaper websites in the world. Since launching its US and Australia digital editions in 2011 and 2013 respectively, traffic from outside of the UK now represents over two-thirds of the Guardian's total digital audience.
In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821, and the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer.
GNM is the core business of Guardian Media Group (GMG), whose sole shareholder is The Scott Trust Ltd. The core purpose of The Scott Trust is to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity.
The Guardian is most recently renowned for its Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning revelations based on the disclosures made by whistleblower Edward Snowden. In 2014, the Guardian was named newspaper and website of the year at the Society of Editors UK Press Awards and is the most trusted news source in the UK (Ofcom digital media report, 2014).
The Guardian is also known for its globally acclaimed investigation into phone hacking, the launch of its groundbreaking digital-first strategy in 2011 and its trailblazing partnership with WikiLeaks in 2010.
