Introducing Zinc Network

Zinc Network is a global international development company headquartered in London with offices in Washington, D.C., Kyiv, Tbilisi, and Warsaw. We’re on a mission to achieve meaningful, measurable change across development and security programming through communications, technology, and behavioural science. We are a B-Corp certified, ethical business with 80+ team members from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds. We work with a broad range of governmental, NGO, and private sector clients, including USAID; the U.S. Department of State; the U.S. Department of Defence; the UK Home Office; the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; UN agencies and missions; the European Commission; Microsoft; Twitter; and Facebook.

We conceptualise and create award-winning programmes, interventions, and campaigns that change the way that people think, feel, and act across a wide 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.

We consistently collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups to co-develop innovative, evidence-based solutions, including government departments and agencies, civil society organisations, technologists and entrepreneurs, activists, influencers, and media outlets.

We are steeped in research, social and behavioural change, cutting-edge creative and digital execution, service design, a learn-through-doing approach to capacity-building and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL).

Outline of the job

Under the supervision of the Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party, the Partnerships Manager will help drive the work of the Program Partners forward in challenging disinformation in Georgia and promote the integrity of the information environment. The Partnerships Manager will play a pivotal role in supporting the Information Integrity Coalition in challenging disinformation, advocating for policy change, empowering the media, and building societal resilience.

The Partnerships Manager will be based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

What you’ll be doing

• Coordinate the activities of the Information Integrity Coalition to ensure that the Coalition is achieving its agreed goals and objectives. Monitor the performance of the Coalition against its objectives and working group priorities and suggest course-correction as and when needed.
• Help drive forward the work of the Coalition, identifying opportunities for media work, advocacy, and international engagement and helping the Coalition to deliver impactful activities.
• Collaborate closely with the rotating chair of the Coalition to pinpoint crucial priorities and ensure their effective implementation.
• Set up regular Coalition meetings to coordinate its activities, reach agreement on outstanding issues and distribute tasks among the members. Keep notes of the Coalition meetings, circulate those among members and follow-up implementation against decided deadlines.
• Facilitate drafting of the Coalition statements (including occasionally writing first drafts of the statements), approval and adoption of those statements by the Coalition member organizations.
• Spearhead the organizational efforts for the Information Integrity Coalition's Annual  Conference.
• Overseeing the Coalition's joint advocacy initiatives through supporting the Coalition to identify the advocacy objectives, creating advocacy strategy and plan, and helping in delivering activities against those objectives.
• Together with the Communications and Outreach Officer, support the Coalition's public-facing and advocacy campaigns.
• Support the Coalition in building relationships with partners and third parties such as the Government, political parties, media, civil society and international community,
• Support Coalition members to develop joint projects to ensure the Coalition's sustainability beyond the time scope of the Information Integrity Program.
• Monitor the political environment and ongoing developments of with regard to information space and dis/misinformation in Georgia to identify opportunities for the engagement of the Coalition.
• Work with the program team to identify themes for the Coalition's campaigns and suggest areas for collaborative research by the Coalition.
• Liaise with Coalition members to ensure timely decision-making in accordance with the Coalition charter.
• Arranging Coalition's strategic planning and evaluation workshops (as and when necessary).
• Support the Coalition working groups in planning ambitious but achievable activities and facilitate coherent and consistent implementation of those activities against pre-determined timelines.
• Any other additional tasks related to partnership management as requested by COP/DCOP.

About the Coalition:

Information Integrity Coalition unites 17 CSO and media organisations from Georgia who have come together around the objective of building societal resilience to disinformation in Georgia. A diverse group of Coalition members are working on countering disinformation, building information integrity or otherwise supporting societal resilience to information manipulation, be it through research and monitoring into disinformation actors, narratives, trends and behaviours, fact-checking, investigations, promoting quality journalism, media literacy, civic education, etc. The Coalition has identified four main areas of their activities: a) countering ongoing disinformation themes/issues​; b) Rapid response to ad-hoc disinformation events​; c) joint research; d) Policy and advocacy. 

Requirements

• University degree in politics, international relations, social studies, communication, economics, or other related field.
• Native Georgian speaker with fluency in English.
• Experience of working with and coordinating multiple stakeholders and partners (including CSOs, media, political parties, government) in their response to complex policy issues.
• Good understanding of Georgian political, electoral and policy landscape.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Initiative and proactive approach.
• Ability to work in a team and meet tight deadlines.

Conditions of Employment

Candidates who receive a job offer will be required to:

• Disclose any previous disciplinary action against them resulting from a substantiated safeguarding (including any breaches involving trafficking- related activities) or workplace investigation.
• Undergo background checks including employment verification, sexual offender registry (as available), identity confirmation, and anti-terrorism vetting.

Area of Selection

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 apply to join our company to represent the diverse range of subjects associated with our projects.

How to apply

Please include a brief cover letter stating how you meet the requirements.

If you require an accommodation at any point throughout the recruitment process, please advise us when contacted.

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