Job Opportunity // Project Manager with africanDRONE

Job Opportunity // Project Manager with africanDRONE

africanDRONE (aD) is seeking a part-time (4 half-days per week) Project Manager in Nairobi, Kenya to assist the ExCo Fellow with project related tasks, but also independently grow the organization.

The Project Manager will be working directly with the ExCo Fellow but will be reporting into the COO in Cape Town.

The Project Manager will assist the ExCo Fellow in managing the Kenya office and its projects, in particular drive regional network development by identifying and recruiting potential members, as well as identifying and building relationships with institutional partners.

The project will run for six months initially, with an option to renew.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and implement standard operational processes;
• Manage financial and other operational records;
• Implement, monitor and report on projects
• Donor, grantee and stakeholder liaison;
• Recruit and vet new members across East African countries;
• Manage membership records and member engagement;
• Manage logistics for meetups;
• Support new business development;
• Assist with managing social media.

Interested to take up the challenge? Get the full job details here!

About africanDRONE

africanDRONE is a Pan-African network aimed at empowering drone pilots, operators and journalists who are using drones for social good, through skills development, resource sharing, advocacy and networking opportunities for members.

aD is incubated and supported by Code for Africa, and has a presence in Cape Town, Tanzania and Kenya, with members from across the continent. aD is developing an on-the-ground presence in Kenya to facilitate growth of the organisation in East Africa. aD wants to be the primary catalyst and change agent in the UAV-for-good space in Africa.

The East African hub will be managed by the aD ExCo Regional Fellow, whose focus will be on identifying strategic organisations, institutions, and individuals for affiliation/partnership, and then spearheading recruitment. Institutional partners are what will help aD build its member services, create credibility amongst funders / commercial operators, and underpin any advocacy/lobbying.

About The Federation:

Code for Africa (CfA) is the continent’s largest federation of data journalism and civic technology laboratories, with labs in four countries and affiliates in a further six countries. CfA manages the $1m/year innovateAFRICA.fund and $500,000/year impactAFRICA.fund, as well as key digital democracy resources such as the openAFRICA.net data portal and the GotToVote.cc election toolkit. CfA’s labs also incubate a series of trendsetting initiatives, including the PesaCheck fact-checking initiative in East Africa, the continental africanDRONEnetwork, and the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR) that spearheaded Panama Papers probes across the continent. CfA is an initiative of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).

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