Code for Africa (CfA) Current Career Opportunities

Code for Africa is the continent’s largest federation of independent civic technology and data journalism laboratories, which build digital democracy solutions giving citizens unfettered access to actionable information that empowers them to make informed decisions and that strengthen civic engagement for improved public governance and accountability.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Insights Editor (Investigative and Forensic Analysis)

Location: Nigeria (Remote)
Employment Type: Full Time

About the Role

• Do you want to drive investigative research and analysis that helps African democracies thrive?
• We are recruiting a full-time Insights Editor to join our iLAB investigative and forensic analysis team.
• The Insights Editor will coordinate the data-driven investigative reports and analysis generated by the iLAB to produce actionable insights into the continent’s media ecosystem and emerging civic technology sector.
• The position is based at one of our hubs in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal or South Africa. We’re also open to exceptional applicants from elsewhere in Africa.
• The successful candidate will join CfA’s transnational iLAB team. The iLAB works in support of the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), which is a CfA initiative that brings together the continent’s best muckraking newsrooms to investigate crooked politicians, organised crime and big business. The iLAB spearheads investigations that individual ANCIR newsrooms are unable to tackle on their own. This includes forensic analysis of suspected digital disinformation campaigns or toxic content aimed at misleading citizens or triggering social discord or polarisation using hate speech or radicalisation or other techniques.
• You will be the editorial sherpa for the team’s multinational and multilingual team that uses digital collaboration tools and machine intelligence toolkits to create reports and datasets for a global audience and international institutional partners.
• Candidates must have demonstrable experience in managing investigative processes and research diaries, driving content production pipelines that involve collaboration across multiple multinational and multilingual teams across Africa to ensure they deliver world-class reports and data-driven insights to an agreed-upon schedule.
• The ideal applicant is fluent in English. Additional proficiency in French and/or Arabic would be an advantage.
• The successful candidates will join CfA’s transnational iLAB digital forensic team, to craft and manage the content production process and output for the iLAB team. Outputs take the form of research reports, briefing documents and presentations, among others.
• As part of a multinational team within a growing organisation, you must be agile and able to thrive in a multicultural environment.
• You will need to work easily with people from different backgrounds who may speak different languages.
• The role also will involve the ability to multitask as a writer, an editor and publisher. Developing cutting edge contents like dossiers that speak directly to the actions and advocacy needed. It is intended that the role will help shape the skills of other team members to enable them to become better writers and storytellers.

Responsibilities
Your daily responsibilities will include:

• Managing the editorial production process and content diaries for the iLAB producing analytic and investigative reports.
• Scheduling and running the weekly ‘insights diary’ used to shape iLAB  reports and investigative outputs.
• Ensuring that reports, presentations and briefing documents are delivered on time by the relevant teams.
• Ensuring that analytical and investigative outputs are aligned with organisational goals and lead to meaningful outcomes.

Requirements
Minimum requirements include:

• Demonstrable newsroom management skills in a mainstream media or equivalent digital publishing environment.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and demonstrable aptitude for operationally managing multiple content production teams across countries.
• Demonstrable ability to create team timelines and milestones with clear systems/processes.
• A solid understanding of journalistic or other media-related production systems and workflow methodologies.
• Digital workplace skill sets, including proficiency in collaborative digital work solutions such as Google Drive (Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc.), Slack (or equivalents such as Teams), and project management tools like Trello (or equivalents).
• An understanding of media ecosystems and/or digital advocacy and/or digital civic engagement.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present research insights and shape research outputs.
• The ability to collaborate with a diverse set of multidisciplinary project stakeholders.
• Experience in working with remote, distributed teams with agile methodologies.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented approach to problem solving
• Ability to work under tight deadlines with good prioritisation and time management skills
• Ability to work with minimal instruction in a teamwork environment
• Strong organisational, analytical and interpersonal skills
• High professional standards and ethics
• The basics – research, reporting, grammar, Associated Press style – are priorities in writing. .

Preferred:
Candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

• Competence in open source intelligence (OSINT) research techniques, including data scraping, data mining and other intelligence gathering techniques.
• Multiple languages, such as French, Arabic and other languages spoken in Africa.

Language and Location Requirements:

• Location: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal or South Africa. Exceptional candidates from elsewhere in Africa will be considered.
• International Language: English
• Preferred but not required: Arabic, French, KiSwahili or any other major language spoken in Africa.

What We Offer

• A competitive salary, subject to experience, with opportunities for performance-based growth, both in terms of career path and public stature.
• A dynamic workplace, with a transnational team, occasional international travel, and generous vacation benefits.
• Ongoing opportunities to learn new cutting-edge skills and techniques/technologies to future-proof yourself in a rapidly evolving industry.
• A chance to shine on a global stage, writing for international audiences and interacting with colleagues around the world.

Application Closing Date
15th July, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

About the Role

• Do you want to change lives – both within an organisation and in the world? We are recruiting for a full-time HR assistant to join our Secretariat team.
• The position is based at one of our hubs in Kenya, Nigeria or Senegal. We’re also open to exceptional applicants from elsewhere in Africa.
• Candidates must have demonstrable experience working in an HR role.
• CfA is a 10-year old pan-African network of digital democracy and journalism technology labs, registered as a public benefit non-profit organisation that has full-time staff in 22 African and European countries. The headquarters are in South Africa, with subsidiary non-profits in Kenya and Nigeria.
• The successful candidates will work as part of a multinational and multilingual team that works across a variety of programmes and projects.
• The successful candidates will join CfA’s core Secretariat team. The Secretariat team supports the entire organisation and all of its programmes, overseeing operations and governance, as well as handling all financial and HR matters.
• Your role will include providing the Human Resources Manager with administrative support for processes such as recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and maintaining proper employee records.
• As part of a multinational team within a growing organisation, you must be agile and must thrive in a multicultural environment, and must work easily with people from different backgrounds who may speak different languages.
• You will be a digital native, who instinctively takes initiative, and is happy to juggle several tasks at a time while still being able to prioritise your own work.

Responsibilities
Your daily responsibilities will include:

• HR Administration:
  • Preparing employee-related documentation as guided by the HR Manager.
  • Actioning requests for ad hoc documentation from employees.
  • Supporting the finance team in the creation and appropriate filing of CfA fellows’ documentation.
  • Keeping all employee-related trackers updated in a timely and accurate manner.
  • Slack workspace maintenance (such as adding new staff to Slack and ensuring departing staff are offboarded)
• Recruitment and Onboarding:
  • Posting job ads, scheduling interviews, and providing assistance/support to hiring managers during the interview process.
  • Undertaking background and reference checks for finalist candidates.
  • Supporting the pre-boarding process as guided by the HR manager.
  • Facilitating work tools allocation to new joiners by liaising with the operations & finance team.
  • Ensuring that new joiners’ information is appropriately posted to the necessary database.
• Performance Management:
  • Scheduling employee performance review meetings as advised by the Human Resources Manager.
  • Creation and appropriate filing of performance management-related documents.
• Exit Management:
  • Guiding exiting employees through the handover documentation process.
  • Liaising with the operations team to ensure retrieval of worktools.
  • Ensuring exiting employees’ timesheets are appropriately filled out.
  • Offboarding exited employees from internal databases.

Requirements
Minimum requirements include:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources Management  or equivalent qualification
• 2 – 3 years of experience in a similar role
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Self-motivated and able to work independently
• Superb organisational skills and detail orientated.
• Experience in or familiarity with digital collaboration tools, including Slack, Google Drive, and Trello.

Preferred:
Candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

• Experience working in the technology, non-profit and/or media environments will be advantageous.
• Experience working with a multinational &  fully remote organisation.

Language and Location Requirements:

• Location: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, or anywhere else in Africa
• Languages: English.

What We Offer

• A competitive salary, subject to experience, with opportunities for performance-based growth, both in terms of career path and public stature.
• A dynamic workplace, with a multinational team, occasional international travel, and generous vacation benefits.
• Ongoing opportunities to learn new cutting-edge skills and techniques/technologies to future-proof yourself in a rapidly evolving industry.
• A chance to shine on a global stage, writing for international audiences and interacting with colleagues around the world.

Application Closing Date
30th July, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Nigeria

Overview

• Do you want to help expose the puppet-masters behind financial crime, organised crime, illicit financial flows, disinformation networks and toxic content on the African continent?
• Code for Africa (CfA) has an immediate vacancy for an Portuguese-speaking Investigative Analyst with extensive forensic investigations or research and/or investigative data analytics experience based in Mozambique.
• The successful candidate will work as part of CfA’s internal iLAB team of forensic data scientists and OSINT researchers, who use digital collaboration tools to create evidence-based dossiers and other actionable content for a global audience and for international watchdog media partners.
• The iLAB works in support of the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), which is a CfA initiative that brings together the continent’s best muckraking newsrooms to investigate crooked politicians, organised crime and big business. The iLAB spearheads investigations that individual ANCIR newsrooms are unable to tackle on their own. This includes forensic analysis of suspected digital disinformation campaigns or toxic content aimed at misleading citizens or triggering social discord or polarisation using hate speech or radicalisation or other techniques.

About the Role

• The successful candidate will be part of a ‘technology for good’ team of forensic researchers and data scientists/analysts at the iLAB, who work in support of African watchdog newsrooms and other human rights -defending organisations.
• The iLAB’s role is to offer these newsrooms/civic watchdogs a robust toolkit of open source intelligence (OSINT) leads and resources, along with investigative support for identifying and exposing disinformation and other influence operations intended to undermine our democracies and our economies, often by creating social discord or polarisation.
• Your duties will include helping to identify the sock-puppets, botnets, fake accounts and unwitting proxies used by the shadowy ‘puppet masters’ who are producing and disseminating false content. The iLAB also actively gathers evidence on corruption and organised crime affecting the public sector, and transforms the information into actionable data to help civic watchdogs and investigative media better understand the nexus between politically exposed/influential people (PEPs and PIPs) and organised crime networks, and their role in subverting public resources.
• As an Investigative Analyst, you will help liberate the data-driven evidence used to expose and neutralise coordinated behaviour or other malign intentions. You will also help build the detailed datasets about PEPs, PIPs and organised crime and corruption that are needed for our partners to ‘join the dots’.
• And, you will work with CfA’s Academy and other teams to help train others, including journalists and human rights defenders, to find the stories and trends hidden in the data.

Responsibilities

• You will use CfA tools and methodologies to help research investigative leads and/or hypotheses, based on digital signals/evidence from public sources, and will analyse the evidence to produce timely and actionable insights.
• You will do so by planning and executing data gathering exercises involving Portuguese language sources, based on specifications that you help your team define.
• You will apply appropriate advanced analysis strategies on the resulting large and complex datasets to solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems.
• You will help transform the resulting data-driven insights into clear narrative reports and presentations, underpinned by dossiers of verifiable evidence, for non-technical audiences in both Portuguese and English.
• You will use the resulting signals and data to help watchdog partners, such as journalists, produce evidence-driven analysis and reportage that is accessible and understandable to both policymakers and the general public.
• You will be part of a team of custodians for CfA’s open access OSINT tools and platforms, including connected.AFRICA and CivicSignal and source.AFRICA, amongst others.
• You will help strengthen civil society and media capacity to undertake its own forensic data analysis, by supporting CfA training initiatives and by helping produce step-by-step courseware or tutorials teaching our methodologies.
• You will help build a multicultural and transnational team ethos that values creativity and human-centred design principles.

Preferred
Candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

• Experience with statistical software (e.g. R, Python, MATLAB) and database languages (e.g. SQL) for network analysis, as well as using tools such Brandwatch or CrowdTangle for social media analysis.
• Experience in using digital technologies for conducting OSINT investigative research into financial crime, organised crime investigations, forensic investigations, influence operations and related mis-/disinformation techniques, and/or analysis of online polarisation or hate-speech or extremism/militancy and other malign content, and/or experience at using data-driven network analysis/named entity recognition tools for analysing PEPs (politically exposed people) or PIPs (politically influential people) or institutional networks.
• Familiarity with mining and handling large datasets, with demonstrable skills in selecting the right statistical tools and articulating analytical questions / approaches given a data analysis problem.
• Experience working on the digital collaboration tools that CfA uses for managing workflow, ranging from Slack and Trello, to Github and Google Drive would be an advantage.
• Demonstrable creative problem-solving/lateral thinking skills and self-direction, with an ability to work consistently in a fast-paced environment. Willingness to learn new techniques, and teach others.
• An understanding of religious freedom/extremism, terrorism networks, international money laundering operations, and/or criminal structures would be a bonus.

Requirements:

• Demonstrable investigative skills honed from at least two years experience in digital forensics, investigations, OSINT intelligence, due diligence, asset tracking, compliance, or other investigative professions with precision writing skills. CfA will not consider any applicants who served with government intelligence agencies.
• An understanding of financial crime, organised crime investigations or influence operations, including both disinformation and misinformation, as well as digital amplification and viral media techniques would be a benefit.
• Critical thinking skills, and an obsessive attention to detail, with excellent numeracy and analytical skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent in Prtuguese and English.

What We Offer

• A competitive salary, subject to experience, with opportunities for performance-based growth, both in terms of career path and public stature.
• A dynamic workplace, with a transnational team, occasional international travel, and generous vacation benefits.
• Ongoing opportunities to learn new cutting-edge skills and techniques / technologies to future-proof yourself in a rapidl[-py evolving industry.
• A chance to shine on a global stage, writing for international audiences and interacting with colleagues around the world.

Application Closing Date
15th July, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Nigeria (Remote)
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

• Do you want to help drive high-impact projects in the civic technology and digital democracy space?
• Code for Africa (CfA) has an immediate vacancy for a full-time Project Manager to join our New Initiatives team.
• The role will preferably be based at any of CfA’s primary hubs in Kenya, Nigeria or South Africa. CfA has full-time staff in 18 African countries, and is therefore also open to exceptional applicants from elsewhere on the continent.
• CfA is a nine-year-old pan-African network of digital democracy and journalism technology labs, registered as a public benefit non-profit organisation. Our New Initiatives team is made up of two portfolios – Business Development (BizDev) and the Impact Accelerator.
• The BizDev team is responsible for CfA’s fund-raising and other revenue generative partnerships, while the Accelerator helps incubate/scale CfA grantees and initiatives. Both teams are managed by the CEO.
• In order to thrive in this role, candidates should enjoy fast-paced creative problem-solving and systems building, in a multicultural transnational environment, and should have experience in programme/project management or leadership roles in the digital media and/or technology space.
• The successful candidates will work as part of a multinational and multilingual team using digital collaboration tools to train and mentor newsroom partners and media houses across the world.

About this Role

• Your role is to work with CfA’s rainmakers to help ensure that CfA’s partnerships and projects live up to their full potential.
• As one of a small team of project & programme managers for New Initiatives, you will oversee in-country teams across the continent who actively manage incubated projects, such as africanDRONE, the iLAB, PesaCheck and sensors.AFRICA. You will help build their teams and shape their systems, and improve their products. You will work with the project teams to ensure that partnerships and project deliverables are met and that stakeholders are kept informed and engaged.
• We operate in a fast-paced environment, so you will need to be agile in your management approach, quick to understand and learn new things, and creative in finding solutions to any problems that arise. You will also need an obsessive attention to detail and be comfortable handling multiple tasks and deadlines.

Responsibilities
Your daily responsibilities will include:

• Actively monitor and evaluate implementation and qualitative progress on the projects in your portfolio, including ensuring that expenses and work plans remain on-track, project documentation is created and maintained, and project reports are drafted and delivered on time
• Ensure projects remain on track, meeting their targets and delivering on their milestones timeously
• Ensure that projects and milestones are delivered on time, that they are of the highest standard and quality standards and meet/exceed donor expectations.
• Actively find solutions to problems as they arise, reporting and escalating challenges and risks to management when needed
• Proactively manage CfA’s relationship with external stakeholders, keeping them informed about project progress, managing expectations and synchronising partnership activities.
• Coordinating internal resources and teams across the continent for the flawless execution of projects.

Requirements
Minimum requirements include:

• Bachelor’s Degree or significant experience in project management, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience as a project manager, project officer, project coordinator or a related position.
• Demonstrable experience in all aspects of project management, including developing and maintaining project documentation (such as work plans and M&E trackers); report writing for a variety of audiences; stakeholder engagement and management etc
• Proven track-record for creative problem-solving in fast-paced impact-driven environments, where solutions involve balancing human/technology considerations
• Demonstrable ability to self-manage and prioritise, creating your own and wider team timelines and milestones, with clear systems/processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to get across complex details in an understandable and accurate way
• Digital first workplace skill-sets, including proficiency in collaborative work solutions such as Google Drive (Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc) and Slack (or equivalents such as Teams), as well as project management tools like Trello (or equivalents)
• Empathetic communication and listening skills, plus a sensitivity to and ability to work with cross-cultural dynamics
• Experience in managing training across multiple platforms, including but not limited to, in-person, one-on-one and online trainings, as well as in individual mentorship.

Preferred:
Candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

• 4+ years of experience as a project manager or a related position.
• Experience building and managing relationships with media institutions, governments, international organisations, educational institutions, relevant technology players, and other private and not-for-profit relevant stakeholders in the civic technology and media ecosystem.
• Experience managing multiple projects, partners and team members across multiple time zones and cultures
• Experience working with a variety of teams, such as software engineering teams, journalists, trainers and data analysts
• Deep understanding of and experience in the technology, media ecosystem and/or digital innovation space in Africa.

Language and Location Requirements:

• Location: Kenya). While applicants from these territories are preferred, the role can be performed remotely, and applicants across Africa will therefore be considered.
• Languages: English
• Preferred but not required: Arabic and French, plus major African languages such Fulani, Kiswahili, isiZulu, Yoruba, etc.

What We Offer

• A competitive salary, subject to experience, with opportunities for performance-based growth, both in terms of career path and public stature.
• A dynamic workplace, with a transnational team, occasional international travel, and generous vacation benefits.
• Ongoing opportunities to learn new cutting-edge skills and techniques/technologies to future-proof yourself in a rapidly evolving industry.
• A chance to shine on a global stage, writing for international audiences and interacting with colleagues around the world.

Application Closing Date
30th June, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Nigeria (Remote)
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

• Do you want to help drive high-impact projects in the civic technology and digital democracy space?
• Code for Africa (CfA) has an immediate vacancy for a full-time Project Manager to join our New Initiatives team.
• The role will preferably be based at any of CfA’s primary hubs in Kenya, Nigeria or South Africa. CfA has full-time staff in 18 African countries, and is therefore also open to exceptional applicants from elsewhere on the continent.
• CfA is a nine-year-old pan-African network of digital democracy and journalism technology labs, registered as a public benefit non-profit organisation. Our New Initiatives team is made up of two portfolios – Business Development (BizDev) and the Impact Accelerator.
• The BizDev team is responsible for CfA’s fund-raising and other revenue generative partnerships, while the Accelerator helps incubate/scale CfA grantees and initiatives. Both teams are managed by the CEO.
• In order to thrive in this role, candidates should enjoy fast-paced creative problem-solving and systems building, in a multicultural transnational environment, and should have experience in programme/project management or leadership roles in the digital media and/or technology space.
• The successful candidates will work as part of a multinational and multilingual team using digital collaboration tools to train and mentor newsroom partners and media houses across the world.

About this Role

• Your role is to work with CfA’s rainmakers to help ensure that CfA’s partnerships and projects live up to their full potential.
• As one of a small team of project & programme managers for New Initiatives, you will oversee in-country teams across the continent who actively manage incubated projects, such as africanDRONE, the iLAB, PesaCheck and sensors.AFRICA. You will help build their teams and shape their systems, and improve their products. You will work with the project teams to ensure that partnerships and project deliverables are met and that stakeholders are kept informed and engaged.
• We operate in a fast-paced environment, so you will need to be agile in your management approach, quick to understand and learn new things, and creative in finding solutions to any problems that arise. You will also need an obsessive attention to detail and be comfortable handling multiple tasks and deadlines.

Responsibilities
Your daily responsibilities will include:

• Actively monitor and evaluate implementation and qualitative progress on the projects in your portfolio, including ensuring that expenses and work plans remain on-track, project documentation is created and maintained, and project reports are drafted and delivered on time
• Ensure projects remain on track, meeting their targets and delivering on their milestones timeously
• Ensure that projects and milestones are delivered on time, that they are of the highest standard and quality standards and meet/exceed donor expectations.
• Actively find solutions to problems as they arise, reporting and escalating challenges and risks to management when needed
• Proactively manage CfA’s relationship with external stakeholders, keeping them informed about project progress, managing expectations and synchronising partnership activities.
• Coordinating internal resources and teams across the continent for the flawless execution of projects.

Requirements
Minimum requirements include:

• Bachelor’s Degree or significant experience in project management, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience as a project manager, project officer, project coordinator or a related position.
• Demonstrable experience in all aspects of project management, including developing and maintaining project documentation (such as work plans and M&E trackers); report writing for a variety of audiences; stakeholder engagement and management etc
• Proven track-record for creative problem-solving in fast-paced impact-driven environments, where solutions involve balancing human/technology considerations
• Demonstrable ability to self-manage and prioritise, creating your own and wider team timelines and milestones, with clear systems/processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to get across complex details in an understandable and accurate way
• Digital first workplace skill-sets, including proficiency in collaborative work solutions such as Google Drive (Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc) and Slack (or equivalents such as Teams), as well as project management tools like Trello (or equivalents)
• Empathetic communication and listening skills, plus a sensitivity to and ability to work with cross-cultural dynamics
• Experience in managing training across multiple platforms, including but not limited to, in-person, one-on-one and online trainings, as well as in individual mentorship.

Preferred:
Candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

• 4+ years of experience as a project manager or a related position.
• Experience building and managing relationships with media institutions, governments, international organisations, educational institutions, relevant technology players, and other private and not-for-profit relevant stakeholders in the civic technology and media ecosystem.
• Experience managing multiple projects, partners and team members across multiple time zones and cultures
• Experience working with a variety of teams, such as software engineering teams, journalists, trainers and data analysts
• Deep understanding of and experience in the technology, media ecosystem and/or digital innovation space in Africa.

Language and Location Requirements:

• Location: Kenya). While applicants from these territories are preferred, the role can be performed remotely, and applicants across Africa will therefore be considered.
• Languages: English
• Preferred but not required: Arabic and French, plus major African languages such Fulani, Kiswahili, isiZulu, Yoruba, etc.

What We Offer

• A competitive salary, subject to experience, with opportunities for performance-based growth, both in terms of career path and public stature.
• A dynamic workplace, with a transnational team, occasional international travel, and generous vacation benefits.
• Ongoing opportunities to learn new cutting-edge skills and techniques/technologies to future-proof yourself in a rapidly evolving industry.
• A chance to shine on a global stage, writing for international audiences and interacting with colleagues around the world.

Application Closing Date
30th June, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online