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Large organization
200 + Employees
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets.
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets.
1). Legal Project Officer
Location: Lagos
About The Role
- As Project Officer/Legal Project Officer at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, you will:
Project Implementation
- Take lead in project activity forecasting, planning, coordination and execution, managing activity budgets, and leading on logistics.
- Provide logistical support for remote activities including workshops and mentoring schemes.
- Support the PM in the recruitment of participants to the program, including vetting all journalist participants in consultation with the Global Fund, and working with the relevant Global Fund focal point to undertake initial screening and support CSO vetting process.
- Take lead in outreach and onboarding of participants to the project, including to the TrustLaw Portal and pro bono network.
- In consultation with the Global Fund, support the PM in demand generation for mentorship, workshops, and other learning and capacity development activities.
- Coordinate cascading of elements of the project in line with donor requirements.
- Engage with existing and new cohorts to facilitate their access to legal support based on identified legal needs and work together with the Legal Project Manager to support participants with management of legal research and other requests. Depending on qualification of the candidate, the role may also include scoping legal requests and research.
- Work with the Legal Project Manager to map and recruit, engage, and manage relationships with pro bono and consultant legal teams to support the legal needs of beneficiaries and mentorship components of the project.
- Work closely with the PM to monitor the project plan and deliverables, keeping documents updated as and when changes take place.
- Coordinate activities with teams across the Foundation such as Media Freedom and internal operational functions (finance, comms, etc.).
- Attend project activities and support implementation as per requirements.
- Support civil society cohort that is receiving mentorship.
- Support the PM in coordinating and facilitating the project Board.
- Contribute to the development of impact stories and progress reporting (internally and externally), including gathering feedback from all cohorts.
- Support the Project Manager and Legal Manager in identification of potential and emerging risks and issues which could impact the successful delivery of the project. Escalate critical concerns. Contribute to development of mitigation strategies.
- Support knowledge sharing and learning for the programmes team by sharing lessons learnt and contributing to discussions to increase wider team understanding.
- Support knowledge capture, ensuring that we document our networks, relationships and ongoing conversations systematically.
External Coordination
- Actively support external project communications in collaboration with project team, communications team, and project donors.
- Working closely with the PM and LM, coordinate the work commitments/contractual obligations of project consultants.
- Liaise with project stakeholders in the management of events and on-going support.
- Participate in regular exchanges with the Global Fund to review workplans and agreed activities.
Budget support
- Contribute to project budget oversight through monitoring of project expenses and tracking budget allocations as necessary. Collaborate with the finance team to ensure financial compliance.
- Set up and manage vendors/consultant procurement as per policy, manage payment of invoices, and ensure all backing documentation is logged.
About You
To be our Project Officer/Legal Project Officer, you will likely have:
- At least 3 years work experience in a similar role, coordinating a range of activities with a number of internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of working in and/or knowledge of youth advocacy, health, human rights and/or pro bono legal support in West Africa.
- Legal training, experience or qualification or prior experience with legal pro bono is advantageous, though not essential.
- Experience of building trusting working relationships across organisations with common goals, and working constructively with a diverse range of people
- Experience of managing a range of project related risks.
- Excellent organizational skills, juggling a number of competing priorities.
- Experience of administrative or finance processes and excellent numerical skills
- Ability to implement projects utilizing a context sensitive approach.
- A pro-active self-starting and problem-solving attitude, including paying attention to detail and being good on follow-through.
- Experience organizing events and training sessions
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills –able to establish and maintain positive working relationships both internally and externally, with people from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds
- Competency in Word, Teams, Outlook and Excel. Experience with databases (e.g. Salesforce) would be an advantage
- Willingness to travel internationally
- Fluency in English.
- Fluency in French is highly desirable.
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2). Project Manager
Location: Lagos
About The Role
- We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead TRF’s continued work with Global Fund to enhance and support the vital role played by youth and young leaders in improving human rights, gender equality and equity in health services for the most vulnerable in society. The project is committed to empowering young leaders and young journalists towards the greater goal of ending the HIV, TB and malaria epidemics.
Project Management
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of project technical, delivery, and contractual obligations
- Lead the formation and management/coordination of the project team (made up of colleagues across the foundation), and the project’s governance framework.
- Line manage a project team comprised of internal staff and external consultants
- Coordinate and drive the input of a range of technical and operational teams within the foundation to deliver high-quality programming, including TRF’s Media Freedom technical advisory team, Trust Law team as well as a range of external technical consultants.
- Work closely with the Global Fund and other relevant international donors for close project planning and co-developing communications outputs
- Set up and maintain essential project management tools such as project plan, finance tracker, risk register etc.
- In consultation with the Global Fund, develop and coordinate implementation of a plan for cascading elements of the project in line with donor requirements.
- Working closely with your project team organise and deliver project activities in 2 different regions, in addition to working closely with project cohorts from 2020-2024, ensuring timely delivery, quality and effective risk management.
- Travel internationally, as required, to monitor project implementation and ensure programme quality.
Monitoring and evaluation
- With technical support from in-house MEAL Advisor, lead the implementation of the project’s MEAL Framework.
- Maintain qualitative oversight of planned deliverables.
- Facilitate the quarterly impact and board reporting of your project into the wider organsiation.
- Lead on project narrative, impact reporting to donors and internal senior stakeholders, including regular 6-montly reporting to the donor, based on required financial, programmatic and narrative templates.
- Ensure impact stories are captured for wider project communications.
- Contribute towards the strengthening of Project Cycle Management approaches and practice in collaboration with senior programme staff.
- Manage a final project evaluation
Budget Management
- Develop detailed understanding of grant budget, and donor compliance.
- Support your project team in understanding and following TRF finance policies and processes.
- Effectively manage project finances accurately, within TRF and donor finance policies and procedures.
- Lead in the monthly and quarterly accounting process for your budget, including monthly accruals and quarterly forecasting.
Technical Advisory, Strategy and Drive
- Maintain oversight and up to date knowledge of the political, security, legal and economic context of the project’s thematic and regional areas of focus.
- Identify, assess and manage risks to effectively to ensure the safety of project stakeholders and staff.
- Maintain consistent outreach to other actors in the field of media development/ youth engagement/ health development to ensure the project is accurately reflecting the context, building on existing initiatives and reflecting the environmental needs.
- Facilitate information sharing within the Programmes Team and with others across the Foundation.
- Closely liaise with projects donors and partners to ensure wider considerations are taken on board
- Participate in regular exchanges with the Global Fund to review workplans and agreed activities.
About You
To be our Project Manager you will likely have:
- Demonstratable experience of project and/or programme management (5+ years),
- Demonstratable experience of working with vulnerable youth constituencies to deliver context-sensitive development programmes.
- Experience of managing disbursed project teams, and a wide range of in-house and external technical consultants to deliver a wide range of deliverables on time and on budget.
- Experience in monitoring and evaluating the impact of such projects (developing logframes, theories of change, KPIs and reports).
- Experience in outreach and network development
- Experience of conducting research in technical project subject area.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work with changing priorities and time pressures.
- Pro-active and problem-solving attitude, able to take on new or existing projects and drive quality and impact.
- Ability to apply context-sensitive approaches to design and implementation of activities.
- Excellent grant financial acumen and excel skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills – able to establish and maintain positive working relationships both internally and externally, with people from diverse backgrounds including under challenging circumstances.
- Fluency in English.
Desired Knowledge, Skills & Experience.
- Experience of leading projects focused on vulnerable youth constituencies in West Africa would be a considerable asset.
- Experience working with global youth movements and advocacy related to HIV, TB and/or malaria would be a considerable asset.
- Experience of in the media development sector or role linked to human rights field.
- Knowledge or experience of vulnerable communities and barrier of access to health case would be an asset.
- Competency in French
Deadline: Not Stated
How to Apply: Interested candidates should use the links below to apply: