Media Development Advisor at BBC Media Action

Purpose of the Role

• The Media Development Advisor will provide technical leadership to BBC Media Action’s two multi-country media development projects, as well as providing expert input to the organisation’s wider strategies and support on the area of media development.

Your Key Responsibilties and Impact

• Convene and commission technical expertise to ensure that project teams and partners have access to the best learning, research and technical advice.
• Advise project teams and partners on the design and delivery of capacity strengthening and related activities.
• Support the development and delivery of an evidence generation strategy for the projects.
• Working closely with the programme director, ensure that project results are used to support external policy engagement, including maintaining key technical networks and representing the projects and organisation externally.
• Support the maintenance and development of donor relationships and contribute to the design and development of new media development programming across the organisation.
• Work with partners and country teams to design and develop project tools such as Theories of Change and logical frameworks.
• Work with research teams to coordinate project monitoring and ensure this is feeding into project learning.

Your Skills and Experience
Essential Criteria:

• World-class knowledge and expertise of what influences healthy media ecosystems and how to achieve impact.
• Senior level experience in media development, journalism, current affairs or a closely related area.
• Well-developed ability to work with colleagues and partners across a range of different cultural and professional contexts.
• Experience of supporting professionals working in low-resource settings is highly desirable.
• Experience of technical design for donor-funded media development programmes.
• Extensive contacts and high-level networking ability within the field of media development.
• Proven ability to form and maintain external institutional and professional relationships with others in the field.
• Excellent communication and writing skills.
• Good contextual understanding of one or more of the anticipated focus geographies for the portfolio (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zambia).
• Arabic, French and/or Spanish language skills.