Capacity Building Manager

1 month ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom MEDIA LEGAL DEFENCE INITIATIVE Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Capacity Building Manager to join our team at the Media Legal Defence Initiative. As a key member of our capacity building team, you will play a critical role in developing and strengthening local legal capacity to defend, promote, and strengthen freedom of expression.

Key Responsibilities
  • Building capacity around the world by providing grants and technical support to organisations in key countries, enabling them to provide free, high-quality legal support directly to journalists and media outlets locally;
  • Running litigation surgeries for local lawyers in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa;
  • Facilitating cross-partner learning, promoting best practices in media defence litigation, and strengthening legal advocacy across the world, including building and maintaining an online resource hub of training materials and organising peer learning events;
  • Oversight of funded partners and training programmes design, objectives, goals, and budget;
  • Coordinate added value support to funded partners based on the partner's needs and explore possibilities for collaboration and cross-pollination;
  • Support partner/grant evaluations, including site visits;
  • Training programme design, ensuring activities are implemented to a high degree of quality;
  • Oversee the implementation and expansion of the training programme and build relationships with organisations in the relevant regions in line with the strategy;
  • Oversee the training budget, including reviewing financial reports, and financial and spending strategy within the budget;
  • Oversee the organisation of litigation surgeries to develop litigation and advocacy skills, including selection of participant lawyers, programme design, and all contractual, financial, and logistical aspects;
  • Engage consultants to develop training materials for litigation surgeries and ensure that Media Defence's capacity building resources on the Resource Hub are kept up to date;
  • Oversee the development and maintenance of regional networks of lawyers to foster peer learning with regular engagement and improve opportunities for regional outreach for Media Defence;
  • Work with the Legal Director to ensure that new resources are regularly created and that existing resources are kept up to date, including working with pro bono lawyers to create guidance for local lawyers on key media freedom issues;
  • Line management of Training Officer(s);
  • Ensure compliance with donor terms in all local legal capacity building;
  • With support from the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer, ensure M&E activities for local legal capacity building are successfully carried out;
  • Represent Media Defence at meetings, conferences, workshops, and to other international organisations as needed. This post requires international travel.
Requirements
  • At least five years' experience of capacity building or relevant programmatic work, including experience of organising training, as well as grant management in a legal environment and/or an international charity;
  • Experience of project management and excellent time management, administrative, and organisational skills;
  • Previous experience of administering donor funds and of budget management;
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, experience of communicating to a wide variety of audiences, excellent written and spoken English;
  • Ability to work in multi-cultural environments and build effective working relationships with partners and colleagues around the world and willingness to undertake international travel;
  • Proficient IT user including Microsoft Office Packages, internet, and email;
  • Knowledge of French, Spanish, and/or Arabic;
  • Knowledge of data protection regulations and experience of handling personal data;
  • Experience of monitoring and evaluation;
  • Familiarity with human rights/legal systems in relevant sub-regions.
What We Offer
  • Pension: Contributory pension scheme (employer matched contribution up to max.);
  • Annual leave: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays;
  • Office closed between 25 December and 1 January;
  • Opportunity to carry over five days into the following annual leave year;
  • Days' start/finish time is flexible;
  • On joining Media Defence, all employees are automatically able to access professional support through our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and a digital health app;
  • We offer an enhanced maternity and paternity leave package;
  • We provide a range of training and development tools to support our employees to improve or develop skills and knowledge for the benefit of both the individual and the organisation;
  • Equality and diversity are fundamental to our mission. We are committed to the recruitment and retention of individuals from diverse backgrounds and who reflect the diverse communities in which we operate.


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