Program Officer - Middle East and North Africa Program (MENA)

1.00 to 10.00 Years Amman, Jordan 27 Mar, 2023

Job Location	Amman, Jordan
Education	Not Mentioned
Salary	Not Mentioned
Industry	Recruitment & Employee Placement Agency
Functional Area	Not Mentioned

As a Program Officer at Open Society, you will:

Develop a strategy on media policy, access to information, information security and culture and arts in discussions with supervisor and with the broader MENA team.
Manage the current grants in the portfolio.
Explore new potential partnerships and internal/external engagement with policy makers, technical experts, media organizations, and culture/art producers and distributors in the MENA region.
Effectively coordinate with other Open Society Foundations programs, to design collaborative strategies, actions, and future campaigns/initiatives and identify opportunities to amplify partners efforts.
Participate in the development of overall program strategy and conduct research to support program design
Set and monitor budgets for your portfolio.
Support the strategy directions and lead the implementation in alignment with the portfolio and MENA Programs strategy.
Manage grantees under the unit and the identification of new actors that can advance the unit?s design, goals and impact role while undertaking ongoing assessment of portfolio.
Deliver a prescribed budget of work and track portfolios expenditure while working within established OSF systems.

Issue areas of knowledge and experience:

Artificial Intelligence, Data and Surveillance (e. g. Technology & Data)
Freedom of Assembly, Association and Expression (e.g. Expanding Civic Space)
Information and Digital Rights
Journalism and Media Policy
Equity and Anti-Discrimination (e.g. Disability Rights, Ethnicity & Health Equality, LGBTI Rights, Anti-Xenophobia, Citizenship, Identity & Documentation rights, Racial Justice Infrastructure, Racial, Religious & Ethnic Profiling)
Social and Economic Inclusion (e.g. Marginalized Groups & Voices, Minority Leadership & Empowerment, Government Delivery of Inclusive Services),
Protection of Practitioners ? including human rights defenders, journalists, scholars and students, anti-corruption activists, protestors, artists, and other critical voices of dissent

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