About Zinc
Zinc Network is an ISO certified U.S. small business with offices in Washington, D.C., London (HQ), Tbilisi, and Warsaw. Zinc conceptualizes and creates programs, interventions, and strategic communications campaigns around some of the world’s most complex problems – from protecting information integrity, to countering violent extremism and promoting good governance. Zinc has 80+ team members from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds, including diplomats, behavioural scientists, researchers, content producers, digital experts, and service designers. Zinc works with a broad range of governmental, NGO, and private sector clients, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the U.S. Department of State (DOS); the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO); UN agencies and missions; and charitable foundations.
Introducing the role
Zinc seeks a DCoP for a US State Department funded program to help promote information integrity and independent media in Indonesia. The program will provide independent media and civil society organisations with grants, capacity building and training to help them produce and disseminate engaging, fact-based content.
What you’ll be doing:
The DCOP will oversee the delivery of program activities, including research and media landscape mapping, capacity-building for Indonesian media outlets and journalism schools. They will ensure independent media partners on the project understand digital market trends, audience preferences and attitudes, data analytics, and multi-platform opportunities, including through testing different content and formats.
They will support the Chief of Party (COP) with overall project performance and provide technical leadership and oversight for project activities. They must have demonstrated experience working with independent media in Indonesia.
We are looking for a natural leader who is constantly curious, driven, and able to adapt and overcome to deliver results in challenging operating environments. We value individuals who can live and breathe the subject matter, the strategy, and Zinc’s methodology while learning to navigate complex multi-stakeholder environments and mobilise networks on the ground to deliver meaningful, measurable change.
Responsibilities include:
• Oversee the delivery of in-depth analysis of media market in Indonesia.
• Develop the capacity of Indonesian independent media outlets and journalism schools by providing access to high quality, accurate, and objective content, as well as training, mentorship and equipment.
• Help them to better understand audience preferences and attitudes, data analytics, and digital market trends, helping them test different content and formats.
• Support the COP in providing overall leadership, management, and technical direction for the program; in the COP’s absence, serve as the primary liaison with the client on managerial, strategic, and technical matters, including responsibility for making key decisions and solving programmatic problems in a timely manner
• Support the preparation and delivery of high-quality reports to the client, including quarterly and annual reports, annual work plans, and technical and financial reports
• Ensure all contractual deliverables and reporting requirements are met and in compliance with USG rules and regulations
• Represent Zinc Network to the client, Indonesian counterparts, local partners, and other program stakeholders
• Monitor and, when needed, adapt activities to achieve results; ensure that activities are implemented effectively and in complementarity to other client activities
What we need from you:
• Minimum five (5) years of relevant, senior-level professional experience working with independent media, with a minimum of three (3) years of experience working in one of the program’s target countries
• Technically savvy across digital, data analytics, content production, and online news.
• At least four (4) years of experience managing and supervising staff
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with independent media outlets in Indonesia
• Professional level of oral and written fluency in the Indonesian and English languages
Conditions of Employment
Candidates who receive a job offer will be required to:
• Disclose any previous disciplinary action against them resulting from a substantiated safeguarding (including any breaches involving trafficking- related activities) or workplace investigation.
• Undergo background checks including employment verification, sexual offender registry (as available), identity confirmation, and anti-terrorism vetting.
Area of Selection
We’re committed to hiring a diverse workforce from different professional and cultural backgrounds, and to that end we encourage a variety of people to apply to join our company to represent the diverse range of subjects associated with our projects.
How to apply
Please include a CV showcasing how your background meets the position requirements. If you require an accommodation to be made at any point throughout the recruitment process, please let us know when contacted.
What we can offer you
The opportunity to work with colleagues from a diverse range of professional and cultural backgrounds including the very best ex-diplomats, television producers, digital media strategists, linguists, researchers, and behavioural scientists from both the public and private sector.
Across Zinc Network there’s a commitment by everyone to deliver meaningful, change across all the subject areas, social challenges, and policy goals we’re striving to achieve.
