Deputy Project Director – Eyes on Russia
Centre for Information Resilience
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead a diverse team investigating war crimes and conflict-related events and uncovering critical insights for Ukrainian beneficiaries.
- Provide high-impact briefings informed by high quality investigations and analysis, and deep regional knowledge.
- Defines and oversees the strategic impact the project aims to achieve, and the nature and scale of the outputs and outcomes needed to do so, aligning with CIR values and donor goals, alongside the Project Director.
- Builds a strong relationship with senior donors alongside the Project Director, ensuring they have full confidence in the quality and impact of CIR’s work, and in the responsiveness of CIR to donor priorities.
- Provides technical guidance and mentorship to a multidisciplinary team of OSINT analysts, investigators, and specialists, including quality control of outputs and collaborations.
- Provides strategic direction to the project management team on how the project’s resources should be allocated to activities to maximise outcomes, impact and value for money, and to meet commercial targets if relevant.
- Oversees design of Monitoring and Evaluation framework by Monitoring and Evaluation specialist, project manager and senior technical staff including Theory of Change, Results Framework and mechanisms for collecting and synthesising data.
- Develops and inspires a cohesive and complimentary team dynamic where members support and assist each other across components, contributing to the overall success and impact of the project.
- Ensures the project’s risk management process draws on the diverse knowledge and insights of the team, to generate information required by CIR’s standard risk register, and to comply with donor reporting schedules.
- Leads discussions with existing and potential new donors to expand or extend the project, advocating technical methodologies and deliverables, and collaborating with the project manager and CIR leadership to develop resource plans and budgets.
Requirements
- An experienced, confident manager and leader for a diverse team in often changing environments. The Deputy Project Director will have experience applying adaptive management, and in establishing a productive working culture where team members work well together and deliverables are consistently met to a high standard.
- Strong networking / stakeholder relationship building and management experience, including with a range of stakeholders, including government departments - ideally in Ukraine.
- Experience of overseeing projects in complex conflict settings, and skilled at adaptive programme risk management.
- Strong understanding of OSINT methods and application within Human Rights and Justice & Accountability.
- Strong OSINT skills with experience in leading investigations.
- Native Ukrainian or Fluent in Ukrainian with deep contextual knowledge of Ukraine.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
OSINT methodsadaptive managementproject managementrisk managementinvestigationsMonitoring and Evaluation frameworkTheory of ChangeResults Frameworkdata synthesisstakeholder management
Soft Skills
leadershipteam buildingrelationship buildingcommunicationmentorshipstrategic directioncollaborationcultural competencyproblem-solvingadaptability