Part-Time Rapid Response Regional Coordinators

Localization Lab is hiring five regional coordinators (part-time) to support the organisation’s community engagement in emergencies that require tools and provide internet access and secure communications.

Each of the regional coordinators will be focused on media monitoring in one of five assigned Global Majority regions and will support their work by strengthening and expanding ties with local organisations in their network to identify and respond quickly to censorship and other digital threats. The regions will include:

• East, South, and Southeast Asia
• Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• West, East, and Southern Africa
• Middle East and North Africa

Responsibilities

• Conduct research with communities to document emerging and ongoing digital threats to freedom of expression in the assigned region
• Monitor and identify emerging digital rights threats in the region and produce weekly trend reports
• Collaborate with research and community engagement teams to develop case reports and design the project scope and deliverables to response quickly to emergent issues
• Support their community engagement team in developing and strengthening our relationships with local partners and collaborators
• Coordinate the translation, review, and quality assurance of tools with their localization management team
• Develop translation and design sprints with their localization management and community engagement teams
• Document user experiences and needs after the tool is live to ensure quality assurance

Qualifications

• At least 2-3 years of research and/or community engagement experience in the digital rights space
• Demonstrable knowledge and familiarity with the regional context (language, culture, political economy, and digital development) for which you are applying
• Eagerness to work directly with and support local communities
• Near native proficiency in English and native proficiency in a language local to the region for which you are applying
• Excellent time management skills and ability to work under pressure
• Flexible working hours and ability to work “all hands on deck” during a rapid crisis response project
• Ability to work across different time zones

Nice to have experience in:

• Conducting media monitoring research
• Supporting digital rights and security projects
• Translation and design of digital technology tools
• Working remotely in an organisation with a distributed staff

How to apply

The deadline for applications is July 21, 2024. To learn more and apply, please click here.