🇸🇱 Job Vacancies @ BBC Media Action

Freetown | Sierra Leone Posted 3 days ago Posted on Education / Teaching / Training, Project Management

BBC Media Action is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Project Manager
2.) Training and Production Manager

See job details and how to apply below.

1.) Project Manager

Who we are

We are the BBC’s international charity. We believe in the power of media and communication for good. With our extensive network of partners in more than 20 countries, BBC Media Action reaches more than 100 million people a year – helping to save lives, protect livelihoods, support media and counter misinformation, challenge prejudice and build democracy.

Why work with us

At BBC Media Action, you don’t work for us; you work with us. We are a creative and dynamic team, with an exciting work environment and culture that supports and enables people to thrive. When you work with us, you’re contributing to helping tackle some of the biggest challenges facing people and communities.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a highly skilled and experienced project manager to lead a new media for-youth project. This ideal candidate must demonstrate strong leadership skills and a track record of project set-up and delivery, including budgeting and expenditure management; partner and grants management, production oversight, youth programme delivery and research and learning. The role will involve working closely with other BBC Media Action teams, as well as young people. Therefore, creative thinking, problem solving, analytical skills, and good communication skills are essential.

Specific job requirements and competencies

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Experience managing a multi-disciplinary team to deliver development projects, including project design, developing workplans, deploying resources and adhering to log-frame commitments;
Strong skills in managing budgets and good knowledge of budget and project management tools and software;
Experience writing activity and project reports, and the strong written communication skills to do so effectively;
Ability to build strong working relations quickly and gain the trust of local partners and counterparts;
Strong analytical skills, good judgement and decision-making abilities, as well as innovative project delivery and problem-solving skills
Working with us requires a strong commitment to diversity, equality, and safeguarding.

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Scope of work

The Project Manager will lead day-to-day implementation of the Dis Na Wi Voice project, ensuring timely delivery of activities, coordination with FSTP recipients, oversight of youth-focused media and digital components, and compliance with EU requirements. The role ensures supporting various teams to deliver activities on time and according to budget. It will also involve providing leadership and support to the training and production team to deliver capacity building for young people and partners and strengthening linkages between all components of the project.

Responsibilities

Project management and delivery: take overall responsibility for day-to-day coordination of all project strands, ensuring that activities align with timelines in the action plan and meet milestones. This will involve working with management to set up the project, finalise work plans and tools, as well as recruitment of project staff.

Partner management: To serve as the primary liaison with the three university radio stations and national media partners receiving grants on this project. Will be responsible for initiating grant agreements, work plans and reporting requirements. Partner management also means supporting partners to solve problems and deliver impactful activities.

Oversee selection, training and mentoring activities: The project manager will provide oversight of all training and mentoring activities, supporting the training and production manager, as well as partners to select hub participants, facilitators and digital stewards, among others, ensuring safe, inclusive and gender-sensitive participation of young people in all activities.

Content and production oversight: Will take overall responsibility for coherent implementation of the project brand and content ecosystem across radio, digital and mainstream outlets. The project manager will support the Training and Production Manager and Digital Producer to maintain editorial quality and alignment with project objectives.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning: To work closely with the Research and Learning Team to monitor activities, including quarterly progress reviews and partner reporting. The project manager will support baseline and endline research, digital analytics tracking, and content review assessments.

Reporting and Compliance: Will be responsible for preparing reports in line with EU requirements. This includes ensuring compliance with EU rules on visibility, grant management, procurement, and safeguarding.

Safeguarding: Uphold and promote strict adherence to BBC Media Action’s safeguarding, respect-at-work and health and safety policies across all production and training activities. This includes ensuring a safe, respectful, inclusive, and non-exploitative environment for all youth participants and a responsibility for reporting safeguarding concerns promptly, following BBC Media Action protocols. Safeguarding considerations must also be integrated into training, content production, and outreach activities.

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BBC Media Action works to ensure that everyone we work with remains safe during their time with us, and we operate a zero-tolerance policy concerning all forms of abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people. As this role will involve working with groups of vulnerable children, youth, and adults, mandatory training will be provided on BBC Media Action’s safeguarding policy and staff code of conduct.

How to apply

Are you the right fit? Is this something you want to do? Send your CV with a cover letter to recruitment@sl.bbcmediaaction.org. Please use the job title in the subject and do get in touch if you have any questions. Sorry, we do not accept hardcopy or hand-delivered applications. You have until 15/12/2025 to apply.

2.) Training and Production Manager

JOB TITLE: Training and Production Manager

LOCATION: Freetown

REPORTS TO: Project Manager

DURATION: 12 Months (with the possibility of an extension)

_________________________________________________________________________ Who we are

We are the BBC’s international charity. We believe in the power of media and communication for good. With our extensive network of partners in more than 20 countries, , BBC Media Action reaches more than 100 million people a year – helping to save lives, protect livelihoods, support media and counter misinformation, challenge prejudice and build democracy.

Why work with us

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a highly creative person who combines strong production and editorial skills with training and mentoring experience. This is a key role in a new media-for-youth project. Therefore, the ideal candidate must demonstrate strong creative ability with a proven record of designing and delivering exciting and engaging multimedia content for young people. They must have experience of leading a team and working with young people; ability to exercise strong editorial judgement while remaining excitingly creative; manage budgets and talents; and be interested in the development of others. We rely on our partnerships to deliver our work. This makes it important for the successful person to have experience in managing partnerships, especially with local media, government institutions, and other partnerships. It is also important that they demonstrate that they are good team player. We are looking for competencies in editorial judgement, creative leadership, managing relationships, planning and organising and developing others.

Scope of work

The Production and Training Manager role sits at the heart of our new media-for-youth project, funded by the European Union. The successful person will lead the development, coordination, and delivery of all production, training, and mentoring activities across the three youth-led media hubs based at university radio stations. The role ensures high-quality content creation, supports youth capacity building, and strengthens linkages between university hubs, community youth, and mainstream media partners. It will also involve working with young people to establish and maintain a vibrant youth-led digital community that enables young people to express themselves and engage meaningfully on various issues affecting them.

Responsibilities

Training and Capacity-strengthening: work with the team to design and deliver structured training, mentoring programmes for youth content creators across multiple platforms; train participants in journalism basics, content planning, storytelling, audio/video production, editing, and social media strategy; coordinate visiting trainers, mentors, and subject-matter experts; provide ongoing coaching and skills assessments to ensure steady capacity growth; Production Management: To oversee all youth-led content production (radio shows, social content, community stories, mini-documentaries); ensure each hub maintains consistent production schedules and meets high technical and editorial quality standards; support youth

teams with script development, field recording, editing, and final packaging of content; work with university radio stations and guide outreach-based content development in surrounding communities;

Hub Coordination and Technical Oversight: Work with the project team and station managers at FBC, Central University, and Njala to manage access, equipment use, and operational needs; ensure production equipment is functional, well-maintained, and safely stored;

Digital Community Support: Work with the digital team to create content and adapt hub content for the youth-led digital community on social media; support youth in generating user-driven content and moderating discussions in the digital community; encourage community participation and ensure content reflects diverse youth perspectives.

How to apply