Project Director - Consultant role

Centre for Information Resilience

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) is seeking a Project Director to lead a multi-country, donor-funded program focused on strategic communications, OSINT-led investigation, and information environment work in complex, often fragile contexts. This role involves setting strategic direction, ensuring high-quality delivery, and leading a multidisciplinary team of OSINT analysts, investigators, and communications specialists. The Project Director will be the primary technical and relationship lead for senior donors and government counterparts. This is a hands-on leadership position for an individual who thrives in fast-paced environments, anticipates emerging information risks, and is passionate about using OSINT and strategic communications to counter harmful narratives, enhance information integrity, and achieve tangible results.

Requirements

Proven experience as a confident manager and leader of diverse, senior teams in changing, high-pressure, multi-country environments.
Experience applying adaptive management and establishing a productive working culture where team members collaborate effectively and deliverables are consistently met to a high standard.
Strong networking, stakeholder relationship-building, and management experience, including with government departments and other senior institutional actors.
Experience overseeing projects in complex or conflict-affected settings, with skilled use of adaptive program risk management.
Understanding of OSINT methods and their application within complex contexts.

Nice To Haves

Strong strategic communications experience, including work on narrative development, audience understanding, and challenging harmful narratives in support of policy or program objectives.
Familiarity with donor-funded programs focused on information integrity, counter-disinformation, CVE/PCVE, or related fields.
Experience of working on conflict-affected or fragile contexts, including understanding of political, media, and cultural dynamics.
German language is desirable.

Responsibilities

Define and oversee the strategic impact of a multi-country program, including the nature and scale of outputs and outcomes, aligned with organizational values and donor goals.
Provide clear direction to the project management team on resource allocation across countries and workstreams to maximize impact, value for money, and commercial performance.
Build and maintain strong relationships with senior donors, ensuring confidence in the quality, credibility, and responsiveness of the work.
Lead discussions with existing and potential new donors to expand or extend the multi-country program, advocating for technical approaches and collaborating on resourcing and budgets.
Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and team leadership to a senior, multidisciplinary team of OSINT analysts, investigators, and communications specialists.
Review key outputs, challenge assumptions, and steer analytical and communications approaches to meet donor objectives and contextual realities.
Develop and inspire a cohesive team dynamic where specialists across countries and disciplines support each other.
Oversee the design of the Monitoring and Evaluation framework with the M&E specialist, project manager, and senior technical staff.
Ensure the program’s risk management process draws on team insights and complies with donor reporting schedules.