Do you want to help drive high-impact projects in the civic technology and digital democracy space? Join our team to shepherd promising civic tech innovators from concept to scale while ensuring donor accountability and project excellence.
Code for Africa (CfA) has an immediate vacancy for a full-time Senior Project Manager to join our team.
Code for Africa (CfA) is Africa’s largest nonprofit network of digital democracy laboratories, with 130∼ full-time forensic researchers, data scientists, technologists (both software and hardware), digital storytellers and peer-mentor trainers working in support of watchdog civil society and investigative media partners in 26 African countries. CfA builds digital solutions that provide actionable information to citizens to encourage informed decisions while amplifying voices to strengthen civic engagement for improved public governance and evidence-driven accountability.
The successful candidates will work as part of a multinational and multilingual team using digital collaboration tools to create content for a global audience and international media partners. Your initial portfolio will be working with our TechLab and AI Sandbox teams.
Required: minimum requirements include:
- 4+ years of project management experience, preferably in development, civic tech, or social impact sectors
- Demonstrated experience managing complex multi-stakeholder initiatives with competing priorities and timelines
- Strong workplan development, tracking, and management skills
- Experience managing budgets and financial allocations across grants, fellowships, and organisational spend
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with project management tools (Asana, Trello, Google Suite, or equivalent)
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to remain calm and solution-focused under pressure
Preferred: candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:
- Experience building and managing relationships with media institutions, governments, international organisations, educational institutions, relevant technology players, and other private and not-for-profit relevant stakeholders in the civic technology and media ecosystem.
- Experience managing multiple projects, partners and team members across multiple time zones and cultures
- Experience working with a variety of teams, such as software engineering teams, journalists, trainers and data analysts
- Deep understanding of and experience in the technology, media ecosystem and/or digital innovation space in Africa.
Language and Location Requirements:
- Location: Exceptional candidates from anywhere in Africa are encouraged to apply. Remote work is supported.
- Languages: English (fluency)
- Preferred but not required: French, Arabic and any other African languages.
About the Role:
You will join CfA as the central orchestrator for a portfolio of investment-stage projects and grantee support initiatives. You will provide end-to-end project management coordination and support, harmonising development timelines, overseeing tracking mechanisms, and leading management of workplans to ensure all activities, tasks, and deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and to required quality standards.
Your core responsibilities will span project oversight (developing and managing workplans, coordinating cross-team delivery, flagging conflicts and risks), stakeholder engagement (serving as the primary point of contact for partners and internal teams), and reporting (producing programmatic reports that meet donor and internal governance requirements). You will act as the central nervous system of the programme; sequencing work, directing traffic between teams, and proactively solving problems as they arise.
Responsibilities: Your daily responsibilities will include:
Project Oversight:
- Develop, track, and manage work plans for your team/projects.
- Coordinate cross-team delivery with counterparts to ensure delivery on projects under your management.
- Liaise and work with counterparts across teams to ensure the team you work with adheres to timelines and delivers on projects not under your management.
- Ensure all activities, tasks, and deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and to the required quality standards.
- Proactively identify and find solutions for issues as they arise.
- Escalate issues to the StratCo for input and guidance when required.
- Work with the finance team to ensure that budget allocations, particularly for fellowships, grants and events, are managed and spent within CfA and partner guidelines.
- Act as the central point of coordination across teams, directing traffic, sequencing work, and flagging conflicts, where multiple projects carry overlapping deadlines and timelines.
- Coordinate closely with the Portfolio Manager to align workplans, priorities, and reporting timelines across shared initiatives.
Stakeholder Management:
- Act as the main point of contact for partners and stakeholders, providing regular updates.
- Actively engage with stakeholders, including external partners and internal staff, keeping them updated with project progress and managing expectations.
- Assess any stakeholder concerns, raising them with relevant teams to find solutions.
Reporting:
- Manage the preparation of stakeholder reports necessary for compliance with partner obligations and for internal management tracking of strategic goals.
- In conjunction with your team, ensure that monitoring metrics defined in the project documentation are recorded.
- Ensure reports produced meet CfA and partner quality standards.
- Ensure timely internal reviews of reports to meet compliance protocols ahead of submissions.
Knowledge Growth:
- Stay up-to-date with developing project management techniques and methodologies.
- Ensure a continued, baseline understanding of the methods, tools and techniques of the team(s) you support.
Admin Duties:
- Maintain a document archival system and adhere to record-keeping protocols for all communiques, project management, editorial production, engagement campaigns, and events.
- Manage the preparation of stakeholder reports necessary for compliance with partner obligations, as well as for internal management tracking of strategic goals.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
What We Offer:
- A competitive salary, subject to experience, with opportunities for performance-based growth, both in terms of career path and public stature.
- Medical insurance cover, underwritten by a remote-first provider to ensure cover wherever you are
- A dynamic workplace, with a transnational team, occasional international travel, and generous vacation benefits.
- Ongoing opportunities to learn new cutting-edge skills and techniques/technologies to future-proof yourself in a rapidly evolving industry.
- A chance to shine on a global stage, writing for international audiences and interacting with colleagues around the world.
How to apply:
Please fill in this form by 10 August 2026.
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
About Us:
Code for Africa (CfA) is the continent’s largest network of indigenous African civic technology and investigative data journalism laboratories, with over 125 staff in 26 countries, who build digital democracy solutions that are intended to give citizens unfettered access to actionable information that empowers them to make informed decisions and that strengthen civic engagement for improved public governance and accountability.
This includes building infrastructure such as the continent’s largest open data portal, open.AFRICA, and largest open source civic software portal, commons.AFRICA, as well as the largest repository of investigative document-based evidence, source.AFRICA, as well as incubating initiatives as diverse as the africanDRONE network that gives citizens their own ‘eyes in the sky’, the PesaCheck fact-checking initiative in 12 African countries, and the sensors.AFRICA remote-sensing citizen science initiative to combat air/water pollution.
CfA also incubates the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), as an association of the continent’s best investigative newsrooms, ranging from large traditional mainstream media to smaller specialist units. ANCIR member newsrooms investigate crooked politicians, organised crime and big business. The iLAB is ANCIR’s in-house digital forensic unit, with teams in east, south and west Africa. ANCIR uses its resources to strengthen newsrooms’ own internal capacity, by providing access to the world’s best whistleblower encryption and investigative semantic analysis technologies, as well as skills development, and seed grants for cross-border collaboration.
At CfA, we don’t just accept differences – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. CfA is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
To all recruitment agencies: CfA does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our employment application line, CfA employees or any other CfA contact. CfA is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Please note: Due to high volumes of applications, we are unable to respond to each one individually. If you are selected for an interview, we will contact you.