The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF) is seeking a regional director for Southern Africa. Full-time position, based in South-Africa with a preference for working from Johannesburg.
Job responsibilities
- Work alongside PPLAAF teams in South Africa, Senegal and France to achieve PPLAAF’s objectives
- Define and implement PPLAAF’s strategy in Southern Africa
- Lead advocacy efforts for whistleblower protection in Southern Africa
- Represent PPLAAF in meetings with government officials, civil society organizations, journalists and others
- Oversee and monitor whistleblowers who receive PPLAAF support
- Receive new whistleblowers and potential whistleblowers and hand them support as fit
- Coordinate investigative consortiums based on whistleblowers disclosures
- Represent PPLAAF in media interviews
- Raise funds for PPLAAF Southern Africa activities
- Manage and monitor PPLAAF grants and funds for Southern Africa
- Hire and manage a project coordinator and occasional interns for PPLAAF in Southern Africa
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in law, journalism or civil society. At least, 2 of which in similar level
- Plus: knowledge of whistleblower protection law and landscape
- Understanding and commitment to PPLAAF’s values
- Ability to handle a large workload, work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision
- Strong management and organizational skills
- Proven capacity to participate in fundraising
- Good personal skills
- Excellent communications skills, both oral and written (excellent report & proposal writing), including public speaking
- Willingness and ability to travel nationally and internationally.
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment
- Languages other than English a plus
Please send CV (with at least two references), cover letter and writing sample to [email protected] by October 10th, 2021.