Required: minimum requirements include:

• A minimum of 3 years work experience, with 1+ years in a similar role.
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering discipline.
  
• A technical understanding of security controls, including but not limited to; data protection, user access management, and general application security.
  
• A passion for helping vulnerable or at-risk users in the media or other civic watchdogs, specifically women in journalism and politics 
  
• An ability to translate complex technical ideas to simple, easy to understand language for non-technical users
  
• Experience developing user-facing content and comfortable presenting to different types of audiences, large and small.
  
• Amazing verbal and written communication skills, with English as your primary work language
  
• French and/or Arabic are highly desirable additional languages, alongside major indigenous African languages such as KiSwahili or Hausa
  

Preferred: candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

• Knowledge of modern software development and deployment tools (e.g. Python, Docker, etc.), and public cloud provider technologies (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
  
• A technical understanding of CDNs, DDoS, web caching, DNS and related technologies will be a major advantage.
  
• Strategic thinking and great problem-solving skills.
  
• Evidence of experience at successfully building and maintaining a wide array of relationships with both internal colleagues and external partners
  
• Demonstrated experience of working effectively as part of a geographically distributed multicultural team will be an advantage
  

Required: minimum requirements include:

• A minimum of 3 years work experience, with 1+ years in a similar role.
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering discipline.
  
• A technical understanding of security controls, including but not limited to; data protection, user access management, and general application security.
  
• A passion for helping vulnerable or at-risk users in the media or other civic watchdogs, specifically women in journalism and politics 
  
• An ability to translate complex technical ideas to simple, easy to understand language for non-technical users
  
• Experience developing user-facing content and comfortable presenting to different types of audiences, large and small.
  
• Amazing verbal and written communication skills, with English as your primary work language
  
• French and/or Arabic are highly desirable additional languages, alongside major indigenous African languages such as KiSwahili or Hausa
  

Preferred: candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

• Knowledge of modern software development and deployment tools (e.g. Python, Docker, etc.), and public cloud provider technologies (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
  
• A technical understanding of CDNs, DDoS, web caching, DNS and related technologies will be a major advantage.
  
• Strategic thinking and great problem-solving skills.
  
• Evidence of experience at successfully building and maintaining a wide array of relationships with both internal colleagues and external partners
  
• Demonstrated experience of working effectively as part of a geographically distributed multicultural team will be an advantage
  

• Establish a security standard that all technologies and solutions at CfA, managed by your fellow technologists, must be held against to ensure the online safety of both internal and external users.
  
• Build a dynamic pan-African digital security community for the media and other civic watchdogs, based on peer-learning and peer-support.
  
• Manage a virtual ‘hotline’ and support service for African newsrooms and/or journalists who need urgent help on digital security and investigative technology issues.
  
• Develop and deliver a range of technical and non-technical presentations / webinars / classes to help impact digital security skills and investigative technology awareness.
  
• Manage an onboarding and support service for newsrooms and/or journalists who adopt any CfA-endorsed technologies or digital solutions.
  
• Identify events, organisations, and other approaches to build awareness of CfA security projects, tools, and technologies and to drive partner activation.
  
• Develop metrics to measure success in raising awareness and activating partnerships, for progress tracking by the core CfA team and partners.
  
• Provide ongoing support to regional CfA teams in their own outreach efforts.