Description

Responsible to: Senior Grants Officer

Salary range: £29,772 – £33,000

Key relationships: CEO, Legal team, external lawyers, partners and beneficiaries

Location: Media Defence, 5 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LG, UK

Hours: 37.5 hours (flexible), occasional evening and weekend work

Media Defence is a charity that helps journalists around the world defend their rights. We support independent media, journalists and bloggers who are under legal threat by making sure that lawyers are available to defend them. We engage in strategic litigation to improve the regulatory environment for media freedom, make grants to organisations in various countries to run media defence programmes, support individual journalists facing legal action by covering their lawyers’ fees, and build the capacity of the lawyers and organisations we work with on issues of media law. Founded in 2008, we have established ourselves as a leader in the field.

We are currently looking for a Grants Officer to join our small and dedicated team to support our emergency defence programme and build long-term relationship with our partner organisations throughout the world.

Main Responsibilities

Grants Management

Emergency defence programme

We ensure quality legal representation is available to journalists by paying for legal fees, connecting them to a lawyer if they do not have one, and providing lawyers with technical legal support thanks to our in-house legal team.

As grants officer, you will:

• Support journalists when applying to us for financial support to help cover their legal fees, and assist with research and outreach to potential beneficiaries.
• Oversee the individual emergency defence grant application process and administer grants, including application assessment, approval process, payments and grant compliance.
• Build strong and lasting relationships with the journalists we support and their lawyers in order to monitor the impact of our support, broaden our networks, and continue to offer support in future cases.
• Work in collaboration with other press freedom organisations that support journalists around the world.

Funded partners programme

We build capacity around the world by providing grants and technical support to organisations in key countries. This enables them to provide free, high quality legal support directly to journalists and media outlets locally.

As grants officer, you will:

• Be the first point of contact for current or potential partners, assessing applications and managing the grant-making process, including contracting with the grantee, setting key performance indicators, financial management and reporting requirements.

• Monitor the progress of the grants, including administering changes in contract and budget amendments and reviewing interim and annual reports.
• Build strong relationships with our partners and provide additional support as may be required by them, as well as exploring possibilities for collaboration and cross-pollination.

• Travel internationally, visiting our partners on site when necessary

Post source:jobs.theguardian.com

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Name:MEDIA LEGAL DEFENCE INITIATIVE

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