We’re hiring!

Digital Action is hiring a full-time Project Lead, to work in London alongside our Director of Strategy and Head of Campaigns Nick Martlew. Details here.

Digital Action is a new project working to counter digital threats to democracy, and we are looking to hire our fourth team member.

The Project Lead will care about the ways in which technology is impacting democracy around the world, and be driven to find and fight for concrete solutions to the challenges this throws up.

Digital Action’s way of working is through coalition building, building on the lessons from Crisis Action. Therefore the Project Lead will be interacting with partners from a range of backgrounds; on any project this might include researchers, activists, journalists, lawyers, coders, human rights defenders, bureaucrats, storytellers, project managers, lobbyists, funders, artists, consultants or diplomats. Experience in one or some of these areas would help, but we are more concerned with finding someone excited by the idea of bridging gaps and enabling effective collaboration than we are with any one area of expertise.

They will be joining the team at a busy time. With elections planned next year from the US to Myanmar, there will be a lot of attention paid to the ways that platforms can be used and misused to shape public opinion and political outcomes. This will coincide with concrete moves by local and regional bodies to work out how platform accountability can be implemented, without undermining human rights.

The Project Lead will be joining a small team, which means plenty of opportunities to help shape the strategy and direction, and to lead on impactful projects from the beginning. It also means mucking in with the day-to-day tasks of getting an organisation up and running.

More details can be found here. Applicants have until October 31st to apply, by sending a CV and cover letter, addressed to the Strategic Director Nick Martlew, to jobs@digitalaction.co