Code for Africa: Community Coordinator
Code for Africa (CfA) has immediate vacancies for a full-time bilingual Community Coordinator (French and English speaking), to join our Communities team. This role can be based in one of our hubs in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda, though exceptional candidates from other African countries will also be considered.
Candidates must have demonstrable experience in community management or a related field, project management skills, and excellent written and verbal communication skills. Bilingual applicants in French and English will have an advantage.
The role offers an exciting opportunity to help nurture CfA’s Communities of Practice(CoP). CfA’s Communities Team is building and nurturing CfA’s flagship networks, such as the africanDRONE community, African Fact-Checking Alliance network (ACFA), Hacks/Hackers, sensors.AFRICA network (EcoSense Collective), WanaData, and the African Wikipedian Alliance (AWA) and the Wikipedian-in-residence (WiR) community, with a network of more than 1500 members across Africa. These networks engage professionals from various fields such as journalism, data science, fact-checking, technology, research, and more.
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.