Project & Operations Manager – Sudan Team

<h1>Project & Operations Manager – Sudan Team</h1><p><strong>Department: </strong>Campaigns</p><p><strong>Employment Type: </strong>Part Time</p><p><strong>Location: </strong>Remote</p><br><br><h3>Description</h3><div> <strong>Position overview</strong><br><br>The Project & Operations Manager will play a central coordination and operational role supporting Avaaz’s Sudan-focused campaigning and advocacy work. This person will help drive project management, communication flow, accountability, and follow-through across a fast-moving and globally distributed team.<br><br> </div><div>The role will act as a key bridge between the Sudan team and the broader Avaaz team, ensuring projects move forward effectively, priorities are tracked, payments and contracts are managed efficiently, and communications remain clear and coordinated internally and externally.<br><br> </div><div>This role is ideal for someone highly organized, proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in dynamic, high-intensity advocacy environments with many moving parts.<br><br> </div><div>The role is fast paced, and deals with intense and harrowing materials. This role is for someone who is passionate about human rights and thrives in fast moving teams. </div><br><br><h3>Responsibilities</h3><div>Coordinate operational and project management support for the Sudan campaign team:</div><ul> <li>Drive day-to-day project coordination, tracking, and follow-through across multiple campaign workstreams</li> <li>Help ensure deadlines, deliverables, and action items are clearly documented, assigned, and completed</li> <li>Coordinate communication between Sudan-focused staff, consultants, partners, and the wider Avaaz team</li> <li>Schedule meetings, prepare agendas, track decisions, and manage follow-up actions</li> <li>Build and maintain clear systems for project management, workflows, documentation, and information sharing</li> <li>Support payments and file expense reports</li> <li>Track the Budget and provide regular updates</li> <li>Assist with logistics and coordination for campaign activities, media moments, events, travel, or special projects</li> <li>Support communications and coordination with journalists, media contacts, and external stakeholders</li> <li>Help draft, organize, and track external outreach and correspondence</li> <li>Provide operational support across a range of campaign activities and rapid-response moments</li> <li>Proactively identify coordination gaps, bottlenecks, or operational challenges and help resolve them.</li> </ul><br><br><h3>Skills and Competencies </h3><ul> <li>Able to work part-time hours with overlap across Sudan and the East coast of the US</li> <li>Fluent Arabic speaking is desirable, but not essential for this role</li> <li>Strong project management, coordination, and operational skills</li> <li>Exceptional follow-through and attention to detail</li> <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li> <li>Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment</li> <li>Strong organizational systems and ability to keep teams aligned and accountable</li> <li>Experience supporting campaigning, advocacy, media, humanitarian, or nonprofit teams preferred</li> <li>Comfortable coordinating across distributed and multicultural teams</li> <li>Experience managing media or journalist communications is an asset</li> <li>Calm under pressure, adaptable, and solutions-oriented</li> <li>Motivated by the fight for human rights, justice, and protecting democracy.</li> </ul><br><br><h3>Location</h3><div>Avaaz is a global organization, with most of our work done remotely. Our staff are based all over the world. For this position, the candidate would ideally be based in the United Kingdom or Western European time zones.<br><br> </div><div> <strong>Compensation and Benefits<br></strong><br> </div><div>GBP 25 per hour (UK rate), with a minimum commitment of 20 hours per week and a maximum of 30 hours per week. The final hourly rate and currency will be determined based on the candidate's location.</div>

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