Вакансія: Expert on countering disinformation

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About Alinea International:

Alinea International is one of Canada’s leading international development firms, providing management and technical expertise to developing and transitional country partners on projects that promote sustainable growth and meaningful opportunities for people to improve their lives. Over the past 30 years, we have implemented over 370 projects in more than 65 countries.

Alinea International has two offices in Canada and 11 offices around the world, including an office in Ukraine. Over the almost thirteen-year of Alinea International presence in Ukraine, the team successfully implemented five international technical assistance projects.

About the project:

In October 2019, Alinea International launched a new five-year project in Ukraine: Support Ukraine Reforms in Governance (SURGe). SURGe is a technical assistance project in Ukraine, funded by Global Affairs Canada and implemented by Alinea International Ltd.

SURGe’s Ultimate Outcome is to help the Government of Ukraine (GoU) to deliver governance and economic reforms that better respond to the needs of its citizens. To achieve this, the Project will strategically enhance and strengthen the GoU’s reform management functions, namely its capacity to undertake planning and analysis of reforms that consider citizen impact and to implement these reforms.

Reform initiative and position summary:

SURGe assists the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine (MCIP) to establish effective internal and external communications. The goal is for Ukraine to be well understood and supported globally through the provision of factual and undistorted information about Ukraine, at home and abroad.

SURGe is looking for Expert on countering disinformation who will conduct need assessment, analyze national legal framework and international experience, develop recommendations, guidance and other deliverables to achieve one of the initiative’s objectives: strengthen the capacity of the Ministry to counter disinformation and information operations, primarily of the aggressor state.

Level of effort: Full time, Monday-Friday. The expert will be based in Kyiv with the possibility of partly online work.

Remuneration: fees are subject to negotiation and must not exceed established market rates.

The duration of the contract is 6 months with a possibility of extensions (subject of approval and implemented deliverables during a previous deployment).

For contracting (after the job offer is made), the selected candidate is expected to be registered as a Private Entrepreneur of the 3d group (consultancy services).

Indicative duties and responsibilities (scope of work):

1. Conduct needs assessment in the area of information policy and information security.
2. Develop and implement together with MCIP communication campaigns aimed at ensuring the protection of the national information security, analyze the efficiency of the campaign.
3. Analyze international experience in countering disinformation, misinformation and deepfakes.
4. Develop recommendation and tools to integrate best practices in countering disinformation, misinformation and deepfakes into MCIP work.
5. Develop recommendations on effective communication about counteracting disinformation and work of the Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security.
6. Develop other initiative deliverables (guidelines, instructions, checklists, draft legal acts etc.) and ensure their implementation by the MCIP.
7. Contribute to the development of the operational plan of the initiative.
8. Contribute to implementation of the State Information Security Strategy.
9. Create links and maintain effective working relationship with stakeholders in the area of information security.
10. Adhere to the principles of RBM, GBA+ and environmental sustainability in preparation of the deliverables.
11. As agreed with SURGe, ensure visibility of the Government of Canada support to this initiative in conferences, meetings, seminars, working groups, interaction with public authorities, non-governmental organizations, and other international technical assistance projects.
12. Prepare and draft other documents and activities as requested by SURGe and Government of Ukraine related to initiative’s scope.

Preferred qualifications and skills:

• 5+ years of proven experience in information security and countering disinformation
• Master’s degree in communications, history, information policy, management or related area
• Experience in consultancy to the Government of Ukraine is a plus
• Knowledge of the government policy making cycle and national reform agenda, public administration
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Other experience and skills:
• Results driven highly-motivated expert with sound judgement and maturity
• Strong ethics, well-balanced and mature personality, positive attitude to the job
• Strong organizational skills, ability to work under tight deadlines
• Excellent knowledge of Ukrainian, ability to speak and write clearly and correctly
• Good command of English, both written and speaking skills
• Citizen of Ukraine

To apply:

Submissions must be prepared in English and delivered electronically till February 28, 2023 to the following address: [email protected].

All submissions must include:

1) Applicant’s CV in English (max. 2 pages).
2) Applicant’s letter of interest (max. 500 words).

Please, ensure to state Expert on countering disinformation (Crisis Communications) in the e-mail subject line.

Please note, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for follow-up. We do not welcome unsolicited phone calls.
Applications received after the indicated deadline and/or without letter of interest will not be reviewed and considered.
The interview process might start before the vacancy deadline.