Junior Project Manager - Media Ownership Monitor

About GMR

Global Media Registry (GMR) is a German non-profit social enterprise working at the intersection of media, technology, and regulation. GMR supports transparency, accountability, and pluralism in the media and information space, working with partner organisations, regulators, academia and civil society worldwide.

About MOM

The Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) is GMR's flagship media transparency initiative, active in over 26 countries worldwide. MOM identifies the most audience-relevant, opinion shaping media outlets in a given country, documents their ownership and affiliated interests, and contextualises findings against the local legal and market environment. Results are published on a multi-lingual website produced with a local partner organisation.

About the Role

The Junior MOM Project Manager supports delivery of one or more MOM country projects, working closely with the Senior MOM Project Manager. MOM projects run through a fixed cycle: kick-off and researcher training, data collection and profile production, then website publication. This role provides hands-on coordination and production support at each stage, without carrying independent delivery responsibility. It is a role with a clear growth path toward independent project management within MOM.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor day-to-day progress against work plans; prepare and circulate meeting agendas and minutes.
• Provide first-pass editing support on narrative elements and outlet, owner, and company profiles.
• Draft and send outreach to media outlets and Freedom of Information Requests as part of the research process.
• Coordinate (translation) workflows for website content.
• Maintain project file structure and documentation.
• Handle and coordinate content and database system uploads (e.g. Craft, Pimcore) across projects and languages.
• Organise logistics for workshops, advisory group meetings, and events, including the project's launch/dissemination events.
• Work within GMR's core database (Pimcore), assigning and tracking IDs, with a growth path toward independent, and eventually admin-level, ownership of this work.
• Manage own time and priorities within the overall project planning.

Candidate Profile

• 2–3 years' experience in journalism, media research, and experience project coordination.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail; comfortable managing multiple parallel tasks.
• Good writing and editing skills.
• Comfortable working in a fully digital, cloud-based environment (Google Workspace, Drive, Slack). Experience working with structured data is a plus. CMS experience is a plus but not required.
• Intercultural sensitivity; awareness of the do-no-harm principle when supporting research in sensitive contexts.
• Genuine interest in building toward independent editing, methodology application, and project management over time.

Practical Details

• Languages: English fluency required; French a strong asset; additional languages a plus.
• Travel: International travel required at key project milestones.