Senior Media Advisor

Join Our Team as a Senior Media Advisor at the International Republican Institute (IRI)! ABOUT IRI

The International Republican Institute (IRI) advances democracy and freedom. We link people with their governments, support politicians to be responsive to citizens, and motivate those citizens to engage in the political process.

At IRI, every employee plays a crucial role in advancing our mission across the globe. We’re looking for passionate individuals who embody our Core Values and are eager to contribute to our dynamic team. Our values include:

• Respect: We lead with trust, empathy, and dignity; empowering colleagues and partners.
• Teamwork: We collaborate across teams;solve problems together;are humble and ready to learn.
• Ownership: We take initiative; champion solutions; deliver results for IRI’s mission.
• Excellence through Execution: We balance thoughtfulness with timeliness; learn from results; prioritize progress over perfection.
• Transparency: We share information openly; give direct feedback; build trust through honest communication.
• Freedom: Weare empowered to make decisions, trynew approaches, and adapt as needed.

The Senior Media Advisor serves as Key Personnel on a global project and provides specialized strategic and technical advisory services across all program objectives. The global project will strengthen the resilience of independent media outlets to foreign state propaganda and coercive influence by expanding access to credible content, building the business sustainability of independent outlets, and delivering targeted technical assistance and training across multiple regions and languages.

The Senior Media Advisor provides subject matter expertise on media resilience, editorial independence, content distribution, and media sustainability to help ensure that program interventions align with project objectives and respond to evolving media ecosystem needs. In this capacity, the Senior Media Advisor advises on program design and implementation across all objectives; develops recommendations for independent content partnerships and wire service relationships;

provides technical guidance on a media resilience portal and associated content delivery system; supports media outlet recruitment and engagement strategies; and advises on technical assistance related to business sustainability, revenue diversification, monitoring, learning, and adaptive management.

The Senior Media Advisor also provides technical input to IRI’s coordination with the donor, project partners, content providers, consultants, and participating media organizations, and represents the technical quality of the program to donors, partners, and the broader media development community.

This position is located in Washington, DC.The Senior Media Advisor is expected to work in-office at least three days per week.

This position is contingent upon award of funding.

• Provide strategic and technical advisory services across all global objectives, advising the project team on program design, implementation approaches, sequencing of activities, and course corrections over the life of the program.
• Serve as the program’s principal subject matter expert on media resilience, editorial independence, content distribution, and media business sustainability, ensuring technical soundness and appropriateness to each media market served.
• Advise on the development and refinement of program tools, methodologies, curricula, and technical assistance packages, ensuring they reflect current evidence and good practice in independent media development.
• Assess evolving threats to independent media, including foreign state propaganda, information…