Project Officer - Toronto, Canada - Digital Public Square

Description

Project Officer | Extremism, Misinformation and Public Trust | 12 month Term

Digital Public Square (DPS) seeks a project officer interested in helping us address extremism, misinformation and the erosion of public trust.

You will assist our team in researching the problem and then, together with affected communities and networks of experts, develop engaging online platforms that champion reliable information and promote healthy communities.

DPS works on some of the biggest threats to vulnerable communities today such as toxic mis/disinformation, and we help communities become more inclusive, responsive and empathetic.

Our commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging are baked into our culture and our technology offering:
equality comes from meaningful participation and diversity is how we grow.

We are a technology powered non-profit that works to build healthy communities enabled by good technology. We aren't a tech company that declared a mission. We are a mission-based non-profit that leverages technology to build great solutions.

We are looking for someone whose eyes light up when they hear about an opportunity to help grow an established entity; one that is rapidly accelerating within a working culture of smart, genuinely caring, and driven people.

Why not spend the next step in your career on work worth doing? We pay competitive wages and provide health benefits from the first day of employment.

What you will do

It's a wonderful moment to join us We are clear on our mission, we have experimented and know what works.

Working closely with Project leads and officers, you will join our programs team and help produce impactful program outcomes as a project officer.

• Support the project leads to execute on their program vision
• Conduct, catalog and coordinate research to support project initiatives
• Track online narratives and misinformation relevant to the project
• Work with a crossfunctional team of product managers, data scientists and strategists to launch campaigns
• Help with procurement and contracting of partners, vendors and subcontractors
• Assist in the development of online content with designers and community partners
• Communicate with team members, including relaying briefs, connecting daily tasks to larger goals, and providing context and support
• Support with the production of donor reports
• Help set impact metrics and track KPIs, and then communicate and celebrate successes

Who you are

We know that some of the best project people come from virtually any background so we've built the following list as a _guideline _for some of the skills and interests - but we strive to build our team with members from a diverse background and skill set, so if any combination of these applies to you, please apply.

• Character: integrity, honesty, credibility, passion
• 02 years experience on projects (Yes We're interested in 'freshers' and/or folks at the beginning of their career)
• Appetite for tech startup culture: able to communicate priorities and multitask
• Experimental mindset and evidencebased decision maker (we are a researchbased organization that will always ask for a hypothesis and how you will go about testing it)

How you work

• Thoughtful, flexible, and affable
• Thorough, with keen attention to detail
• Able to balance priorities of a diverse set of stakeholders on shared projects
• A critical thinker, not afraid to ask questions
• Active problem solver
• Collaborative and communicative
• Continuous learner
• Outcome and impact oriented
• Innovative
• Fosters healthy relationships

Bonus if you have any of the following (tell us about it in your cover letter)

• Demonstrated interest (academic, professional or lived) in projects related to extremism, public trust in institutions, the Canadian new media landscape and how it connects to global online trends
• Interest in the mis/disinformation space
• Interest in gamification, AI, and ethical use of technology
• Bilingualism or the ability to read French and English online content

We understand that joining a team is one of the most important decisions you make. Adding a team member is also one of the most important decisions we make. We want you to get to know us and we want to understand how you approach problems and learn.

Our vision is to build healthy communities that raise the quality of life for everyone, and that includes our team members.

To foster fairness and minimize bias, we have built a structured interview process that helps us get to each other.

Our goal is that everyone interviewed has a positive experience, regardless of the outcome.


Stage 1:

Send us your resume and a note about how your story connects to ours (for LinkedIn you have to put the note and resume in a single file).

Feel free to focus on what you have learned rather than just a list of responsibilities. Tell us your story We believe a resume should be a value proposition rather than simply a