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 GMRs 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 projects launch/dissemination events.
• Work within GMRs 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

• 23 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.

• International collaboration within a dynamic diverse and highly experienced team.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements with partial on-site presence in our Berlin office.