Project & Operations Manager – Sudan Team

Position description

Avaaz is an international campaigning and advocacy organization that provides its global membership of almost 70 million people with opportunities to make our world a better place.

We’re one of the world’s largest online global campaigning movements, with people from every corner in the world taking action to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want. This includes protecting human rights worldwide, supporting indigenous struggles, saving our planet from climate change and other threats.

Our model enables people to channel their voices into a powerful collective force at tipping point moments to impact the pressing global challenges of our time, from climate and ecological collapse to human rights abuses and the dismantling of democracy. Avaaz is funded through small donations from individual Avaaz members, no big money from governments or corporations. This keeps us independent and allows us to keep a laser focus on doing what the world needs.

Position Overview

The Project & Operations Manager will play a central coordination and operational role supporting Avaaz’s Sudan-focused campaigning and advocacy work. This person will help drive project management, communication flow, accountability, and follow-through across a fast-moving and globally distributed team.

The role will act as a key bridge between the Sudan team and the broader Avaaz team, ensuring projects move forward effectively, priorities are tracked, payments and contracts are managed efficiently, and communications remain clear and coordinated internally and externally.

This role is ideal for someone highly organized, proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in dynamic, high-intensity advocacy environments with many moving parts.

The role is fast paced, and deals with intense and harrowing materials. This role is for someone who is passionate about human rights and thrives in fast moving teams.

Key Responsibilities

Coordinate operational and project management support for the Sudan campaign team:

• Drive day-to-day project coordination, tracking, and follow-through across multiple campaign workstreams
• Help ensure deadlines, deliverables, and action items are clearly documented, assigned, and completed
• Coordinate communication between Sudan-focused staff, consultants, partners, and the wider Avaaz team
• Schedule meetings, prepare agendas, track decisions, and manage follow-up actions
• Build and maintain clear systems for project management, workflows, documentation, and information sharing
• Support payments and file expense reports
• Track the Budget and provide regular updates
• Assist with logistics and coordination for campaign activities, media moments, events, travel, or special projects
• Support communications and coordination with journalists, media contacts, and external stakeholders
• Help draft, organize, and track external outreach and correspondence
• Provide operational support across a range of campaign activities and rapid-response moments
• Proactively identify coordination gaps, bottlenecks, or operational challenges and help resolve them

Qualifications

• Able to work part-time hours with overlap across Sudan and the East coast of the US
• Fluent Arabic speaking is desirable, but not essential for this role
• Strong project management, coordination, and operational skills
• Exceptional follow-through and attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational systems and ability to keep teams aligned and accountable
• Experience supporting campaigning, advocacy, media, humanitarian, or nonprofit teams preferred
• Comfortable coordinating across distributed and multicultural teams
• Experience managing media or journalist communications is an asset
• Calm under pressure, adaptable, and solutions-oriented
• Motivated by the fight for human rights, justice, and protecting democracy

Application instructions

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