Project Lead – Revenue Experimentation (Contract)
The American Journalism Project’s Product & AI Studio (PAIS) is seeking a Project Lead to work on a contract basis for twelve months on a project that aims to expand the impact of AI-powered solutions within nonprofit news organizations.
This project’s focus is to design, build, and test new AI-powered tools and agents for revenue growth. The project lead will work with revenue, development, and product staff in nonprofit newsrooms to improve the process for prospecting; grant applications; award submissions; earned revenue opportunities; and more.
This is a unique opportunity to work with a diverse subset of AJP’s portfolio, collaborating with newsroom leads, AJP staff, contractors, and partners to deliver on a high-value product and showcase both direct impact to newsrooms and open, publishable findings for the broader journalism community.
The project’s public output will include case studies, landscape analyses, convenings, industry reports, and open-source software. This contractor will be a full-scale partner in this work.
This work will require collaboration with AJP’s staff, grantee newsrooms, partners, and the broader journalism community, to facilitate communication and resource-sharing, and to ensure that the project is in scope, on schedule, and delivering on the objectives and broader goals of the PAIS.
Ideal candidates will have:
- Experience in project management, preferably in revenue growth and/or AI-related projects with media organizations.
- Familiarity with technical challenges in media projects and working with technical staff – engineers, analysts, and others – to ensure projects move forward in scope and on time.
- Strong leadership skills and ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- A self-starting approach to tackling projects and challenges.
Deliverables will include:
Ongoing
- Continuously track progress on each of the standing projects and stakeholders in a shared resource document
- Give regular updates to the PAIS staff and program team leadership (biweekly writeups, monthly meetings)
- Lead monthly cohort meetings with the Revenue theme (agendas, guests, progress reports)
- Co-lead quarterly updates with grantees in the Revenue theme
- Attend cohort meetings hosted by partner organizations, and provide updates to AJP on progress towards goals
- Attend and/or review ongoing technical meetings with PAIS and engineering contractors
- Publish progress reports outlining themes and accomplishments on the AJP blog
0-3 months
- Draft a scope and strategy document for programs and deliverables for the year, in collaboration with PAIS staff
- Collaborate with PAIS team on sourcing and hiring additional contract support
- Interview members of AJP program team to create an outline of internal requirements and anticipated grantee needs
3-9 months
- Work with PAIS staff to identify and manage connections with vendors and potential partners in the field
- Collaborate with PAIS staff and engineering contractors on draft requirements for building and scaling systems
- Produce a research document reviewing the landscape of revenue and newsroom/media management
9-12 months
- Draft final reports for the Revenue cohort for publication
- Work with BL/NRH on final project evaluation and publication
- Lead survey of grantees in collaboration with Portfolio Learning
We expect the contractor to ensure timely completion of deliverables, with availability during typical U.S. business hours for key meetings or discussions as needed.
How to Apply:
Please submit your application here. If your experience and interest aligns with our needs, we will reach out for a follow-up discussion about our budget, vision, and next steps.
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