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**Location**: Colombia or Kenya (home base)

**Position Status**:Full-time

**Duration**: 12 months (potential extension contingent on funding)
**- About Mercy Corps**

Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long-term impact.

**The Impact Alliance**

CARE, Mercy Corps, and Save the Children are exploring a deeper strategic collaboration to increase impact, efficiency, and local leadership in global assistance. In the context of major shifts in integral funding, each organization recognizes that increasing impact requires new ways of working together. We are initiating a set of collaborative opportunities designed to prototype this Impact Alliance. These opportunities range from shared procurement and support services to participant feedback tools and a more coordinated approach to working with local partners. Plan International, Inc. is joining the Impact Alliance as a fourth organization solely in relation to the share procurement workstream.

To support this work, we are seeking a technical project manager to lead project-based work in the AI workstream as part of the Mercy Corps Technology for Development department.

**The Position**

The Technical Project / Product Manager for Codename Compass is the operational and technical backbone of a 12-month, $300,000 Minimum Viable Product initiative funded by the Impact Alliance (Mercy Corps, Save the Children, and CARE).



Compass is designed to prove that ambient voice capture technology can enable a single field worker to conduct natural conversations with community members while the system automatically transcribes and structures responses into a humanitarian data workflow—eliminating the need for a second staff member dedicated to form entry.

Beyond immediate operational efficiency, Compass will generate a validated dataset of community voice recordings in low-resource languages (e.g., Hausa, Tigrinya, Swahili) with informed community consent suitable for downstream AI language model training.

Working under the Senior Director for T4D, the Technical Project / Product Manager owns day-to-day delivery across all three project phases, serves as the primary coordination point across the Impact Alliance consortium, manages the contracted MVP development team, and holds relationships with NLP research partners. This role is equal parts project manager, product owner, and technical steward.
**- Essential Responsibilities**

**PROGRAM DELIVERY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT**
- Own and maintain the Compass project plan, tracking progress against milestones, decision gates, and budget across all three phases (Months 1-12).
- Lead preparation for each steering committee decision gate, assembling evidence, lessons learned, and go/no-go recommendations.
- Coordinate day-to-day workstreams across Mercy Corps, Save the Children, and CARE, ensuring aligned timelines and accountability.
- Manage the MVP contract build (Months 4-9), including vendor scoping, procurement support, sprint planning, and delivery oversight




- Ensure budget tracking and financial reporting in coordination with Mercy Corps Finance and consortium partners.
**- TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION AND OVERSIGHT**
- Lead Phase 1 for technical validation and validate core assumptions before committing to the Phase 2 build.
- Define product requirements and user stories for the MVP in close collaboration with field staff and program teams.
- Oversee integration of the Compass technology with existing humanitarian data collection workflows (e.g., CommCare, KoBoToolbox, OpenFn).
- Ensure the MVP meets standards for usability, offline functionality, and contextual fit for low-resource field environments.
- Supervise development and provide technical direction to the contracted development team.
**- CONSENT ARCHITECTURE AND DATA GOVERNANCE**
- Develop and publish an open-source data ethics and governance framework covering consent, storage, anonymization, and community benefit commitments, available for adoption by any organization.
- Ensure voice data collection meets minimum thresholds for speaker diversity (age, gender, geography, educational background) as specified in the pilot design.

**PARTNERSHIPS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT**
- Identify and support engagement with NLP research actors as collaborators from project inception.
- Coordinate country pilot logistics across 2-3 Impact Alliance organizations in a single country context during Months 9-11.
- Support identification and engagement of pilot country teams and community partners; build local ownership into the pilot design from the outset.

**LEARNING AND IMPACT**
- Design and manage monitoring and evaluation processes to track MVP impact, friction points, risks, and outcomes across the country pilot.
- Lead learning reviews and

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📌 Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Project Manager - Colombia or Kenya (Bogotá)
🏢 Mercy Corps
📍 Bogotá