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Digitisation Manager

Laws.Africa is hiring a Digitisation Manager to own and coordinate the digitisation of large-scale legal source materials across our platforms, including gazettes, judgments, and other bulk legal collections.

The Digitisation Manager ensures that digitisation projects are properly scoped, planned, executed, and quality-checked so that downstream editorial, website and product teams can rely on a consistent flow of usable content. This content is ultimately used by over 1 million visitors every year, and supports the rule of law, business, government and human rights.

The Digitisation Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management and continuous improvement of Laws.Africa's digitisation pipelines. This includes planning and coordinating bulk imports, managing digitisation teams and contractors, maintaining quality standards, and ensuring visibility into capacity, progress, and risks.

Responsibilities

• Plan, scope, and coordinate digitisation work across gazettes, judgments, journals, and other bulk legal collections
• Translate high-level priorities into concrete work plans, schedules, and milestones across countries and projects
• Proactively scope new digitisation and bulk import projects from start to finish
• Manage and support digitisation staff and contractors, including work allocation, progress tracking, and feedback
• Reduce fragmentation and duplication across digitisation teams and workflows
• Implement and maintain quality checks to ensure digitised content meets Laws.Africa standards and editorial needs
• Identify and address recurring quality or workflow issues through improved documentation, guidance, and training
• Track and report on digitisation throughput, turnaround times, error rates, and capacity
• Provide regular status updates and early escalation of risks or delays to Operations and leadership
• Work with Operations and technical staff to improve digitisation processes, tooling, and automation in practical, adoptable ways
• Act as the primary point of contact for day-to-day digitisation coordination and issue resolution

How we work

• We're a small team that values ownership and clear accountability.
• We work remotely, across South Africa and other countries.
• We prioritise predictable delivery and follow-through over heroics.

Requirements

• Strong experience coordinating complex operational or content-production workflows.
• Proven ability to plan, track, and deliver multi-step projects across teams.
• Comfortable managing staff and contractors in distributed or remote settings.
• High attention to detail and focus on quality.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a small team.
• Ability to prioritise effectively and raise problems early with proposed solutions.
• Experience with digitisation, publishing, data processing, or similar pipelines is a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with legal or government content is helpful but not required.
• Based in South Africa or Kenya, with ability to travel nationally and internationally when required

Position: Full-time
Location: South Africa or Kenya (remote)