New Job Vacancy at International Rescue Committee (IRC) – Senior Editorial Officer
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Senior Editorial Officer
Requisition ID: req19151
Job Title: Senior Editorial Officer
Sector: Protection and rule of law
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kasulu, Tanzania
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Background/IRC summary
The
International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) mission is to help the world’s
most vulnerable people survive, recover, and gain control of their
future. The IRC has been working in Tanzania since 1993, promoting
access to quality education, health, and protection. We deliver life
changing programmes through a team of over 200 staff and 2,000
volunteers. Our work includes the management of forty schools, health
facilities and protection centers. IRC and partners strive to ensure
thousands of children and young people can access quality education and
receive vocational training. We work to improve mental health through a
network of mental health centers and work with adolescent girls, people
with disabilities, to protect and empower them and help build safer,
more cohesive communities.
Responsive Information services
Responsive
information services are an innovative service provision initiative
providing the humanitarian community with a platform to reach refugees,
asylum seekers and crisis-affected communities around the world with
accessible information. This programming will take a holistic approach
to address information needs in Nyarugusu and Nduta refugee camps, by
both providing information to refugees in the camps through medium they
chose and collecting data on the types of information that refugees want
and need to receive, so we can constantly adapt our content to the
needs expressed. It is a useful information resource for people in need
fosters more in-depth community, more trust, and, most importantly, more
utility for its users. IRC will use information hubs located within
communities to communicate directly with refugees and asylum-seekers
listen to their questions and provide information, through frontline
staff using a digital platform that provides updated articles and
service maps as a basis of information.
In Tanzania, the
Signpost initiative will be implemented through face-to-face two-way
communication systems in information hubs throughout the camp in
Nyagurusu and Kibondo, targeting mainly the Burundian refugees. A folder
will be designed and populated with content and made available offline
in information hubs, and frontline staffs will be trained to both
provide information to refugees in the camp and respond to their
individual questions and inform the Editorial Senior Officer on the
information needs and concerns expressed by the refugees, especially on
returns, to develop content that responds to the expressed needs.
The
Responsive Two-Way Information services will work through 1) the
creation of information content and provision of information to
Burundian refugees in Nyagurusu camp, including on return options,
services available upon return, how to access legal assistance in
Burundi, etc, and 2) collecting feedback about the most pressing
questions from refugees.
The Editorial Sr officer in Tanzania
will work closely with its counterpart in Burundi, to collect
information in Burundi about return, regularly update the content and
service map provided in the camp in Tanzania, and thus provided up to
date, trusted information to the refugees in the camp
Job Overview:
IRC
is seeking a Senior Editorial Officer to be based in Kasulu and to
oversee the responsive information services at the information hubs
located within the communities. The Sr Editorial Officer will directly
manage 2 information assistants in the camps.
The Signpost
Editorial Senior officer’s main responsibilities are helping develop and
implement content strategy and assigning, line and copy editing, and
approving content for the digital platform, and other Information
Education and Communication materials produced. S/he is tasked with
ensuring the content is accurate, complete, easy to understand,
inclusive of refugees visual or auditive impairment and engaging.
The
Editorial Sr officer is also responsible for using our content
management system and other tools to work with frontline staff to usher
content from the first draft through editing and translation and
ultimately to its final, published form. The Editorial Sr officer will
also pitch and create content for the Responsive Information Service
platform.
Additionally, the Editorial Sr officer will work
closely with the Information Manager in Burundi, to collect and compile
information about services in Burundi for refugees upon their return.
The Sr Editorial Officer will be line-managed by the Project Manager and work closely with the PRoL team.
Major Responsibilities:
- Ensure content is accurate, complete, easy to understand and engaging.
- Edit written and multimedia content created / suggested by frontline staff.
- Publish content in the offline version of the Box content folder.
- Ensure the editorial calendar is up to date.
- Help monitor refugee’s feedback.
- Assist frontline staff with face-to-face responses to refugees.
- Draft reports on Signpost content as assigned.
- Regularly interact with counterpart in Burundi to ensure content about returns is accurate and up to date.
Team Collaboration
- Collaborate with the Senior Protection and Rule of Law Manager (ProL)
Manager and the PRoL team in Tanzania, the Information Manager in
Burundi; as well as with the frontline staff, to manage content across
the information hubs. - Ensure content is aligned with the content strategy and appropriate for publication.
- Use online tools and other modes of communication to consistently share information with other members of the editorial team.
- Participate
in all team meetings, workshops, strategy sessions, regular
communications, etc., as established by the Sr PRoL Manager.
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Advocacy, Community Engagement and Outreach Manager
Position directly supervises: N/A
Indirect Reporting: Sr PRoL Manager
Other Internal and/or external contacts: Information Manager (Burundi);
IRC Frontline staff; PRoL team in Tanzania, Protection and Rule of Law
TA, and Signpost global team.
Qualifications
Work Experience:
- 2-3
years of experience working with refugees, asylum seekers, displaced
persons, refugee hosting communities in protection or a related field.
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Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
- Minimum 3 years editing experience required; sub-editing/copy editing experience strongly desired.
- Expert-level knowledge of English grammar and usage.
- Working knowledge of French a plus
- Knowledge of online content best practices.
- Knowledge of social media strategy and communication with community practices.
- Experience in Communication with Communities experience a plus
- Experience in a humanitarian organization a plus.
- Ability to draft weekly reports and other project progress reports of high quality.
- Ability
to conduct information needs gap assessments in various sectors to
inform appropriate intervention and response to people’s queries. - An
understanding of the power and importance of accurate information and
the ability to exercise strong judgement in ensuring all answers are
accurate.
Education:
- BA/BS in English, Journalism, Communications, required.
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Language Skills:
- Advanced Kiswahili and English language skills, oral and written.
- Working knowledge of Kirundi and/or French a plus.
Preferred experience & skills:
- Very strong content editing skills required.
- Ability to work effectively with a diverse team in a sensitive environment.
- Ability to work independently with remote management.
- Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence.
- Ability to handle pressure and ambiguity with grace and humor.
- Proven organizational skills.
- Respect for deadlines.
- Strong interest in refugee/humanitarian issues.
- Good news judgment.
- Photo and video skills a plus Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
Working Environment:
Standard office work environment with field visits to the camps.
The
IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined
in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity,
Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC
operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from
Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment,
Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity
We
are committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We
offer generous benefits that provide an enabling environment for women
to participate in our workforce including parental leave,
gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and
allowances. We welcome and strongly encourage qualified female
professionals to apply.
We are an equal opportunity employer and
value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate based on
race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age,
marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Are you ready to
join the most dynamic team.
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Please
be warned of various scams, being circulated via e-mails, from the
Internet web sites, and via regular mail or fax, falsely being issued by
or associated with the IRC . Beware that The IRC does not charge a fee
at any stage of its recruitment process (application, interview meeting,
processing, training or any other fee). IRC does not request any
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