Documentation & Reporting Officer

Purpose Of Position

• To facilitate the process of designing of IEC material for information dissemination on Citizen’s basic rights for their informed decision making.
• Ensure that the rights of vulnerable groups are appropriately presented through the various types of IEC material to the humanitarian communities and the government for attaining affirmative social change.

Major responsibilities:

• Support AO (Material development) in the preparation of visual tools (for the communities/children) such as pamphlet, poster, banner, cartoons, animations, audio and video productions for awareness raising.
• Facilitate the development of various types of IEC material for different projects.
• Assist Area AO in preparing detailed implementation plan and reviewing on monthly basis.
• Travel to the target villages when necessary for information gathering / collection.
• Work closely with Advocacy Officers/Community Officers for gathering information lacking required at the community level and to coordinate with them to collect the feedbacks from the target villages (in area of Operation) to monitor whether information has effectively been conveyed and utilized.
• Develop advocacy based stories in order to reflect the impact.
• Maintaining record of the advocacy programme(s), IEC material’s soft and hard copies, PRFs and media outreach activities.
• Keeping abreast with all the Advocacy Communication related events organized by other NGOs and with their media strategies.
• Facilitate and arrange Advocacy events.
• Take on specific tasks as assigned by supervisor according to diversification and emerging special protection focus of program.

Skills and Knowledge

• Importance of IEC material development on public interest issues.
• All the relevant Graphic Designing related software and In Page Urdu.
• Advocacy Communication.
• Human Rights, relevant chapters of International Humanitarian Law, Refugee Law and the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
• The instruments of law that apply in the particular environment of the program.
• The codes of conduct, the Humanitarian Charter and the Sphere Project.
• Policies of government for basic services.
• Requires detailed knowledge on Policies and their impacts.
• Requires strong skills of communication, negotiation, mediation and coordination, both verbal and written.
• Requires demonstrated well-developed knowledge and sensitivity of cross-cultural communication and dynamics.
• Demonstrated leadership ability.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Demonstrated capacity to function well in a team and contribute effectively to team efforts.
• Must be fluent in English and have strong written and oral communication skills.  Knowledge of a local language would be highly regarded.
• Good interpersonal skills and cross-cultural sensitivity.
• Requires emotional maturity and ability to adjust to harsh living conditions.
• Ability to identify advocacy opportunities.
• Interest in human rights issues and social change.

Education & Experience:

• Degree in Social Science.
• Experience of working as Advocacy officer and media outreach.
• Requires proven experiences in development work.