Overview
The Reporting Officer is responsible for producing external versions of country plans and reports, from draft to finalization and publication.
Key Responsibilities
- Synthesise information from internal unified plans and reports to produce external versions
- Extract and reshape information from internal unified country plans and reports for the drafting of the external documents
- Ensure coherence of the descriptive content with the templates for external plans and reports
- Capture in writing, the National Societies profiles, including their auxiliary and historical roles, strategic priorities, main areas of work, and recent scope and scale of action
- Verify alignment of action described with the IFRC results-matrix
- Strengthen content of the external versions with available sources
- Ensure consistent, clear and strong descriptions of the National Societies profiles, including by looking into their Strategic Plans, annual reports and websites
- Carry out additional research on the overall context (geographical, political, socio-demographic, economic dimensions) and thematic priorities (climate and environment, disasters and crises, health and wellbeing, migration and displacement, values power and inclusion) where necessary to improve the different sections
- Check all sources, insert hyperlinks and update data from trusted secondary sources
- Check primary sources of data comprising IFRC network data, assessments, reports and other analyses, and use as appropriate to strengthen the external documents, including to describe the National Society coordination with public authorities
- Use information from past and ongoing IFRC Emergency Appeals and DREF to provide concrete information on humanitarian trends and needs, recurring disasters and National Society actions
- Ensure clear descriptions of the contributions of the IFRC and the membership, under each strategic priority and enabling function, as well as under the membership coordination section
- Check sensitivities including any parts of the context analysis and actions of the National Society, and keep track of such sensitivities over time
- Extract examples on thematic progress from internal unified country annual reports for use in the external global IFRC Annual Report
- Extract examples on thematic priorities from internal unified country plans for use in the IFRC Global Plan
- Prepare country summaries based on internal unified country annual reports for use in the global-level IFRC Annual Report
- Prepare country summaries based on internal unified country plans in the IFRC Global Plan
- Work as part of the Global Reporting Centre team, provide cover and back-up support as needed, for example in times of high workload and when colleagues are on mission / annual leave
- Be open to deployments in times of disasters to support PMER work
Required Experience
- 4 years of experience working in area of expertise
- Solid experience in producing high-quality reports supported with graphic and statistical summaries
- Experience of working for the Red Cross / Red Crescent or other humanitarian organizations
Qualifications
- University degree in international relations, journalism, professional writing and editing, English literature, or a related field
- Professional training or relevant experience in planning and reporting
