Organizational Context
The IFRC is led by its Secretary General, and has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The headquarters is organized into three main divisions: (i) National Society Development and Operations Coordination; (ii) Global Relations, Humanitarian Diplomacy and Digitalization; and (iii) Management Policy, Strategy and Corporate Services.
The IFRC has five regional offices in Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The IFRC also has country cluster delegations and country delegations throughout the world. Together, the Geneva headquarters and the field structure (regional, cluster and country) comprise the IFRC Secretariat.
The Global Strategic Planning and Reporting Centre is part of the Strategic Planning Department, which is part of the Office of the Secretary General and aims to bring the IFRC planning process to the next level, with a greater focus on membership-wide planning, monitoring and reporting, high-level objectives and contextual analysis. It also supports the IFRC leadership to develop and foster new proposals and initiatives to promote the IFRC network.
The Strategic Planning Department oversees a country-level planning process called โUnified Planningโ, bringing together ongoing emergency operations and longer-term work, and based on a Federation-wide planning approach. Federation-wide country plans are elaborated at country level in the four IFRC official languages, and with formats suiting the needs of the relevant National Society. Internal Federation-wide reporting on the country plans follows IFRC standard reporting timeframes, i.e. a mid-year report (January to June) and an annual report (January to December). These plans and reports are accessible to the IFRC network only. For donors and the general public, more standard and coherent versions of the plans and reports are produced centrally and contain the needed information to attract funding at country-level. In this connection, the Global Strategic Planning and Reporting Centre (also referred to as the Global Reporting Centre) was established in late 2023, in New Delhi, India to produce the IFRC network country plans and standard narrative reports against the plans.
This position is located in New Delhi, India.
Job Purpose
As part of the Global Strategic Planning and Reporting Centre in New Delhi, the primary purpose of the internship is to support reporting content, data visualization and design work of the IFRC network country plans and reports. The secondary purposes of the internship cover a wide spectrum of regular and ad hoc duties including (and not limited to) production tracking and administrative support.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Depending on the personal skills set of the successful candidate, the intern will be required to undertake some or all of the following complementary work:
* This internship will be focused on design support
- Provide research support in reference to documents produced by the centre, working in close consultation and coordination with the centreโs lead or reporting officers. This includes updating sources and research on the joint situational analysis and thematic analyses in the documents.
- Support reporting officers in ensuring that plans and reports reflect IFRC network policies, strategies and approaches, including by inserting relevant hyperlinks in documents at finalization phase.
- Provide copy-editing and proofreading support to the reporting officers.
- Support extraction and consolidation of data (people reached/implementation indicators and financial data) for the plans and reports, in close coordination with the data and design support officer.
- Prepare summaries and data visualizations to provide clear data overviews, accurately managing and presenting overlaps in data.
- Provide design and layout support for plans, reports and other materials produced by the centre, in close coordination and consultation with the centreโs Design Officer. The support includes adjusting the layout and style of plans and reports to meet the standards set by the IFRC.
- Support tracking of the production processes of the centre, upon guidance provided by the centreโs lead.
- Undertake a wide spectrum of regular and ad hoc duties including (and not limited to) administrative support, all of which contribute towards the efficient running of the centre.
Education
University degree/advanced degree in one or more of the following: political science, journalism, communications, sociology, anthropology, and any related humanities degree; graphic design or art school, with a specialization in design and branding; data science, information management, econometrics or statistics
Experience
- Understanding of/experience in drafting and editing plans, reports, articles and related publications
Knowledge, Skills and Languages
Preferred technical skills: Demonstrated focus on quality and standards Advanced skills in computer software (Windows, word processing, PowerPoint, spreadsheets) Proficiency/proven experience with data visualization tools, particularly Power BI and Tableau Advanced technical competence in layout software Familiar with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and/or international humanitarian and development work Language skills: Excellent written and oral communication, organizational and presentation skills in English, with other IFRC languages (French, Spanish or Arabic) being an advantage. Flexibility and adaptability: The successful candidate should possess a high level of flexibility and adaptability, as well as a willingness to learn, when carrying out assigned tasks for the Global Strategic Planning and Reporting Centre
Modalities for the Internship
The intern will report to the IFRC Lead, Global Strategic Planning and Reporting Centre, in close coordination with the Design Officer, Reporting Officers, and Data and Design Support officer. The time period foreseen is 3 months, with potential extension for a further subject to a performance appraisal.The internship will be carried out completely at the IFRC office in New Delhi OR through a mix of presence in the IFRC office in New Delhi and remotely through digital communication means.
Competencies, Values and Comments
* Core competencies: Communications, Collaboration & Teamwork, Judgement &
Decision, National Society & Customer Relations, Creativity & Innovation, Building
Trust.
* Values: Respect for Diversity, Integrity, Professionalism, Accountability