• Country: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: IRC
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: N/A

Position Overview:

The Digital Archivist will play a crucial part in supporting the entire IRC Country Office. By ensuring the completeness of all program related records, the compliance with donor regulations, and the efficiency of internal archiving processes, this role will allow IRC teams to focus on client’s needs and reinforce trusted relationship with our donors.

 Major key Responsibilities:

The Archivist will work closely across all functions in the IRC Ethiopia to ensure key documentations supporting the compliance and eligibility of expenditure for key institutional donors is digitally archived and structured in a manner that is fit for purpose. This will entail:

• Understanding donor requirements for a variety of expenditure categories.
• Understanding and where required adapting the global document scanning policy.
• Understanding current documentation practices (both physical and digital).
• Scoping out the backlog of documentation that has not yet been digitally archived for relevant projects.
• Where required setting up a digital folder structure for relevant projects.
• Physically scanning documentation, storing and naming all the digital files to allow non experts to understand and navigate the contents.
• Handing over ownership of Digital Archiving to functions in a manner that ensures continuity.

Qualifications

Requirements:

Educational Requirements:

·         BA Degree in Accounting and Finance

Preferred experience & skills:

• 0 year of experience for BA Holders and 1 year of experience for TVET certificate
• Experience in working in an online knowledge management system (e.g. Box, Dropbox, Google Drive) would be ideal.
• A previous project management experience ideally in the field of document management or knowledge management.
• Experience operating scanning hardware would be ideal.
• Capacity to understand relevant policies and critically assess which aspects may need to be adapted to the country context.
• Skilled communicator, able to explain the requirements and obtain buy-in from relevant staff.

 Language Skills: 

·           Ability to speak in English language.

        IRC is an equal employment opportunity employer.  IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

Professional Standards: 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 Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer 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

Equal Opportunity Employer: IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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