Documentation Assistant (Temporary Contract)

Job Description

Title: Documentation Assistant (Temporary Contract)

Company Name: Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh)

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree preferably in social science, anthropology, development studies.

Job Context:
∎ Position based in : Dhaka with frequent field visits in different slum areas
∎ Desired date for taking-up duty : 01-December-2020
∎ Contract Type : Five months temporary contract.
∎ Hierarchical and organizational links:
∎ Reports to : Senior Participatory Action Researcher, Tdh
∎ Direct line manager of : Not required
∎ Technical referent : Documentation Officer
∎ About Terre des hommes:
∎ Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss INGO focusing on child rights. It is active in more than 30 countries with development and emergency projects. Tdh focuses its action on the two following areas of intervention: health and protection of particularly vulnerable children. Modern management and communication tools ensure the quality of Tdh`s projects. The Foundation constantly aims to improve its services. Following the massive displacement of more than 600 000 people into Bangladesh since end of August 2017, Tdh has put in place an important response plan to provide relief to the Rohingya refugees, notably on health and nutrition, WASH and protection. This project focuses on the improving the situation in the host communities in Ukhiya.
∎ About CLARISSA :
∎ `Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South East Asia`, or CLARISSA, is a four-year programme led by a consortium including Terre des Hommes (Tdh), the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Child Hope UK, and the Consortium for Street Children. The programme aims to build on children`s and other stakeholder`s perspectives and experiences. CLARISSA will take a participatory, adaptive, and child-centred approach to evidence and innovation generation and use intentional scaling strategies. The core driver of innovation will be Participatory and Systemic Action Research. Partners will work together to support children to collect child-focused evidence and we will generate child-focused and child-identified solutions. All consortium actions will take into account and respect the rights of the child, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child with a strong emphasis on safeguarding. In using a participatory approach CLARISSA will generate evidence and effective innovative interventions. It will build on the strengths of all the partners to work towards the decrease in the number of children in the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Nepal.
∎ Purpose:
∎ CLARISSA Participatory Action Research component aims to collect 400 life stories from children. This includes story collection, process documentation and write up of the stories through transcribing the audio records. The Documentation Assistant is expected to contribute to the CLARISSA PAR team being engaged in the process of life story collection.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Role of the Documentation Assistants
∎ Documentation Assistants are expected to work full-time to perform the following roles:
∎ Document the Life stories;
∎ Ensure documentation of the process of the collection of life stories;
∎ Transcribe the Life Stories as verbatim;
∎ Translate the life stories from Bangla to English as appropriate;
∎ Coordinate with participatory facilitators, life story collector, and documentation officers to ensure that there are no gaps in the notes. Write up those notes into a formal record of each meeting;
∎ Ensure that recordings are taken while collecting the life stories to accommodate accordingly;
∎ Ensure that data is stored and protected according to IDS and CLARISSA protocols.
∎ Deliverables:
∎ Following are the expected deliverables from the Documentation Assistants:
∎ Sets of documentation produced for the XXX number of life stories (as determined mutually by the supervisor);
∎ Number (as determined mutually by the supervisor) of transcribed life stories systematically preserved in the external hard disk device;
∎ Number (as determined mutually by the supervisor) of translation of life stories in English from Bangla;

Additional Requirements:
∎ Excellent communication and writing skills in both Bangla and English
∎ Ability to transcribe life stories in Bangla in verbatim
∎ Ability to translate documents from Bangla to English
∎ Strong attention to details and highly organized
∎ Willingness to work in slum context
∎ Competent in using MS Office software

Application Deadline: 16 Nov 2020

Company Information:
∎ 12 Nov 2020
∎ Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh)

Category: NGO/Development