MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Research
- Designing and undertaking primary and secondary research in the focus research and policy areas, leading to a range of outputs including Research Reports, Working Papers, journal articles and summary materials, such as, factsheets.
- Oversight of Resourcing for Rights Realisation project research.
- Reviewing, commenting on and editing research outputs by other members of the project team and within the IEJ.
- Leading on convening research and policy forums in focus areas, for example, conferences or symposiums.
- Participating in workshops and conferences.
Advocacy
- Conducting media engagement (radio, tv interviews etc.).
- Leading, representing IEJ in and participating in meetings with external stakeholders and government officials.
- Oversight of RRR advocacy activities
- Building partnerships and collaborating with other trade union and civil society role players and relevant stakeholders.
- Representing IEJ in relevant forums.
Strategic contributions
- Thinking about how to frame IEJ’s position on key political and strategic issues.
- Developing key messages.
- Developing language for the communication of IEJ, including visual messaging.
Mentoring
- Assisting in building capacity of junior researchers and researchers to produce publishable documents.
- Assisting in mentoring through managing and revising the work of these junior researchers and researchers
Project management and donor relations
- Preparing and managing the implementation of project plans.
- Contributing to the preparation and management of project budgets.
- Undertaking line-management of more junior project staff.
- Preparing reports of project work undertaken.
- Contributing and preparing donor narrative reports.
- Contributing to donor calls for applications.
