Intern

IRC Background:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war and disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

IRC has been working in Pakistan for approximately 40 years, managing and delivering large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. With the support of the federal and provincial governments, and generous donors like FCDO, ECHO, USAID, GAC and Australian Aid Agencies the IRC is currently implementing projects across the country.

The IRC launched 5-year USAID’s “Women’s Economic Empowerment Activity” (WEEA) to promote women’s economic empowerment through safe and dignified access to livelihood opportunities, information, resources, and services in the target districts of Pakistan. The WEEA target districts include a total of six districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Punjab.

Job Summary:

Under the supervision and mentorship of Program Officer, the intern will provide support in performing effective coordination with internal team and key stakeholders for facilitation in project implementation, monitoring, documentation, and reporting.

This position is a great opportunity to gain experience in humanitarian and development sectors as well as to learn about IRC. In addition, intern will be familiarized with all areas of project management and organization’s different departments (Finance, Human Resources, Award Management, Security and Supply Chain) as well as opportunity to learn and improve; report writing skills, coordination, communication and its protocols, and other areas of work related to project management in non-profit sector.

Major Responsibilities:

• Assist Program Officer in collecting information for different reports, internal and external communication, and presentations.

• Assists in developing and/or drafting communication products like reporting, meeting minutes and other communication related tasks.

• Support in preparing and finalizing all internal paperwork consulting different departments; HR, Supply Chain, Finance etc.

• Organize meetings and coordinate with participants and make arrangements for meetings for program review meetings.

• Support team in performing different administrative tasks (as/when required)

• Provide support in preparing and finalizing all internal paperwork

• Record Keeping and data management of event/activities.

• Consolidate different documents and other relevant task as assigned by line manager.

Key Working Relationships

Position reports to: Program Officer

Position directly supervises: N/A

Other Internal and/or External Contacts:

Internal: Program and Program Support teams at country and field office as well as Partner

External: N/A

Position Requirements:

A) Education

• Fresh graduate (Bachelors/Masters) in Social Sciences, Sociology, Education, Project Management or any other relevant degree, communication field or social sciences.

B) Experience

• No previous experience required. Understanding of the non-profit sector will be a plus.

C) Skills

• Knowledge of software (Microsoft Windows, MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, English and Urdu keyboard)

• Good in communication and analytical skills

• Team worker with flexibility;

D) Language Skills:

• Strong English language skills both written and spoken;

The IRC Core Values and Commitments

• 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.

• IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

• IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicit and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.

• IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

Women candidates minorities and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.