IRC Digital Archivist Jobs 2024 – Uganda NGO Jobs

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IRC Digital Archivist Jobs 2024 – Uganda NGO Jobs.

IRC Uganda looking for “Digital Archivist”.

Applicants with a University Degree may apply on or before February 04, 2024.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association, at the request of Albert Einstein, and changing its name in 1942 after amalgamating with the similar Emergency Rescue Committee, the IRC provides emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution, or natural disaster.

The IRC has published a job vacancy announcement on January 22, 2024 for qualified Uganda’s to fill in the vacant post of Digital Archivist to be based in Kampala, Uganda.

IRC Job Vacancy 2024

Key Accountabilities

The Archivist will work closely across all functions in the Uganda Country Program to ensure key documentations supporting the compliance and eligibility of expenditure for key institutional donors are 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.

Position in Organization:

Requisition ID: req47938
Job Title: Digital Archivist
Sector: Compliance
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kampala Country Field Office, Uganda

Qualification:

Bachelor’s degree in, Library and Information Science, Archival Studies, Political Science, Public Administration, and or any other business-related field.
Ability to clearly communicate in English.
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.

Experience:

Experience working in an online knowledge management system (e.g. Box, Dropbox, Google Drive) would be ideal.
Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
At least 5 years progressive experience in project management experience ideally in the field of document management or knowledge management.
Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
Experience operating scanning hardware would be ideal.
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
Excellent time management and planning capacity.
Ability to multi-task, ability to handle pressure well, ability to improvise, flexibility, adaptability to transitions.