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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, with 190 member National Societies. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, our work is guided by seven fundamental principles; humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.

Archives contribute to the organization in three main ways. They foster and facilitate: 1. Organizational Memory: as evidence of past actions, the archives can help to avoid duplication of effort by acting as sources of information on key issues or problems that the Federation faces again and again. 2. Historical Research: the archives are everyday business records that have been preserved, so they can give a researcher a closer look at the way the Federation operated in the past than any other source. 3. Accountability: the archives can be checked to ensure that the activities and responsibilities that have been entrusted to the Federation have been carried out as effectively as possible.

                               

The Federation is looking to hire an archival studies student for 13 weeks to work on an archival arrangement and description project. The project will be suitable for a student going into the second year of archives studies. The student must be able to read French, as some of the records are only in French. The student will have to work fairly independently, and often with limited supervision.

           

- Appraise (in consultation with supervisor) records in storage to determine which should be transferred to the Archives. - Arrange and describe the records, and enter the descriptions into a database. - Assess the physical condition of the records and identify those requiring conservation treatment. - Re-box and re-file the records.

                                                

Completion of first year of archival studies.

           

Must be able to read French. Ability to speak French is useful but is not essential.

                           

Competencies: Communication; Collaboration and Teamwork; Judgement and Decision Making; Creativity and Innovation; Values: Respect for Diversity; Integrity; Professionalism; Accountability

           

Applicants may be requested to complete written exercises and/or be interviewed. The basic internship is intended for young people pursuing university level education to gain work experience in the area of their education. The basic intern must meet the following criteria: - Be currently-enrolled in a university or equivalent level, or have graduated recently (normally within 1 year from the date of hiring) in an area that is compatible with the IFRC activities. A minimum requirement is an endorsement letter attesting to the fact that the intern is currently a registered student and will continue to be enrolled for the envisaged period of the internship. Remuneration: - A daily allowance is paid to interns for each day worked at the IFRC at the end of each months (75CHF per day worked). - Costs and arrangements for travel, accommodation, visas, insurance and living expenses are the sole responsibility of interns themselves.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, with 189 member National Societies. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, our work is guided by seven fundamental principles; humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.

Archives contribute to the organization in three main ways. They foster and facilitate: 1. Organizational Memory: as evidence of past actions, the archives can help to avoid duplication of effort by acting as sources of information on key issues or problems that the Federation faces again and again. 2. Historical Research: the archives are everyday business records that have been preserved, so they can give a researcher a closer look at the way the Federation operated in the past than any other source. 3. Accountability: the archives can be checked to ensure that the activities and responsibilities that have been entrusted to the Federation have been carried out as effectively as possible.
                               

Prepare the Communications Department�s historic photograph and video collection for off-site storage.
 

Assess the physical condition of the photographs and videos and identify any requiring immediate conservation treatment.
Box the photographs and videos for shipment to off-site storage.
Enter brief descriptions of the photographs and videos into a database.
 

Partial or full completion of a university degree in one of the fields of Archives, Audio-visual, Communications, Social Science.
 

Research using audio-visual materials
Cataloguing audio-visual materials
Working with video databases and dealing with different video formats
 

Fluency in English
Fluency/ working knowledge in French, preferred
 

Accountability
Professionalism
Teamwork
Communication
Innovation

Applicants may be requested to complete written exercises and/or be interviewed.

The basic internship is intended for young people pursuing university level education to gain work experience in the area of their education.

The basic intern must meet the following criteria:
- Be currently-enrolled in a university or equivalent level, or have graduated recently (normally within 1 year from the date of hiring) in an area that is compatible with the IFRC activities. A minimum requirement is an endorsement letter attesting to the fact that the intern is currently a registered student and will continue to be enrolled for the envisaged period of the internship.

Remuneration:
- A daily allowance is paid to interns for each day worked at the IFRC at the end of each month (75CHF per day worked).

- Costs and arrangements for travel, visas, accommodation, insurance and living expenses are the sole responsibility of interns themselves.

The selected candidates will be interviewed by telephone.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, with 189 member National Societies. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, our work is guided by seven fundamental principles; humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world�s largest humanitarian network, reaching 150 million people each year through its 189 member National Societies. We act before, during and after disasters and health emergencies to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people. The Federation Secretariat is organized in four Business Groups concerned, respectively, with Programme Services, National Society and Knowledge Development, Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy, Governance and Management Services. The Programme Services Division has the lead responsibility to deliver on Aim 1 of Strategy 2020 while providing substantive support to achieve Aims 2 and 3. The Disaster and Crisis Management Department has been created to re-align existing capacities to respond to a changing disaster environment. The Disaster and Crisis Management Department is tasked with increasing and improving organisational preparedness for response at all levels of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent in order to save lives and livelihoods and support emergency response and post disaster recovery while paving the way towards sustainable development (LRRD). The DREF is the International Federation�s Fund for supporting immediate disaster response by the National Societies and is managed by the Secretariat, with one senior officer and one senior assistant in charge of the everyday management of the Fund in Geneva, and an officer in Africa Zone office supporting use of DREF by African National Societies. It provides allocations as loans or grants depending on the scale of the response operation and has an annual budget of around CHF 20 million, with funding contributed by governments, institutional, corporate and private donors through an annual plan.

                              

The DREF was set up in 1985 by the IFRC and has therefore been supporting National Societies to deliver immediate assistance to people affected by disasters for 30 years. The Secretariat, supported by the DREF advisory group which is made up of representatives of 6 partner National Societies representing the major donors to DREF, is organizing an event to celebrate the 30 year anniversary in September 2015. One of the deliverables agreed by the working group, set up to support the organisation of the event, is a chronological history of the use of DREF.
Financial data on DREF operations has been kept since 1994, but before this date only paper records were kept. The data research and management intern will research and document the data available on DREF allocations made since 1985 and document all allocations in excel format to allow exploitation of the data and its use in a chronological history of the DREF, with the aim to provide factual information of RC/RC disasters response over the last 30 years and drive evidence-based research and analysis on principled humanitarian action and silent disasters.
 

� Carry out research in existing archives and collect data on all the DREF allocations since 1985 and record in an excel spreadsheet
� Exploit information in financial reports and add information on allocations made to the record
� Take data from existing lists of allocations and harmonize with the chronological record
� Develop statistics based on the data recorded
� Collect and record further information on identified operations and/or type of response through research in the operations files in the archives
� Present the information and statistics in a final report
 

University graduate or under-graduate, required.

Experience of carrying out research projects, required.
Proven experience in data collection and analysis, required.
 

Excellent data analysis and use of excel or other data management tools, required.
Good written communication skills, required.
Experience of, or proven interest in humanitarian assistance, preferred.
Fluently spoken and written English, required.
Good command of another IFRC official language (French, Spanish or Arabic), preferred.