Job Vacancies at The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Main Responsibilities

• Performs various secretarial duties independently
• Types drafted or simple correspondence in English independently
• Keeps agenda and performs various office work
• Ensures information flow within the department
• Keeps filing system up to date
• Organizes Water and Habitat department internal weekly meeting with inputs of the Team Leader, prepares and share lists of action points for follow-up
• Supports the team in follow up of basic administrative procedures: payments, correspondence, hand over and donation certificates
• Collect data of project beneficiaries from engineers in charge, compile and submit to Team Leader
• Compiles contributions to the Weekly Operational Report and submit to the Team Leader

Required Qualifications

• Technical certificate in Secretarial or equivalent training.
• 1-2 years in same experience
• Good computer skills
• Good command of written and spoken English

Personal Attributes:

• High capacity to work in a team.
• High motivation and proactivity, taking responsibility
• Good Planning and Organization skills
• Very good communication skills

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Main Responsibilities

• Conducts, mainly independently, operational communication activities with the main stakeholders
• Identifies, establishes and maintains contacts with key actors in civil society, (local) politics, state authorities, tribal and religious leaders and other key influencers
• Monitors and analyses the perception of the ICRC by different stakeholders (crowdsourcing, social and traditional media)
• Supports assistance, protection, cooperation and prevention work through communication activities in his assigned area
• Contributes to the interaction with the local Nigerian Red Cross Branches (NRCS) and provides support in capacity-building to their particular Communication programmes
• Maintains close interaction with the local media, promoting ICRC interest in the media
• Supports the Communications Coordinator (ComCo) of the Delegation in the analysis of the communication needs with field perspectives and contributes to the development of the Delegation’s communications strategy

Required Qualifications

• University degree in Communications or similar
• A minimum of five years working experience in a similar field
• Very good command of written and spoken English and Hausa
• Good computer skills
• Good knowledge of geographical area covered by the office (Adamawa and Borno states)

Personal Attributes:

• Very good analytical skills
• Very good presentation skills
• Capacity to summarize information
• Capacity to apply ICRC rules and procedure
• Capacity to treat information confidentially