Job Title: JISRA Data and Communications Officer

Group: IG

Team: National role covering the 4 JISRA countries

Location: Nigeria (also possible Ethiopia or Mali or Iraq)

Part 1 – Job description

1. Main purpose of the job

This new role will become part of Tearfund’s wider JISRA implementation team. The Joint Initiative for Strategic Religious Action (JISRA) is a partnership of 50 civil society organisations based in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda (with supporting lobby and advocacy in Europe and the USA). This international, interreligious partnership is implementing a five-year programme (2021-2025) in partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to further peaceful and just societies where all enjoy Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB).

The basis of the programme is JISRA’s conviction that Freedom of Religion, Belief, and interfaith dialogue are essential and integral to the realisation of peaceful and just societies. In addition, diverse religious actors, including women and youth, can and need to play an important role in this process as change makers. JISRA believes their voices must be heard.

Tearfund, as one of the consortium partners implementing JISRA, is active in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mali and Iraq, and the role holder will support all four Tearfund JISRA country teams and their local partners. The main purpose of the role is to verify and substantiate M&E and other data collected through the JISRA programme and to align this data to create coherent, impactful and data driven materials to communicate our impact, successes and learnings to donors and similar audiences.

2. Position in organisation

The Data and Communications Officer will become part of the national JISRA team in Nigeria (or other JISRA country as applicable) , as well as collaborating closely with the wider Tearfund JISRA Team and other local and consortium partners.

• Grade: Croner 5 BG 6
• Salary: NGN 7,368,829.00 (Gross per annum)
• Reports to: JISRA country coordinator or co-leads
• Is accountable to the JISRA country teams and the wider Tearfund JISRA Team, both at global and country level
• Works closely with Project Coordinators, Project Officers, M&E staff and partner staff
• works closely with Tearfund NL knowledge and learning and communications staff
• represents Tearfund in the JISRA K&L / comms working groups

3. Tearfund’s Christian culture

We believe that prayer and discernment is fundamental to Tearfund achieving its mission of restoring relationships, ending extreme poverty and transforming lives. As a Tearfund staff member, you are expected to:-

• Engage with Tearfund Prayers and the Prayer & Spiritual Life hub
• Lead or participate in spiritual sessions of prayer and biblical reflection within your group
• Be committed to Tearfund’s Mission, Values and Beliefs statement and to be actively working and living in accordance with Tearfund’s Christian beliefs and theology of mission
• Maintain your own spiritual development, discover your gifts/callings and grow in discipleship

4. Organisational requirements

• All staff are expected to live out Tearfund’s values as they represent Tearfund externally
• All post-holders are expected to fulfil their personal objectives set by their line manager, contribute to their team’s overall objectives, take responsibility for reviewing their ongoing personal development and maintain an awareness of Tearfund’s strategy.
• All Tearfund staff share responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions, they should take given their role and responsibilities.

5. Duties & Key Responsibilities

Ensuring data validity and reliability

• Review, collate and triangulate existing M&E data, Outcome Harvesting data, stories, photos, videos and other information available from Tearfund and Tearfund partner JISRA operations
• Advise on filling any data gaps or improvements to be made to collect better data
• Triangulate and substantiate data collected, assure data quality, validity and reliability

Create communications materials to showcase findings

• Present the findings in a coherent and comprehensive way, which can be used in donor meetings, communications, future proposals and reports
• Support the drafting of reports and other required documents
• Input into the production of communication materials across JISRA by providing data and assurance
• Create communications materials based on triangulated data, drawing from a wide range of sources, mostly for donor or INGO audiences

Engage with and support JISRA communications and Knowledge and learning activities

• Represent Tearfund at the JISRA global level Communications and / or Knowledge and Learning (K&L) working groups
• Support the creation of JISRA wide Communications or K&L materials / outputs
• Support JISRA campaigns and other activities as appropriate.