Daftar Ahwal Data Research Institute (DADRI) is announcing a call for applications for the position of “Media and Communication Officer”, to be part of the institute’s team.
Job Description:
Our Institute is looking to hire an expert “Media & Communication Officer” to join our teamwork to develop and implement general marketing and communication plans and strategies for DADRI. As our Institute expands, we are looking for hiring a person who has the capacity to digitally design, develop, and market for our identity and interact with our target audiences. Candidates should have the capacity to build strong and constructive relations with stake-holders.
Main Tasks:
● Create and manage content on DADRIs official platforms, which includes designing and creating visual and audio content and marketing campaigns.
● Develop brand identity ( visual and verbal) for DADRI and execute it.
● Develop and execute effective outreach and communication strategies for DADRI. ● Draft plans and set goals for media outreach and publication on an annual basis. ● Plan and organize events and external participation for DADRI.
● Communicate with media outlets and respond to their inquiries and attend interviews.
Qualifications and Experiences:
● Minimum five years of experience working in the media field, previous experience working in civil society will be taken into consideration.
● Excellent skills in using (Adobe Premier – Adobe Photoshop) and adequate experience in working with ( Adobe Illustrator – Adobe Indesign – Adobe After Effects) is a plus.
● Excellent skills in managing social media platforms and content creation.
● Previous experience in photographing and (photo/video) editing will be taken into consideration.
Technical Skills and Abilities:
● Awareness and follow-up of societal issues and in the branches of social sciences and humanities.
● Strong verbal and written communication skills
● Accuracy and ability to multitask.
● Demonstrable experience in social media and digital interactive platforms and social analytics tools knowledge.
● Ability to work with “Microsoft office” programs, especially Excel.
● Excellent data presentation skills.
Personal Qualities:
● Ambition.
● Passion for the field of work, commitment to high standards and desire for continuous development.
● Self-motivation, enthusiasm and results focus.
● Strategic and critical thinking.
● Practical, pragmatic, solution oriented and effective time management.
● The ability to navigate between the big picture and the details.
● Familiarity with the nature of civil society institutions work.
● Have a spirit of teamwork, empowering employees, and developing their capabilities. ● Negotiation, influence and accountability.
Job Benefits:
● Hiring is through a full-time employment contract, after a probationary period of a maximum of 3 months.
● The Salary is determined in proportion to the level of expertise and qualifications, according to the internal wage structuring criteria.
● A flexible and decentralized work system that encourages learning, development and innovation. ● The Institute provides logistics, tools and equipment appropriate to the job’s needs and responsibilities.
● The institute provides administrative training and practical workshops for all its workers and employees on a regular basis.
● Health insurance.
Job application:
Applicants must fill out this form before June 20, 2021 at 11:59 pm, and attach the following:
● An updated CV and motivation letter in English or Arabic.
● Sample work from previous projects or administrative writings.
Incomplete applications, or any applications sent through DADRI’s e-mail will not be considered.
DADRI welcomes applicants with less experience and qualifications than required to apply, and who have a passion for its line of work and the ability to learn and improve rapidly.
DADRI encourages women and minorities to apply for the job, and female applicants will be given priority to promote gender diversity in the work team in accordance with the internal gender equality policy.
The selection process schedule:
● Friday, June 11 – Sunday, June 20, 2021: Publishing job advertisement and opening the door for applications.
● Monday, June 21 – Wednesday, June 23: Evaluation of job applications, resumes and qualifications, and shortlisting candidates.
● Thursday, June 24 – Monday, June 28: Inviting the selected candidates for interviews and notifying the waiting list, and the non-accepted ones.
● Sunday, July 4 – Tuesday, July6: Interview stage and a request to work on a task. ● Tuesday, July 6 – Friday July9: Evaluate Interviews and required tasks.
● Saturday, July 10 – Sunday, July 11: Inviting the top candidates for the final interview. ● Wednesday, July 14 – Thursday, July 15: Final interview.
● Sunday, July 18: To notify the accepted candidate and notify the non-accepted ones. ● Sunday August 1, 2021: Starting work after contracting.
Daftar Ahwal Data Research Institute (DADRI) Institutional Profile
About us
DADRI is an independent, progressive, non-partisan, non-advocacy, and non-religious, Cairo-based data research institute and fact-tank – also with a regional office based in Berlin under the name Open Data Tank Initiative e.V – that designs and generates open-access databases, quantitative sociological indicators, and indexes and aggregates alternative knowledge, history, and archives for historical and contemporary social, political, cultural, and legal issues in Egypt and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Through its databases, publications, training and capacity building, and academic and consultative services, DADRI strives to make data and archival materials easily accessible to the wider public as well as the more specialized audience of researchers, academics, journalists, among others. During this process, DADRI aims to a) foster the skills of individuals and the development local capacities with interest in documentation and archiving, and b) cooperate with newly born initiatives that share DADRI’s values by using their services and supporting their work.
Our Vision
Transforming communities and societies living under the conditions of information asymmetry, mis/disinformation, and censorship, to ones that are more aware where individuals have inviolable rights to free-flowing, evidence-based, decentralized knowledge, transparency, credibility, accountability, and justice.
Our Mission(s)
● Creating open-access data sources designed and shared in a professional, decentralized, impartial, and methodical manner to foster data and information sharing; ● Building alternative archives of social history to foster the public’s learning about political, social and cultural issues in Egypt and beyond;
● Collecting, collating and aggregating already produced narratives based on the “history from below” and “collective remembering” approaches;
● Enhancing the archival and analytical research skills of local capacities interested in data research, documentation, and archiving;
● Developing data sharing, visualization and publication models based on objective and participatory approaches.
Our Culture and Values
● Independence and impartiality: We are non-partisan, non-governmental, non-advocacy, and non-religious institute. Human rights and humanitarian values are our compass. ● Freedom of information and transparency: We aspire to make the right-to-know equally accessible to all individuals of all backgrounds and we believe that transparency should be a pillar of governance on micro and macro levels.
● Data protection (Information privacy): We are committed to an open-access policy with regards to our databases, archives, and publications, and we are equally committed to a data protection policy for personal and sensitive information.
● Professionalism and accountability: We ensure the highest standards of accuracy and precision in our methods of data gathering and we are accountable for the data collection of our publications.
● Participatory and non-discriminatory work ethic: We strive to maintain a collaborative, participatory and non-discriminatory work ethic to ensure our staff’s personal and professional needs, roles, and priorities are taken into account irrespective of their gender identities and backgrounds.
● Creativity, flexibility, and safety: We seek to sustain flexible work operations to accommodate our team’s personal and professional needs, encourage their creativity, create a safe work environment free from violence and discrimination, and ensure their safety under restrictive political conditions.
● Fairness and acknowledgement: We acknowledge our team’s hard work and we offer them stable working conditions, and fair contracts and remuneration commensurate with their efforts, progress and experience.
Our Audience
1- The general public;
2- Decision and policy makers and government officials;
3- Researchers, academics, bibliographers, activists, archivists, statisticians, data miners, and those with a general interest in archiving, statistics, big data and digital means of expression;
4- Independent or university-based research centers, think tanks, data tanks, public opinion polling agencies, and international and local consultancies;
5- Civil society organisations (CSOs) including NGOs, INGOs, political parties, rights groups, and advocacy initiatives and movements;
6- Media outlets, print, broadcast and online, journalists and all other media personnel.
Our Data Worldview and Approach
We seek to provide accurate, validated and reliable data that is systematically collected and authenticated. We adopt clear academic criteria and standards in structuring our data collection, processing, management, and evaluation systems. We implement data triangulation to ensure the authenticity of our sources.
Our Programmes, and Projects
DADRI currently carries out data research and archiving through two organizational levels: programs and projects. The programs function independently of each other. Each program/unit a thematic program with long-term goals and missions; under each program houses a number of projects bound by tighter theoretical scopes and specific timelines, outputs, and deliverables to be implemented. Teams across DADRI’s three programs and one unit are interdependent and share common capacities, knowledge, and skills. Our teams are not static, they work in a flexible manner and can join a task-force if a DADRI project requires interdisciplinary backgrounds and pulling their skills together. Although our team members specialize in an area of their interest in their respective program/unit, DADRI ensures that its individual team members receive constant training, enabling them to work across different projects.
1- “Social Documentation” SocDoc Program:
A data research and archival program that provides space for contested narratives and histories of social change and political events in Egypt post 25 January 2011. It collects alternative knowledge and archives – in contrast to official state narratives produced by governments – based on approaches such as collective remembering where knowledge is treated as a contested process rather than a static body of information. The program aggregates records, datasets, visual and textual archives of social, cultural, historical, and legal and political changes that took place and continue to occur in Egypt.
2- “Modern Egypt” Program:
A data research and archival program that provides space for contested narratives and histories of social change and political events since the foundation of modern Egypt under Mohamed Ali to the present (19th century onwards). It collects alternative knowledge and archives – in contrast to official state narratives produced by governments – based on approaches such as collective remembering where knowledge is treated as a contested process rather than a static body of information. The program aggregates records, datasets, visual, auditory and textual archives of social, cultural, historical, and legal and political changes that took place occur in Egypt across history.
3- “Regional Dossiers” Program:
A regional data research program concerned with contemporary socio-political phenomena, issues, and conditions in the wider Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) and providing comparative perspectives across the Arab societies experiencing political and societal changes since 2010. Thematic projects under this program include measuring social and political mobilization and women’s representation and participation in politics and public life in “Arab Spring” countries.
4- “Societal Groups” Program:
A data research program concerned with contemporary social phenomena, issues, and conditions by focusing on marginalized or disempowered societal groups such as women, children, religious, racial and gender minorities. It attempts to generate data visualizations, maps, and statistical projections based on the social indicators it builds for easier utility and integration in social research.
5- Spatial and Urban Phenomena:
A data research program concerned with spatial and urban phenomena such as road and railroad accidents, fire accidents, buildings collapse as well as natural and environmental disasters and their social and health consequences. It attempts to generate data visualizations, maps, and statistical projections based on the social indicators it builds for easier utility and integration in social research.
6- Crime and Society:
A data research program concerned with contemporary social and criminal phenomena, issues, and conditions on micro, meso and marco levels in the Egyptian context. It seeks to analyse, process and quantify already existing qualitative data and develop comprehensive datasets, indexes and indicators for neglected social problems. It attempts to generate data visualizations, maps, and statistical projections based on the social indicators it builds for easier utility and integration in social research.
7- Art and Culture Observatory:
A program that tracks and documents the cultural and artistic activities in Egypt, such as: cinema, theatre, exhibitions, shows, sports events, and cultural sessions, forums and seminars… etc., with the aim of providing numerical and quantitative indicators of the artistic, cultural and sports history for researchers and scholars of those phenomena to analyse.
8- Learning and Development program:
An administrative and educational program that manages the training content and DADRI’s data school, prepares and updates lists of technical cadres specialized in social data management (outside the Institute’s team), it also undertakes quantitative technical and administrative assessments for each of them along with the technical supervisor who is contacted with them. It organizes and coordinates the training and educational content for the Institute’s team, develops a) the technical tools of data handling, such as Scrappers and Wikis and the references and methodologies of coding and codebooks, QGIS and data modelling and b) the Institute’s outputs including fact sheets, data analysis and prediction indicators. It also ensures the adoption of technical development proposals made by the team and prepares proposals and follows up on the implementation of various technical projects.
9- The Archive Unit:
An independent unit that supports the operations of DADRI’s programs through both theoretical and practical paths by providing the programs with consultations or information or materials needed for their projects. It offers an archival digital repository of visual and textual social, political, cultural, linguistic, historical, and legal archives, databases, indexes, bibliographies and catalogues. This unit seeks to establish a model for an Arabic digital archive that is connected to local and regional phenomena and transformations, and to provide an academic, professional, social, and historiciing reference that is based on objectivity, impartiality, professionalism, and comprehensiveness.
Our Training, Services and Modules
1. Training:
We provide support to local capacities interested in data research, documentation and archiving through offering:
● Capacity building workshops, training, summer schools including: entry level data collection, processing, and management workshops, coding and data mining techniques, designing and structuring archives and other data management systems
● Data Research Internship Program (DRIP) where 6 to12 interns are hired annually for a paid internship period that ranges between 1 to 3 months to gain experience in data management through their work on DADRI’s research projects. Upon finishing their internships, interns are encouraged to apply for entry level jobs at DADRI upon the availability of vacancies.
● Advanced professional development for archivists and data specialists.
2. Academic Services:
We offer a wide range of data research and information management services to our specialized audience primarily researchers, academics, activists, archivists, research centers, consultancies, NGOs, and media platforms. These services include:
● Providing data consultancy sessions and designing data solutions.
● Designing, structuring, and executing data collection systems.
● Developing thematic information management.
● Conducting qualitative and quantitative coding.
● Analyzing data using quantitative sociological measures and tools.
● Indexing and indicator designing.
● Cataloguing and archiving.
● Meta data management and publishing.
● Formulating descriptive statistics.
● Generating data visualizations.
3. Academic Collaborations
The Institute provides the opportunity to hold academic and research collaborations by hosting researchers and assisting them in the data collection required to complete their studies and research, as well as by making available the financial resources as per the stipulations of the partnership/collaboration agreement. Collaborations do not entail a commitment by the
Institute to edit or publish the content of research and studies. Rather, publishing and content remains the responsibility of the principal researchers.
4. Modules
We aspire to provide professional diplomas in data processing, information management, and advanced archiving to researchers and specialists. Diplomas will cover data research modules building on academic literature as well as practitioners’ real data challenges and experiences in Egyptian and regional markets.
Our Organogram
