Research & Documentation Officer

**Position Overview**

**Job Title: Research and Documentation Officer, Delhi**

**Position Location**: New Delhi

**Number of positions**: 1 (One)

**About NDMJ**

The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), is a coalition of Dalit and Adivasi human rights activists and academics, founded in 1998, dedicated to promoting social equity and inclusion, particularly focused on enabling the Scheduled Castes and the Schedule Tribes to access their Constitutional rights and their development entitlements. NCDHR works on the themes of access to criminal justice system, higher education and public budgets, Dalit women rights and justice, and systemically inclusive disaster response and risk reduction and climate change adaptation. National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ), a unit of National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) (registered as a Society in March 2005 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 in the name of Swadhikar) - is a democratic, secular, non-party movement of Dalit survivors, defenders, academics, organizations headed by Dalits to initiate, advocate and involve in mass action for addressing the issues of caste based discrimination and violence, primarily untouchability and atrocities to ensure dignity, equality and justice. It has presence in 18 states across India to organize, educate and mobilize the Dalit community, organizations and civil society to promote and protect civil and political rights of Dalits. The aim of the organization is to eliminate caste based discrimination, capacitate Dalit and Adivasis defenders and enhance their participation in public dialogues for policy change and effective implementation of legislation in accordance with UN instruments. National Dalit Movement for Justice (Unit of Swadhikar) has developed core expertise and skills in Dalit Humans Right Monitoring for addressing the impunity for gross violations of human rights by investigating gross abuses, holding abusers to account and seeking victim redress.

**About the Position**:
Research and Documentation officer will report to the General Secretary
- NDMJ based at Delhi. The Research and Documentation Officer will provide support to the NDMJ team for documentation of the program activities, conducting research, and will be responsible for conceptualization and collation of all the project reports and materials being produced by NDMJ. This will include drafting documents including but not limited to Periodic project reports to the Donors, reports to government, partners and other stakeholders, process documents, research briefs, concept notes, regular program updates, presentations and other documents as on required. The person will also be responsible to review other secondary documents, existing reports to collate required information for the documentation and support in ongoing NDMJ activities.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide high quality documentation support.
- Develop internal notes / minutes from the calls for circulation with various team members and input during monthly review and planning meetings.
- Contribute to any reports, collaterals due for Donor/ Government stakeholders or internally.
- Lead on the technical, creative, and operational aspects for production completion of high -quality reporting and documentation to the donors, Annual Reports, research reports, factsheets, briefs, concepts note, proceeding, presentation and other as required;
- Prepare proposals for the donors.
- Ensure incorporation of feedback from team members in a timely manner to facilitate finalization of documents;
- Work closely with state and national team for regular, timely and high-quality documentation;
- Will support in analysis of human rights monitoring data collection and research and ensure the quality of the data collection and data management during the implementation of projects.
- Support the State and National Office teams in drafting succinct reports and other documents - such as case studies, blogs, existing reports and other in close collaboration with the team;
- Perform other duties as assigned in support of the work of the organization.

**Requirements**:
**Essential Qualifications, Experience, and Competencies**

**_Essential_**
- Graduate/Post graduate in any of these specializations: Law, Social Sciences, Human Rights. Law degree will be seen as added value to the profile.
- At least 3 - 5 years of work experience of documentation and Research in Social Sector.
- Experience of developing donor proposals/ collating various documents like periodic reports, process documents, program reports, extracting data from secondary documents.
- Strong knowledge of issues related to marginalized communities such as Dalits/Adivasis/women and children and experience with government systems will be an advantage;
- Knowledge and understanding on research methodologies and data analysis for survey research
- Highly motivated to achieve results and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneous