Vacancy_Media Monitoring Officer_AIFDR

Terms of Reference
Media Monitoring Officer


Background
The
Australia–Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR) is a joint
Australia-Indonesia bilateral initiative. The facility is helping to reduce the
impact of disaster and improve the capacity in disaster management. Sinceearly 2012, AIFDR has been
implementingCapacity Development Support Program
(CDSP) for the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) and Local Disaster
Management Agency (BPBD)by the provision of technical assistance in different
units of the agencies, including the Public Relation Sub-section of BNPB. BNPB is a ministry-level agency
established through Presidential Decree Number 8 Year 2008 with the main
mandate to coordinate and implement the disaster management activities in the
period before, during, and after disasters.
In carrying
out the mandate, particularly with regard to the dissemination of
information—as well as, at the macro-scale, of the disaster management
communication—BNPB also depend on the role of the mass media, either printed,
electronic, and online. Concretely, BNPB want to use the media to disseminate
information, while expecting to gain feedback from the public through the
media.
In order to
secure the maximum benefit from the dissemination of information and
communication through the mass media, BNPB need to regularly monitor media
coverage of disasters. Monitoring, in addition to get to know the day by day
hot issues and find ways to improve the quantity and quality of media coverage
of disasters, will also allows BNPB to analyze trends in the news. In the end,
by monitoring media coverage, BNPB can expect to provide faster response to
emerging needs related to disaster management at the community level, as well
as to formulate policies that better accommodate concerns of vulnerable groups.
Related to
that, BNPB need the service of an officer to monitor media coverage on the
disaster that circulated in the media from time to time, and at regular basis
help generate recommendations and follow-up response to the say of the
community. Due to the limited quantity of resources at this time, BNPB invited
AIFDR to recruit externally in order to fulfill the position of the media
monitoring officer. In the medium term, with the knowledge transfer process,
the media monitoring function will be handed over to BNPB staff.

Your Responsibility
Your main
responsibility is to conduct monitoring of news and stories about the disaster
in daily basis. The number of monitored media during the emergency response
will be much more than when there is no disaster. You will make a report on the
results of monitoring by using a specified format as well as recommend response
and follow-up to BNPB. The following are your individual and team tasks:
§  Monitor
disaster news and stories published in printedand online media
at daily basis.
§  Writereports of monitoring results with contextual format for BNPB needs. Reports
will be made ​​twice a day.
§  Recommend
response and follow-up based on the results of monitoring.
§  Perform
analysis on relevant hot issues covered by the
media.
§  Participate
in knowledge transfer to BNPB staff
in monitoring the media.

Your Background and Qualification
This
position is required a highly motivated candidate who is capable in media
monitoring as well as interested in disaster communications topic. The
following qualifications are essential for this challenging and rewarding job:
-          Minimum threeyears
experience of working
in media monitoring and/or journalism field, with adequate
understanding on disaster subject in Indonesia.
-          Bachelor
degree (S1) in a social science field.
-          Demonstrated
ability to analyse
and articulate ideas in a structured and systematic way.
-          Demonstrated
competent writing skill and ability to make high quality presentation slides.
-    Ability
to liaise well with various stakeholders, including government officials,
donors, academics, and civil society organisations.
-          Fluency
in written and oral English and Bahasa Indonesia.

Other Relevant Information
The position will
be based in Jakarta with an initial
contract of three months, commencing on January 2014, with apossibility of extension. The work can
be done in part-time basis with the predetermined output. AIFDR offers a
competitive, negotiable compensation and will reimburse costs incurred on work
related, including subscription fees of targeted printed and online media if
necessary.
Interested
applicants should send a one-page
cover letter explaining why she/he is the most suitable candidate for the job,
along with maximum of four-pagedCV containingthree referee contactsthat fit to comment on your appropriateness for this position. Applicants
should also complete the questionnaire (attached, or you can download the
questionnaire from: http://bit.ly/cdsp-mm )
and send it as part of the selection file. Submit the complete application by
email to hrhklogistics@yahoo.com with
subject line: Application—Media Monitoring Officer <Your Name> on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the
latest.
Late or
incomplete applications will not be processed further. We will only contact
applicants who have been short-listed for interview in Jakarta. Women are
encouraged to apply for this position.