Send your application to: recruitment@dohainstitute.org
before: 22 April 2023
Job Summary
Reporting to the Project Manager, the Researcher/Archivist will join a team working on the development of a repository of documents and material related to international peace mediation. The Researcher/Archivist is responsible for the collection, arrangement, appraisal, categorization, declassification, and management of primary and secondary data and material related to international mediation in line with established standards, as well as conducting searches in academic, international and other databases and compiling systematic literature reviews on mediation. The Researcher/Archivist also will be expected to produce, review and edit written material, ensuring that proper grammar, spelling, syntax and style for all texts are in line with the required standards, adopted citation style and general style guide.
Candidate Requirements
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Project Manager, the Mediation Expert/Advisor will join a team working on the development of a repository of documents and material related to international peace mediation. The Mediation Expert/Advisor will provide technical expertise and advice on select cases of international, national and sub-national mediation and dialogue processes. The advice is expected to include comparative analysis with other cases and derive lessons-learned and generalizations on methods and mechanisms from multiple mediation cases. The Mediation Expert/Advisor will be expected to draft periodic reports, thematic papers and analyses, and literature reviews on assigned mediation cases.
Reporting to the Researcher and Project Manager the Translator/Editor will primarily be expected to produce high quality, publishable translations of a range of primary and secondary documents and academic texts (originally in Arabic or English), including diplomatic correspondence, code cables, concept papers, agreements, memoranda of understanding, policy briefs, meeting minutes, speeches, and conference materials. Other types of texts that will require translation/editing include press articles, transcripts of video and audio material, research papers in the social sciences and humanities, and other related information products. The Translator/Editor will be expected to review and edit written material flawlessly, ensuring that proper grammar, spelling, syntax and style for all published texts are in line with the Center’s standards, adopted citation style and general style guide.