ཉམས་ཞིབ་པ་ཞིག་གི་ས་མིག

ཉམས་ཞིབ་པ་ཞིག་གི་ས་མིག་འདུག ལས་འགན་གཙོ་བོ་གནས་ཚུལ་ཚོལ་སྡུད་དང་དབྱེ་ཞིབ་བྱ་རྒྱུ་དེ་ཡིན་འདུག ཞིབ་ཕྲའི་ཆ་རྐྱེན་དང་དམིགས་བསལ་རིགས་དབྱིན་ཡིག་གི་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་ལ་གཟིགས་རོགས། གསལ་བོ་མ་ཆགས་པ་འདྲ་བྱུང་ན་མཆན་གྱི་ནང་དུ་དོགས་འདྲི་བྱས་ན་ཤེས་མཁན་དག་གིས་གསལ་བཤད་བྱ་གི་རེད་འདོད།

Job Title: Researcher

Primary duties: Information gathering and analysis

Responsible to: Programme Co-coordinator, London

Main Purpose:

To monitor the impact of the relief and re-development responses to the Jyekundo earthquake with the objective of; understanding reasons for vulnerability to ensure Tibetans from the region have equal access to any opportunities that funds create to ensure infrastructure programmes reflect the Tibetan identity of the region.

To monitor human rights in Tibet

CORE TASKS

Identify and strengthen information sources both inside and outside Tibet, with special attention to sources from Kardze, Ngaba and Yushu county.
Interview new arrivals from Tibet on current human rights issues
Translation of interviews into English (written)
Monitor websites and other news sources inside and outside Tibet. Actively engage in online blogs to gather information and provide analysis issues effecting Tibetans.
Analyse current and emerging trends, new developments and write up analysis into written summaries
Respond to information and project requests from London office

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential

The ability to build personal contacts and networks for information gathering
Good knowledge of the Yushu area and issues effecting Tibetans in the area
Demonstrable ability to work on one’s own initiative; to be creative in identifying potential sources of information
Strong analytical and research skills
To communicate with ease and sensitivity
An active listener
Ability to maintain confidentiality
Ability to make people at ease, be empathetic
First- hand knowledge of living and working in Tibet
To understand the importance of corroboration and using reliable sources
Up to date and thorough knowledge of the consequences of China’s occupation of Tibet
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Working knowlede of MS Word, email and advanced internet based research skills
Desirable

Excellent written and verbal English
Chinese language skills
Experience in interviewing
University degree
Knowledge of Wiley transliteration

The position carries a competitive salary and will be offered initially on a 3 month probationary period. The position will be based in Mcleod Ganj.

The position is full-time, 35 hours per week.

HOW TO APPLY

Send your Curriculum Vitae (CV)/Resume with a covering letter to Sophie Bod at HYPERLINK “mailto:sophie@tibetwatch.org”sophie@tibetwatch.org Your letter must include the following information:

1. Why you want the job.
2. How you are qualified for the post, by addressing all the points in the Person Specification (above).

In your CV please note what languages and what Tibetan dialects you speak and understand.

Deadline for applications: 18th May 2010
Interviews will be held in Mcleod Ganj.