Media Monitoring Support in SinhalaNew

Provides media-monitoring support to the UN Resident Coordinator Office in Sri Lanka, strengthening early warning and trend analysis. The Online Volunteer screens Sinhala print, digital and social media, identifies human-rights developments and emerging risks, alerts supervisors to urgent incidents, and produces neutral weekly English digests with headlines, narratives and editorial perspectives.

• Screen Sinhala newspapers, news portals and social-media channels daily
• Track human-rights narratives, public sentiment and policy debates
• Flag time-sensitive incidents and emerging risks through agreed digital channels
• Draft objective weekly English media digests and summary notes
• Coordinate virtually with another Online Volunteer for balanced coverage

• University degree in journalism, media or communications, human rights, law, political science, psychology, sociology or related social sciences
• English and Sinhalese are required
• Ability to maintain strict neutrality when extracting facts and themes
• Access to a computer and stable internet connection

• UN-system terminology or international-organisation workflow exposure

• Media monitoring
• News analysis
• Trend tracking
• Executive summarisation
• Open-source research

• Search engines
• News aggregation platforms
• Microsoft Word
• Google Docs
• Spreadsheet tracking tools

• Online Volunteer assignment