Lebanon: TECHNICAL ADVISER EDUCATION BEIRUT(LEBANON) CONSULTANCY

1-GENERAL PRESENTATION :

•Job title : Technical Adviser in Education
•Location : Beirut (Lebanon)
•Report to : Country Coordinator

•General background :

Asmae is a French international solidarity NGO specialized in child development. It is independent, non-religious, non-political, and open to everyone.
Created in 1980 by Sister Emmanuelle following her experience with scavengers in Egypt’s slums, Asmae keeps on respecting its founder’s values and methods: listening and proximity, pragmatism, respect of the differences, professionalism and reciprocity.
Asmae’s action aims to support vulnerable children and their families through providing tailor-made and long lasting support to local stakeholders working on education and child protection.
Its vision, “A fair world which guarantees that children can live and grow with dignity within their environment, to become free women and men who contribute to society”, is broken down into four missions:

o Stimulate child development through a global approach. To do this, Asmae also works on family support by taking their environment into account;
o Build the capacity of local stakeholders involved in child development, boost cooperation amongst them and maximize their social impact;
o Stand up for children by raising awareness and advocating;
o Experiment, disseminate and share practices.
Nowadays Asmae supports education and child protection projects through 64 local organizations in Burkina-Faso, Egypt, France, India, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali and the Philippines. Furthermore, in France, Asmae also directly manages a mother and childcare center.

2-BACKGROUND ON ASMAE IN LEBANON:

Asmae has been working in Lebanon since 1986 (local coordination office opened in 2005).
Asmae is currently working in partnership with six local organizations in the areas of education and child protection: Prevention of school drop-out and underperformance, Prevention and care of children at risk, and Adolescence support.
Activities are located in Great Beirut, Central and North Bekaa (Zahle and Hermel), and South Lebanon.
Asmae’s team in Lebanon is composed of 3 members (2 expatriates and1 national staff), working in our head office in Beirut.
Specific context of the mission:
Asmae is working with 2 partners implementing a project of educational and psychosocial support for children and their families (Syrian refugees and Lebanese host community) in Hermel and Tebnine.
The main activities of this project funded by the AFD (French Development Agency) are remedial education and PSS (Psychosocial Support) for Lebanese and Syrian children between 5 and 14 years old. The consultant’s main task will be to strengthen capacity and to train the facilitators working with children.

I.RESPONSABILITIES AND JOB DESCRIPTION:

According to Asmae’s values and response mode, and under supervision of Asmae’s coordinator in Lebanon, the main missions of the consultant will be to:
Strengthen partners’ educational team’s capacities (knowledge and educational practices), mainly for our two partners involved in the implementation of the educational and psychosocial support for the Syrian and Lebanese children project:
•Support the professionals (mainly instructors of remedial classes) in order to analyze their educational practices and their environment;
•From the existing educational tools and resources, support the instructors in :
-The improvement of tools adapted to children’s needs
-Use of the new tools
•Organize training workshops for instructors;
•Training follow-up and pedagogical practice assessment
•Develop pedagogical guidelines on after school tutoring
Other activities:
•Participation in team meetings and seminars organized by Asmae
•Participation in coordination meetings on education and child protection
•Writing documents (monthly reports, PPIE (production and shared materials resulting from experience), technical contribution ….)
•Any administrative and/or logistic tasks entrusted by the coordinator (i.e.: organization of meetings or workshops).

II.POSITIONNEMENT

Under supervision of: Country coordinator
Supervision responsibilities : None
The consultant will collaborate with other Asmae’s team members in Lebanon, especially the Project officer
External relationship: Partners’ Project Coordinators and teaching staffs, other NGOS …
The consultant will have to adapt his planning in order to be able to work with Asmae’s partners, based on their availibility (work during the weekend)
Initiative level and autonomy:
Great level of autonomy and flexibility, capacity to organize his/her planning, proactivity

III.PROFILE

Education and experience

•Master’s degree in social sciences or/and education science or in related field
•At least 3 years of teaching and training experience
•Work experience with teaching staff
•NGO experience

Knowledge and professional skills

•Good knowledge of the Lebanese educational environment and childhood sector
•Excellent working knowledge of the main educational and pedagogical approaches
•TOT techniques
•Observation, analysis and synthesis capacities
•Very good editorial capacities in French and/or English and in Arabic (style and spelling)
•IT (Word, Excel …)

Qualities

•Ability to build trustable relationships with different partners and stakeholders, diplomacy
•Listening and flexibility capacities,
•Team spirit
•Organized

IV.GENERAL INFORMATION :

Place of work: Beirut (Ain El Remmaneh), Lebanon, regular field visits to Tebnine and Hermel (pending security clearance)
Status: consultant
Contract duration: 7 to 8 months (end of program: June 2017)
Working hours: full time job (40 hours a week)
Salary: 2500 to 2700 USD according to experience (full time job)
Starting date : ASAP

HOW TO APPLY ?

Candidates should send a detailed resume outlining their academic and professional background relevant to the proposed position, as well as a cover letter, showing the persons motivation and expertise, via email to: liban@asmae.fr