Child Participation Volunteer - Beirut

Who we are

Save the Children's work saves and improves children's lives around the world. We work to ensure children have healthcare, food and shelter, as well as learning and child protection services when children need it most. We are committed to helping all children achieve their full potential by ensuring they grow up healthy, receive a good education, and stay safe.

Securing children's rights is the foundation of our work. Millions of children around the world are denied their rights, simply because of who they are or where they are from. We know that to ensure every child has the chance for a future their rights must be upheld.

Through our programming, emergency responses and advocacy, we put the most vulnerable children first, tackling the barriers to survival, learning and protection.

Project background

The Child Participation volunteer will support the Child Rights Governance team at Save the Children in conducting a learning study, which aims to better understand the perception of children on the quality of their participation in Save the Children Programs to better design and implement child participation. The volunteer will support the participation of children in this process through  coordinating the involvement of a child reference group in the study process through data collection, analysis, report writing.

What you will do

Child Participation

• Plan and facilitate the meetings of the child reference group.
• Train child reference group members on research, and provide the necessary support.
• Create child friendly materials.

Research and data collection

• Conduct data collection for the project with partners, teams, and the child reference group.
• Arrange for data collection such as interviews, FGDs, and surveys.

Project Implementation

• Take notes from meeting with child reference group.
• Write monthly reports on the progress of the project.
• Attend project key meetings with members and donors.

Translate project related documents as needed.

Minimum qualification and experience

• University graduate in  social work/ education/ management/ Political sciences/ international Development and Sociology studies
• Good level of written and spoken English
• Experience in the humanitarian sector/with NGOs in partnership-based programming is a plus
• Good skills and experience working with children
• Research skills
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Politically and culturally sensitive