Outreach 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

Tasks and Responsibilities

Main Mission:

The main goal of this application is to facilitate their connection/contact with local service providers in their areas. This application is designed with an easy-to-use search engine so that the users can locate service providers on the map, the fastest way to reach them, and learn about the type of services provided and working hours very easily. The app has a discussion forum that enables the users to express their opinions and experiences and to seek help and advice from other users.

Additionally, this app has included a media center with hundreds of tutorials, and links to articles in order to learn more about the different types of disabilities and best practices for dealing with them.

Specific tasks:

1. Support the identification of children and caregivers to use the application.
2. Assist with the focus group discussion and phone calls to test the application in the pilot phase.
3. Conduct community-based inductions on the use of the application.
4. Assist with the application social media campaign and launch event.
5. Reach out to potential service providers and help them in registering in the application. 
6. Support in data entry and data cleaning in the service providers’ database.
7. Accurately collect data during outreach activities and maintain confidentiality concerning children and their parents/caregivers.
8. Report on daily basis on the outreach progress and on challenges faced to SCI supervisor. 
9. Identify and refer child protection cases to SCI for proper follow-up and support.
10. Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures

Qualifications:

1. University graduate in social work/ education/ management/ Political sciences/ international Development and Sociology studies
2. Good level of written and spoken English
3. Experience in the humanitarian sector/with NGOs
4. Good skills and experience working in outreach and community awareness raising 
5. Experience working with people with disability
6. Communication skills
7. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
8. Politically and culturally sensitive