PSS and Life Skills Animator

Background: 

The “Roam and Learn” project aims to promote the right to education for all, ensuring continuity and equal access to learning opportunities as well as a protected environment for children and members of their community.

The implementation of the Roam and Learn project in Bekaa will rely on the Mobile Education Unit (MEU) operated by Amel since 2017. The concept is a mobile educational and multimedia center and learning hub that provides educational and cultural resources to communities in need.

The project aims at promoting the right to education for all, ensuring continuity and equal access to learning opportunities as well as a protected environment for children and members of their community.

The specific objectives of the Roam and Learn project are: 

1: Support children’s learning continuity

2: Enhance the learning environment

3: Engage communities in the promotion of education.

Main Duties and Responsibilities: 

Task #1: Providing high-quality and structured recreational activities:  

- Implement recreational activities according to the PSS monthly plan designed with the social worker & the psychologist for the children enrolled in schools;

- Organize the weekly movie projection;

- Use and develop efficient playful methods to keep the children’s attention (ex: active learning, learning by doing, etc.);

- Encourage the children’s cooperation and self-learning (peer to peer, tutoring, mutual help, etc.) to develop children’s readiness for learning;

- Establish routines with the parents’ during “activities time”, whether online or face-to-face activities (introduction, warm up activities, revision of previous activities, transition, conclusion, etc.).

Task #2: Protection: 

- To be fully aware of Amel’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policies and procedures and to ensure its implementation;

- Maintain positive discipline practices ensuring that children feel comfortable, safe and respected;

- To support the social worker / psychologist in engaging the children in the activities (communication skills);

- Be ready to support in the organization of any specific activities to respond to urgent needs;

- To implement continuously the protective measures for health protection.

Task #3: Monitoring & evaluation 

- Design relevant tools to assess the activities’ results  (pre/post test, personal observations, focus group discussion, etc.)

- To monitor the attendance of the children on a daily basis (each session)

- To report to the field officer & social worker the results on time 

Task #4: Coordination: 

- Coordinate daily with the project team  members to adapt the collective response to the children’s needs (coherent response with social worker, psychologist, etc.)

- To send clear pictures of the activities on the common whatsapp group;

- Take initiative to find collective solutions to challenges due to context / situation changes and adapt the project’s activities according to the MEU’s goal (coordination meetings);

- To ensure smooth referrals with the social worker/psychologist for individual cases (internal referral pathways);

- To be continuously updated on the education updates (national, and local updates with the public schools, MEHE, NGOs etc.) and relay information to relevant team members.