Consultancy: Youth Expert

About us

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. Using the UK’s cultural resources, we make a positive contribution to the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.

We work with more than 100 countries across the world in the fields of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. Last year, we reached more than 75 million people directly and 758 million people overall, including online, through broadcasts and publications.

About the Strengthening Resilience programme

The Strengthening Resilience - MENA II (SR2) programme is funded by the European Union and delivered by a consortium led by the British Council. It began with a pilot in 2015 and its current phase will continue until January 2021. It is under implementation in Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan.
Resilience is the ability of individuals and communities to recover, keep going and grow through adversity. Resilient individuals are the “self-starters” who both take advantage of and create opportunities for themselves and others. Resilient communities use their social and political ties to negotiate solutions to the problems they face. The Strengthening Resilience (SR) programme aims to build young people’s resilience – their ability to “survive and thrive” whatever pressures and hazards they confront.

In Lebanon the programme includes two components:

Component 1: Supporting the preventing violent extremism unit through advising, building the capacity and supporting the delivery of the National Consultation phase that aims at developing the Action Plan of the National Strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism that was ratified in March 2018 and at contributing to the formation of a National PVE Network as well as conducting national youth consultation using as structured consultative and participatory process with Lebanese youth at the age group of (16-23) which is mainly concentrated in high school students at the third year and universities students as well as with youth outside institutions through CSO.
Through this process, targeted youth will be introduced to the key concepts of diversity, active citizenship and good governance via different strategic communications methods.

Component 2: involves building individual resilience and sense of citizenship of youth, engaging them in community development and enhancing their role in political participation for the objective of strengthening the resilience of individuals and communities against extremist narratives and reduce the appeal of violent extremist groups through working with Universities and Civil society organisations.

Person Specification

See the attached Terms of Reference for details of the required skills, knowledge and experience.