English Literacy Trainer

About the job 

The role of the English Literacy Trainer is to provide the trainees with the required English language knowledge, follow up attendance, assess learning effectiveness, and perform daily tasks. Target Audience: Vulnerable beneficiaries selected by DRC, mixed classes of Youth and Adults (18-50 years old), Lebanese and Syrians, Male and Female.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Provide English Literacy training for the trainees as per the developed curriculum. 

• Implement trainee –centered teaching methods, and diverse teaching techniques to encourage participation. 

• Prepare a 30 hours’ curriculum and Syllabus that satisfy the objective of include building conversational, reading and writing skills.  

• Ensure that the lessons are planned and delivered in a highly participative and interactive manner and responsive to the request and suggestions of the students; 

• Create lesson plans, presentations, visual aids and other training materials as required stating the objectives of each method used and respecting the developed curriculum. 

• Prepare classroom and coursework materials, homework assignments, and handouts. 

• Consistently keep a record of attendance and participation of trainees and track repetitive absence to report it to DRC Livelihood staff.  

• Develop a midterm and a final exam to evaluate the learning effectiveness.  

• Provide weekly reports to measure progress, identify barriers to learning and recommend action to overcome barriers, provide weekly work plan to the Livelihoods staff. 

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About you 

To be successful in this role we expect you to have a Bachelor Degree or vocational equivalent. Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required  

• Experience in working with the local environment, Minimum of 1-year experience teaching in NGOs. 

• Demonstrate understanding of working with vulnerable trainees, ability to respect the participants’ culture and beliefs and the ability to treat them all equally

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:   

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process. 

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.   

Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation. 

Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.   

Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with DRC’s vision and values. 

We offer 

Contract length: until 31 May 2018, part time (3 or 4 days per week) for a total period of 35 hours 

Level: Trainer 

Salary: 10 USD/hour 

Duty Station: Tripoli 

Start date: March 2018

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Nationals; please refer to drc.ngo under Vacancies. For questions regarding the vacancy please contact dolene.khairallah@drclebanon.dk.

Application process 

Interested? Then apply for this position by clicking on the apply button or go to www.drc.ngo under current vacancies. 

All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. Applications sent by email to Dolene Khairallah will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: 9th of March 2018 

If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please visit drc.ngo/jobsupport. 

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.