Vacancy Notice – Debating and Public Speaking Expert

Assignment Description: Preparing and delivering a three-day training workshop on debating and public speaking for emerging women leaders

Assignment Location: Beirut, Lebanon 

Employment Type: Short-term consultancy 

Assignment Period: November and December 2022 

Level of Effort: four expert days   

How to apply: Please send the application documents to info.lebanon@democracy-reporting.org cc’ing e.haddad@democracy-reporting.org, by 18 November 2022, 11:59 AM Beirut local time. 

DRI is looking for an expert in Debating and Public Speaking to train a cohort of 40 emerging women leaders divided into two groups, who aspire to compete for a political mandate at the municipal level.

To find out more about the requirements for this vacancy, please download the full procurement notice available in English below.  

Background

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) is a non-partisan, independent, not-for-profit organisation registered in Berlin. It has been established in Lebanon since 2016. DRI promotes political participation of citizens, accountability of state bodies and the development of democratic institutions worldwide. Democratic discourse is the basis of our mission and vision. In our work, we facilitate discussion and exchange about democratic government and the need for a continuous discourse adhering to democratic rules.   

DRI is empowering civic actors, particularly women, to participate in the political process, and engaging civic and public actors in political and legal reform to advance a good governance agenda. 

DRI is supporting the engagement of women in the municipal elections through networking and capacity-building. Debate and public speaking are essential topics to increase the core skills of women who are engaging in municipal elections.

To this end, DRI is recruiting an expert to design and conduct a three-day training on Debating and Public speaking for 40 women, and to develop an evaluation report upon completion of the activity.

Duties and responsibilities

Under the supervision of DRI’s Project Coordinator, the trainer is responsible for:  

• Developing interactive and detailed training modules, a training session plan, and all accompanying background materials (half an expert day);
• Delivering three training workshops that include open discussion sessions, to 40 women divided into two groups following an interactive, engaging approach, e.g., discussion activities, exercises, role plays (two expert days);
• Preparing pre- and post-training test modules to be shared with the participants before and after the training sessions, once validated by DRI;
• Developing and submitting a training report, once the event is completed, evaluating the activity, and summarising the outcomes of the intervention, following the template or outline provided by DRI (half an expert day).   

 Your Skills & Experience  

• A university degree in communication, journalism, or other relevant fields; 
• At least 7 years of practitioner’s experience in debating and/or public speaking;

• At least 5 years of relevant training experience, preferably for political activists;
• Previous experience in drafting training methodologies with clear vision and objectives;  
• Strong understanding of gender sensitive and diversity communications concepts and women empowerment;
• Working proficiency in Arabic.