Experimental Psychologist INTERN

CALL FOR experimental psychologist INTERN

1. Background

CARE is an international humanitarian and development organization without religious, political or government affiliation. CARE is committed to protecting and promoting the rights of vulnerable girls and boys, women and men and improving the lives of refugees and host communities alike.

CARE works at national, municipality and at community levels to develop customized solutions and ensure long-term sustainability as well as respond to basic needs. We design projects that fall into alignment with national priorities and can be owned by communities. Our interventions range across clean water, affordable sanitation and community healthcare and sexual and reproductive health rights programs, economic opportunities, and protection. Across program areas, CARE’s activities are guided by a rights-based, holistic, gender-sensitive/transformative, and inclusive approach.

CARE International has been operational in Lebanon since 2013 and works nationwide.

The Project focuses on building emotional, psychological and psycho-social well-being in order to increase resiliency for youth and women mitigating against key drivers of social and economic instability and violent conflict. By engaging youth and women in activities, it has far-reaching benefits for participants: strengthens beneficiaries’ sense of belonging; social cohesion; sense of hope; improve inter and intra personal skills; increase their readiness to work; build career paths; and encourage social interaction with others. The Project is also designed to help beneficiaries learn new skills to handle boredom, failure, rejection, fear of success and other situations. Secondary activities aim to increase pathways for community and entrepreneurship engagement to boost mental strength and resilience.

The Project consists of three interlinked components, which will collectively contribute to enhancing the economic resilience of marginalized communities and individuals. The Project will address barriers related to individual employability and labour market links, small business development and job creation, community relations and self-organization.

Core components:

1. Engaging communities and enhancing social, psychosocial and economic skills and knowledge. This component will mainly tackle the human capital of the local communities, as well as the theory of change that stipulates the engagement of the local communities.

2. Stakeholder buy-in. Engaging businesses and entrepreneurs in the process of neighbourhood development through the consolidation and empowerment of the local businesses, as well as the provision of a better entrepreneurship environment. This component also tackles the LED dynamics to alleviate poverty and create jobs and incomes.

3. Promoting positive institutional and organizational change. To sustain and consolidate the local communities and revitalize their own potentials and dynamics, CARE will support and help local NGO to increase awareness, participation, advocacy and local social and economic initiatives.

In order to stimulate enhance the livelihood and social conditions of the local communities (Lebanese and Syrians) in Tripoli, through the three main strategic axis CARE and partners engage three main target groups:

• Vulnerable women and youth that do not have qualifications and skills and who do not have access to work or that have low-paying and unstable sources of income;
• Vulnerable youth and women that have some skills or partial qualifications but lack the resources, know-how or completed qualifications to access stable employment that allows them to sustain themselves; and
• Community members with completed education and a certain skills level that are motivated to support other groups through SME start-ups or social enterprises or already own businesses with growth potential

2. Terms of Reference

CARE International is seeking an intern in experimental psychology to conduct the following:

• Take an active role in the proposed research and/or CIL assessments to be conducted on the field.
• Approach Beneficiaries in the research study to check the quality and efficiency of our curriculas implemented in our project also diagnose tools in order to assess and analyze them
• Conduct research and reviews on several topics such as ethics, leadership, boredom and other topics 
• Work alongside with our PSS and life skill consultant regarding the curricula, testing, TOT training and other related duties
• Participate in focus group discussions for providing feedback on our intervention from cultural, community and personal level.

3.  Qualifications:

• Essential: undergraduate in Neuroscience, Human Science, Psychology or social sciences, etc..
• Time management
• Creative thinking
• Able to work under pressure
• Advanced Arabic and English proficiency is necessary.