Math Educator

Project Background

The ReStart project aims to restore and strengthen access to quality education and psychosocial support for vulnerable children in protection shelter in the Central Bekaa area. The project provides a structured, inclusive, and supportive learning environment within the shelter, combining retention support, Adapted Basic Literacy and Numeracy (ABLN), Youth BLN, life skills, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), and recreational activities. Through this integrated approach, the project seeks to rebuild children’s foundational skills, enhance their emotional resilience, and promote a safe, nurturing space that enables them to regain stability and progress toward reintegration into society.

Primary Purpose:

The educator is responsible for support and guidance to children who are at risk of dropping out of school, and for delivering literacy and numeracy sessions for children and youth, by improving their academic performance in a supportive active learning environment.

Task #1: Providing high-quality education for children and youth

- Ensures that all children and youth have grasped all the learning acquirements from the respective curriculum;

- Plans, prepares, and delivers comprehensive lesson plans and instructional materials to address the different learning abilities;

 - Follows and adapts the existing BLN curriculum material to tailor the BLN classes to the children and youth’s individual needs;

- Develops and prepares a variety of learning materials and resources (worksheets and activities);

- Implements and adapts various teaching methods and differentiated instructions to meet children and youth’s learning abilities and interests (ex: active learning, learning by doing / playing, etc.);

- Increases children’s autonomy in completing their homework/tasks and ensures they grasped the lessons’ objectives from the school;

- Participates actively in the development and creation of remedial/education materials by providing feedback, participating in focus group discussions, or any other request by the Learning Development Coordinator (LDC);

- Encourages the children and youth’s cooperation and self-learning (peer-to-peer, tutoring, mutual help, etc.);

- Performs all the tasks assigned within the scope of his/her job.

Task #2: Protection:

- Ensures the implementation of Amel’s Code of Conduct, Child protection policy, PSEAH standards and Safeguarding policies and procedures;

- Establishes classroom rules and procedures to maintain a safe, respectful, and inclusive classroom environment;

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

- Oversees children and youth during recess and activities;

- Supports the social worker/psychologist in engaging the community members in the children’s learning (communication skills);

- Designs and organizes occasional activities (such as community events, distribution, etc.) in coordination with other team members according to the community needs;

- Implements the protective measures for health protection continuously.

- Supports the organization of any specific activities to respond to urgent needs;

Task #3: Monitoring & evaluation

- Designs relevant tools to assess the children and youth’s progress (Diagnostics tests, pre/post-tests, personal observation, regular assessment, etc.);

-  Conducts pre-and post-assessments to evaluate the children and youth’s academic process and adapt the adopted teaching strategies;

- Reports the children and youth’s results to the field officer on time.

- Monitors the attendance of the children and youth daily.

Task #4: Coordination:

- Coordinates daily with the project’s team members to adopt the collective response to the children and youth’s needs (coherent response with animator, social worker, psychologist, etc.);

- Attends and takes part in staff meetings;

- Takes initiative to find collective solutions to challenges due to context/situation changes and adapts the project’s activities according to the retention support project goal (coordination meetings);

- Ensures smooth referrals with the field officer/ social worker/psychologist for individual cases with the internal referral pathways;

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

Task #5: Professional Development:

- Participates in internal and external professional development activities (20 training hours).

Reports to: Field Officer, Field Coordinator, Project Coordinator or Learning Development Coordinator

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Math from an accredited university
• Teaching diploma is a plus
• 3-4 years of teaching experience, preferably within an NGO setting
• Experience working with vulnerable or at-risk children, preferably in community or shelter settings
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Languages: Proficiency in English and Arabic.

Working Hours: Six days a week, 3 hours a day, in addition to preparation hours, coordination meetings, events, etc.

Monthly incentive: 720$ per month 

Location: Zahle- Central Bekaa