Job Opportunity in Lebanon: Early Childhood Development Enumerator at IRC 2020

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Nonprofit organization

International Rescue Committee

Area

Middle East

Host Country

Lebanon

Deadline

16 May 2020

Study level

Undergraduate

Opportunity type

Jobs

Specialities

Social sciences and humanities

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

Algeria , Comoros , Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Mauritania , Oman , Qatar , Somalia , Syria , United Arab Emirates , Bahrain , Djibouti , Iraq , Kuwait , Libya , Morocco , Palestine , Saudi Arabia , Sudan , Tunisia , Yemen

Eligible Region

All Regions

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is looking for qualified Early Childhood Development (ECD) Enumerators to start working in Tripoli or Bekaa, Lebanon for 2020. The ECD Lebanon research team is conducting a measurement pilot for an impact evaluation study of the pre-school healing classrooms (PHCs). The study itself, set to start in July/August 2020, will look into the impact of one academic year of the PHCs on child learning and development. It will also examine the factors that influence the success of the intervention. Prior to launching the study, the research team will conduct a pilot of the tools throughout March to July 2020. The tools will consist of interviews and assessment tools with children, caregivers, and teachers. The ECD program is hiring a number of enumerators to carry out the data collection for this pilot stage.

Responsibilities:

Attend training that covers the objectives of the study, the instruments and the data collection procedures, as well as research ethics compliance.
Carry out data collection, which will consist of scheduling visits, preparing material before each visit, and applying data collection tools with children, caregivers, and teachers.
Provide daily field reports to supervisors during data collection.
Supervisors (if assigned) are to assist in coordinating field activities and to deliver daily and weekly supervision forms.
Receiving, recording, classifying and referring complaints for attention.
Other responsibilities will include:
Ensure high quality data collection for research purposes.
Follow ethical and informed consent procedures required for this study, including those for respondent privacy, data security and child safeguarding.
Keep data well organized for all observation and monitoring activities.
Capture the challenges and learning opportunities to feed in the improvement of the overall research process.
Supporting in other data collection and evaluation tasks requested by the research manager.
Adhere to IRC way standards in all work.

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor degree in the social sciences, psychology, education, or related field.
Work Experience: Experience conducting field research is a must (ideally in a humanitarian setting). Working with children is also required. Experience with parents/caregivers is strongly preferred.
Excellent interaction skills with children.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Experience with survey data collection and/or observational measure administration [e.g. observations of classrooms or interactions] preferred but not necessary.
Experience with digital data collection.
Strong attention to detail.
Strong self-initiative, ability to stay flexible under pressure.
Ability to work collaboratively as part of a diverse team from different professional and cultural backgrounds.
Previous experience working with refugees, families, young children preferred.
Language Skills: Arabic, English preferred.

About the IRC:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people whose lives and livelihood are shattered by conflict and disease to survive, recover and regain control of their future. It responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well-being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.

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