Overview:
SB OverSeas is a non-profit organization working in Belgium and in Lebanon, assisting those escaping conflict through education and empowerment programs all while providing aid and raising awareness of the humanitarian crisis. SB OverSeas is looking for interns to join us in the Internship Programme for 2020. These internship positions are catered to individuals who are eager to develop their teaching skills as well as put into practice additional skills or interests in the field of empowerment development.
The internship includes an Arabic language course that helps elevate the interns ability to communicate in classrooms, immerse quicker into the community, and gain Arabic proficiency, a vital skill in the international field. These language courses take place twice a week and are catered to their specific level. Language certificates are provided.
Primary tasks
Empowerment Development responsibilities:
Promote empowerment programmes to the women and youth to encourage participation
Materialize empowerment programme through concrete partnerships with companies and organizations that can provide resources for the courses (e.g sewing machines for sewing classes)
Assist Centre Manager in enhancing and expanding already established programmes to include more women and provide more classes
Generate a weekly and monthly status report to Centre Manager indicating success rate and progression of work (e.g number of women attending empowerment programmes and partnerships established)
Teaching responsibilities:
Plan and deliver lessons in English for the women and youth classes
Submit weekly lesson plans for each of the classes
Teach English to centre staff and tutoring children in need of extra support
Support extra-curricular activities for children, some taking place on the weekends
Attend training sessions and team meetings
Report to ESL Officer for teaching evaluations and supervision
Secondary tasks
Support staff with extra tasks such as organizing donations, planning celebrations, doing outreach and distribution
Collaborate with communications team to generate content for social media outlets regarding empowerment programme events and updates
Foster at least one new partnership and platform per month
Develop a certified programme for the SB Empowerment Project
Essential Qualifications:
Experience working with refugees
High-level working English
Experience working with at-risk women
Multi-national and humanitarian experience
Experience in developing projects
Personal Attributes:
o Highly motivated, energetic, and capable of independent work
o Well organised
o Confident and direct when representing SB Overseas in official fora
o Displays strong personal initiative
o Works well under pressure
o Social and engaging with excellent interpersonal skills
o Flexible and open to new ideas
o Calm and rational with a logical and analytical approach to problems
This vacancy is archived.