Save the Children

Responsibilities or duties

• Assist in coordinating peer child researchers to collect, document, and analyse data on the status, gaps, barriers, and opportunities for meaningful child participation in Rwanda and Burundi.
• Work closely with the MEAL team to support data validation, quality assurance, and interpretation of findings.
• Contribute to the development of quality reports to inform programming and advocacy.
• Assistance with preparations for child-centered workshops and child-led Advocacy and campaign activities under the Catalytic Fund
• Mentoring fellow young people in campaigns and capacity building of fellow children in child campaigning and participation in child-led evidence collection.
• Assist in coordination and facilitation of child consultations and collect children’s voices during advocacy and campaign moments such as hearings.
• Facilitate meetings with fellow young people involved in the data collection in schools and communities ahead of or after the activity.
• With support from SCI, mentor fellow children and young people in child campaigning and participation methodologies and principles.
• Report on achievements made by children’s participation initiatives
• Assist in developing the reports of the Catalytic Fund initiatives
• Document and support dissemination of lessons learned and good practices to strengthen evidence-based child participation programming and advocacy.
• Ensure children and adults engaged are safeguarded throughout.
• Candidates will be encouraged to develop their own creative ideas and where possible for amplifying children’s voices and disseminating child-led evidence on child participation.
• Notwithstanding the apprenticeship/internship purpose and duties and responsibilities included in this description, candidates must be prepared to undertake additional tasks, duties and responsibilities at the discretion of the line manager.
• The candidate must be available full-time and must not have any other commitments, work, or activities that could interfere with the internship during the seven-month period.

Qualifications or requirements 

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice)

Accountability:

Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.

Ambition:

Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves, takes responsibility for their own personal development.

Collaboration:

Self-motivated and able to work with a high degree of autonomy as well as with other

Creativity:

Analyses information from different sources and to synthesise this information into coherent briefs and communication documents.

Integrity:

Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence. Displays consistent and excellent judgement.

Qualifications Experience and Skills:

Essential

• Aged between 18 and 25 and having completed high school within the past three years.
• Having benefited from child participation capacity building from Save the Children or other relevant partners including the Government
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Writing and data collection skills are an added advantage.
• Knowledge of children’s rights, child participation, key international agreements and conventions
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required
• Demonstrates Save the Children’s core values of accountability, collaboration, integrity, ambition, and creativity.
• Former member of a child rights club, Children’s Grassroot Groups, Child Advisory Board, or National Children’s Committee
• Working knowledge of Microsoft word and related applications
• Demonstrates advocacy and campaign skills
• Desirable
• Ability to use computer

CONTRACT LENGTH: 07 months

• Assist in coordinating peer child researchers to collect, document, and analyse data on the status, gaps, barriers, and opportunities for meaningful child participation in Rwanda and Burundi.
• Work closely with the MEAL team to support data validation, quality assurance, and interpretation of findings.
• Contribute to the development of quality reports to inform programming and advocacy.
• Assistance with preparations for child-centered workshops and child-led Advocacy and campaign activities under the Catalytic Fund
• Mentoring fellow young people in campaigns and capacity building of fellow children in child campaigning and participation in child-led evidence collection.
• Assist in coordination and facilitation of child consultations and collect children’s voices during advocacy and campaign moments such as hearings.
• Facilitate meetings with fellow young people involved in the data collection in schools and communities ahead of or after the activity.
• With support from SCI, mentor fellow children and young people in child campaigning and participation methodologies and principles.
• Report on achievements made by children’s participation initiatives
• Assist in developing the reports of the Catalytic Fund initiatives
• Document and support dissemination of lessons learned and good practices to strengthen evidence-based child participation programming and advocacy.
• Ensure children and adults engaged are safeguarded throughout.
• Candidates will be encouraged to develop their own creative ideas and where possible for amplifying children’s voices and disseminating child-led evidence on child participation.
• Notwithstanding the apprenticeship/internship purpose and duties and responsibilities included in this description, candidates must be prepared to undertake additional tasks, duties and responsibilities at the discretion of the line manager.
• The candidate must be available full-time and must not have any other commitments, work, or activities that could interfere with the internship during the seven-month period.

• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Writing and data collection skills are an added advantage.
• Knowledge of children’s rights, child participation, key international agreements and conventions
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required
• Demonstrates Save the Children’s core values of accountability, collaboration, integrity, ambition, and creativity.
• Former member of a child rights club, Children’s Grassroot Groups, Child Advisory Board, or National Children’s Committee
• Working knowledge of Microsoft word and related applications
• Demonstrates advocacy and campaign skills
• Ability to use computer

• Aged between 18 and 25and having completed high school within the past three years.
• Having benefited from child participation capacity building from Save the Children or other relevant partners including the Government