Call For YMV Peer Facilitators

What? Recruiting peer facilitators to deliver debate training to young participant.

Age: 21 – 30 

Language: Fluent in English and Arabic

Location: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia

Competitive selection

Commitment: 6 – 18 months

Fee Rate: Voluntary with subsistence

Closing Date: Sunday 7 April 2019 at 23:59 (GMT)

Overview

Young Mediterranean Voices (YMV) seeks to empower young women and men to enhance a culture of dialogue, to contribute to public policy and shape media discourses, and to create a shared understanding with peers across the Mediterranean on how to address issues of common concern to their communities.

To achieve this, the programme focuses on four specific objectives:

• A cadre of young influencers with enhanced skills for dialogue and debate will be created;
• Debating practices will be embedded in education institutions and CSOs;
• Platforms and mechanisms for young influencers will be enhanced to shape public policy, influence decision-makers and shape media narratives;
• Exposure among young debaters for shared understanding and capacity will be enhanced to develop shared responses with peers to socio-cultural challenges.

YMV is coordinated by the Anna Lindh Foundation, co-founded by the British Council, and developed in partnership with the Centre for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), Friends of Europe, the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, MEDAC and Soliya. The programme is funded by the European Commission and co-funded by the Government of Finland, the British Council and World Bank Group.

As part of YMV, the British Council is looking to recruit Peer Facilitators that will be responsible to deliver debate trainings to young debaters, co-develop debate clubs, monitor and support debaters during cascade and competitions as well as possibility to adjudicate during debate competitions. Peer Facilitators will be recruited in 8 MENA countries; Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia. 

Peer Facilitators Expected Roles

Peer Facilitators are key to YMV programme delivery, they are the link between young debaters in debate clubs and the rest of the programme; the organisations (hubs) and the Master Facilitators. In particular, Peer Facilitators are expected to:

• Attend a 3-day National Debate training in country which will include an intensive training in the YMV Debate Curriculum and Facilitation Techniques and additional home/online learning.
• Attend the national launching meeting with hubs to develop cascade action plan
• Deliver the debate training during cascade phase to debate clubs organised by Hubs organisations
• Follow up and monitor debaters in debate clubs during practice and before competitions.
• Prepare motions for the debaters during the cascade trainings and other competitions
• Travel (internally and/or externally) when needed
• Report to Master Facilitators on debaters performance, number of debaters, motions used.
• Select and recommend debaters during the qualification stage leading to the final competition
• Show full commitment throughout the YMV life cycle: National Debate training, cascade trainings, information sessions, inter-debate competitions, and the national debate forum
• Become a part of the wider YMV team, actively participating in the ‘National Advisory Committee’ and sharing good practice.
• Become a representative of YMV, upholding YMV mission, ethos and reputation.

Eligibility

Applicants who wish to become Peer Facilitators need to be residents of one of the 8 countries; Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia. They need to be between 21 and 30 years old, fluent in both English and Arabic languages.  Additionally, applicants who wish to become Peer Facilitators will need to meet the following:

Qualification and Experience

• Have at least 1-year experience in delivering trainings to young people.
• Active in youth programmes including volunteering. 
• Be an active debater or have a previous debate experience.
• Previous engagement/experience in YMV or YAV programmes is desirable
• Motivation letter describing why you want to be part of YMV
• Ability to cascade the training to young debaters
• Ability to travel (internally) when needed
• Commit to YMV through the programme’s life cycle until Dec 2020
• Ability to provide technical support to the young debaters when required

Timeline

• Call for Peer Facilitators Issued: 15 March 2019
• Deadline for submission applications (Response Deadline): 29 March 2019
• Final Decision – informing applicants: 5 April 2019
• National Debate training (3-day): Before end of April 2019
• National launching meeting with Hubs: During May 2019
• Cascade Debate training on field: June-July-August 2019
• Inter-hub debate competitions: July-August-September 2019
• National Debate Forum (3-day): October 2019

Evaluation and Selection

Your application will be assessed in 2 stages; 1- shortlisting against minimum criteria and 2-scoring the evidence provided in the responses in the application form.

Stage 1:  responses will be checked to ensure that they have been completed correctly and all necessary information has been provided.  Responses correctly completed with all relevant information being provided will proceed to Stage 2. 

Stage 2:  If your application succeeds in passing Stages 1 of the evaluation, then it will have its response to the British Council’s requirements evaluated in accordance with the evaluation methodology set out below:

• Knowledge and experience: 40%
• Motivation: 30%
• Knowledge of debate, video: 30%

Contract Terms

• Shortlisted applicants will conduct a 20 min Interview with YMV country managers
• The British Council will sign with selected peer facilitators a service agreement contract as set out in Annex 1 (Terms and Conditions of contract) (“Contract”).  By submitting your application, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this application and the Contract without further negotiation or amendment.
• The Contract period will end on 31 December 2019. Possibility of renewal for another year.
• This opportunity will be on a voluntary basis, only per-diems will be offered. Peer Facilitators will receive a subsistence fee from the Hubs organisations to cover cost of transportation, per-diem and incidentals to up to 20 working days. This subsistence fee is calculated using the British Council Global Travel Rates at the rate of the standard per-diem rate of the country of operation per day of service. A daily service is considered over 7 hours. Or half the rate for half day of service, up to 4 hours.