SayPro Insider Mediators Trainer Consulting Service

About Search

Search for Common Ground (Search) is a non-governmental organisation working to transform the way societies deal with conflicts. We have over 37 years of in peacebuilding and are based in 53 local offices worldwide. We strive to build sustainable peace for generations to come by working with all sides of a conflict, providing the tools needed to work together, and finding constructive solutions. While conflict is inevitable, violence is not! Our mission is to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches and toward cooperative solutions. Instead of tearing down an existing world, we focus on constructing a new one. We shift the everyday interactions between hostile groups of people, so they can work together to build up their community, choosing joint problem-solving over violent means.

For more information, visit www.sfcg.org and https://www.facebook.com/sfcg.lebanon.

Position Summary

Search for Common Ground (Search) is implementing a 12-months project commissioned by The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNW) with the objective of “increasing trust and cooperation across diverse communities, to create opportunities for strategic alliances between women’s rights actors and leaders”. Search and UNW seek to compensate for the lack of equal representation of women in the national political process by including key bodies established to facilitate the country’s transition towards peace.

The project will focus on engaging women’s rights actors, women’s leaders and women’s organisations through capacity building; building bridges between women and established women’s groups that are already engaged in national Track I and II of the political process; and contributing to transforming norms around gender roles. The project will also engage men in order to build alliances and support for women’s engagement with their male peers in the target areas. This holistic approach will ensure the meaningful participation of a diversity of women in addressing common issues and/or issues related to gender equality and women’s rights linked to the political process, and the amplification of their voices into the national political process.

In line with the project objectives, Search will engage 45 Insider Mediators (IMs) in the three areas of implementation and build their capacities with the aim to increase tolerance, collaboration and alliances on key gender equality issues across women’s rights actors, women’s leaders and women’s organisations at the community level. In fact, Search’s goal is for diverse women stakeholders to have increased opportunities to collaborate across different levels in society on key gender equality and women’s rights issues; and for women’s rights actors, women’s leaders, and women’s organisations to actively lead dialogues and community initiatives seeking to understand and address common gender equality and women’s rights issues.

To that end, Search is seeking a (or a group of) qualified and d trainer(s) to provide ten full days of online training sessions to 45 IMs on various topics, to equip them with the necessary skills to successfully achieve their role within the project and conduct activities in their communities – these activities include conducting conflict scans, community dialogue sessions and community initiatives.

Duration of Assignment

This assignment is expected to take place from May, 2022 until the end of August, 2022. Please note that the end date may be extended due to unexpected risks and circumstances that may be faced during implementation.

The trainer(s) is/are expected to deliver a total of 10 training days for the 45 participants. These participants and the dates can be divided according to the needs of the training topics.. Additionally, 0.5 paid day is allocated per training day for the preparation of the training material and drafting of the training report.

Location of Assignment

The training sessions will be held online on Zoom.

Scope of Work

The IMs training topics (divided in relation to the type of activities to be conducted by the IMs) could include but might not be limited to:

Dialogue Sessions

• Search’s Community Dialogue Approach (CDA);
• Search’s Social Cohesion for Stronger Communities;
• Conflict Management and Resolution;
• Facilitation/Dialogue Skills and leadership Skill;

Conflict Scans:

• Search’s Conflict Scan Tool;
• Report Writing Skills;

Media:

• Digital Peacebuilding;
• Advocacy; and
• Using Media and ICT for Networking, Lobbying and Advocacy;

Gender: Notions regarding gender, masculinities should be incorporated throughout. In addition, the training should use Men Engage materials.

Deliverables:

Under the direct supervision of, and in collaboration with the project manager, the following represents a general outline for the work to be conducted;

• Within 7 working days upon contracting, the trainer(s) is/are expected to submit the Training Methodology, and learning aids, as well as the training Agenda;
• Pre-test: A pre-test needs to be conducted to assess the knowledge base of the participants. The pre-test will be sent out electronically to all participants before the first session.
• Conduct the thirty training sessions;
• Post-test: A post-test needs to be conducted on the last day of the training in each area once the training sessions are completed in order to ascertain whether the participants were able to absorb the training’s key messages and tools. The post-test is also indicative of the success of this assignment.
• Participants attendance sheet, trainer timesheet;
• Final Training Report: Upon completion of the training, within three working days, the trainer is expected to provide a final report that includes results of the post-pre tests, observations, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations to be shared with the project team.

All sessions and activities will be conducted in Arabic only. The training material, handouts and pre and post tests should be submitted in Arabic. Documents such as the training agenda, training material/content, and presentations should be submitted in both English and Arabic, while the training methodology and final report are expected to be submitted only in English. The trainers need to exercise utmost flexibility to changes that may occur in the delivery of the activity.

As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the position holder may be required to undertake other duties that are broadly in line with the above key duties.

Qualifications and Skills

• Proven in Search for Common Ground’s Community Dialogue Approach, Common Ground Approach, and Conflict Scan Tool;
• This assignment will be conducted in Arabic, therefore fluency in Arabic as well as English, both written and spoken, is required;
• Certificates for ToT completion on similar assignments;
• Knowledge and/or working on advocacy;
• Knowledge and/or working in sensitive contexts with vulnerable populations;
• Strong knowledge and working on gender related topics;
• Experience in working with international organisations;
• Effective communication skills;
• Experience in facilitating similar trainings in sensitive contexts;
• Excellent organisational and time management skills; and

Experience in using online platforms, in online communication and virtual coordination.**