Child participation and Campaigns Apprentice/Intern

This internship supports child participation and campaigns by assisting in data collection, analysis, reporting, and mentoring young people in advocacy activities. The role involves coordination of child-led initiatives and ensuring safeguarding throughout the activities.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Assist with preparations for child-centered workshops and child-led Advocacy and campaign activities under the Catalytic Fund.
• Mentor 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 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Ability to use computer (desirable).

Skills

• Child Participation
• Child Rights Knowledge
• Advocacy Skills
• Campaign Skills
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Report Writing
• Mentoring Youth
• Safeguarding
• Interpersonal Skills
• Cultural Awareness
• MS Word
• Communications Skills

Languages

English