War Child Lebanon is recruiting two Research Coordinators for separate research projects under one umbrella: Thriving Through Play
 
To work on the TeamUp (movement-based, mental health promotion intervention) Quality of Care (QoC) predictor study: We want to assess if the three Quality of Care (QoC) indicators, (i.e. facilitator competency, implementation fidelity and attendance of children) can predict psychosocial outcomes for children participating in the TeamUp intervention. The TeamUp intervention consists of a movement-based, non-verbal approach including group games, sports, dance, routines, movement and body awareness exercises. 

To work on play-based methods research project: We aim to develop and test a short, modular, play-based intervention for families with children experiencing behavioral problems in humanitarian settings. We aim for this modular intervention to be feasible to implement as an add-on to existing psychosocial interventions, effective when delivered by non-specialists, and culturally appropriate. The 2-year project will include participatory formative research in coordination with a community advisory board (CAB), Theory of Change workshops and intervention development, followed by field-testing, adaptations, and a feasibility randomized controlled trial (fRCT). 

Both funded by LEGO Thriving Through Play grant

General Objective of the Job:  Responsible for day-to-day coordination of the respective research study, coordinating with community stakeholders, training and managing research assistants and implementation team members, while being part of an international research.    Position in the Organization:  Part of the R&D department, based in Lebanon, Beirut or Tripoli office.    Detailed job description  Facilitate a collaborative, equitable partnership with the community advisory board (CAB); ensuring an empowering and power-sharing process that attends to social inequalities Support in-country approval process, including ethical review of research protocol Contribute to the development and contextualization of research documents and data collection tools Strengthen capacity and promote co-learning, including facilitating/co-leading research assistant training to enable data collection Coordinate and supervise all data collection and research activities, including study planning, logistics and transport, and budget management. Give support to research assistants and others collecting data.  Comply with data management and protection regulations and adverse events reporting. Coordinate closely with international research team, implementation team (incl. partner organisations), Lebanon programme team and country office Conducting (rapid) qualitative analysis and synthesis Support with quantitative data checking, management and cleaning Contribute to data cleaning, reporting writing, dissemination and research publications Representing War Child at local level, i.e. government institutions, working groups, and coordination meetings. Coordinate and communicate with in-country partners.