Advocacy And Campaigns Intern

Job Summary

The Child Participation and Campaigns Intern will assist peer child researchers in documenting regional participation barriers, support data validation alongside MEAL cells, facilitate youth-led workshops, mentor community children in advocacy methodologies, and enforce strict safeguarding rules across all campaign touchpoints.

Qualification

• Age Demographic: Strictly open to young adults aged between 18 and 25 years old at the time of application.
• Academic Window: Must have successfully completed high school (secondary school education) within the past three (3) years.
• Prior Institutional Exposure: Must have received formal child participation capacity-building training from Save the Children, the Government of Rwanda, or an accredited child rights partner.
• Linguistic Skills: Professional fluency in English (both written and verbal communication) is mandatory.
• Core Software Literacy: Working foundational knowledge of Microsoft Word, digital data entries, and basic computer application packages.

Experience

Candidates must demonstrate an active personal track record of youth leadership and volunteer engagement:

Institutional Advocacy & Peer Leadership

• Affiliation Track: Must be a former member or active alumnus of an established Child Rights Club, Children’s Grassroots Group, Child Advisory Board (CAB), or the National Children’s Committee.
• Peer-to-Peer Mentorship: Proven comfort or basic experience leading, training, or motivating fellow young people within community or school-based environments.
• Communication & Cultural Agility: Highly developed interpersonal skills, characterized by strong cultural awareness and an ability to collaborate safely with individuals from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Advocacy Exposure: Basic personal or volunteer experience participating in social campaigns, community awareness creation, or child rights defense initiatives.

Desirable Data & Research Skills

• Basic Research Awareness: Foundational exposure to or interest in qualitative field data collection, documentation, interviewing, and note-taking techniques.
• Information Synthesis: Ability to gather verbal inputs from community members and assist in compiling them into coherent summary briefs.

Key Responsibilities

Field Research Coordination & Data Validation

• Support Peer Researchers: Coordinate and support peer child researchers as they collect, archive, and analyze qualitative data regarding barriers to meaningful child participation across Rwanda and Burundi.
• Partner with MEAL Cells: Work directly with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) unit to execute data validation, ensure quality control, and interpret field findings correctly.
• Draft Activity Documentation: Assist in writing clear, accurate, and timely reports tracking the updates, achievements, and structural challenges of the Catalytic Fund initiatives.

Youth Mentorship & Capacity Building

• Train Community Youth: Mentor and train young people in standard child campaigning methodologies, participatory action principles, and evidence-gathering techniques.
• Facilitate Consultations: Coordinate and lead child consultation panels, capturing children's authentic voices and testimonies ahead of high-level policy hearings and public advocacy events.
• Organize Local Workshops: Lead pre- and post-activity focus group discussions with youth team members operating within local schools and community networks.

Safeguarding Enforcement & Risk Tracking

• Enforce Safeguarding Standards: Maintain a zero-tolerance culture for risks, ensuring that every adult and child engaged in campaigns is completely protected and safeguarded according to SCI policies.
• Document Lessons Learned: Capture, package, and share field observations and institutional best practices to strengthen future evidence-based youth programming.
• Drive Creative Innovation: Propose and launch creative, youth-driven ideas to amplify marginalized children's voices and spread child-led research across digital and physical spaces.

Skills Required:

• Any / Field