Job Information
Save The Children Literacy Program Adaptations for Multilingual Learners Fellow in Fairfield, Connecticut
Description
Summary
The School Age Learning and Wellbeing (SALW) team of the Department of Education and Child Protection is seeking a fellow for Winter/Spring 2024/2025. This virtual fellowship will provide you an opportunity to dive deep into the practicalities of supporting children to learn when their first language does not match up with the main language(s) of instruction in their classrooms. This role will work closely with two Sr. Advisors from the SALW team to develop new and/or updated guidance to Save the Children colleagues around the globe on how to support children who are struggling to learn to read and may be facing multiple challenges in their literacy learning journey. Building off of recently developed partial draft guidance for Save the Children staff working in multilingual contexts, and other existing literacy and multilingual guidance, the fellow will research evidence-based multilingual strategies used in diverse low and middle income contexts across the globe – with a focus on supporting students who struggle the most with learning to read, reach out to experts in the field of multilingual literacy within and outside of Save the Children to gain insight into the latest state of the art for this area of education, and compile the learnings into a finalized user-friendly guide for Save the Children global level staff. This may include developing multilingual focused session plans for parent/caregiver engagement workshops, following Save the Children’s Literacy Boost Caregiver Engagement Workshop model as well as other practical components for school or community/home side learning for children who live and learn in multilingual environments. This role will give you direct insight into what it’s like to work on the SALW team, giving you a “behind the curtain” perspective into how our education teams collaborate with one another to create lasting impact in children’s lives.
What You’ll be Doing
Desk Research in multilingual learning strategies for students struggling to learn to read (including reviewing notes from desk research of others)
Plan and conduct informational interviews with Save the Children staff around the globe and external experts in multilingual literacy for children in low and middle income contexts
Develop supplemental remediation tools/guidance for multilingual learners to accompany forthcoming Dyslexia guidance
As time allows, develop wrap-around guidance and/or a landing page for the remediation tools and multilingual guidance, to orient Save the Children staff from any region to the sections of the guidance that are most relevant to their context.
Required Qualifications
Must be an actively enrolled in an Associate, Bachelor, Master or other post high school education program, or have graduated within 6 months of intern program start date
Possess strong written skills, solid interpersonal skills and ability to work within a team
Proficient in Microsoft Office
Currently eligible to work in the U.S.
Previous experience with education programs
Preferred Qualifications
Cross-cultural communication skills – oral and written
Ideal if speaks a language other than English fluently
Previous experience teaching children, ideally teaching them to read in multilingual contexts
What’s In It for You
Structured learning and development program
Meaningful work under the direct supervision of an experienced Save the Children staff member
Highly collaborative and innovative teams
Networking program with managers across the organization
Flexible schedule
A family friendly work environment
The knowledge that the work you are supporting is changing the lives of children all around the world
Time expectations: 30-36 hours per week (up to 8 hours max per day, 420 hours total over the course of the Fellowship)
Dates: TBD
About Us
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.
Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.
If you require disability assistance with the application or recruitment process, please submit a request to applicantsupport@savechildren.org.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
