Community Teaching Coordinator

Job title: Community Teaching Coordinator

Job type: Full time                                                         

Place of work (City, Governorate): Based in Sinjar with potential travels within Duhok and Nineveh governorates.

Contract period: 6 (six) months with possibility of extension

Salary grade: L1

Number of Jobs: 1(one) job

Probational period: 2 (two) months

Working hours: Sunday to Thursday from 08:30-04:30 PM

Deadline for application: 24 October 2021

Documents required: CV

Description

About the project:

The Preserving Cultural Heritage of Minority Communities in Iraq project is a two-year project aimed to preserve the cultural heritage of religious and ethno-religious minority groups in Iraq. Yazda has partnered with Antiquities Coalition to build Yazidi capacity to preserve, document, digitize, and make accessible the intangible heritage of their community and promote the survival of the living Yazidi culture in its many forms.

About the person:

The Community Teaching Coordinator will provide the support needed to reestablish Tîrêja Rojê (“Ray of the Sun”), an educational project designed to preserve Yazidi intangible cultural heritage. This person will coordinate regular presentations in which the custodians of Yazidi oral tradition can transmit their knowledge to younger generations, who will be empowered to acquire and memorize sacred stories, poems, and songs. The Community Teaching Coordinator will logistically empower traditional teachers to lead these sessions, but the teachers themselves will determine the format and content of their lessons. The Community Teaching Coordinator will also initiate opportunities on behalf of the newly created production team who will conduct detailed interviews with Yazidi elders and bearers of oral tradition to record their knowledge for posterity.

Duties and responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the Project Manager, the Community Teaching Coordinator is expected to fulfil the following duties:

–        Recruit teachers to participate in Tîrêja Rojê from among knowledgeable Yazidi men of religion and provide them with assistance and support as they plan and execute their classes

–        Organize regular classes and sessions in which Yazidi traditional teachers provide lessons and instruction in Yazidi tradition

–        Promote a sense of value regarding Yazidi oral tradition within the community

–        Schedule and promote Tîrêja Rojê activities and presentations

–        Secure temporary and permanent venues for classes

–        Ensure that venues are properly prepared, maintained, and provided with needed fixtures, equipment, and supplies

–        Offer coordination between documentation production teams and Tîrêja Rojê instructors when special recording sessions occur

–        Collaborate with the Finance and Logistics Departments in order to implement activities, including raising Purchase Requests (PR)

–        Monitor and report on project activities

–        Provide refreshments during presentations and assist Yazidi traditional teachers with ad hoc requests