History Consultant

About the Lebanese Association for History

LAH is a non-governmental organization founded in 2013 by a group of educationalists, history teachers, and activists who work together to contribute to the development of disciplinary approaches to History education in Lebanon. LAH’s mission is to promote the learning and teaching of history as a discipline in Lebanon, raise public awareness about the importance of history and ensure that history teaching becomes more recognized by society and more engaging to learners with a focus on historical concepts. 

LAH aims at encouraging continuous learning for different age groups as a way to build learners’ critical thinking shape their personalities and develop a sense of individual and collective responsibility. Accordingly, LAH is working on developing a digital platform for history education sources accessible to all teachers in Lebanon and the Arab world. Additionally, the association will be conducting workshops sliming at developing teachers’ capacity to research and develop educational sources related to history.  LAH is also involved in partnerships and projects working towards the development of a variety of digital platforms contributing to the sector.

Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Take part in the preparatory phase of the project
• Outreach candidates for participation while ensuring inclusiveness

• Lead on the research-design and methodology of study, with the support of the research consultant
• Attend and support in the facilitation of the talks amongst experts
• Review the extensive research on the history of the civil war, and contribute in the analysis.
• Manage the mapping of the initiatives, publications and personnel related to the history of the civil war.
• Support the facilitators/mediators throughout the process
• Examine cases from other conflict societies and decide on the best approach for the case of Lebanon.
• Review findings to identify key people that should be at the various stages of this project.
• Participate in a dialogic process to examine and reconcile existing narratives.
• Consolidate the discussion and process into written documents
• Identify the main themes and narratives which already exist, what is needed, and how to work towards a healed collective memory.
• Discuss, debate and reflect on the history of the civil war with the participating history experts.
• Support the facilitator and LAH in technical history issues

Deliverables:

1. The mapping that will include three main aspects:

• The first shows main sources, books, articles, documentaries that tackled various aspects of the civil war history.
• The second suggests names of scholars and professionals who have worked on the history of the civil war and could contribute the most to the project.
• The third lists key initiatives pertaining to the collection, research, and archiving of civil war

1. Support in the writing of publications pertaining to this project

Skills and Competencies

• Extensive work on the history of Lebanon, particularly the history of the civil war
• Proficiency in word processing, spreadsheets, research software and strong technical literacy.
• At least 5 years related experience.
• Excellent research writing and editing skills
• Ability to work efficiently and promptly with team members and stakeholders
• Strong analytical and qualitative skills
• Dynamic attitude, multitasking skills and team player skills.
• Ability to work independently and to take initiative.
• Attention to details and high professionalism.