Kids4EU Consultant

The Kids4EU Consultant supports the design and facilitation of educational and creative activities promoting EU values, democracy, and inclusion among children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 in Greece. The role involves delivering storytelling sessions, workshops, and advocacy campaigns as part of the EU-funded Kids4EU project.

Responsibilities

• Design and facilitate age-appropriate, participatory educational activities for children and adolescents aged 6–18.
• Develop and deliver storytelling sessions, creative workshops, arts-based activities, and interactive learning experiences promoting EU values and democracy.
• Support adaptation of educational materials and methodologies to different age groups and learning contexts.
• Facilitate discussions and reflection activities encouraging empathy, critical thinking, intercultural dialogue, and understanding of diversity.
• Lead creative and artistic components of advocacy activities including artwork, exhibitions, visual storytelling, comics, and creative campaigns.
• Ensure activities are inclusive, engaging, and accessible to children from diverse backgrounds including migrant, Roma, refugee, and marginalized communities.
• Contribute to specific work packages including storytelling activities, interactive cultural activities, diversity and inclusion workshops, advocacy training, child-led campaigns, and presentations to policymakers.
• Provide brief activity summaries and attendance information to support IRC Hellas reporting requirements.
• Support collection of Means of Verification during activities.
• Comply with IRC safeguarding, child protection, and safety policies at all times.
• Report any safeguarding concerns immediately according to IRC procedures.

Requirements

• Consultant position supporting educational and creative activities under the Kids4EU project.
• Experience in designing and facilitating participatory educational activities for children and adolescents aged 6–18.
• Ability to develop and deliver storytelling sessions, creative workshops, arts-based activities, and interactive learning experiences.
• Experience promoting EU values, democracy, inclusion, equality, respect, cultural diversity, and active citizenship through educational activities.
• Ability to adapt educational materials and methodologies to different age groups and learning contexts.
• Experience facilitating discussions and reflection activities encouraging empathy, critical thinking, intercultural dialogue, and understanding of diversity.
• Experience leading creative and artistic components of advocacy activities including artwork, exhibitions, visual storytelling, comics, and creative campaigns.
• Ability to ensure activities are inclusive, engaging, and accessible to children from diverse backgrounds including migrant, Roma, refugee, and marginalized communities.
• Willingness to participate in field visits and support final conference design and implementation.
• Compliance with IRC safeguarding, child protection, and safety policies.
• Ability to report safeguarding concerns immediately according to IRC procedures.

Skills

• Participatory Educational Activities
• Storytelling Sessions
• Creative Workshops
• Arts-Based Activities
• Interactive Learning Experiences
• Promoting EU Values
• Democracy Education
• Inclusion Education
• Equality Education
• Cultural Diversity Education
• Active Citizenship Education
• Educational Material Adaptation
• Facilitating Discussions
• Empathy Development
• Critical Thinking Facilitation
• Intercultural Dialogue
• Creative Advocacy Activities
• Visual Storytelling
• Exhibition Design
• Child and Youth Protection Compliance
• Safeguard Reporting

Languages

English