Title:                                Anti-Discrimination Program Coordinator

Program:                         Yaşamak Women’s Legal & Community Center

Location:                         Izmir, Turkey

Type of contract:           20 Days (flexible) within time-period October – December 2021

The Association

The Women’s Legal & Community Center is a space run by Yaşamak Sosyal Alan ve Dayanışma Derneği. It aims at supporting marginalized individuals and communities (particularly refugee and migrant women) to start a new life in Izmir and to foster solidarity among the Turkish society and migrant communities.

The center offers coordinated legal, psychological, and social support with the aim to tackle barriers to social and economic mobility and to facilitate daily life.

Additional to the above-mentioned services, the following programs aim at fostering integration and the clients’/participants’ autonomy: various workshops and activities including social activities, practical workshops and gender equality sessions, assistance for finding jobs and development and implementation of self-organization concepts.

Above all that, the center is available to participants as a free, open, and participatory space, as well as a place of meeting, exchange, mutual learning, and common activities where everyone has a feeling of belonging, security, and trust. In this frame, language-speaking groups take place.

The center includes a separate area for child-care to enable women with children to participate in the center’s program.

Job Description

The Anti-Discrimination Program Coordinator is responsible for planning and organizing all activities being conducted in the scope of the anti-discrimination program; the sessions, seminars and workshops can be implemented by the program coordinator and/or by external experts recruited by the program coordinator.

The program is divided into five steps:

Step 1: Legal & Social Outreach

The Centers Lawyer and Social Worker will conduct outreach activities. The main goal is to attract people that have newly arrived to Turkey/Izmir and are in most need for basic information regarding their rights as access to institutions and organizations providing basic support.

Step 2: Daily Life in Izmir – City Tours

The persons reached out four (outreach-activity) will be invited for a city tour around Izmir, providing information about relevant institutions and organizations (e.g. migration office, Göçmen Sağlık Merkezi, etc.) as well as about the cities’ historic and cultural attractions.

Step 3: Individual Counselling

Individual counselling sessions to explore the strengths and general mindset of participants of the anti-discrimination group-sessions (Step 4). This step serves the preparation of the various activities circling around anti-discrimination and at the same time provides a base for evaluation at the end of the program.

Step 4: Anti-Discrimination Group sessions

Organization and implementation of interactive workshops, trainings and seminars with the goal of getting together, increasing common understanding and strengthening bonds.  (These sessions can be implemented by the program coordinator and / or by external experts).

Examples:

• Story telling events (emotional approach; creating intimacy and compassion)
• Various activities emphasizing common aspects of life (cooking together and sharing the food in the park nearby; being a woman, life in exile (among diff. migrant communities), etc.
• Focus group discussions
• Theatre and role play activities / Interactive workshops
• Neighbourhood meeting to foster community building and self-governance
• Discussion groups on discrimination and prejudice

Step 5: Analysis of environment, Evaluation and Feedback

Conduct an analysis about the environment (tensions, fears, hopes, etc.); evaluate the impact of the program and take feedback from participants.

Payment

The scope of the project are 20 days (8 working hours per day) = 10.000,00 TL (Brut)

Contact us:

If you are interested in cooperating with Yaşamak Sosyal Alan ve Dayanışma Derneği for the above project, please send us an email with your MOTIVATION LETTER, explaining what interests and motivates you about the posted position and why you are convinced to be a suitable candidate. Only the most suitable candidates will be contacted within one week; the vacancy will be removed as soon as a suitable candidate was chosen.