The Social Justice and the City Program at AUB’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) has two vacancies to fill.
Scope: Affordable Housing Options for Beirut
Type of Work: Part-time
Description: The Project Coordinator’s main task will be to assist in the formulation, development, and follow-up of an intervention strategy in the housing sector of the neighborhood of Mar Mikhael (Beirut) where a pilot project is to be articulated, legally and financially investigated, and debated with neighborhood residents in focus groups. The Project Coordinator’s task will include field research to support the work of three consultants (housing, legal, financial), the integration and analysis of the three consultant reports, the organization of two neighborhood participatory meetings, and
final reporting.
Period: August 15, 2017 - November 15, 2017
Application Deadline: July 22, 2017
Scope: Affordable Housing Options for Beirut
Type of work: Part-time
Description: The consultant’s main task will be to support (or join, depending on availability) a research group working on the formulation and development of an intervention strategy on the housing sector of the neighborhood of Mar Mikhael (Beirut) in parallel with legal and financial investigations. The intervention will be later debated with neighborhood residents in focus groups. Based on a clear analysis and understanding of on-going trends in Mar Mikhael (provided by SJC team), we expect the consultant to review similar case studies in other national contexts (i.e., desk review) and propose possible housing intervention strategies (including forms of interventions, types of regulations, and the institutional mechanisms that could be set in place to implement them). The consultant is not required to join the SJC fieldwork team in verifying and adapting the proposal s/he has made.
Period: August 1, 2017 - September 15, 2017 (7 weeks)
Application Deadline: July 22, 2017
About the Social Justice and the City Program
The aim of the Issam Fares Institute's Social Justice and the City Program is to formulate an agenda for research that establishes a partnership between scholars, policy-makers, and activists in Lebanon (and beyond) working towards more inclusive cities. The program seeks to act as a platform where scholars, policy-makers, and activists can share reflections, experiences, and strategies by (i) documenting, analyzing and reflecting on ongoing urban processes affecting the organization and life of the city, (ii) sharing and validating research with activists, affected communities, and other social groups who are potentially interested in sharing both the acquired competence and the pool of research tactics, and (iii) supporting and informing initiatives that hope to influence change through debates, media, publications, and advocacy.
Learn more about the program here.