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  • 17 December 2025
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G12++ & Franchise Interns

Location: Full-Time, In-Person, Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut

Start Date: 2nd February 2026

Application Deadline: Sunday 4th January

Summary:

Alsama Project is launching the pioneering G12++ Certificate: a world-class qualification set to unlock university and career doors for refugee youth who have been denied access to formal schooling. We are seeking an intern to join the team full-time in Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut, to make this happen. If you have strong project management skills, are fluent in Arabic and English and want your work to have meaningful impact, this is for you. You will play a central role in coordinating fast-moving workstreams within our team, university partners and global experts, helping build systems from the ground up to deliver this certificate that could reshape the futures of thousands of young people. This is a role for someone who wants their skills to create a real, urgent, visible impact - not someday, but every single day.


What is Alsama Project?

Alsama is an ambitious and innovative NGO that runs four education centres for out-of-school teenagers in Lebanon’s refugee camps. Students join us illiterate and innumerate, yet through our accelerated programme they complete the equivalent of 12 years of schooling in just 6 years. Driven by impact, quality, and scale, Alsama blends grassroots expertise with global excellence, supported by former McKinsey consultants and a board chaired by Skadden partners, offering interns exceptional professional exposure and development.

Key Responsibilities:

1) Manage the end-to-end content development of the G12++ assessment

· Work with leading assessment experts on the development of G12++ assessment, including subject content, assessment materials, and learning resources

· Support a global team of academic exam developers (some displaced themselves) for continuous (re-)creation of the exam content

· Support digitisation of the G12++, including embedding a digital portal, enhancing with AI-driven innovations

2) Project management & implementation

· Support development of the overall project plan for development and execution of the G12++, ensuring key milestones guide us towards launch in 2026

· Manage timelines, deliverables, and reporting, keeping stakeholders aligned

· Create and orchestrate policies, processes and manuals to ensure Alsama delivers the G12++ at world-class standards of integrity and credibility

· Shape logistics for delivering the assessment and digitally authenticated certificates

Experience & Skills:

Minimum Requirements:

· Bachelor's degree (minimum) and a proven record of academic excellence.

· Minimum 6 months of work / volunteering / internship experience in a fast-paced, impact-oriented environment

· Fluent Arabic speaker, with excellent reading and writing skills.

· Fluent English with clear and compelling verbal and written communication skills

· Proficiency with digital business tools: fluency in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint

· Strong problem-solving skills and analytical skills, with the ability to structure work independently and propose practical solutions.

· High attention to detail with the ability to review and improve both your own work and that of others.

· Full-time, in-person commitment to working with the team in Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut.

Desirable:

· Experience in the education sector, in project management, consultancy or a related field including handling multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deadlines.

· Familiarity with academic assessment processes (e.g., exam content development, assessment platforms, coordination with item writers or psychometricians).

Safeguarding:

Alsama is committed to safeguarding all students and vulnerable adults. To work at Alsama, all staff and volunteers must promote a safe learning environment and uphold Alsama’s student safeguarding and protection policy, including completion of safeguarding and protection training and prompt reporting of any concerns or suspicions of abuse. You are expected to listen to students’ concerns, respond calmly and nonjudgmentally, and follow our procedures to ensure every concern is handled appropriately.

How to Apply? 1) Email CV and cover letter to: g12intern@azkatech-alsama.odoo.com

Any questions please email: alsama-hr@alsamaproject.com

Franchise Intern

Location: Full-Time, In-Person, Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut – potential for travel to new Geographical Locations in the region

Start Date: 2nd February 2026

Application Deadline: Sunday 4th January

Summary:

Alsama Project is entering a critical new phase of growth, expanding its pioneering refugee education model beyond Lebanon into new locations. We are seeking an intern to join the team full-time in Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut, to make this happen. If you have strong project management skills, are fluent in Arabic and English, and want your work to have meaningful, direct impact, this is for you. You will play a central role supporting the preparation, opening, and early operations of Alsama’s newest Education Centre, reshaping the futures of hundreds of young people.

What is Alsama Project?

Alsama is an ambitious and innovative NGO that runs four education centres for out-of-school teenagers in Lebanon’s refugee camps. Students join us illiterate and innumerate, yet through our accelerated programme they complete the equivalent of 12 years of schooling in just 6 years. Driven by impact, quality, and scale, Alsama blends grassroots expertise with global excellence, supported by former McKinsey consultants and a board chaired by Skadden partners, offering interns exceptional professional exposure and development.

Learn more about Alsama Project here.

Key Responsibilities:

1) Testing and preparation for the new Centre

  • Help finalise Alsama’s model into clear, reusable training and start-up materials
  • Test tools, processes, and training with existing centres and refine them based on feedback
  • Coordinate and support staff training, managing logistics (materials, schedules, comms) and assisting with on-the-ground delivery
  • Support preparation of launch day, working closely with lead team and education centre staff to test readiness and capture learnings

2) Support launch and early operations

  • Provide hands-on support during the first weeks, troubleshooting issues as they arise
  • Track and report daily and weekly progress using key performance indicators
  • Collect feedback and continuously refine materials and processes from learnings to help translate our proven model into a new context while maintaining the standards that define Alsama’s impact and quality

Experience & Skills:

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree (minimum) and a proven record of academic excellence.
  • Minimum 6 months of work / volunteering / internship experience in a fast-paced, impact-oriented environment
  • Fluent Arabic and English speaker with clear and compelling verbal and written communication skills
  • Proficiency with digital business tools: fluency in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint
  • Strong problem-solving skills and analytical skills, with the ability to structure work independently and propose practical solutions.
  • High attention to detail with the ability to review and improve both your own work and that of others.
  • Full-time, in-person commitment to working with the team in Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut.

Desirable:

  • Experience in the education sector, in project management, consultancy or a related field including handling multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deadlines.
  • Able to frequently travel between new locations and Beirut to support on the ground launch

Safeguarding:

Alsama is committed to safeguarding all students and vulnerable adults. To work at Alsama, all staff and volunteers must promote a safe learning environment and uphold Alsama’s student safeguarding and protection policy, including completion of safeguarding and protection training and prompt reporting of any concerns or suspicions of abuse. You are expected to listen to students’ concerns, respond calmly and nonjudgmentally, and follow our procedures to ensure every concern is handled appropriately.

How to Apply?

Any questions please email: alsama-hr@alsamaproject.com



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