Location: Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut, Lebanon
Working Hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday, 9:00–17:00
Contract: Fixed-term, 5 months
Compensation: Monthly stipend provided
Start date: 1st September 2026
Be part of a team redefining access to education for displaced youth. Based in Shatila Refugee Camp, you will contribute to programmes that enable students to access university and skilled employment. The role offers hands-on experience across programme delivery and external partnerships, alongside close collaboration with former McKinsey consultants in a fast-paced, impact-driven organisation.
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.
What is the role?
As an intern at Alsama in Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut, you’ll support strategic development across key departments, working within a professional and community-driven team to design and implement initiatives that strengthen our operations.
What will you do?
Your responsibilities will depend on your skills and the current needs of the organisation. These might include:
1. Fundraising & Communications
- Creating grant proposals, reporting, expanding our donor base.
- Designing strategies in collaboration with our Communications team to raise Alsama’s profile through social media, press and conferences.
2. Monitoring Evaluation Accountability & Learning (MEAL)
- Ensuring that Alsama’s programmes are effective and impactful by tracking progress, assessing results, and promoting accountability for our students
- Strengthen KPI frameworks and impact measurement systems
3. Finance / Systems
- Regularly updating Alsama’s financial records, preparing accounts for budgets and forecasts.
- Maintaining accurate data management and ongoing system support, reporting, and development.
4. HR & Internal Development
- Shape and manage Alsama’s recruitment pipeline and strategy, ensuring talent acquisition keeps pace with organisational growth
- Lead the review and refinement of HR policies, aligning them with the standards of key external stakeholders, including OCHA and WASC
5. G12++
- Support the development and delivery of the Alsama Preparation Programme, preparing students for the G12++ exam
- Build partnerships with universities, TVET providers, employers, and NGOs to strengthen pathways and expand G12++ test centres across the Middle East
What core skills will you need?
Commitment
Commitment to our students. They have faced great adversity at a young age, but they are our first priority. We expect you to approach all your work with the question: ‘how can I provide maximum benefit for our students and their future?’
Adaptability. You persist through challenges by adapting to changing needs and context, identifying and mitigating risks without being paralysed by them.
Collaboration
Alsama owes its success to its diverse team. We expect you to have a fully integrated mindset, applying ultimate respect when coordinating with other members of staff and leading your team of Arabic teachers.
Ambition
Alsama is building for the future: your work at Alsama will outlast you. You will need a ‘goal-orientated mindset’ to develop and implement plans to hit targets.
What proficiencies will you need?
- Strong organisational and communication skills.
- Comfortable using Microsoft Office, particularly Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and work collaboratively in a team.
- Proficiency in English required; Arabic is an asset.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject (minimum) and proven record of academic excellence.
What’s in it for you?
- You will gain key skills that will serve you for the rest of your career, whether in finance, consulting, marketing or law.
- Working for Alsama is extremely fulfilling. You will be surrounded by incredibly ambitious, kind, and hard-working students.
- You will join a dynamic and highly experienced team, including two former McKinsey consultants and a former publishing entrepreneur.
- Well-networked founders can assist with future job recommendations and career advancement.
- Opportunity to live in Beirut, a vibrant and culturally diverse city.
- Arabic lessons provided through Alsama’s social-enterprise language school.
- Lead a student-facing project of your choosing, working directly with students to design and deliver meaningful outcomes
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 non-judgmentally, and follow our procedures to ensure every concern is handled appropriately.
How to apply
Please send your CV to internsep26@azkatech-alsama.odoo.com
You will then be invited to complete a set of questions on your motivations for this opportunity.
Application Deadline: Friday 29th May
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to complete a technical assessment and a lead team interview.
As a locally led organisation working on the ground, we strongly encourage applications from Arabic speakers, particularly those from Lebanon and Syria.
For any questions, contact alsama-hr@alsamaproject.com