Freelance National Facilitator - Belgium (Dutch-Speaking Community)

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Translate various texts linked to the activities (e.g., email templates, website text, facilitation and survey questions, executive summaries, etc..) from English into Dutch.
• Identify and engage Belgian Dutch-speaking focus group and survey participants, ensuring that they are diverse and correspond to the needed demographic groups (18-40 years old) by capitalising on meaningful relationships with Belgian Dutch-speaking civil society organisations (e.g. networks of students’ associations, youth organisations, and organisations of underrepresented and typically marginalised groups).
• Communicate regularly through calls and emails with Debating Europe staff to convey project updates and share highlights of findings. Working closely with Debating Europe’s staff to implement the 4 thematic focus group series and survey in Belgium’s Dutch-speaking community.
• Facilitate 4x focus group series with Belgian Dutch-speaking participants divided into a series of 1h-long online sessions between July and mid-September 2023 (ca. 10-20 1h online sessions).
• Engage another group of Belgian Dutch-speaking citizens from different demographics (16-18 and 40-65+) in a short online survey to complement the focus group findings in autumn 2023.
• Coordinate with the Belgian French-speaking facilitator and summarise the key findings of each focus group series and survey into 4 distinct reports in English, capturing key quotes of participants as well as the salient issues and an additional 1-pager summarising the cross-thematic trends in Belgium under Debating Europe’s editorial guidance.
• Record and share the detailed demographic report of participants from each of the focus groups, with due respect to GDPR guidelines.
• Ensure the reports have balance and consistency and are in line with the editorial strategy defined by Debating Europe’s staff.

KEY REQUIREMENTS :

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES : Friends of Europe is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants, by providing equal treatment of all job applications received, regardless of applicants’ ethnic origins, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or health status. We especially encourage applications from those who have been historically excluded or not had fair and equal opportunities to apply. Candidates must be legally and permanently allowed to work in Belgium (no assistance provided to obtain a visa or work permit). MORE INFORMATION ON THE PROJECT : Our multilingual focus group project will comprise the following 4 themes :

The overall aim is to simultaneously gather comparative data on the perceptions, fears, wishes, and suggestions of citizens in different EU countries on these themes. We’ll present these findings in a report to be released in early 2024 and used as a basis for citizen-driven panel discussions with policymakers ahead of the 2024 European Parliament elections. We aim to involve up to 2,024 European citizens from at least 5 different EU countries in online focus groups and surveys. DEBATING EUROPE WILL PROVIDE :