Background:

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 500,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Owing to the emergency nature of this role, we are recruiting on a rolling basis. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and the position may be closed once a suitable candidate is identified.

Part 1:  Role Purpose:

This role is expected to provide support for CFSs for returnee refugees children in to the assigned CFS centres. In addition, this role is expected to Ensure adherence with CiC – Street Child policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines, Prepare and develop status reports as required by line manager, ensure proper filing of documents and to Promote and share ideas for technical improvement.

Part 2:  Key Responsibilities:

Generic Responsibilities:

• A strong commitment to Street Childs vision, mission and values
• Adhere to all Street Child’s policies and procedures
• Able to represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally
• Carry out all reasonable requests that are within the broad remit of the role

Specific Responsibilities:

• Conduct awareness sessions for the communities and CFS Children
• Vulnerable households’ assessment and identification
• Prepare weekly schedule of activities for the CFS
• Conduct recreational activities and life skill sessions for the CFS children
• Identify and refer children with psychosocial problems and child protection concerns to MHPSS counsellor and child protection services for receiving the appropriate services
• Support and train assistant CFS facilitator
• Facilitate monthly meetings with children’s parents and update them of the progress of their children condition and orient them on child rights and child protection topics

               Any other relevant task given by line manager.

Part 3:  Professional and Behavioural Competencies:

Experience and Knowledge

A minimum of 2 years of experience in social mobilization and/ or CFS facilitation.

Skills and Abilities

• To build the community capacity building
• To conduct awareness for the community elders.
• Provision child friendly space for the CFS children.

Education / Qualifications

• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Social Science, law and politics, Psychology and or any other relevant field.

Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding

Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.

As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks.  Street Child also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

Submission Guidelines:

If you are interested and meet the qualifications, please complete the Children in Crisis Recruitment Form using the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkC6XXWwvXeDk_cNVwIbFnFpvq1udFEVdufPTdoxIlyXh5Sw/viewform?usp=dialog

This form is mandatory and must be completed in full. Please make sure all details are accurate before submitting.

Only short-listed candidates whose education and experiences correspond to the above criteria will be contacted for further consideration and in case you did not hear from us after 3 weeks of deadline, please consider that as a rejection.