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.

Part 1:  Role Purpose:

Cooks are responsible for preparing healthy and hygienic meals, maintaining cleanliness in the kitchen and dining areas, and ensuring proper handling and storage of food items to support the wellbeing of all staff and visitors.

Generic Responsibilities:

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

Specific Responsibilities:

• Prepare daily meals (especially lunch) for staff during official hours, ensuring food is hygienic and nutritious.
• Make tea and coffee for staff and visitors as required.
• Ensure a clean, safe, and well-organized kitchen environment at all times.
• Wash dishes thoroughly and store them properly in designated cupboards.
• Monitor and maintain stock of food items and kitchen supplies, reporting shortages to the admin team.
• Assist in purchasing food and kitchen items from the market when requested.
• Assist with laundry and ironing of staff uniforms or assigned items.

• Maintain cleanliness of all office areas including floors, furniture, walls, ceilings, windows, and shared spaces.
• Clean and disinfect bathrooms, lavatories, and kitchen areas daily.
• Ensure proper trash disposal: empty bins, wash and disinfect them, and allow them to dry.
• Clean and maintain the dining area and ensure hygiene before and after meal service.
• Support in keeping outdoor and indoor office facilities clean and well maintained.
• Regularly check cleaning material stocks and report if restocking is needed.
• Assist with any other related tasks assigned by the line manager.

Experience and Knowledge

• Preferably to have 3+ years of experience

• Experience working with international or national NGOs is preferred.

Skills and Abilities

• Strong cooking skills with the ability to prepare nutritious
• Good knowledge of food safety and hygiene
• Organized and efficient
• Team player with good communication

Education / Qualifications

• High school

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/1FAIpQLSco0TAK-i74db9iE7nm2WDk0hhE2NgQhtaySCG-s8rpzSNxnw/viewform?usp=sharing

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.