Reports to : Village Director
Duty Location : CV Ratanakiri, Kampot, Province
Department : Project Program
Outreach Co-worker is responsible for supporting community events and relief efforts to assist beneficiary with their needs, providing them resources, and facilitating lifestyle programs. S/he coordinates with participants, suppliers, and sponsors for funding and promotions. She/he also manages the budgeting and allocation of resources for the programs, ensuring that the activities adhere to the state regulations and community benefits. S/he must have good communication and organizational skills, especially in writing progress reports and transactions.
Roles and Responsibilities:- Leads the development of family strengthening programmes in accordance with the organizational mission, policies and strategies;
- Assists to develop programme activities and budgets and identifies partner organisations;
- Follow/ implement FSP strategy and plans in cooperation with the Direct Supervisor, FSP Coordinator, FSP co-workers and other stakeholders;
- Initiates family strengthening programmes in line with agreed plans and objectives;
- Documents and shares good practices and lessons learned with colleagues to support organisational learning;
- Recognize the children, family in needs, diseases affected and other trauma sensitivity, malnutrition, abuse, etc.
- Explains about the program to local authorities in where it would be affected and to people in the community, who can be helpful to establish the program and also the children’s family in community.
- Builds good contacts with family and children, in an appropriate attitude with them in order to develop good relationship.
- Learns about the backgrounds, the situation of the family and also about the problem of children, and causes.
- Provides advices to the family to improve security and comfort of child’s health, nutrition and caring.
- Monitors and technically supports children’s families in community for better knowledge improvement.
- Concentrates on the Family Development Plan (FDP) of each family, checks and collects data with compilation files.
- Ensures implementation of simple and effective financial and administrative procedures, in accordance with defined policies.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as requested with an appropriate sense of humour, positive and professional attitude, and team spirit.
- Strengthening of Community Base Organizations (CBOs) and good relationship with local authorities, the other development partners and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with related provincial departments/stakeholders to make agreement for trainings.
- Conduct meeting with Shelf Help Group (SHGs) members and follow up.
- Lead child club/youth club activities in Family Strengthen program.
- Coordinate extra classes for children and follow up children study performance at schools.
- Record study result of children every semester and yearly.
- Work closely with Commune Committee for Women and Children (CCWC) and District Committee for Women and Children (DCWC).
- Resource mobilize in community for the continuity of the programme for encouraging self-help group creation.
- Provide and expand Income Generation Activities (IGAs) in the communities.
- Prepare purchase request and quotation for buying uniform and study materials and provide to children for new academic.
- Identify needs assessments and ensuring full stakeholder participation.
- Ensures proper utilization of organizational resources, including property, vehicles, equipment and funds.
- Follows the development of FSP activities ensuring target numbers and participants.
- Coordinates mid-term and annual review of FSP plans and activities.
- Uses software platforms and systems, including PDB2, RBM and ProDiGi, but not limited to review and monitoring plan, execute and report on work progress and achievements; and
- Provides regular monthly reports to Village Director, Assistant Program Director, and FS Coordinator.
- Attends corporate office meetings, activities, trainings, and events as required by the organization.
- Works in close cooperation with FSP Coordinator and other key support co-workers to develop FSP plans and activities.
- Fully supports efforts led by Village Director to create effective integration project locations.
- Responsible to raise awareness of the SOS Child Protection Policy principles and to prevent and protect children/young people from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence, and discrimination;
- Ensure strong focus on CS prevention by organizing informal and formal discussions, workshops, and other capacity buildings activities for young people to make them understand CS risks and protection mechanisms;
- Responsible to report any CS suspicion, concern, allegation, or incident immediately, following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the CS team at programme level and/or to the respective line manager.
- University Degree in the social development or other related fields (Management, education etc.)
- A minimum of 2-3 years of related experiences with NGOs, UN agency, or private sectors.
- Ability to motivate youth and manage behavioural problems effectively with ethnic minorities
- Ability to plan in writing and implement quality program for youth and children
- An interest in development of family livelihood and understanding how they grow
- An appreciation of informal education and a desire to help the vulnerable to learn by doing
- Time and energy to devote to the project, a desire to continue learning in the project areas, and ability to share decision making and responsibility with our target beneficiaries/families
- Computer literacy in MS Office such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and database programs
- Good knowledge of children's issues, children rights analyse and community involvement in the village
- A good understanding of community development work and the social welfare system in the country.
- Good analytical, research and report writing.
- Proficiency in spoken and written English and Khmer is a must.
- Willingness to work overtime, on weekend and travel to target provinces and communities.
- Good knowledge of livelihoods, Shelf Help Group (SHG), Income Generation Activities (IGA) in families/ communities.
- Analyse and community involvement in the village, especially for advocacy, children's issues, children rights.
SOS Children’s Villages of Cambodia is committed to the protection of children. We do not employ staff whose background is not aligned to our child protection practices. Hence, employment is conditional upon successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible.
As this position is need to fill up urgently, so the interview will be conducted on a rolling basis until the position is filled up. Interested Candidates are requested to apply early
Interested candidates please submit CV and Cover Letter (in one file) and complete our application
form as attach, Salary expected and mention the position which you are interested to apply to below address: National Office.
Note: This position involves working with a not-for-profit organisation committed to children and adult safeguarding and is subject to strict safer recruitment checks. The successful candidate will be required to go through background verification checks to verify their suitability to work for SOS Children’s Villages Cambodia
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