With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:
Livelihoods & Economic Recovery
- Facilitate and coach households to implement farm and non-farm small businesses.
- Support formation and capacity building of community savings groups.
- Monitor village savings and loan schemes with saving agents/mobilizers.
WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene)
- Collaborate with WASH Officer to support water system construction, household treatment, and rainwater harvesting, and latrine construction.
- Distribute water filters and conduct water quality testing.
- Promote hygiene behavior change and community-led WASH management.
- Form and support WASH User Groups
Protection, GEDSI & DRR
- Collaborate with Child Protection & Safeguarding Officer to conduct awareness sessions, and assist in GBV and child protection case management
- Support assessments, child participation, and inclusion of PwDs.
- Support to Establish feedback and complaint mechanisms.
- Support formation of DRR committees, plans, and early warning systems.
Community Engagement & Transformational Development
- Collaborate with the National Office team to conduct community consultations meeting/ workshops
- Facilitate to establish Child Advisory Committees and Support sponsorship processes.
- Assist in hosting Community Summits and drafting multi-year Area Program Plans.
Faith & Development
- Support engagement of faith leaders in promoting family and youth development.
- Assist in organizing trainings and workshops for religious leaders.
- Distribute resources and monitor outcomes of family strengthening sessions.
Apply updated monitoring systems for data and reporting.
- Collect, analyze, and compile quality data on time.
- Submit reports to relevant teams as scheduled.
- Support communities in achieving goals and developing monitoring systems
Contribute to strategic improvement through feedback, reporting, and team participation.
- Document program learning and reflections for relevant stakeholders.
- Provide input to enhance ministry tools.
- Foster effective collaboration within the team and with partners Regular team’s sharing and planning meeting
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in any discipline, degree in Social Work, Development Studies, Agriculture, or related field is preferred.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in community development, WASH, livelihoods, or protection.
- Proficiency in local languages. Working proficiency in English is asset.
- Ability to travel frequently to targeted area. Valid Motorbike license is an asset.
- Able to use motorbike is preferred.
- Experience working in multicultural, disaster-affected communities is highly desirable.
- Strong facilitation, coaching, and community mobilization skills.
- Knowledge of GEDSI, safeguarding, and DRR principles.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and in a team.
- Strong organizational and reporting skills.
- Cultural sensitivity and commitment to inclusion.
- Proficiency in local languages.
- Basic Computer literacy of using Microsoft 365, and other work-related software
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only