Child Welfare Assistant

We are a Non-Governmental Organization of international solidarity. Founded in 1991, We are a non-profit and non-political organization that intents to help, to bring relief and to protect the lives of those threatened by natural disasters, armed conflicts or by economic collapse. It intervenes in more than 20 countries around the world through operations of emergency aid, recovery and development. We provide help since more than 20 years in respect of the cultural diversity, without any distinction of origin, religion or sex.

Child Welfare Assistant (CWA) will be based in Islamabad and will work under the direct supervision of the Child Welfare Projects Manager. The incumbent would be responsible for providing assistance in field activities and office work; Assessment of new cases for orphan sponsorship, home visits, assistance in distribution of different items under project activities, planning and execution of field activities in consultation with child welfare projects manager, provide quality services to sponsored children and their families through effective performance management in designated working areas. He/she will also ensure regular reporting on the progress of program implementation and maintenance of confidential information related to sponsored children’s/families. CWA will support in awareness raising and capacity building activities.

Objective 1: Ensure Smooth Implementation of the Project

Activities:

• Identification of orphan children from most vulnerable families as per program criteria.
• Identification of guardians/mothers or 18+ orphan children from the selected families for livelihood support
• Assist in arrangements for execution of recreational activities for children to boost up their confidence and to provide PSS.
• Support in capacity building and awareness-raising activities

Objective 2: Manage the record/data base

Activities:

• Maintain database of orphan sponsorship and other projects.
• Maintain record of visits to orphans home.
• Maintain record of clusters visited.
• Maintain database of contact details of families/ guardians and stakeholders.
• Maintain database of OSP.
• Maintain database of services provided to orphan children and their families by our organization.
• Beneficiaries data protection in hard form and in database.

Objective 3: Coordination

Activities:

• Smooth running of the orphans program by maintaining close coordination with the sponsored families.
• Identify local partners and other organizations working in same area to avoid duplication.
• Assist the project manager in keeping close coordination with INGO/NGOs and relevant stakeholders.
• Mobilize and empower the community groups.
• Ensure 100% payment confirmations with the families.

Objective 4 : Reporting

Activities:

• Prepare and submit monthly plan of field activities for effective planning.
• Support timely submission of monthly report.
• Support in time submission of each sponsor report.
• Support in time submission of group meeting minutes.
• Submission of stakeholders meeting minutes.
• Support the collection and documentation of impact and success stories on monthly basis.

Objective 5: Monitoring & Evaluation of the project

Activities:

• Assist program team visits to field           
• Assist program team in conducting field assessments as per need of the project
• Efficient monitoring and evaluation of orphan projects in order to obtain desired results.
• Hold monthly / quarterly meetings with clusters/committees to address findings from monitoring.
• Regular monitoring of allocated orphan families in the field by conducting individual domestic visits.
• Collection of school performance forms from field. Its data entry and maintaining database.
• School visits of orphan children to monitor their performance in school and see if the sponsorship used for children’s education.

Objective 6: Child Protection

Activities:

• Ensure the security of the sponsor child addresses during activities.
• Systematically do a child protection quality check for all correspondences to ensure that correspondence materials and contents do not negatively affect the holistic growth and development of children
• Sensitize children including guardians/parents and other stakeholders about children’s rights and responsibilities.
• Referrals of child protection cases for services.
• Sensitize families on complaint response mechanism and on safeguarding policy.

This list is not limited;the employee may be required to perform any other task necessary and compatible with its functions assigned by supervisor/HOM.

Note:

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The Hiring is subject to donor funding.

• We consider diversity as wealth.
• Every application fitting the job description will be thoroughly evaluated.
• We reserve the right to check the criminal records according to with the current law.
• We have a zero-tolerance policy towards any type of fraud, corruption, moral harassment, abuse or violence of any kind whatsoever and more generally any violation of legislation, regulations or its code of conduct.
• We respect the humanitarian principle of "Do no harm" and ensures child security as a primary consideration. 
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.Hiring will be done on rolling basis.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.