Assistant Village Director

SOS Children's Villages of India
Location: Any where in India
Last Date: February 15, 2010
Email: recruitment@soscvindia.org

SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES OF INDIA

SOS Children’s Villages of India is one of the leading child care organization in India. SOS-India is member of SOS Kinderdorf International. Today, there are over 200,000 children whose lives are being transformed by 40 SOS Children’s Villages and 122 allied projects like Kindergartens, Medical/ Social Centres, Hermann Gmeiner Schools spread across the country. For strengthening the delivery of services to the child and reaching out to more children, we require:

Assistant Village Director

Purpose:

Ensuring support services to SOS mothers in development of children and extending support to Village Director in leading the Children’s Village

Areas of Responsibility

1. To Support the SOS Mother in the development of children

• Ensure Support services to SOS Mothers in health care of children
• Ensure Support services to SOS Mothers in behavioral formation of children
• Ensure Support services to SOS Mothers in career planning from adolescent age
• Ensure Support services to SOS Mothers in organizing expert resources as and when needed for children
• Ensure Support services to SOS Mothers on arrival of new children
• Individual counseling to children and purposeful interactions on regular basis
• Ensure that academic education is supported by coworkers and mothers
• Ensure Child Development Planning with child and mother and follow up
• Ensure timely and quality reports in children’s files


2. To support the SOS Mother in development of her family

• Ensure Support services to SOS Mothers in managing her home
• Ensure Support services to SOS Mothers in family development
• Ensure Support services to mothers in proper utilization of family budgets
• Regular visits to SOS Families
• Promote SOS Family interactions with immediate neighborhood
• Ensure that environment in families support education



3. To support the Children’s Village community

• Ensure leisure and developmental activities for children on individual, group and community basis.
• Promote community activities like evening prayer and festivals
• Contribute to ensuring safety and security of everyone in the community
• Ensure an environment of transparency, team work, motivation, high moral and ethical values among mothers and coworkers in the Children’s Village
• Ensure implementation of Child Protection Policy

4. Helping in bringing children home

• Lead planning and implementation of bringing children home adhering to admission policy
• Support to the Village Director in liaison with CWC on admission and reporting on children.
• Promote children, SOS Mothers and coworkers in fostering relationships with biological roots, to the extent that it is in best interest of the child.

5. Support in settling of young people and continuing relationships

• Support in locating employment and liaison with employers
• Lead process of arranging marriages together with mothers and coworkers
• Plan and implement systems for continuing relations of the youth.

6. Supporting Village Director in organizing external resources
• Taking care of visitors and sponsors as necessary
• Supporting the Village Community in building good image of our work.

7. Administration & Finance:

• Ensure Timely action in payments of fees and other financial transactions for children as well as budgets and other financial transactions for families
• Ensure proper utilization of family budgets and good management of assets in the families
• Support to Village Director in the area of Administration and Management of the SOS Children’s Village
• To Assist the Village Director in the area of property maintenance
• Ensure well being, safety and security of all children and families in the CV

8. Liaison and Public Relation:

• Liaison with the State Government, Social Welfare Board and Local Authorities
• To play a key role in building partnerships with other NGOs and Agencies
• Supporting Publicity and Fund Raising activities
• Taking care of visitors to projects
• Guide the Village Secretary on sponsorship works and ensure timely sending of reports to sponsors.

Working conditions
Posted in Children’s Village as a residential coworker. Travel as and when required.

Qualifications & Experience:

Education:
At least completion of high school; a degree in social sciences is highly recommended (management/leadership, HRM, educational sciences, psychology, social work etc.).

Experience:
6-8 years of experience in the relevant field.

Languages:
Excellent communication skills (English and Hindi). Proficiency in 1-2 regional languages will be an advantage. Must have significant and proven human, writing, presentation and people management skills.

Competencies:

Execution orientation
Operational excellence
Relationship building
Passion to serve
Providing leadership
Change orientation
Strategic thinking

Candidates meeting the above requirements may send in their application to recruitment@soscvindia.org

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further process.

For more details about the organisation please visit our Website: www.soscvindia.org