Educator
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Social Work, Educate/Train/Teaching, Health / Medical - Psychology
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $300
Conditions:
- Based in Smong Area Takeo Province
- Contract of 12 months, renewable
- Gross Salary: 300$
The Educator plays a crucial role in managing the social, school follow ups, to plan and organize activities for children and youth. He/she is in charge of the support of children during the day and to ensure the gobble support of children and teenagers.
This position requires a strong commitment to child protection and the promotion of all children's rights, as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. To ensure the safely and appropriate living conditions for the children and teenagers living in center.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Strategy and Representation:
- Participate on the representation of Enfants d'Asie Cambodia and the center in different meetings or events.
- Welcome activities partners in the Centers
- Children support:
- Ensure the children's compliance with EAC and SM rules
- Be the referent of a group of children and youth (internal + external)
- Ensure a regular follow up of the children especially on individual meeting once a month (External + internal)
- Check material (school furniture, clothes, hygiene kits) needed by children and report to the director
- Identify and report any problem or specific needs of children/ youth (internal + external) to the director
- Participate on team meeting to improve running of the centre (internal + external)
- Propose, organize and animate inside and outside activities in order to promote the development of children (recreational, sportive, cultural, manual, soft skills)
- Support the Centre Direct to follow-up with beneficiaries’ families (from personal phone, WIFI and office phone) (internal + external)
- Support the Centre Director for any city travel in Phnom Penh - requiring the use of personal morto with reimbursement of gas per kilometre
- Ensure follow-up of activities: team meeting, reporting, evaluation
- Supervise daily activities including meal, clean and ensures the kids go to school on time
- External children should be once per week.
- Children/youth hygiene and well-being:
- Dispense medication to children/youth as instructed; Provide first aid treatment as necessary inform the director in case of health emergency.
- Accompany children/youth to the hospital if family or the nanny cannot join.
- Make sure of children bodily cleanliness.
- Monitored the reduction and management of food waste
- Supervise and lead children/ youth on common cleaning time (themselves, bedrooms and common space) regarding a schedule
- Make plan for hygiene kits + workshop of hygiene for external children 3 months per time.
- Children/youth school follow up:
- Support, motivate and encourage academic performance and educational success (Internal + external)
- Organize and supervise homework times.
- Check attendance + monthly results for school with the children and the teachers (external + internal).
- By a daily and close follow up, monitor studies (in and out the center) of a group of children.
- Participate and contribute on monthly school follow-up meeting (report about absences, school/extra class result, orientation request, success and difficulties of the student...)
- Develop relationship with school teachers.
- Make plan for school supplies for external + internal 2 times per year and report to Centre director.
- Children youth social follow up:
- Identify children’s problem or risky situation regarding children rights and inform the hierarchy.
- Participate on weekly social follow-up meeting (report about behaviour, feelings…), propose solutions and implement the decision.
- Manage the support decided in meeting.
- Manage the relations with relatives of his/her group.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Good
- English - Good
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in the field of education, child psychology, social work, art or any other relevant subject
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Work experience with children
- Good communication in Khmer and English
Soft Skills
- Sense of initiative, creative, open and critical-minded
- Strongly motivated to work for disadvantaged children
- High sense of integrity and honesty
- Able to work in an international team
- Available to work on weekends and public holidays
