Educator
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Educate/Train/Teaching, Child Protection
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $300
Mission: Educator in child protection center – Borey Komar.
Conditions : flexible position (full-time), on week-ends and public holidays.
The mission offered is based in one of our children’s residential center: Borey Komar (the city of children in Khmer). The center welcomes 45 children and teenagers, and is run by a team of dedicated staff: one director, one deputy director, two educators, one cook, three night workers and one security guard.
Borey Komar center opened its doors in 2015 to shelter underprivileged children who are orphaned or come from poor families.
The children are living in a structured living environment and benefit from:
- a daily meal distribution, medical follow-up and social support: three times per day meals are prepared by a cook and children eat in the center. They also have access to a medical follow-up with a nurse.
- the coverage of their schooling's fees (purchase of all school supplies).
- educational and pedagogical support to reinforce their academic knowledge and study habits as well as their personal development. Pedagogical activities and tutoring courses are organized throughout the week, depending on the young people's academic level.
- recreational and sportive activities in partnerships with specialized NGO and sports club.
Conditions
- Contract of 12 months, renewable
- Health cover: NSSF
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Strategy and representation:
- Participate in the representation of Enfants d'Asie and the centre in different meetings or events
- Respect the Enfants d'Asie regulation regarding finance and administration process
- Children school follow-up:
- Support and encourage academic performance and educational success
- Supervise homework times and help children with learning difficulties
- Ensure attendance and school follow-up: team meeting, reporting, evaluation
- Maintain qualitative relationship with school teachers
- Children social follow-up:
- Assist the Center Director for the monthly meeting with children
- Share with the social worker about children cases
- Identify and report children’s problem
- Ensure relationship with relatives by phone calls and/or visits
- Children support:
- Be the personal referent of a group of children
- Check material needed for children
- Support the Center Director to purchase needed materials
- Participate in team meeting to improve running of the center
- Propose, organize and animate inside and outside activities - including garden, sport, art, soft skills workshops
- Ensure activities’ follow-up: organization, team meeting, reporting, evaluation
- Supervise daily activities including meal, clean and school time
- Be involve in the civic education of children and share life experience
- Children hygiene and well-being:
- Provide first-aid medical attention to children in need
- Inform the direction in case of health emergency
- Accompany children to the hospital if family cannot join
- Make sure of children bodily cleanliness
- Supervise the daily schedule and lead children on cleaning time of the rooms and center
- Bachelor in the field of education, child psychology, social work, art or any other relevant subject
- Work experience with children
- Good communication in Khmer and English or French
- 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
