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House Parents, and Social Worker

with Sunrise Cambodia

BTDC-ID: 5580

Closing Date:

Announcement Description

Sunrise Children’s Village-Kandal is a local, non-governmental, non-profit, and non-political organization, providing support, protection and education to orphaned, abandoned, and other disadvantaged children. Sunrise Cambodia, formerly named Sunrise Children’s Village after 21 years in providing high quality of residential care for orphaned, trafficked, abandoned, disabled and  impoverished children under the auspices of the Australia Cambodia Foundation Inc., was officially registered on November 23, 2015 in the Ministry of Interior and operates in Sa-ang district, Kandal Province.

We are seeking for qualified candidates to fill in the positions below.

Announcement Positions

House Parents

  • Category: Logistics, Exec. / Management
  • Type : Job Opportunity
  • Location: Kandal Province
  • Schedule: Full-time
  • Salary: N/A

Location: Toul Krosang, Rokar Kpous

Hours of work :

  •  8:00 am – 12:00 am Monday to Friday 
  • 1.00 pm – 5.00 pm Monday to Friday
  • Stay over night with children with 2 days off per week

Salary : Negotiable based on experience and knowledge

Duties
  • SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Ensure at all times your group of children have materials for sleeping, education, and personnel hygiene.
  • Ensure that children are dressed appropriately and clean at all times.
  • Monitor school performance, supervise homework, and ensure children are wearing correct uniforms for school. Report any children not attending school, and meet with teachers for any problems uncounted. Accompany children to school if necessary.
  • Ensure that children are clean, and perform duties of washing clothes (for all small children), and maintain and day to day hygiene.
  • Ensure that children’s sleeping areas are clean and tidy at all times.
  • Ensure that children go to sleep at appropriate times (8 pm, smaller children, 9.30 pm older children), and that children do not walk around the centre later than these times.
  • Ensure that children actively participate in centre based learning and other activities, including sport, art/craft; computer, music/dancing, and other life education.
  • Monitor any health problems, and ensure that any illnesses or accidents are followed up and reported to management. Attend hospital with children for any serious illnesses.
  • Ensure that Sunrise Children’s Village Rules and Responsibilities are followed by children, and immediately report any problems or breaking of rules to management.
  • Ensure responsibilities are carried out by children for helping clean designated areas of Sunrise Children’s Village, based on children’s age and ability. Provide rosters to management.
  • Eat with your group of children daily in the dining room.
  • Provide life skill education and guidance to children on health, sanitation, body development, child rights, caring for the environment, and other education as required.
  • Organize and facilitate a weekly meeting with all children in your care order to: provide life education and advice and encourage children to express their feelings and thoughts.
  • Treat all children in your care equally (equal love, care and provisions), without any discrimination in any way.
  • Leads children in assisting and caring for the centre garden and surrounds
  • Reporting and other responsibilities:
  • Provide a written monthly report to management, provided to management by 2nd day of each month. List all activities completed, report any child problems, or other health/other issues with children.
  • Provide regular verbal reports to the weekly House Parent Meeting, and other forums as required.
  • Immediately report any serious incidents or other problems, including accidents, illness, injuries, abnormal sexual activity or abuse, fighting, or damaged or broken property. If management not at the centre, telephone management as required.
  • Formally meet with your house parent partner when you return from your day off or leave so that you are aware of any problems that require follow up.
  • Ensure children at all times are protected from physical, emotional and sexual abuse, and immediately report any suspected abuse by children or staff.
  • Ensure that the Sunrise Children’s Village-Kandal code of conduct is followed at all times.
  • Protect the privacy and confidentiality of children by not disclosing any private information to others such as serious health problems, or other personal child information.
  • Follow other duties as reasonably directed by Management.
 

Social Worker

  • Category: Social Work, Research / Development, Community Development, Rural development
  • Type : Job Opportunity
  • Location: Kandal Province
  • Schedule: Full-time
  • Salary: N/A

Location: Toul Krosang, Rokar Kpous

Hours of work :

  •  8:00 am – 12:00 am Monday to Friday 
  • 1.00 pm – 5.00 pm Monday to Friday

Salary : Negotiable based on experience and knowledge

Duties
  • Residential Care Program
  • Ensure that all children are provided essential life education including relationships, physical development, body hygiene, ethics and morality, household chores etc.
  • Be responsible for case management including providing counseling, conducting family assessment for new referral and reintegration, following up cases after the reintegration, case update as well as life and career planning with participation of children and their families if possible.
  • Provide necessary trainings or refresher courses to children under your management.
  • Take lead and responsibility to improve children’s positive behavior, respect, gratitude and morality of children and increase their participation in all Sunrise activities.
  • Empower the Child Committee to be children’s representative through providing counseling, capacity building and assisting them in implementing their roles and responsibilities. Regular meeting should be held to help them to overcome their challenges.
  • Ensure that children always attend school, actively join in centre based learning and other activities including sport, art/craft; computer, music/dancing, and etc, keep record of their attendance and report children’s absenteeism to Manager and relevant staff.
  • Ensure that small family meeting is held on weekly basis on Friday night and children are encouraged to express their feeling and ideas and provide meeting report with topics discussed to Manager.
  • Work closely with Facility officer to ensure that children are given food with appropriate nutrition by making monthly menu with consultation with cooks and regularly check the kitchen area to ensure good sanitation and hygiene.
  • With Facility officer to ensure that house parents respect Child Rights, Child Protection Policy, Code of Conduct and Job Description and implement their daily routines and children respect and implement their daily cleaning rosters and other household chores.
  • Actively participate in problem-solving with house parents and immediately report any misconducts, problems or breaking of rules to management.
  • Ensure that children are provided equal opportunity and fairness (equal love, care and provisions) without discrimination.
  • Regularly check children’s sleeping areas and toilets to ensure good sanitation and hygiene.
  • Community Outreach Program
  • Undertake post reunification follow up and provide report on education, safety, security, emotion, health and income, as per Sunrise policy and reunification policy.
  • Update information of all reintegrated cases.
  • Follow up young adults who study vocational training such as result of study, attachment, health and providing counseling and help them with their needs or problems.
  • Conduct some needed trainings including Child Right, Hygiene, Domestic Violence and Health Education… etc.
  • Ensure that all cases are documented, scanned and kept in safe and order at all time.
  • REPORTING AND OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Provide a written monthly report to management, provided to management by 2nd day of each month. List all activities completed, report any child problems, or other health/other issues with children and plan for next month.
  • Immediately report any serious incidents or other problems, including accidents, illness, injuries, abnormal sexual activity or abuse, fighting, or damaged or broken property. If management not at the centre, telephone management as required.
  • Ensure children at all times are protected from physical, emotional and sexual abuse, and immediately report any suspected abuse by children or staff.
  • Protect the privacy and confidentiality of children by not disclosing any private information to others such as serious health problems, or other personal child information.
  • Work as a team with management team in order to facilitate activities in the itinerary.
  • Maintain good relations with all departments/program including facility & residential care, community development and education.
  • Attend weekly management meeting and monthly staff meetings in Sunrise as necessary.
  • Perform other duties as requested by management.
Requirements
  • With a minimum of 2 years working with adults and children
  • Female only age above 25
  • Possess Bachelor degree in Social Work, Development, or relevant social science majors
  • Good in English, both spoken and written
  • Be able to stay in the center (Free accommodation)
  • Commit to the job for long term
  • Use Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, internet, email
  • Be willing to work with disable kids and under pressure.
  • Must have passion, empathy, sensitivity, problem solving skills, communications skills, and ability to work in teams.
  • Able to start working as soon as possible...……etc.
 

How to Apply

Interested candidate please submit CV & Cover Letter by using the contact detail. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

 

Contact Details

Office Address
  •  National road 21B, Tuol Krasang, Roka Khpos Commune, S'ang District, Kandal Province, Cambodia
 
Contact Name
  •  Duk Pun
 
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