Shamida’s Vision: We want to see every Ethiopian woman and child have a safe and loving home

Shamida’s Mission: Our Mission is to change the lives of destitute women, orphans and vulnerable children through Protection, Care, Empowerment, & Economic Development.

Shamida’s Values: Radically Inclusive: We welcome, value & respect everyone. Empowering: we give responsibilities, abilities, through skills and knowledge. Learning: we are progressive organization. Leadership: We are pioneers in what we do

Purpose of Post: 

To professionally assess the education level of children in the shelter and provide individualised teaching program to help children to achieve their potential.

To help children grow a positive social skill, behaviour and learning non-violent ways of expressing themselves and their emotions 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Education (35%)

• Professional assessment of each child’s ability and designing a learning programme to meet their individual needs
• Conducting regular and planned teaching programmes relevant to individual children’s needs
• Follow-up of those children who are not regular attendees of programme
• Participate, in collaboration with other staff team members, in running life-skills and any other shelter-based activities
• Keep good, accurate and confidential records of all education sessions and make referrals to those who require psychological or psychiatric assessment/treatment
• Provide weekly life skills lessons on education and learning skills within the Life Skills program.
• Participate in regular child care review meetings to help the team build on strategies to best help individual children/their behaviours/their life-plans.
• Monitor children’s needs in order to remediate educational deficiencies
• Create a classroom environment that is conductive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interest of the students
• Perform other duties as assigned.

 Team & Partnership Working (30%)

•  Work with the Shamida team to deliver the service and contribute for good team spirit
• Support the head teacher to ensure quality education is delivered at shelter.
• Support and provide appropriate recommendation regarding best interest determination (BID) panel to guarantee best interest of the children.
• Advocate for educational referral support services for beneficiaries

 Planning and Reporting (25%)

• In collaboration with the project team and stakeholders prepare detail annual and quarters action plan and ensure the implementation.
• Closely work with Head Teacher and project staffs in the course of implementing the school program.
• Facilitate and ensure the involvement of children as primary stakeholders in all project work.
• Ensure preparation of timely and quality monthly, quarterly and annual project progress reports.

Respect of confidentiality (10%)

•  Strictly respect the confidentiality of data, being the property of the project beneficiaries and Shamida
• Ensure beneficiaries files/ data are properly put and locked
• Comply with Shamida policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedure
• Comply with Shamida policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedure
• Respect the confidentiality regarding the content of interview during assessments.

General:

Comply with Shamida child safeguarding policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

Responsible for: Educational classes, life skills training at the shelter

Responsible to: Head teacher

Sex: Female

Job Requirements

Experience

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience for BA and 1 year for MA holders

Education/ Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree from a recognized university in psychology or social work

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Be empathetic and have an understanding of the issues surrounding vulnerable children
• Ability to work in a team and independently
• Experience in childcare facilities in providing childcare and support to children of all ages;
• Extensive knowledge on UNCRC and ACRWC
• Experience using evidence-based modes of therapy;
• Experience in the areas of protection including GBV, child protection and psychosocial support
• Interested to work under pressure and in harsh environment
• Previous related experience in NGO setup is an advantage
• Excellent interpersonal, and written and verbal communication skills;
• Experience and ability to work with children of all ages including teenagers;
• Ability to participate in collective, non-hierarchical decision making within small team and all staff environments;
• Ability to work both independently and as a team member;
• Essential computer literacy (MS word, excel and internet)
•  Able to coach and supervise

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants can submit their non-returnable Cover letter and CV’s through “E-MAIL” to Jobs@shamidaethiopia.com before March 27, 2022

Please mention the Job Title on subject of the email, application letter & CV. Failing to do this may lead to disqualification

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview and exam.