We are looking for a community outreach coordinator to join our team at the Children's Protection Centre in Janakpur.
Community Outreach Coordinator will be responsible for assisting with the rescue of the children, through referrals from the police, community social workers, public; actively searching any new cases that might need our support; working in the field around Province 2 to liaise with the families of the children, to check on the children’s situation, to rescue the children; helping with solution for each case, either by ensuring the children and their families get legal support with prosecution, by ensuring that we get all the permissions from the families or authorities to get the children moved to our centre, by working closely with the Social Worker and other staff to prepare individual plan for each child in a timely manner; helping with linking children with families or with permanent children’s homes; liaising with the families of the children that have already been linked, liaising with families and/or communities that the children come from, gathering constant data on the situation of the children.
Experience working with children is a must and ideal candidate will have field/outreach experience, ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders. Some spoken and written English ability and basic computer skills (excel, email, and ideally Google Drive) required. Motorbike driving licence required. The candidate must have experience with preparing letters in Nepali for the local authorities. The candidate must have experience working with the local authorities, police and a variety of stakeholders.
This can be a live in position at the Children's Protection Centre in Janakpur for candidates from other parts of Nepal, or you can live out if you are from Janakpur. We are ideally looking for someone from the area or someone who has spent some time in Terai, and speaks local languages (Maithili, Bhojpuri).
We are looking for the new Community Outreach Coordinator to start immediately.
Salary - 30,000Rs , food and accommodation also provided (for those who will be live in), health insurance, opportunities for growth with the organisation.
Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining how your skills and experience match the job requirements to julia@oursansar.org. Please note that applications with no cover letters will not be considered.