Program coordinator Senior Level

Job Description

Under the supervision of Executive Director , this position is responsible for the overall management and development of Street children management program . The program coordinator  coordinates and administers all programs under DIC.

APCN is a unique team and the holder is  required to work in various programs, especially in street children programs, according to the  capacity of the coordinator , availability and current need of programs .The concerned staff has to conduct the activities with children in  center

 

·         Organizing three times in a week meeting with the children and the staffs of the center. Ensuring the proactive participation of the children in the meeting. Discuss about the manifold problems of the children, keeping in mind about the forthcoming plans of the children, putting heads together about the families of the children and consulting with the children about the referral for Reintegration. 

·         Conducting Yoga classes in the morning on a daily basis for and with the children of the center. Similarly, Conducting Dance Movement Therapy within the center in order to release burnout and tension. 

·         Organize various kinds of recreational and motivational activities in the drop – in center for and with the children. Such as, music, dancing, painting and drawing etc. 

·         Take part in providing Non – Formal Education to the children in Drop – in center. Assist and advocate the NFE taskforce in delegating Non – Formal Education within the center. 

·         Providing radical medical treatment to the children, doing basic dressing to the wounded children in the Drop – in center. Taking the children to the hospital / referring the children to other partner organizations in case of any particular problem they cares. 

·         Making Distribution plan / schedule of meal twice a day to the children / taking the children to eat their food after the completion of Non – Formal Education.

·         Prepare the monthly progress report of the center and provide the monthly progress report to Management on a monthly basis during the Program Manager and Coordination Meeting. 

·         Actively partaking in the Program Manager and Coordination Meeting weekly to review about the progress of the children of the center. In addition, organizing Center’s internal meeting in the head office. 

·         Working in close collaboration with other organizations working in the field of Street Children.

·         Carrying out the weekly recreational program within the center/taking the children for an external visit for the internal program or taking the children to watch movie in the cinema. 

·         Dealing with the visitors, stakeholders and external people from different NGOs. Explaining them about the daily operational program and day-to-day activities of the center. 

·         Working closely with the Nepali / Foreigner volunteers within the center. Assisting, managing and supporting the volunteers in their work. 

·         Providing basic awareness classes to the children of the center with regard to the sanitation, personal hygiene, HIV / AIDS, CSA/CSEC Impact and consequences of Glue Sniffing, drugs and Importance of family and society etc……….

·         Working in close collaboration and coordination with the reintegration  Programme Coordinator in planning and subsequent organizing various internal / external activities for the children. 

·         Participation in training/seminar/workshops organized by partner organization or other organization regularly upon approval from the ED.

·         Submit monthly progress report to CCWB and ED.

·         Database update of APCN & CCWB

·         In collaboration with relevant staff of APC, take the responsibility to formalize, evaluate and update APC’s SOPs relative to the conduct of family visits and children re-unification and/or long term placements.

·         Coordinate with all Program Managers and In-charges to plan systematically family visits and reunification for children from all centers of APC. 

·         Conduct family visits, interview and assessments as per requirements of the programs, alone or with another APC’s educator depending on situation.

·         Produce detailed written reports on each children/family visited and update necessary follow-up information  in the APC Data Base (using a format specially designed for this purpose) 

·         After or during Family visit, closely coordinate with APC psychologist to produce a detailed assessment of children situation and family profile, and suggest most suitable orientation (re-unification, hostel, referring to other NGO…) for each particular case.

·         Coordinate with government agencies and other NGOs to maximize chances of success of the re-integration process.

·         Plan and organize all aspects of the re-integration, from the first family visit to the long term follow-up, making sure that these procedures are well known and well understood by all the staff of APC.

·         Ensure regular follow-up of all re-integrated children up to a 1 year period.

·         Keep proper tracks of all actions undertaken within the project, success and failures, and produce monthly reports on visited families and re-unified children.  

·         Plan and conduct every month a review meeting on Re-integration with all stakeholders, to review past actions and coming plans.

·  Every year, produce a detailed and quantitative report of re-integration and follow-up activities, evaluating the successes/failures of the program and proposing updates to APC SOP’s accordingly.

·         Conduct /introduce the CSA and CSEC Awareness Session during the children Reintegration, Family visits and Follow-up.

·         develop (in cooperation with ED)  partnership with local NGO/Boarding  and vocational training offices to refer children who can’t be reintegrated, 

Job Specification

·         Systematizing a weekly meeting with the staff of the DIC. Checking and appraising the working schedule of the staff. Discussing in the weekly meeting about the progress in the street program  (DIC and Outreach Program. )

·         Individually monitoring intimately each and every staff of the center. Ensuring that the staffs are punctual in their work and the staffs are working properly.

·          Monitoring the staff attendance register that has been put into place in the center. Organizing a meeting with the staff of the center sporadically and briefing the staff about the importance of punctuality.

·         Making sure that the Code of Behavior is fully maintained in the workplace. Need to guarantee that the staffs respect one another within the center. Need to ensure that the staffs respect the children, take care of the children and work properly with the children.

·         Create an accustomed and facilitative working environment within the center, create a formal / informal discussion platform for the staff within the center, and partake in providing productive and helpful guidelines and recommendation in solving the personal and professional problem of the staffs.

·         Individually and unanimously sensitize the staff about the relevance of Corporal Punishment, Positive Disciplining, Child Rights and Child Sexual Abuse etc……

Apply Instructions

Applicants are requested to apply with a covering letter mentioning their required position, expected salary, latest CV and three references at the following address or e-mail by 13th may 2018 (before 5 PM). Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for selection process. Address: APC Nepal, Po box 13439, Dokhadh, Kathmandu , Nepal, E-mail: vacancy.apcn@gmail.com/ contact@apc-nepal.org

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