Vacancy at Islamic Relief - Child Welfare Senior Officer

URGENTLY REQUIRED

Islamic Relief Worldwide is an International Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) established in Birmingham, UK in 1984. Islamic Relief has a consultative status (special category) with the economic and Social Council of the United Nations is full member of British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND) and a signatory to the code of conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief. It seeks to promote sustainable economic and social development by working with local communities through relief and development
programmes. Islamic Relief Indonesia is part of Islamic Relief Worldwide which has been working in Indonesia since 2003.

Islamic Relief Indonesia provides service and support to the communities in mandate areas, based on the MoU with Department of Home Affairs. There are some initiative sectors under Emergency and Development program such as Shelter, Water and Sanitation, Health and
Nutrition, Livelihood, Orphans, Education, and Disaster Preparedness and Response. Through these sectors, Islamic Relief Indonesia plays significant role in alleviating the suffering and poverty of the world’s poorest people.
Islamic Relief seeks to hire committed and experienced persons for the following positions:

CHILD WELFARE SENIOR OFFICER
Based at : Banda Aceh Office
Range of salary : IDR 6,000,000 – 7,000,000

Overall Responsibility :
Responsible tomanage and develop Islamic Relief’s Indonesia Child welfare programmes, includingmanaging and developing all aspects of project identification, preparation, implementation, development, monitoring and evaluation, support and Training.

Main duties and responsibilities:
1. Develop and present proposals in co-ordination with the country director and head of programme regarding various areas of intervention in Indonesia.
2. Initiate projects once IR Headquarters has given approval.
3. Be responsible for providing direction and management to project co-ordinator/officers and related field staff, including the development of job descriptions and work plans.
4. Supervise and prepare daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly progress reports on project specific activities.
5. Be responsible for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of assigned projects.
6. Co-ordinate with local and international NGOs and other official agencies.
7. Provide appropriate training activities to programme and project staff in collaboration with the Head Of Programme and Country Director
8. Be responsible for ensuring project staff grievances and disciplinary matters are fairly dealt with in accordance with Islamic Relief policy and code of conduct.
9. Outline the resource requirement of projects and periodically assess their appropriateness to meeting short and long-term needs.
10. Work to ensure that Institutional learning takes place, which will include:
- Putting in place and promote for the mechanism of information exchange and learning from experience within the NGO.
- Creating and maintaining a database of other NGOs, agencies and government departments working in the same field.
- Maintaining regular visits to other organizations to exchange information and maintain lively contacts and relations.
11. To establish/develop database that will help the office to build long term programme activities
12. Monitor and Evaluate existing Orphans Programmes.
13. Provide technical assistance and advice in the production of orphans (OTO) reports & bio-data’s, standardising them throughout the region.
14. Provide technical assistance in development of OGF projects
15. Provide training in Child Protection
16. Provide guidance on the strategic development and expansion of orphan’s programmes.
17. Will be the overall Designated Child Protection Officer for Indonesia, which would include responding to any specific concerns, raised in the field office.

Necessary qualifications:
Experience / Education
· A minimum of five years experience of working for an international NGO.
· Bachelor degree in any related field from reputable university
· Experience in programme planning, monitoring, evaluation and appraisal
· Good understanding of development and relief issues as well as appreciation of cultural and social differences.
· Understanding and commitment to principles of child rights and child protection
· An understanding of child development/welfare/education Language& IT skills
· Excellent written and spoken English
· Excellent skills and knowledge of Windows, Office and Internet applications.

General Skills :
· Excellent programme management skills
· Excellent networking and interpersonal skill
· Diplomacy, tact, investigative& negotiation skills.
· Research and Report writingskills
· Good numerical skills.
· Development and implementation of appropriate policies, proceduresand administrative systems Disposition
· Flexible, patientand problem solving.
· Ability to work on your own initiative as well as a part of a team.
· Sympathetic with aims & objectives of Islamic Relief.

Physical
· Energetic and able to operate in situations which may be arduous

If you meet the above requirements kindly send your detailed CV with recommendations from 2 referees, (one of them your immediate former employer)
to: hrislamic@islamic-relief.or.id

Closing date: 15 March 2011

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