Job Description
Job Summary
We seek mature and professional Individuals with a passion for caregiving, children rights and able to look after children who have no parental care or are at risk of losing parental care. This includes working to ensure the happiness, well-being, progress, safety and health of the children in their care. Successful candidates will work in our family homes in Bulawayo.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Assisting and supporting the House Parent in managing the family house on a day-to-day Supporting House Parent in nurturing and grooming children
- Assisting House Parent in teaching children household chores and ensuring that the house is maintained in a clean, friendly and healthy environment
- Giving psychosocial support to the children in the homes
- Participating in the care and general wellbeing of the children in the home
- Assisting with children’s homework and extra tuition programmes
- Assisting in managing household incomes & expenses
- Engaging the children in extra moral activities to support their growth and development; Support the House Parent in updating and maintaining of Children’s Development Plans and Diaries.
- If selected, the successful applicant is given an employment contract and begins her career as an SOS mother trainee.
Qualifications And Experience
- Assisting and supporting the House Parent in managing the family house on a day-to-day Supporting House Parent in nurturing and grooming children
- Assisting House Parent in teaching children household chores and ensuring that the house is maintained in a clean, friendly and healthy environment
- Giving psychosocial support to the children in the homes
- Participating in the care and general wellbeing of the children in the home
- Assisting with children’s homework and extra tuition programmes
- Assisting in managing household incomes & expenses
- Engaging the children in extra moral activities to support their growth and development Support the House Parent in updating and maintaining of Children’s Development Plans and Diaries.
- If selected, the successful applicant is given an employment contract and begins her career as an SOS mother trainee.
How To Apply
Applications supported by detailed CVs and Certified Copies of Academic Certificates should be submitted electronically Clearly Indicating The Position you are applying for in the subject line and sent to : Resourcing.SOS@sos-zimbabwe.org
Applications that are late and do not have a CV or certified certificates attached will be disqualified. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Candidates are required to indicate current salary and expected salary expectations in the application letter.
SOS Children’s Villages Zimbabwe holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasis to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes.
SOS Children’s Villages Zimbabwe is an equal opportunities employer and encourages all eligible applicants to apply without any consideration to sex, cultural consideration, disability or creed
Closing Date: 07 September 2022.
