Child Facilitator

Job Description

Title: Child Facilitator

Company Name: Action for Social Development (ASD)

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka (Mohammadpur)

Salary: Tk. 20000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Bachelor/Honors

• Graduate, will be relaxed for experienced person

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Only Female

• Working experience with Street /Working Children’s of Child Development Center (CDC) specially at night shift

• Position requires at least five years of experience in a similar type of position

• Determination to work with deprived children

• Ability to take instant decision in any challenging situation.

Action for Social Development (ASD) is inviting application from committed & progressive development worker for the position of Child Facilitator under the "She Rises” project funded by SOS-Children’s Village Worldwide (CVW) with technical support from SOS Children’s Village International in Bangladesh. Candidates having work experience in similar type of position and willing to work anywhere in Dhaka City is requested to apply.

Child Development Centre (CDC) is a centre for 40 street children (girls) where night shelter facilities are included is located in Mohammadpur area. Street children do not have place to sleep at night. Children especially girls are very unsafe on the street. They become victim of physical, sexual abuse. CDC provides them safe night shelter, basic entitlements like 3 times food, basic education, vocational training, life skill training, counseling, treatment, referral health, legal and psychosocial support etc. Girls stay there like their family. Projects reintegrate them with family or socially after prepare them for mainstream life so that they would not come back to the street again. Keeping the importance of safety and security of girl street children, CDC is planned with new measures to ensure protection and change their entire life positively.

Job Description / Responsibility

Child Facilitator under the direct supervision of Child Development Officer of Child Development Centre (CDC), She Rises Project is primarily responsible to assist In charge- CDC.

• Prepare weekly and monthly activity plan.

• Prepare individual social development plan for each child.

• Ensure safe, child friendly and participatory atmosphere in the centre.

• Consistently assess and document the evolving child protection requirements of children entering the CDC.

• Build rapport with the street children, parents/ guardian of street children;

• Collect street children to provide services through field visit regular basis and work closely with the street children to overcome high risk situation

• Assist to Child Development Centre (CDC) In charge to ensure basic services like shelter, safety, nutrition, education, health and hygiene and recreation to change lifestyle and behavior of children

• Arrange different sessions with the children, parents and other key stakeholders

• Ensure skills and psycho social development of children

• Preparing report, meeting minutes and keeping all records day by day.

• Perform any other reasonable duties and tasks as requested by the project management.