Assistant Village Director

Position:

• Ensuring the overall development of children of the SOS Childrens Village:

  The Assistant Village Director ensures that the needs of children and youth are identified, respected, protected and addressed. He/she builds positive relationships with children through day-to-day interactions. He/she interacts with children to support them in their development and to guide them to settlement as good and successful people. He/she is the legal guardian of the children and is responsible for the children under his care & accountable to their biological roots, to government machinery for child protection, to other legal bodies & all stakeholders.

• Ensuring quality

  and

  value-based education and

  supporting Youth in Skilling for

  self-

  reliance:

  To empower Youth with skills and prepare them for employability.

• Ensuring the overall management (Finance & Administration) of the SOS Childrens Village

  : Prepare annual budget for the Village, seek approval and monitor operations of the program to ensure compliance to the budget. He /She coordinates the planning and budgeting, monitoring and evaluation processes for the SOS childrens villages. He/she accounts for the implementation of the organisations policies, manuals, standards and guidelines and implements administrative systems promoting the efficient and responsible use of financial resources and property. He/she presides over the Village Committee, Child Admission Committee and Child Protection Committee, and cooperates closely with representative / coordinating functions. As legal representative of the organization, he ensures compliance with all legal requirements of the work.

• Guiding and supporting SOS Mothers and SOS families:

  The Assistant Village Director ensures that framework conditions for a high quality of child care within the SOS families are given. He/She supports the development of strong and long-term family ties and ensures a secure and developmental environment for children. He/she visits SOS Families on regular basis. He is available, accessible and dependable to SOS Mothers as a guide and support in their responsibilities. He monitors services for SOS Mothers, ensures secure environment for them and coordinates for their professional development.

• Guiding and supporting SOS Youth Co-workers

  : The Assistant Village Director ensures that framework conditions for a high quality of youth care within youth facilities/youth care programmes are given. He/She ensures that youth programmes offer career, learning and development opportunities for youths and maintains an overview of and interest in the needs and development of youths. He visits the youth facilities on a regular basis and supports youth co-workers. The Assistant Village Director coordinates the professional development of youth co-workers and ensures the required support and monitoring services for youth care co-workers.

• Guiding and supporting SOS Childrens Villages co-workers:

  The Assistant Village Director supports all SOS Children's Village's staff in a strategic way according to SOS Children's Villages' policies and values and acknowledged and contextualized guidelines of leadership, management and human resource development. He/she delegates tasks with trust and gives co- workers the space to perform effectively. The Assistant Village Director creates an open working environment where village co-workers learn and question with confidence and strive for participation. He/she promotes strong links (communication, team work and the sharing of knowledge) between SOS families, youth care co-workers and other village co-workers. He/She coordinates the professional recruitment in consultation with the Zonal Director and careful orientation for all village and youth facility/youth programme co-workers, provides ongoing feedback, carries out performance appraisal discussions with every village co-worker, encourages co-workers to take responsibility for their own learning and development (according to the HRs principles and guidelines) and ensures that they receive the support they need to fulfil their tasks. He/she manages routine personnel administration tasks, including management of personnel files and leave administration. He ensures compliance of co-workers to the service rules of the organization. He/She consults the Zonal Director/DND-FL /Secretary General on key staff issues.

• Promoting strong and long-term partnerships with Government/Civil Society Organizations & communities:

  The Assistant Village Director would be responsible for liasioning with government (Child Welfare Committee, Department of women and child development, Education & Health) department to ensure project deliverables and reporting. The resource is also expected to establish relationships and partnerships between SOS families, youths in youth facilities/youth care programmes, youth care co-workers and the community. He/She forges strong links with like-minded and complementary organisations and represents the organisation in local NGO networks and advocacy initiatives. He/She assures effective co- operation with the local media as per organizations guidelines (so that the organisations aims and objectives are continuously promoted) and represents the organisations interests as well as child and youth care expertise (integrated approach) to the local authorities. He/She ensures appropriate accessibility of village facilities to the neighbouring communities and makes conscious efforts for integration of CV into the community.

• Contributing to the development of the National Association:

  The Assistant Village Director learns from other SOS Childrens Villages and shares his/her own experience.He/She participates actively in national planning and evaluation processes and actively contributes to the further development of the organization policies. He/she contributes to local and National child and youth care initiatives and contributes to National advocacy efforts where appropriate. He/She seeks recognition of the SOS family model. He/She helps fundraising staff understand how the SOS Children's Village assists children and families and provides background information, text and photo material, supports them to realise fundraising plans and familiarises village co-workers on the importance of fundraising.

  Key Performance indicators:

• Academic performance of children
• Quality settlement of youth
• Satisfaction Index of mothers and coworkers
• Capacity utilization of project
• Timeliness and accuracy of information
• % deviation in budget vs actual expenditure
• Number of disciplinary & child abuse issues arising
• Adherence to admission policy

Working

Education: