Position: Caregiver (مربية اطفال)

Location: Sa’ada

Grade: 7

Contract Length: 10 months

This post is based on Sa’ada, so candidates from Sa’ada will take the priority and preference.

The Opportunity:

The role holder will be responsible for all tasks related to care of staff children in the office. The caregiver will serve as a loving, nurturing and trustworthy companion to children and to provide a safe, caring, stimulating environment in which the children thrive and develop.

General responsibilities include undertaking most all tasks related to the children’s care in office. The caregiver is responsible for keeping the children’s areas neat and tidy in addition to providing attentive, high quality childcare.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

1. • Create a stimulating, nurturing, and safe environment for the children.
   • The responsibility of feeding children using the food brought by parents to the facility.
   • Perform work related to child care, including cleaning up after meals, tidying play areas, and washing bottles.
   • Changing diapers.
   • Place the children down for naps and bedtime.
   • Dressing children appropriately.
   • Supervising children’s meals and snacks.
   • Scheduling and coordinating children’s activities.
   • Undertaking appropriate creative activities with the children based on the children’s age.
   • Undertaking appropriate educational activities and reading with the children based on the children’s age.
   • Implementing daily routines.
   • Track attendance of children and movement
   • Doing light housework in the office on-site childcare.
   • Running errands.
   • Adherence to child safeguarding and child protection guidelines in addition to Save the Children policies and procedures

Qualifications and Experience:

• High school graduate.
• Further training in child care and development such as a formal nanny training program, early childhood classes and/or in-service training
• First Aid and CPR certification
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate/ Training.
• Proven child care experience with references.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Application Information:

DIVERSITY BELIEF

Save the Children International is committed to create a truly inclusive, effective and representative organisational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating unlawful discrimination.

We want our people to be truly representative of all sections of society. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, disabilities, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent and serve our beneficiaries better. We are guided by our values in everything we do, and recognise that being a diverse and inclusive employer helps us fulfil our responsibility to make a difference for children around the world.