Manager of social support of family forms of education in SOS Dityachi mistechka Ukrayina, Mizhnarodna Blagodiyna organizaciya, Blagodiyniy fond

International charitable organization "SOS Children's Town" Ukraine is looking for a Manager of social support of family forms of upbringing.

Mission and purpose of the position: ensuring the development and regulation of the direction of activity related to support of family forms education.

Functional responsibilities:

• Manages the activities of social work specialists, social workers, determines the degree of their responsibility.
• Distributes responsibilities between social work specialists, leads and controls their work. 
• Organizes the development and implementation, within the scope of competence, of state and social programs, support plans for each DBST, foster families and families of foster carers and individual development plan (IDP) of each child. 
• Supervises compliance by foster parents with the requirements of Ukrainian legislation and international documents on issues related to the activities of DBST, adoptive families and families of foster parents and the upbringing of their children.
• Conducts analysis of the state and development trends of the relevant direction, the progress of implementation of plans related to this activity, takes measures to eliminate shortcomings and consolidate positive trends.
• Ensures the development of draft documents related to activities of DBST, foster families and families of foster carers, policies in the field of protection of children's rights. 
• Identifies the needs and priority areas of training, retraining and advanced training of foster parents, foster parents, social work specialists, social workers, makes proposals for carrying out this work. 
• Studies and effectively implements international experience. 
• Organizes, ensures and monitors the provision of public services to DBST, foster families and families of foster carers within the established competence. Performs organizational work aimed at supporting and ensuring quality conditions for raising children in DBST, foster families and families of foster carers. Together with the relevant bodies of state power and local self-government, takes measures aimed at compliance with requirements regarding standards, norms and rules, ensuring the policy of protection of children's rights.
• Ensures compliance with the legislation of Ukraine and international normative legal acts on issues concern the protection of children's rights. Actively cooperates with services for children, participates in the meetings of the Commission for the Protection of Children's Rights.
• Participates in the organization and preparation of events held for children.
• Performs financial management of the service on social support of family forms of education and prepares reports on its implementation.

Requirements for candidates:

• Full higher education (specialist, master's degree) in the field of social sciences and social welfare, psychology, pedagogy, project management, economics, management, other related sciences.
• Experience as a coordinator, head or manager of a social project from 1 year.
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• Practical experienceof working with children and families from 3 years old.
• Knowledge of current legislation on the protection of the rights of children and families, in particular, regarding the creation, ensuring the functioning and provision of social services to foster families, orphanages family type, to families of foster carers.
• Knowledge and practical skills in the field of providing social services to families raising orphans and children deprived of parental care care.
• Experience of working with state and public organizations.

We offer:

• Official employment, decent pay.
• Interesting work in an international organization.
• Opportunities for professional and personal development.
• Work in a professional team.

We will be glad to see you as part of our Team!

We thoroughly review all resumes that we receive. If you have not heard back from us within 14 days, it means that your resume has been reviewed and added to the personnel reserve. When a vacancy appears, which will correspond to your competences, we will definitely contact you.

MBO BF "SOS Children's Villages" Ukraine does everything possible to ensure that children and young people are safe, their rights are protected, and they are treated with dignity and respect in all the activities we carry out.

In its activities, the IBO BF "SOS Children's Villages" Ukraine adheres to a policy of zero tolerance to sexual exploitation and violence on the part of the staff of the IBO BF "SOS Children's Villages" Ukraine towards the people they serve. Protection from sexual exploitation and of violence (PSHEA) is everyone's responsibility, and all selected candidates will be required to constantly adhere to the PSHEA policy of the BF "SOS Children's Villages". shortlisted candidates will undergo a thorough reference and background check for past conduct related to sexual exploitation and abuse, and may be required to provide additional information at later stages of the selection process.

By applying, the candidate confirms his understanding of these hiring procedures.