Organisation: Rainbow Foundation India
Position: City Coordinator – Residential Ca
Location: Hyderabad, Patna
No. of positions – 2 (1 position per city)
Last Date: 20th March 2024
Reporting – Sr. Manager, RC and CBC
About Organisation:
Rainbow Foundation India (RFI) works with children without adult care and distressed communities that are victims of homelessness; by establishing supportive, caring systems that will ensure freedom from hunger, violence and deprivation and enable a life of peace, social integration, harmony and dignity. RFI ensures, care & protection, health care, emotional well- being, education life skills through Institutional and Community Based Programs. It provides support to Young Adult till the age of 23 years to develop employable skills and placement to the sustainable gainful employment. RFI acts as the coordinating agency between the Rainbow Home model of care and the implementing partners that adopt the model.
The Rainbow Homes Program - aims to protect, care for, educate and empower our most disadvantaged children. These include children who live on city streets; orphaned, abandoned, and violence-affected children; working children; and children of sex workers. We strive to ensure that these children access their rights in loving, open and safe residential care homes in government schools and buildings; and for them to grow into happy, responsible, and caring citizens. For more details https://rainbowhome.in/
About the Position
Job Description: City Coordinator – Residential Care
The City Coordiator (Residential Care) will be responsible for overseeing & ensuring the quality of the Rainbow Homes residential care program both in Child Care Institutes (CCIs) at their respective city.
Key responsilities:
Support the process of Annual planning of the homes & hostel programs & finalisation in their respective city/cities.
Ensure that the partners & the direct program reach out to the targeted numbers as per the agreed plans
Make periodic visits to the homes and hostels to oversee & support the quality of the program and processes
Organise periodic activity planning and review meetings with the home/hostel teams to discuss & support the quality of the program
Support and establish systems to improve the quality of education in the homes/hostels
Conduct special reviews and orientations on the nutrition aspects and ensure the quality of nutritious food served in the homes & hostels
Assess the volunteering needs of the Residential care program in their respective city/cities and identify & establish linkages with the suitable volunteers/volunteering organisations to achieve the program activities and outcomes
Ensuring that the Child Protection Policy of the Rainbow Homes program for the residential care is implemented in its true spirit in the residential program
Report and inform the National Program team( RHPCC) immediately about any emergency situation in the home/child related or the violations of the Child Protection Policies
Conduct capacity needs assessment of the home level functionaries and support in designing capacity building programs
Take up & arrange the relevant capacity building programs with the home teams on the care aspects of the Rainbow Homes program
Represent Rainbow Homes program in the city level networks & forums that work on the Residential care program
Establish good linkages with the relevant government departments such Women & Child welfare, DCPU, CWC, Social Welfare, Education & SSA, etc.
Guide, Support and ensure that the partner & direct homes have been registered under JJ Act wherever it is applicable
Support to the homes in following the legal compliances of the JJ Act and other legal aspects such as POCSO, Child marriage Act, etc.
Support and guidance to the residential teams on updating of the MIS and Rainbow Online Reporting (ROR) and also Ensure that the relevant physical registers as per the requirements of the statutory compliances and the Rainbow Homes program at the residential care program are done qualitatively & timely
Support, generate and draft the reports such as Newsletter, case stories, grant reports, etc of the residential care program
Identify best practices in the city with regard to the quality aspects of the residential care program such as Education, Health, Nutrition, Shelter, etc and organise exposure visits & sharing meetings with the teams
Conduct the program monitoring process & prepare the reports as per the monitoring tools of the Rainbow Homes Program
Plan for capacity development of partners/home teams in taking up Child Participatory monitoring and Track implementation of Child Participatory monitoring programs at the home level
Participate in all the training, program planning & review & other meetings organised by the Rainbow Homes program
Coordinate with the other Coordinators at City Desk for various interlinked programs such as city-level thematic meetings, stakeholder meetings, workshops with the children, etc.
Coordinate with the other Units at the national level as and when required keeping the Sr. manager in the loop and in consultation.
Support & attend the donors and other visitors to the program in coordination with the National program team
Support in providing data and information for making proposals for the resource mobilisation for the planned programs
Any other task and responsibility assigned by the Rainbow Homes Program – National secretariat/the reporting manager from time to time for the program purposes
Be available at any time in the situations of any emergency calls/situation to support the home teams
Qualification and expected skills:
Should be a Post Graduate in Social work
Should at least 3-5 years of experience in social development preferable in direct experience in program planning, implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation of programs
Thorough understanding on Child Rights & Child Protection Issues including the issues of residential care and children on the streets
Familiarity of working with the Government systems & experiencing managing NGO partnerships/ programs
Ability to perform multiple tasks efficiently & managing emergency situations
Language proficiency in English and Telugu for Hyderabad location and English and Hindi for Patna location is essential.
Salary: The Salary package would be Rs. 40,000/- per month commensurate with experience.
Interested candidates meeting the above criteria are requested to submit their application along with a covering note to hr@rainbowhome.in before the closing date. Please indicate the title of the post and the city applied for on the subject line of your e-mail.
We, as an equal opportunity employer, encourage women, people with special needs, Dalits and minorities, meeting the criteria to apply.
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