Child Champion - Mai Mahiu at Brites Management

Duties and Responsibilities

• To provide prompt, loving and nurturing care that will meet the holistic need of the children.
• To use NV discipline guide to deal with children struggling with indiscipline cases and provide appropriate consequences for a child based on individual needs and behavior.
• To impact emotional and social nurturing so that the children can grow up to be responsible and empathetic individual in society.
• To track the academic progress of the child at home and follow up with their respective teachers when need be or called upon.
• To attend and teach during nightly dorms devotions with the guidance of the spiritual care leader.
• To ensure the children are ready for school on time, dressed well, accompany them to school in the morning and evening.
• Supervise and assist your children with the homework, ensure it is complete and neatly done. Inspire your children to read and do well at school.
• Ensure that the school uniform of the child in your care are well taken care of.
• To impart life skills in children under their care so that they can do personal tasks with minimum assistance. E.g., bathing, making beds, laundry, dressing, brushing teeth, homework etc.
• To train songs, skits, bible verses and dance in preparation for Sunday service and actively help the children with the scheduled activities. The caregiver should creatively engage the children to avoid idleness.
• A child champion allocated in administering medication, should administer on time have the record sheet signed in the presence of a witness.
• To provide responsible care and maintaining all the safety standards. Ensuring a safe sanitary and orderly environment.
• To ensure children’s safety during indoors and outdoors activities. Be a proactive child champion by engaging and participating in activities with your children to enhance your bonding.
• To ensure that children take their meals at the allocated time as well as observing dining hall etiquette.
• As infants /babies’ champion, plan and supervise well balanced routines that include, feeding, diaper change rest, play time and responding to any other need as it arises.
• Tidy up play areas and children’s room.
• Develop schedule/routines to ensure that the needs of the babies are being met timely.
• All children should be observed for any unusual behavior and if there is any, it should be written first as an incident report (notable event report) and then reported to the supervisor who will send it out to the child champion manager.
• When working as a night watch champion, ensure whole night watch and write a report in the morning of any occurrence as incident reports and hand over verbally to the supervisor on duty.
• Attend training and meetings organized by your department heads and contribute to the meeting discussions.
• Debrief with your child champion colleague after each shift regarding the children in your care and any incidents, interventions that were dealt with over your shift.
• Perform any other duty as allocated by the supervisor or manager.

Key Requirements Skills, experience and qualification

• 3+ years’ experience working with children in a Charitable Children’s Institution or children’s ministry.
• Expertise in child development and child protection.
• Minimum Diploma in education, social work, counselling and guidance and/or related field.
• Appropriate leadership and management training and experience
• Experience in implementing programming for children;
• Knowledge of best practices in child development and proactive, intentional parenting;
• Ability to adapt and thrive in a high functioning work environment;
• Staff supervision and scheduling experience;
• Excellent organizational, time-management, and multitasking skills;
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills;
• Ability to build relationships with, lead and motivate diverse groups of people to accomplish tangible results;
• Action oriented, self-motivated and purposeful management style;
• Firm and strong, attentive, preemptive rather than reactive leadership approach;
• Ability to observe, identify and solve problems in a timely manner;