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Job Title:   Care Giver Volunteer (No Experience Volunteer Jobs)

Organisation: International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Duty Station:  Kyegegwa, Uganda

About US:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC works with people forced to flee from war, conflict and disaster and the host communities which support them, as well as those who remain within their homes and communities. At work today in over 40 countries and 25 U.S. cities, we improve outcomes in the areas of health, safety, economic wellbeing, education, and power.

Job Summary:   PlayMatters Project (2020-2025) is an education initiative funded through a $100 million grant from the LEGO Foundation. The program reimagines childhood for 800,000+ refugee and host-community children across Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda – children whose education and social development has been affected by displacement and trauma.

Building on children’s amazing resilience and a growing evidence base supporting Learning through Play (LtP) methodologies, PlayMatters (PM) cultivates holistic learning for children ages 3-12+. PlayMatters is led by the International Rescue Committee and includes Plan International, War Child Holland, Innovations for Poverty Action, the Behavioral Insights Team in partnership with the LEGO Foundation.

The project therefore intends to recruit strong potentials to oversee all activities at the ECCD Centres and Community Play Spaces within the 18 zones where IRC operates under PlayMatters, both in the Settlement and host communities

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate ECCD sessions monthly at ECCD Centres /Play sessions for children in the community.
• Assist in supervising early learning/Play programme for children in the Community.
• Encourage families and community to work collectively for effective Play, development and protection of every child, three to eight years.
• Participate in regular monthly 5 days training, planning and reviews, 1-day monthly meetings and quarterly meetings.
• Collect data for School attendance and compile a monthly report on ECD activities in the ECCD centres.
• Coordinate and work hand in hand with school and key stakeholders in your community.
• Raise awareness on the importance of Play and Early childhood development in the Community.
• Maintain a file(s) of records/ statistics and events that take place in the school and Community under the Play-Matters project.
• Develop any other education session materials available in the community that encourages learning through Play.
• Take and maintain records of education sessions encouraging play.
• Carry out home visits for mobilization of children to go to school.
• Ensure safe and protective environments for children mostly for Play.
• Organize and conduct teacher parent conferences, encouraging play.
• Keep record and acknowledgement of receipt of item received from IRC.
• Confidentiality: Ensuring the non-disclosure of any information whatsoever relating to the practices and business of IRC acquired in the course of duty, to any other person or organization without authority, except in the normal execution of duty.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Caregiver ECCD Volunteer job must hold both O’ or A’ Level Certificates, CCP (UNICEF program) Certificate & Diploma in ECCD, one who has been teaching in the ECCD centers and retired teacher is added advantage.
• Experience in teaching or records management is an added advantage. working experience in an ECCD Centre has upper hand.
• Previous work with an NGO on similar programs is desirable.
• Previous experience as a teacher or teaching assistant will be an added advantage.
• Must be refugee or national living and registered in Kyaka II settlement.
• Fluency in written and oral skills in English language.
• Knowledge of refugee local languages (Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda Lingala etc.) an added advantage.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively manage a variety of relationships in a multicultural, multi-agency environment.
• The preferred candidate should be those who have completed education and are therefore not currently enrolled in any ongoing education programs.
• Flexible work attitude: the ability to work in a team environment & independently and ability to meet unexpected demands.

How to Apply:

Please hand deliver your cover letter, CV, and copies of academic documents clearly indicating the position – location that you have applied for “Caregiver ECCD Volunteer – Kyaka II” to the IRC field offices in Kyaka II.

• Also do visit the IRC Website (Career Page) to submit your application online.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Any late submissions will not be received.
• Please note that if you do not follow the above instructions your application will be automatically disqualified. All applications will be assessed strictly on ***individual merit.

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Deadline: 29^th December 2023.

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