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Programme Development Advisor (Advocacy)
Location: Tashkent
 
SOS Children’s Villages of Uzbekistan is an affiliated member Association of international non-governmental organisation. The main mission is to support children left without parental care or at risk of losing parental care through advocating for child rights and implementing relevant programs and projects. The Association works in Tashkent, Samarkand and Khorezm regions (www.sos-kd.uz ).
 
Mission of the position:
Under the leadership of the Head of Programme Development Department (HPDD), the Programme Development Advisor (Advocacy) drives programme development in the field of Advocacy in line with the “Vision, Mission, Values”, the Brand and approved strategies, policies and plans of the organisation and national legislation. As a member of the national programme development department, she/he contributes to setting and reaching the strategic objectives and targets of the MA in the area of Advocacy (families of origin/SOS families/advocacy) and monitors and evaluates progress towards achieving set targets. She/he provides technical expertise and content-wise leads SOS Children’s Village Programme unit managers/leaders in a location in planning, implementing and monitoring of programme interventions in the area of Advocacy. The Programme Development Advisor (Advocacy) is responsible for introducing and monitoring the implementation of quality standards in the area of Advocacy.
 
Main functional responsibilities:
  • Supports HPDD, CVPD and Programme units’ managers in the location in building strong links and cooperation with national government and local authorities, as well as other stakeholders to enhance programme development.
  • Joins relevant networks, platforms, campaigns, working groups and advocates on behalf of the organisation for the promotion and protection of children’s rights, especially on issues linked to children at risk of losing the care of their families or children without parental care.
  • Participates in relevant national/international conferences.
  • Under the leadership of the HPDD, contributes to annual and strategic planning and monitoring of progress towards targets.
  • Under the leadership of HPDD and in cooperation with other Programme Advisors, actively contributes to putting the SOS Children’s Villages Programme Policy and related policies into practice taking into consideration national legislation and context.
  • Supports HPDD in carrying out CRSAs and feasibility studies and participates in the development of concept notes and programme proposals for approval by GSC.
  • Develops detailed psycho-pedagogical concepts for new types of interventions in the country jointly with programme staff in the locations for approval by Regional PD Unit.
  • Provides technical expertise to the HPDD and CVPD when setting up new programme units and interventions in a location.
  • Supports HPDD, CVPD, Programme unit managers in locations in applying for public funds.
  • Provides content wise guidance to programme unit managers in the locations in planning, budgeting, and reporting of programme interventions.
  • Leads specific programme development projects as assigned by the HPDD.
  • Regularly reports on developments in the specific programme area to the HPDD and the responsible regional PD Unit.
 
Requirements:
  • Preferred studies: advanced studies in social sciences such as political sciences, development studies, international relations – also to be considered: background in child welfare, pedagogy, psychology or other relevant qualification and previous experiences.
  • Minimum of 2-3 years working experience in the social development, child or human rights NGO sector, the UN, the EU, or other relevant experiences.
  • Previous experience in designing and carrying out advocacy work (advocacy planning, campaigning), preferably in the field of children’s rights.
  • Commitment and ability to anchor advocacy in the culture, structures and systems of a programme-based organisation.
  • Good knowledge on child welfare and protection issues (ideally experience in De-institutionalisation processes), Child Rights and the UN monitoring system of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Well acquainted with the corresponding framework, policies and key-stakeholders (actors) in the system, i.e. used to working in a “Rights based approach”.
  • Knowledge on issues related to the United Nations, the European Union system, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and on the functioning of the “civil society” in the country/region, or willingness to learn about these issues.
  • Effective communication and networking skills
  • Information and knowledge management skills (sharing good practices)
  • Good knowledge of written and spoken Uzbek, Russian and English.
 
Competencies:
  • Commitment to the mission of the organization and the role of the position;
  • Strategic thinking;
  • Planning and organization;
  • Cooperating effectively
  • Communicating effectively.
 
Working conditions:
  • Full employment (5/2, 9am-6pm)
  • Professional and personal development
  • Multinational and multicultural environment
 
Additional information:
  • Only CVs with motivation letter sent to recruitment@sos-kd.uz will be considered;
  • Please note that only selected candidates will be notified of progress to the next step of selection.
Programme Development Advisor (Alternative Care)
Location: Tashkent

SOS Children’s Villages of Uzbekistan is an affiliated member Association of international non-governmental organisation. The main mission is to support children left without parental care or at risk of losing parental care through advocating for child rights and implementing relevant programs and projects. The Association works in Tashkent, Samarkand and Khorezm regions (www.sos-kd.uz ).
 
Mission of the position:
Under the leadership of the Head of Programme Development Department (HPDD), the National Alternative care Advisor drives programme development in the field of Alternative care in line with the “Vision, Mission, Values”, the Brand and approved strategies, policies and plans of the organisation and national legislation.
 
Main functional responsibilities:
  • Contribute to annual and strategic planning and monitoring of progress towards targets.
  • Under the leadership of HPDD and in cooperation with other Programme Advisors, actively contributes to putting the SOS Children’s Villages Programme Policy and related policies into practice taking into consideration national legislation and context.
  • Develops detailed psycho-pedagogical concepts for new types of interventions in the country jointly with programme staff in the locations .
  • Provides technical expertise to the HPDD and programme directors when setting up new programme units in a location.
  • Provides content wise guidance to programme unit managers in the locations in planning, budgeting, and reporting of programme interventions.
  • Leads specific programme development projects as assigned by the HPDD.
 
Requirements:
  • University degree education in social sciences or related field;
  • Minimum 3 years experience in the social welfare field, preferably in the sector of child and youth welfare;
  • Motivation for work in an environment with the children and youth;
  • Good knowledge of written and spoken Uzbek, Russian and English;
 
Competencies:
  • Commitment to the mission of the organization and the role of the position;
  • Strategic thinking;
  • Planning and organization;
  • Communicating effectively;
  • Cooperating effectively.

Working conditions:
  • Full employment (5/2, 9am-6pm)
  • Professional and personal development
  • Multinational and multicultural environment
 
Additional information:
  • Only CVs with motivation letter sent to recruitment@sos-kd.uz will be considered;
  • Please note that only selected candidates will be notified of progress to the next step of selection.

Сhild Safeguarding Advisor

Location: Tashkent

SOS Children’s Villages of Uzbekistan is an affiliated member Association of international non-governmental organisation. The main mission is to support children left without parental care or at risk of losing parental care through advocating for child rights and implementing relevant programs and projects. The Association works in Tashkent, Samarkand and Khorezm regions (www.sos-kd.uz ).

 

Mission of the position:
Under the leadership of the Head of Programme Development Department, the national Child Safeguarding (CS) Advisor is coordinating and supporting the implementation of the Child Protection Policy and related child safeguarding policy support documents in the member association and all its programmes in order to mitigate existing child safeguarding risks for children and young people who are directly and indirectly cared for and supported through SOS Children’s Villages Programmes.

Main functional responsibilities:

  • Acts as an advisor on the CS implementation;
  • Coordinates the implementation of the Child Protection Policy and related child safeguarding policy support documents in the member association;
  • Ensures that the minimum requirements of the policy support document on child safeguarding reporting and responding procedures in member associations and the policy support document on child safeguarding investigations are met by the member association and all its programmes, provide support to programme child safeguarding teams.
  • Coordinates the development of national CS actions during the annual planning process.
  • Conducts child safeguarding audit in all programmes of the member association.
  • Prepares annual child safeguarding report and submits the report for approval to the National Director.
  • Ensures the establishment of a strong and reliable CS reporting and responding procedure in the member association.
  • Maintains the national Child Safeguarding Incident Register.
  • Follows up on reported CS concerns and incidents together with the programme CS team.
  • Collects lessons learnt as well as identified challenges to ensure that relevant preventive, awareness-raising and capacity-building measures are planned and further implemented.
  • Ensures that relevant child safeguarding documents and tools are available to child safeguarding team members at the national and programme levels.

 

Requirements:

  • University degree education in social sciences or related field;
  • Minimum 5 years experience in the social welfare field, preferably in the sector of child and youth welfare;
  • Good knowledge of international standards, legal issues and current directions of national development in the field of child’s rights approach, and social welfare systems;
  • Good knowledge of written and spoken Uzbek, Russian and English;
  • Strong communication, negotiation and advocating skills.

 

Competencies:

  • Commitment to the mission of the organization and the role of the position;
  • Strategic thinking;
  • Planning and organization;
  • Communicating effectively;
  • Cooperating effectively.

 

Working conditions:

  • Full employment (5/2, 9 am-6 pm)
  • Professional and personal development
  • Multinational and multicultural environment

 

Additional information:

  • Only CV with motivation letter sent to recruitment@sos-kd.uz will be considered;
  • Please note that only selected candidates will be notified of progress to the next step of selection.
ICT Coordinator
Location: Tashkent
 
SOS Children’s Villages of Uzbekistan is an affiliated member Association of international non-governmental organisation. The main mission is to support children left without parental care or at risk of losing parental care through advocating for child rights and implementing relevant programs and projects. The Association works in Tashkent, Samarkand and Khorezm regions (www.sos-kd.uz ).
 
Mission of the position:
ICT Coordinator (ICTC) leads the ICT function in SOS Children’s Villages of Uzbekistan and has functional leadership duties for the ICT technicians in SOS Children’s Villages of Uzbekistan. 
He/she ensures that the ICT function in the SOS Children’s Villages of Uzbekistan works according to ICT strategies as lined out in the Strategic Plan, guidelines and works for achieving the pre-established goals and quality standards.
 
Main functional responsibilities:
  • The ICTC is responsible for all national ICT services 
  • The ICTC ensures and is responsible for roll-out and execution of global/regional policies, processes and projects in the Member Association
  • The ICTC participates in regional knowledge sharing processes on ICT topics
  • The ICTC defines national ICT budgets and ICT plans for all assigned MAs (Member Associations)
  • The ICTC develops and implements the IT strategy and all IT policies and procedures, including those for architecture, security, disaster recovery, standards, purchasing and service provision 
  • The ICTC is responsible for procurement of IT hardware, software and outsourced ICT services 
  • The ICTC negotiates and administers IT consultant contracts and service agreements 
    BCM, Security & Disaster Recovery  
  • The ICTC manages the organization’s IT network / Server security, business continuity and disaster recovery plans. He/she ensures that the IT infrastructure is maintained while optimizing capacity, performance and cost effectiveness 
  • The ICTC plans and builds redundancy into existing systems to eliminate downtime due to server/service failure 
  • The ICTC has Core Cisco LAN technology management and deployment capability (including establishment of VPNs)
  • The ICTC organizes Network capacity and changes planning 
  • The ICTC is responsible for local systems administration, security management, incident handling, availability and performance monitoring 
  • The ICTC is responsible for overall email and collaboration tool requirement definition, design and maintenance
  • The ICTC reviews systems' procedures to ensure that the users are making best use of the technology available and provide advice where this could be improved
  • The ICTC provides advice and guidance to ensure business needs are met optimally by our internal and externally hosted infrastructure and support innovation, automation and improvement as driven by the business, partners and internal team member.
Requirements:
  • ICT management experience is essential
  • Minimum of 3 years as a windows systems administration role
  • Experience with helpdesk ticketing systems and methodologies based on ITIL
  • Core directory/translation service knowledge: Active Directory, LDAP, GPO, DNS, DHCP
  • Core collaboration tool awareness: Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, VOIP
  • Core networking knowledge: Cisco LAN, WLAN, Firewalls, VPNs, VLANs 
  • Good knowledge of network hardware including servers, routers, and other computer devices
  • Experience of Disaster Recovery solutions and resilience
  • Industry standard IT Certifications are desirable: (i.e. Microsoft, Cisco, ITILv3)
  • Good knowledge of written and spoken Uzbek, Russian and English.
 
Competencies:
  • Commitment to the mission of the organization and the role of the position;
  • Strategic thinking;
  • Planning and organization;
  • Cooperating effectively
  • Communicating effectively.
 
Working conditions:
  • Full employment (5/2, 9am-6pm)
  • Professional and personal development
  • Multinational and multicultural environment
 
Additional information:
  • Only CVs with motivation letter sent to recruitment@sos-kd.uz will be considered;
  • Please note that only selected candidates will be notified of progress to the next step of selection.

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