Job Title: Supervisor
Organisation: Watoto Church Ministries and Community Care
Duty Station: Baby Watoto, Gulu, Uganda
About US:
Watoto Church Ministries and Community Care has experienced exponential growth in the past couple of years composed of multiple Celebration Centres (Campuses) and diverse Community care initiatives that include; Child Care, Community and Neighbourhood, Education and FM Radio amongst others. In all of this, Watoto remains a local church, committed to celebrating Christ and caring for community.
Job Summary: Watoto is seeking to recruit a Supervisor to provide support, leadership and overall supervision to the day to day running of Baby Watoto, ensuring each child’s needs are met.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- To ensure nannies are properly oriented, trained and performance standards are well explained.
- To demonstrate good leadership and promote good stewardship of resources available.
- To manage routine staffing duties, observe food hygiene skills, nannie’s registry and facility sanitation standards and address raised issues in a timely manner.
- To manage emergencies that may arise in the home and ensure correct procedures are followed.
- To provide regular developmental trainings for all staff to promote excellent standards of baby care across the facility. Train nannies to follow this up in their units.
- To monitor staff and ensure they are doing correct activities at the right time.
- To ensure that adequate supplies are readily available, daily for use with the babies.
- To collaborate with social workers when babies are admitted to the facility and ensure correct documentation within 24 hours of intake.
- To ensure compliance to the established safety, administrative and security standard operating procedures and conduct periodic trainings.
- To ensure that all the equipment in the facility is maintained at a highest standards and report. any maintenance faults on a timely basis as per established procedures.
- To support the administrative team in general duties such stock record keeping, petty cash’ accountability reports preparation, budgeting.
- To support and alert the head supervisor of any potential problems.
- To participate in the department orientations, inductions of new staff, volunteers, teams and guests and trainings work plans.
- Timely preparation and submission of periodic reports.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the role of Supervisor should hold a Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, Early Childhood Development, Education, and any other related courses.
- A certificate in Child Protection from a recognized institution is of added advantage.
- At least a minimum of two years of working experience in a childcare organization.
- Must be passionate about children and able to pay attention to detail.
- Demonstrated understanding of working with children and particularly vulnerable children.
- Must have good interpersonal skills and report writing skills.
- Good computer skills such as: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Should be a collaborator, result oriented, initiative-taking, and able to work under minimum supervision
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates can apply by visiting our website; Click Here
- Go to Apply for a job section
- Under that, view the Job Role and click on the link that reads; Apply
- Fill out the form that will be open and submit after all sections have been filled.
- Submit your CV, academic and professional documents, and a cell/pastor’s recommendation letter to careers@watotochurch.com (Subject Line: Job Title – First Name, Last Name)
Deadline: 12th May 2023