Saturday, August 6, 2016

Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally

The three organizations that I chose were Save the Children, UNICEF, and UNESCO. Save Our Children is an organization that protects children around the world in any crisis. They hope to provide children with a healthy start, to transform their lives, and changing the course of their future. The UNICEF organization works to attain sustainable development goals in various partnerships with people to help children and families. UNESCO organization’s goals are almost the same as UNICEF, they work to protect those in human rights, mutual respect, and poverty alleviation. I like these three organizations because they work hard to ensure that the families are trained and helped well enough to sustain their own lives and work to protect children.
Job Titles
                 1)      Family Service Coordinator- Provides support services for Head Start families, assisting parents in learning and using community resources, work with parents on goal-setting, and encouraging parent involvement in their child’s education. The person must have an associate degree in Social Work or related Family/Human Service field. Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills. Knowledge of the basics of working with preschool children. Keep information on children confidential. (Save the Children)
                2)      Child Protection Specialist- Supports the development and preparation of the Child Protection programs/projects. Must have an advanced university degree in international development, human rights, psychology, international law, and other social science fields. 5 years of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection and other related areas at the international level. Experience in supporting policy dialogue and development and writing advocacy briefs and policy. Fluency in English. (UNICEF)
                3)      Child Protection Consultant- Assist the Child Protection program in development and finalization Program Strategy Note and Theory of Change through a consultative process of engagement with key stakeholders. You must have an advanced degree in social sciences, law, social work, or a related field. Demonstrated experience in producing high quality documents in areas of child protection, law, and social welfare systems. Excellent writing and speaking skills in English, ability to work up under pressure and with limited time frames. Knowledge of Rights of the Child and Child Protection principles. (UNICEF)

References
Children, S. t. (2016). Save the Children Jobs. Retrieved from Save the Children: http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6226565/k.5717/Save_the_Children_Jobs.htm
UNESCO. (2016). About Us: Introducing UNESCO. Retrieved from UNESCO: http://en.unesco.org/about-us/introducing-unesco
UNICEF. (2016). Employment at UNICEF. Retrieved from UNICEF: 70 Years for Every Child: http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/


2 comments:

  1. Dear Angel,
    I am very much familiar with these three international organization. They are all helpful for the EC professionals, children and their families. I have used these since the start of WU and I will continue to support and stay up to date with international resources, research, and information of new development on issues and discoveries to come. The family services coordinator sounds like a great opportunity to get the experience and skill supporting families and their children. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Angel, I enjoyed reading your post. We actually chose to look at the same 3 organizations, yet posted some different job opportunities. The opportunities you posted are very interesting, working in child protection is such a worthy cause.

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