Job Description

Cesvi is an international non-governmental humanitarian organization, working in 26 countries throughout the world. Cesvi is dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of poverty in the world’s poorest countries through the mobilization and active participation of the recipients of aid. Cesvi has been operating in Zimbabwe since 1998 in three key areas. Environment, Health and the Protection Sectors.
Cesvi’s activities in the protection sector revolve mainly around support to vulnerable children and orphans. Following a traditional course of action adopted by Cesvi in various countries around the world, a “House of Smiles” was inaugurated in Harare in 2005. In this ‘House of Smiles’, children who are orphaned and those living and working in the streets receive material and psychological assistance to enable them to regain their lost self-esteem.
In order to capacitate these vulnerable children with ICT skills, Cesvi requires the services of a volunteer with a passion is sharing their expertise with these children for at least 1-2 hours maximum per day.

Job Title: Basic Computer Literacy Trainer - Volunteer
Workstation: The House of Smiles (HoS) Harare
Start date: TBA
Duration: Subject to Volunteer’s availability
Salary: No remuneration will be paid
JOB SUMMARY

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities of the volunteer
The Volunteer Computer Literacy Trainer has the sole responsibility of scouting, enrolling and training street children who drop-in at the House of Smiles (HoS) basic computer Literacy. The idea being to scout for talent and to nature such identified talent to the fullest. Where possible, to use computers as a tool for personal growth and development.
Main tasks and responsibilities
 Registering and keeping the daily attendance register of the children attending Computer lessons,
 Training and teaching children basic computer literacy,
 Identifying talent and nurturing such identified talents for further development.
 Assisting in linking particularly gifted children with players in the industry for continued talent
development and consolidation.
 Network with relevant organisations and entities in the industry with a view to foster partnerships
and mutual relationships.
 Building relationships with the children.
The Volunteer Computer Literacy Trainer has the added responsibility of identifying and courting potential partners in the industry to take an interest in working with and in developing talents amongst poor children from challenged backgrounds, particularly street children, as a street exit strategy.

 Helping to identify children in difficulty and linking them with the House of Smiles Staff for psychological support and for further management.
 Assisting in Protecting the younger children and girls from bullying by the older children.
 Writing periodic progress performance reports of the enrolled children.
 Performing any other duties as requested from time to time.

Qualifications and Experience

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
 Transparency: ability to build trust and contribute to informed and responsible decision making by carrying out the work in a transparent manner; provides clear guidance to ensure that objectives and desired measurable results are understood by members of the team,
 Inclusiveness: understands and accepts cultural diversity and provide a tolerant, positive, and supportive working environment that fosters respect for diversity, demonstrates ability to work in a multicultural, multiethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds,
 Professionalism: promote the organization’s interests, objectives and values in a diligent and professional manner,
 Accountability: takes responsibility of individual and collective actions, promotes CESVI vision and mission.
Functional competencies
 Ability to work under pressure, as part of a team or independently, and meet deadlines consistently,
 Ability to respond to requests on short notice and simultaneously plan and execute several activities,
 Proven experience for preparing for visits by international and local visitors,
 Proven leadership, interpersonal, and cross-cultural skills, gender sensitivity, with the ability to build
and motivate children,
 Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel,

How to Apply

THE POSITION IS OPEN TO ZIMBABWEAN NATIONALS ONLY.
Interested suitably qualified and experienced persons should submit, by the 27th June 2024.
 a CV (maximum 3 pages), inclusive of at least 3 contactable references from organisations worked for
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted on the status of their application.
a cover letter (maximum 1 page) in the same file of the CV
Indicate on the subject: Volunteer ICT trainer.
DO NOT send any certificate or IDs as annexes, as this will be asked at a later stage
Send application to e-mail address: [email protected]
SAFEGUARDING
Cesvi has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a child or a vulnerable adult by any of our staff, related persons or partners.
Cesvi commitment to being a safe organization begins with the staff recruitment process which includes meticulous checks, such as criminal records check or check disclosure of previous convictions, to ensure children and vulnerable people are safeguarded and abuse is prevented. Safeguarding checks are part of the selection process performance.
PLEASE NOTE: due to the high number of applications received, feedback will be only provided to short-listed candidates. Only short-listed candidates will be updated on the status of their applications and will be subjected to first go through safeguarding checks with the ZRP criminal records clearance.