Managerial and Supervisory Jobs in an NGO in Nigeria, June 2015

Our client is a renowned NGO established to take orphans, abused and abandoned children off the streets through rehabilitation, reformation and reintegration. Due to restructuring, it requires the service of a qualified person to fill this position:


Job Title:  Head of Home/Orphanage Manager

• Supervise the care of orphans at the orphanage.
• Achieve the sponsorship and fundraising goals for the home by developing and implementing sponsorship fundraising plan
• Manage the orphanage’s finances: Oversee all expenditures and receipts of money.
• Counsel guardians / relatives of orphans and inform them of expectations.
• Write reports and take photos that will be sent to our U.S team for dissemination to partners.
• Ensure that only qualified orphans are selected for sponsorship.
• Assist in organizing biannual Relatives Conference.
• Researches and develops new markets, communities and initiatives for program expansion.
• Maintains orphanage staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
• Transform children’s lives by recruiting, orienting, supporting, coaching, and sending them to school.
• Manages the acquisition of new sponsors through community development programs, networking within current sponsors, special events, speaking engagements, schools and churches

• Excellent administrative, planning and organizational skills
• Strong relational skills and financial management experience preferred.
• Proven management and leadership experience.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision
• Above average communication skills – both verbal and written
• Ability to communicate and interact well with people of different educational, linguistic, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.

• A University degree preferably in international development, public health, social work or equivalent
• Must have passion for charity work/Children mostly
• Must have worked with children of different kind of challenges
• Must be very patient, tolerant to be able to handle both the children and the workers
• Knowledge of different kind of challenges that could be found among the children
• Good heart and likable spirit because the children are very special.
• Minimum of 8 - 15 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising or related field such as marketing and sales
• Experience working with nonprofit board and volunteer committees.
• Advanced user of software including, but not limited to, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• To supervise all assigned personnel.
• To draw up a work chart of how the orphanage Home
• Identify and organize training for personnel and caregivers
• Prepare weekly and monthly report on every child and activities in the home
• Identify needs of the Orphanage Home and proffer solutions
• Make sure all personnel carry out their duties based on the needs of the children and KPIs.
• Make sure needs of all children are met by keeping files of each child, scrutinize workers to perform their duties etc

• Graduate (Background in Sociology or Psychology), Preferably social worker.
• Must be matured to supervise older caregivers/Nurses.
• 3 -5 years’ experience in similar role