Child Protection Policy

Child abuse in all forms is unacceptable to CARE Turkey, which recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work. CARE Turkey is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach towards any kind of child abuse and exploitation.

Discrimination, Abuse and Harassment Policy

CARE Turkey expressly prohibits and will not tolerate any form of discrimination, abuse, harassment (sexual or otherwise), based upon race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship status, disability, or military status. CARE employees and related personnel must under no circumstances take part in any form of discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside CARE.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Employment is subject to the possession of valid identification documents (passport, residency card, temporary protection card, etc.) and successfully obtaining permission to work by the Government of Turkey (work permit). CARE will submit the work permit application on behalf of the selected candidate after the job offer accepted. Candidate can start to work for CARE only after the work permit is received. Failure to provide the required documents or rejection of a work permit application by the Government of Turkey will result in your employment offer being rescinded.

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested candidates, please attach a Curriculum Vitae in English and a Cover letter (in a separate file of no more than one A4 page) describing how your skills and experience match the requirements of this post, following to provided link when you click on the apply button.

Applications in languages other than English will not be reviewed.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted

** CARE International is an Equal Opportunity Employer **

** Female candidates are encouraged to apply! **

Job Summary 

In a brief paragraph, state the position's overall purpose or objective, highlighting the general functions for which the position is responsible. Why does the position exist and what must it accomplish.  IMPORTANT:  This section, along with the “Qualifications” section and “Working Conditions” section, will appear in the CARE Job Newsletter, so please describe fully. 

Reporting to the FSL Project Officer and working in collaboration with other FSL and distribution team members. The Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) Project Assistant will be responsible for implementing FSL activities under the EQ response program. The FSL Project Assistant will ensure that agreed procedures are followed and accountability mechanisms are implemented to ensure high quality programming and continually improve the support to EQ affected persons. 

Responsibilities and Tasks  

Describe the major responsibilities, principal tasks, competencies and end results for which the position is accountable (limit responsibilities to five). Include WHY it is done and the impact to the organization.  List the responsibilities in the order of importance and state the percentage of time the employee spends on each responsibility during a typical year. 

Employees who supervise other regular employees on a continuous basis should have Staff Management as the number one Job Responsibility.  Full supervision includes: performance management, hiring, terminating, developing and coaching the employee in the course of his/her duties.  The general rule of thumb for percentage of time for management of others is 5% per direct report.  Example: If a supervisor has six direct reports then at least 30% of his/her job should be allocated to supervising those employees. 

Job Responsibility #1: Activity planning and implementation 

• Carry out registration and distribution activities in the field. 

• Support the Project Team in communication with the refugee and/or host community members. 

• Participate in regular meetings relating to activities.  

• Support the FSL Officer with adequate and accurate records of information by undertaking regular data entry work as required. 

• Collecting the information in relation to MEL activities upon need 

• Ensure that all FSL project beneficiaries have access to accurate information about CARE’s activities and access to Helpline.  

• Follow up on all incoming referred cases via internal and external referral mechanisms. 

• Undertake verbal and written translation tasks as required.  

Job Responsibility #2: Program Quality and Information Management 

• Provide feedback from project’s participants and community leaders. 

• Ensure the complaints are received by CARE properly and beneficiaries are informed and report on this to and Project Officer. 

• Ensure that all program activities are implemented in accordance with agreed standard operating procedures and using agreed tools. 

• Ensure that feedback received from community members is used to continually improve activities and that activities are meeting the needs of the communities. 

• Follow-up with the activities attendance sheets, scanning them and entering data to excel sheets/online databases.  

• Undertake documentation work and support the team as required. 

Job Responsibility #3 Other Responsibilities as assigned 

• The FSL Project Assistant will be expected to support the FSL Project Officer as needed on programmatic issues related to the earthquake response but beyond the deliverables outlined above. 

Qualifications (Know-How) 

Education/Training 

Required 

• Educational background in agriculture engineering, economics, Business Administration, Finance Social Science, Humanities, or any field related to Food security and agriculture. 

Experience 

Required 

• At least one year of relevant professional experience of working with humanitarian organizations in Turkey in a staff or volunteer capacity, preferably with refugee populations. 
• Experience working in a community-based role. 
• Proven commitment and compliance with the humanitarian principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality as well as Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse  
• Ability to interact with a wide range of people including Hosting Communities, IDPs populations, local authorities, humanitarian agencies, etc.  

Desired 

• Experience in emergency response interventions, and implementation of projects aimed at preserving agriculture production and livestock, such as Agriculture and livestock support schemes. 

Technical Skills 

Required 

• Familiarity with projects involving implementation across multiple locations, and a willingness for frequent travel within project implementation areas. 
• Adequate knowledge of vulnerability assessment/beneficiary selection processes. 
• Knowledge of using electronic data collection tools (for example KOBO toolbox, Monkey Survey, google forums, ODK …. etc.) 
• Fluent spoken and written Turkish 
• Good spoken and written English 
• Gender awareness and a commitment to gender equality. 
• Good computer skills, especially in MS Outlook, MS Word, and MS Excel. 

Desired 

Arabic language skills are highly desired. 

Child Protection Policy

Child abuse in all forms is unacceptable to CARE Turkey, which recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work. CARE Turkey is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach towards any kind of child abuse and exploitation.

Discrimination, Abuse and Harassment Policy

CARE Turkey expressly prohibits and will not tolerate any form of discrimination, abuse, harassment (sexual or otherwise), based upon race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship status, disability, or military status. CARE employees and related personnel must under no circumstances take part in any form of discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside CARE.

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested candidates, please attach a Curriculum Vitae in English and a Cover letter (in a separate file of no more than one A4 page) describing how your skills and experience match the requirements of this post, following to provided link when you click on the apply button.

Applications in languages other than English will not be reviewed.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted

** CARE International is an Equal Opportunity Employer **

** Female candidates are encouraged to apply! **