Total 3 job vacancies by Awwa Ltd.

Job Responsibilities

1. To maintain the standards of service delivery in the EIC.
2. To report to the EIC regularly and attend classes, meetings, trainings and events punctually.
3. To develop lesson plans and adopt developmentally appropriate teaching materials, methods, tools, and assistive technologies to create quality natural learning environments to embed pupils’ functional goals in the daily activities under supervision.
4. To co-create a natural learning environment to stimulate children’s learning interest and promote engagement by implementing new teaching and learning approaches.
5. To co-plan and implement appropriate classroom management strategies to manage an individual and a group of diverse learners.
6. To coordinate center-based intervention and home-based intervention with Trans-disciplinary team members and collaborate with families and caregivers to enhance child and family outcomes under supervision.
7. To develop and implement functional learning goals for each child, under his/her charge, in collaboration with the Trans-disciplinary team and family members.
8. To monitor and review the children’s progress, functional goals, and family priorities in coordination with other team members regularly.
9. To update and maintain the records of each child’s daily attendance, assessment, intervention records, and progress of development. Record keeping includes any other forms related to teaching and learning which are to be completed and submitted whenever necessary.
10. Prepare IEP and Progress summary/ Narrative summary for each pupil, and discuss with parents during the Pre, as well as actual Parent-Team Conferences (PTC).
11. To be responsible for all matters pertaining to the administration, intervention, caregiving, and safety of the pupils.
12. To maintain regular communication with parent(s) or guardian(s) through the Communication book, emails, telephone calls, or any other functional means.
13. To adopt evidence-based approaches such as Trans-disciplinary, Family-Centred Practices, Early Childhood Holistic Outcomes and other best practices in the Early Intervention sector.
14. To maintain health, safety, hygiene standards and procedures, and implement the appropriate course of action to protect and support children to create safe learning environments.
15. To inventorize and maintain all equipment and resources in the EIC classrooms and common areas.
16. Attend meetings, discussions, training, workshops, functions, and events as and when deemed necessary and fit for operations and professional development.
17. To maintain confidentiality at all times with regard to all matters pertaining to the children, families, and staff
18. To support the implementation of center initiatives and identify the areas of improvement for family and community initiatives and programs to create awareness of the center programs and services.

Other Responsibilities

1. To assist in ad-hoc projects/committees as and when required by the Head Teacher, Centre Manager, and/or Senior Centre Manager.
2. To perform any other duties as directed by the EIC Director. To perform ad-hoc assignments as and when directed by Head Teacher, Centre Manager, and/or Senior Centre Manager.

The above activities are by no means exhaustive and are subject to amendment whenever needed.

Requirements

1. Minimum Diploma or Degree in Early Childhood Education, Psychology, Social Work, or equivalent
2. Great interpersonal and communication skills
3. Love working with preschoolers
4. Organized and meticulous

Location: Napiri/Bedok

Curriculum and Instructional Excellence

• Lead in the development of the vision, educational goals and priorities to guide curriculum for assigned domain/level/track

• Lead the planning implementation and evaluation of school-based curriculum or programmes for the assigned domain/level/track

• Customise curriculum, pedagogy and assessment methods to enhance students’ learning experiences for assigned domain/level/track

• Lead the implementation of a framework for monitoring and evaluating instructional programmes, classroom practices and student progress for assigned domain/level/track

Holistic Student Development

• Lead the integration of IEP/ITP goals into lesson planning; collaborate with families and Allied Professionals to achieve desired outcomes for all students for the assigned domain/level/track

• Develop and implement programmes to support student character development and social emotional skills for the assigned domain/level/track

Professional Development

• Develop professional development roadmaps and in-house programmes for assigned domain/level/track

• Facilitate school professional learning teams and network learning communities in the SPED sector

• Proactively seek learning opportunities and set stretch goals to drive own professional and holistic development

Mentorship and People Development

• Provide ongoing feedback and mentorship to Teachers to encourage performance improvement, reflective practice and facilitate skill development

• Evaluate direct reports’ (Teachers) progress and performance, and provide coaching/mentoring

Primary Objectives of Position

To provide support in the Social Work department in enhancing the pupil’s growth, development, and emotional well-being through family intervention. To assist the pupil’s family in terms of coping with the former’s disability.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist the Social Worker in attending to information and referral from the public and pupils’ family members. To assist in referring clients to the appropriate services for further intervention.
• Provide clerical and administrative support to the Social Worker. This would include following up with the necessary documents from clients for Means Testing and for data submission to the relevant authorities.
• Assist the Social Worker with the coordination of application, admission and financial assistance procedures. To have an average caseload of 40. The cases would be those related to financial issues and they would be independently managed by the Social Work Associate.
• Assist the Social Worker in organising and running programmes relevant to the social and emotional needs of the pupils’ family members. To be a co-facilitator in selected segments of those programmes.
• Assist in evaluating the progress of clients in support programmes.
• Keep records of group sessions. To be a co-facilitator in group work sessions where appropriate.
• To do case assessments independently.
• To support the department in terms of evaluating programmes outcomes, in terms of documentation and generating statistics

Other Responsibilities

• To perform any other duties as required by the Social Workers, Centre Manager, Director, CEO or Management.
• To work with volunteers during programme implementation in terms of logistics and activity planning.

The above activities are by no means exhaustive and are subject to amendment whenever needed.

Job Specifications

• Minimum Diploma in Social Work
• Fresh graduates are welcome to apply. Candidates with experience are preferred.
• Familiar with Microsoft Office
• Able to conduct financial assessments
• Strong team player
• Meticulous and organized