Student Care Coordinator

Responsibilities 

The Programme Coordinator will be directly responsible for/assist the Senior Programme Coordinators in managing a cohort of children and will be tasked with looking into:

• Child’s Physical Well-Being + Physical Development:
  • Chaperoning them safely from the school to the centre (walking distance)
  • Ensuring good hygiene practices are followed by the children
  • Ensuring children take their meals
  • Ensuring they behave themselves and listen to instructions
  • Ensuring the children rest during rest-time
  • Ensuring they follow the rules and expectations of the centre e.g. observe safety first at the centre (and not expose themselves or their friends to hazards)
  • Providing first aid and arranging quickly for medical attention should a child fall sick or sustain an injury
  • Leading the children in physical exercises (there are designated times)
  • Ensuring the children are safely received by their parents to go home at the end of each day
• Child’s Emotional & Psychological Well-Being – Moral & Social Development:
  • Leading by personal example for the children by modelling and imparting values and good qualities to the children and managing their conduct
  • Creating opportunities for the children to acquire social skills/good etiquette and managing the children as they interact with each other – making sure they do so in ways that are polite, considerate and respectful
  • Listening to and counselling a child when he/she is upset and down – balancing the need to counsel and guide the child with respect for the child as a person
  • Imbuing each child with a more positive sense of self and the spirit of doing his/her best
  • Partnering parents and volunteers to guide and nurture the children
• Child’s Schoolwork + Cognitive & Aesthetic Development
  • Ensuring the children keep up with their schoolwork – homework assigned by the school
  • Coaching and guiding children in areas/topics they are weak in – in their academic subjects
  • Providing children with learning activities beyond their textbooks – and to exercise and express their creativity through art, music
  • Helping children to find areas they are good in and to have the desire to learn new things
• Other (admin) Duties
  • Helping to keep the centre clean, neat and operationally well-functioning
  • Carrying out tasks assigned by the Head of Centre

Job Requirements

• Minimum “O” Level qualification
• At least 1 year of relevant experience in looking after children 
• IT savvy; able to use IT in teaching and for admin 
• A team player and takes initiative 
• Able to multi-task and work independently