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• Reports to, and supports the Social Services
  Coordinator by meeting regularly to assess and implement project
  objectives.
• Achieves adoption objectives by working with Holt
  Uganda in setting goals and objectives, ensuring compliance with
  timelines, and ensuring quality service delivery.
• Provides technical assistance, and advices partners, as
  appropriate, involved in family crisis intervention, child assessment,
  intake, care, foster care, case documentation, adoption processing as appropriate
  to ensure quality child care by establishing and maintaining best
  practices.
• Work closely with partners and provide guidance and
  appropriate avenues for partners to present ideas, feedback or concerns
  related to their work.
• Maintains a productive work relationship with US
  Government authorities in country, particularly the USCIS & DHS
  offices at U.S. Embassy, and other adoption service providers by attending
  meetings, interfacing with them regarding adoption related issues and
  cases, and keeping Holt Uganda
  informed.
• Work closely with the Social Services Coordinator to
  maintain a productive relationship with Ugandan government and other
  officials, including those in the Ministry of Gender and child caring institutions
  and to by regularly networking with such officials and organizational heads,
  exploring and implementing areas of joint collaboration, and strategizing
  regarding joint adoption related issues and
  concerns.
• Maximizes Holt-Uganda adoption services mission by
  working with the Social Services Coordinator to assess, strategize, and
  handle adoption related issues/opportunities in-country.
• Provides support to adoptive families’ while in-country
  through arranging/providing all transportation for adoptive families to
  and from the airport, arranging/providing all transportation for and accompanying
  adoptive families to and from all scheduled appointments with DHS/U.S. Embassy,
  local courts, and any other meetings, events or outings as appropriate.
  Will also sanction and serve as intermediary for any contact/meetings
  arranged for adoptive parents while in country.
• Work closely with the Social Services Coordinator to
  manage record keeping by ensuring maintenance of social, medical and legal
  records on all children on the adoption track and placements to families
  and ensuring timely child reports and medical updates.
• Work closely with the Social Services Coordinator to
  manage all post-adoption related reporting, activities, and issues as
  appropriate by ensuring effective in-country handling and dissemination of
  post-placement reports, and interfacing with Government officials/entities
  as needed and serving as intermediary for any post-adoption correspondence
  and/or contact of any kind with adoptive parents.
• Work with Social Services Officer to optimize
  efficiency and responsiveness of adoption programs by monitoring issues
  that pose a potential threat to the program, implementing systems that streamline
  processes and recommending remedies to problems, establishing, monitoring
  delivery of services, and evaluating performance.
• Accepting additional responsibilities as needed to
  optimize skills and experience.
• Contributes to the team effort through effective work
  relationships, fulfilling organizational goals, and cooperating &
  strategizing with Social Services Coordinator as appropriate.
• Maintains knowledge and understanding of various
  Ugandan adoption policies/processes and political/social situations by
  maintaining regular contact with other agencies and/partners via phone calls,
  emails, and face-to-face meetings.
• Assists Social Services Coordinator though effective
  and regular communication regarding the flow of child/family documents,
  and other information. Also though managing the exchange of information
  regarding each case’s progress and trouble-shooting as needed all case
  problems or delays that surface during processing.
• Contributes Holt-Uganda’s mission by assessing and
  implementing new ways to assist homeless and/or vulnerable children in
  country.
• Any other duties as assigned by Country Director or
  Social Services Coordinator

• A Bachelors degree in social sciences and 3-5 years experience managing/implementing/developing
  child welfare programs and services in Uganda.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working
  with government officials, communities, partners and service providers.
• Must be detail oriented and able to multi-task and
  prioritize many competing responsibilities in a time effective manner
• Ability to work independently.
• Able to read, write and speak English fluently
• Working knowledge of basic computer programs (Word,
  Excel, email) and ability to learn other software applications as
  necessary.
• Availability for extensive in-country travel as needed.

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