World Vision is a
Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children,
families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by
tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
World Vision believes “in a full solution to
poverty and injustice”. They provide emergency assistance to children and
families affected by disasters and conflict, partner with communities for
long-term solutions to alleviate poverty, and advocate for justice on behalf of
the poor I like this organization because their focus is for all children over
the world (nearly 100 countries) supporting all people regardless of their
race, age, religion, and ethnicities. One of their vision is to “building a
better world for children”.
World Vision also
focus on education to improve education in the poverty cities, they work with communities and local governments to
improve the quality of education children receive.
They have a job
opening called Senior Regional Advisor, the responsibilities are establish
collaborative relationships and networks with fundraising and marketing
colleagues within World Vision, WVI partners, and Support Office counterparts. Promote
the agency’s perspective in developing strategies that integrate fundraising
and programming realities. Build external relationships and networks that
broadly support resource acquisition and allocation.
I like this job
because one of the role is to help ensure funding priorities align with field
needs, regional strategies and Partnership initiatives by proactively engaging
with fundraisers and marketing teams while offers are being developed. Therefore,
I could decide where the funding should be funded to promote children’s
well-being, depends on where the most
needs are.
National Child Support Enforcement Association (NCSEA)
NCSEA serves
as the voice of the child support community. Their mission is to support child
support to support professionals, agencies, and strategic partners worldwide
through professional development, communications, public awareness, and
advocacy to enhance the financial, medical and emotional support that parents
provide for their children.
They believe that
both parents are responsible for the emotional and financial support of their
children. We believe that the best interests of the children come first
and individual interests should be secondary when parental or professional
interests differ.
NCSEA serves child
support professionals, agencies, and strategic partners worldwide through
professional development, communications, public awareness, and advocacy to
enhance the financial, medical and emotional support that parents provide for
their children. I like how the organization advocates on behalf of
children by promoting sound public policy and allocation of resources to
support implementation of those policies.
I am interested in
the Child Support Officer position. The duties include plan, direct, manage,
supervise and perform a variety of tasks involving case establishment,
collections, and distribution of family and child support within the Department
of Child Support Services.
Qualification includes One year of clerical experience in the Sacramento
County office of child support with duties involving case intervention and/or
in the public service unit. one year of billing or collection work, including
interviewing debtors with a company or agency not using a collection agency. Completion of 60 semester units from an
accredited college or university.
I like this
position because it provides direct intervention support to children and
families. I would have the opportunities to get to know the children and their
families, then develop a support plan to support their needs. I am not quite
qualified to the job as I do not have any clerical experience in the Sacramento
County office.
Children International
Children International improves “the lives of poor children and youth by providing basic necessities,
critical benefits and services, programs that support long-term development and
opportunities that prepare them for success”. Their
support programs included: Health, Education, nurtrition, material
aid, youth development, youth employability, community support & development,
and Disaster Preparedness and Response.
The organization
has established more than 75 years, they have been providing assistance to
children and families in poverty. Their network is spread out to the world to
support impoverished children and youth in Colombia, the Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States
and Zambia.
They do not have
much job opening. One position that is interested to me is the Vice President
of Development to help the organization promote and gain their funding to
support their services for children. The position responsibilities included:
• Developing a
strategic plan for educating and engaging target donors that is consistent with
Children International's brand positioning” “
• Developing a tactical plan that enables Children
International to achieve both near-term and long-term financial objectives
• Leading the implementation of a tactical plan that
achieves the strategic objectives through crossfunctional collaboration
The qualification
include:
• 10 years senior management experience, preferably
in development
•Passionate about children and youth and making a
difference in the world
• Significant experience in developing and
empowering diverse teams
• Ability to role model and inspire phenomenal
collaboration across functions
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree
preferred
With
my current bachelor’s degree and hopefully a Master’s degree later and my
passion to make the different for children and youth. I currently leading my
staff who are from diversity background, so I am learning how to empower them
to work together. Now, I am not qualified for this job, but I believe in 3-5
years, I would be a qualified candidate.
Referencecs
Children International (2015 ). Retrived from https://www.children.org/
National Child Support Enforcement Association
(2014). Retrieved from http://www.ncsea.org/
World Vision (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.worldvision.org/