Director- Alternate Care
- Company
SOS Children's Villages of India
- Location
Bangalore, Kochi ,New Delhi
- Employment Type
Full-Time
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Functional Category
Programme Management & Implementation
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Experience
10 - 11 years
- Date Posted
01-Nov-2025
About SOS Children's Villages of India
Established in 1964, SOS Children’s Villages of India provides children without parental care or at the risk of losing it, a value chain of quality care services that goes beyond childcare alone, ensuring comprehensive child development. Our customized care interventions such as: Family Like Care, Family Strengthening, Kinship Care, Short Stay Homes, Foster Care, Youth Skilling, Emergency Childcare and Special Needs Childcare are aimed at transforming lives and enabling children under care into self-reliant and contributing members of society. The organization empowers vulnerable families in communities to become financially independent, thereby enabling them to create safe and nurturing spaces for children under their care. Today, over 6,500 children live in more than 440 family homes, inside 32 SOS Children’s Villages of India, in 22 States/UTs, from Srinagar to Kochi, and Bhuj to Shillong. They are lovingly cared for and nurtured by over 600 SOS Mothers and Aunts. As India’s largest self-implementing childcare NGO, SOS Children’s Villages India directly touches the lives of around 30,000 children every year.
Overview of the Role
The position oversees the effective implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the Kinship Care and Reintegration Programs, ensuring alignment with national guidelines and care promises. The role involves designing and applying Results-Based Monitoring (RBM) frameworks, conducting capacity-building sessions, and ensuring compliance with child safeguarding protocols. It supports holistic child development through education, employability, and health initiatives, while strengthening caregiver and mentor capacities. Additionally, the role leads partnership development, fundraising efforts, and stakeholder coordination to enhance the quality, sustainability, and impact of family-based alternative.
Job Description
1. Monitoring and Evaluation of Kinship Program Implementation :
• Ensure quality implementation of Kinship programs in alignment with national guidelines and approvals.
• Monitor Kinship program to ensure they meet established care promise benchmarks.
• Define and monitor SOPs, quality of implementation and develop impact reports for submission to Government and other stakeholders.
• Define new initiatives and methodologies for enhanced program deliverables thereby creating higher quality impact with Results-Based Monitoring (RBM) frameworks.
2. Ensuring Six Core Care Promises:
•Facilitate implementation of six care promises (education, employability, employment, IT & English proficiency, and character building) across kinship and reintegration settings.
•Monitor compliance to ensure every child in alternative care is progressing holistically.
•Support recruitment and assignment of mentors for each family unit to promote individualized attention and care continuity.
3. Capacity Building and Internal Training :
• Conduct internal training for coworkers on kinship care and reintegration guidelines, program portals, and monitoring tools.
• Organize and lead capacity-building sessions for caregivers and mentors to strengthen family-based care systems.
• Ensure all coworkers are oriented in tools and processes for integrated care planning and documentation.
• Develop a develop policy and training manual for Kinship Program.
4. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Compliance :
• Implement Results-Based Monitoring (RBM) frameworks to assess performance across kinship and reintegration projects.
• Lead quarterly and monthly review meetings to track project deliverables, challenges, and impact.
• Ensure adherence to policies, crisis management protocols, and regular submission of programmatic and financial reports.
5. Education and Employability Support :
• Ensure all children are enrolled in age-appropriate formal or vocational education programs.
• Develop tailored education support plans for students appearing for board examinations.
• Monitor progress to ensure no child remains idle and all youth have a clear pathway to employment or higher education.
6) Youth Development and Exit Planning :
• Oversee youth transitions by ensuring quality settlement including employment, entrepreneurship, or education continuity.
• Conduct assessments of youths who discontinued courses or exited due to marriage to develop reintegration or exit plans.
• Maintain data tracking for employment, self-reliance, and marriage outcomes among care leavers.
Health and Wellbeing :
• Ensure bi-annual health checkups are conducted across kinship and reintegration programs.
• Facilitate access to government health insurance for all eligible children.
• Monitor and coordinate mental health assessments and interventions where required.
7) Child Safeguarding :
• Ensure 100% child safeguarding reporting and zero tolerance for abuse in any form.
• Conduct regular awareness sessions and capacity-building programs on child rights and protection.
•Collaborate with Panchayats and community-level bodies to strengthen safeguarding mechanisms.
8) Partnerships and Fundraising :
•Identify and develop new partnerships with government bodies and corporates for program grants and support.
•Support the development and submission of funding proposals and follow-ups, ensuring timely reporting and fund utilization certificates.
•Coordinate with internal fundraising teams and external partners to expand support for children in alternative care.
Required & Preferred Qualifications
Skill
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving ability.
• Strategic thinking and capability to manage multi-location programs.
• Strong knowledge of child protection, alternative care, and reintegration.
• Effective communication and partnership-building skills.
• Verbal fluency in Telegu/Tamil preferred
• Proficient in data monitoring, reporting, and use of program portals.
• Sensitivity to issues of child rights, youth development, and family dynamics.
Education
Master’s degree in Social Work, Child Rights, Development Studies, or related field.
Experience
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in child protection, family-based care, or alternative care programming. • Experience in managing large teams and multi-state operations preferred. • Proven experience in government liaisons, capacity building, and monitoring & evaluation.