Female House Mentor Kharis House

Job Summary

The House Mentor MUST BE FEMALE AND A CURRENT RESIDENT OF NDOLA. She is responsible for providing holistic care and supervision to the residents who live in Kharis House (KH). The House Mentor plays an active role in parenting the young pregnant teens (YPT) and young mothers in her home with appropriate grace-based love, discipline and home organization. The House Mentor understands it is her duty to place the welfare and safety of all residents in the house as utmost priority. The House Mentor serves as a role model for the residents who are learning to embrace motherhood themselves.

THE HOUSE MENTOR MUST EMBRACE AND LIVE BY KHARIS HOUSE STATEMENT OF FAITH AND CORE VALUES

Specific Tasks

• Attend all relevant staff meetings.
• Communicate information to residents as needed.
• Assist residents in keeping time for all appointments and  daily routines.
• Ensure a stable home environment for the residents.
• Coordinate with Supervisors and other volunteers & staff regarding the
  residents’ individual schedules.
• Maintain confidentiality and sensitivity of cases and details of residents.

Home Management

• Manage inventory in homes and teach residents how to properly care
  for home and all home items.
• Manage food items within the home and adhere to menu.
• Report all maintenance and repair needs in a timely manner.
• Ensure residence and grounds are in good working order and are kept clean and neat.

Discipline, Character-Building, and Spiritual Formation

• Demonstrate a grace based approach to discipline, mentoring, discipling in ALL instances.
• Lead, learn from and ensure residents are having quiet times, devotions, church, prayer time, and other spiritual disciplines among the girls through grace based words and actions.
• Assist with conflict resolution in the house, when needed.
• Implement all relevant Kharis House parenting training  materials.
• Oversee home dynamics and work to ensure a safe and stable hom environment for all of the children.

Parenting Skills and Home Management Training

• Teach residents proper procedures for living in a house, using and caring for items within the house and campus.
• Teach residents in home how to properly wash, pack, and wear clothing on a daily basis.
• Teach residents proper behaviors for living in a home with other residents and with adults.
• Teach residents food preparation skills in the kitchen.
• Train residents in mothering skills; i.e. diapering, feeding, burping, baby development, play, caring for sick residents, etc.
• Assist residents with middle-of-the-night feedings with residents, when needed.
• Care for babies when the young moms are in school, sessions or appointments.
• Assist residents in schoolwork as needed.

The Employee shall also be expected to undertake any responsibilities as may be delegated by his or her supervisor.

Other skills / Success factors:

• Demonstrate commitment to Kharis House mission, vision, and values.
  Share knowledge and experience.
• Passion for equipping and empowering the vulnerable and
  traumatized girls of Zambia.
• Actively work towards continuing personal learning and development and apply newly acquired skills.
• Consistently approaches work with energy and positive constructive attitude.
• Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills.
• Remains calm, in control, and good humored even under pressure.
• Responds positively to critical feedback and demonstrates teachable attitude.
• Ability to multi-task and competently manage several projects at one time.
• Strength in administration, organization, and efficiency.
• Adhere to all deadlines.
• Demonstrates ability to foster and maintain appropriate and engaging relationships with children.
• Complete Child Protection training and adhere to all procedures and policies.

Academic and Professional Requirements:

• Certificate in Home Base Child Care, Psychosocial Counseling, or another related field.
• Ability to meet health and physical requirements of the position.
• Fluent English proficiency.
• Must be focused and self-motivated.
• Be someone who promotes unity, integrity, honesty, and accountability at all levels within KH.
• The ability to exercise with the girls, play and sit on the ground as well as participate in extracurricular activities.
• The ability to be flexible.
• The ability to cook different varieties of food.

The House Manager agrees and acknowledges that they agree with and will abide by the Kharis House Core Values & Statement of Faith.

Kharis House Core Values

• We believe it is the Church’s responsibility to redeem the world. God’s one and only plan. It is the power of Christfor transformation (emotional, physical, psychological, spiritual) of the broken lives the ministry seeks to rescue.
• We believe every life matters and is valuable to God regardless of the circumstances under which that life was created.
• We place worth and dignity on all life, from unborn babies to aging widows.
• We believe in family preservation, preventing orphans and encouraging the vital role mothers play in the lives of their children.
• We believe we are to represent our Lord with the same radical grace we have received. A radical grace that supersedes culture and brings unmerited equality and inclusion.
• We believe all girls deserve the right to an education. We value education and equal rights for vulnerable girls.
• We value education and economic empowerment of women as means to better the lives of their families and break the cycle of poverty.
• We value prayer, partnership, collaboration, servanthood, hard work and sustainability.

Kharis House Statement of Faith

• The Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God to man.
• There is one eternal God, the Creator of all things, who exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
• Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and lived a sinless life.
• Man was created in God’s image, but by man’s transgression became separated from God.
• Man is justified by faith, by the shed blood of Jesus Christ on Calvary’s cross, His death, and His resurrection from the grave.
• The Holy Spirit resides in the hearts of true believers and is evidenced by a spiritual rebirth, reconciliation with God, and obedience to God’s Word.
• Both the saved and the lost will be resurrected; the saved unto eternal life and the lost unto eternal damnation.
• God is the creator of all life, including the unborn; all life is precious in His sight.
• God designed marriage to be between a man and a woman united in a lifelong union.