BLN/ECE Social worker

The Social worker at ECE / BLN Center will be the focal point for CP Referrals mainly in addition to:

• Design child protection capacity building plans for staff and partners
• Deliver Life skill sessions for the students, trainings for teachers if needed, and briefings, including tailored trainings where needed and feasible, to staff and partners.
• Provides ongoing and necessary technical support, guidance and advice to program staff and partners in the field of child protection.
• Tailor activities (recreational, PSS, artistic ….) based on the need of children as intervention with low to medium risk cases.
• Conduct awareness raising sessions for children and caregivers
• Coordinate with other team members, mainly PSS and Education teams, to ensure that child protection connects and is mainstreamed in other areas of work
• receive cases in need of CP services assess them and do the proper referrals.
• Do field monitoring visits and use the observation tools needed with the teachers, facilitators, and other field workers.
• Submit Daily and monthly reports to Sawa’s Education Program Coordinator.
• Family follow-up (home visit, individual and group interviews, develop a family action plan)
• Follow-up with partner schools (visits, interviews, evaluation)
• Organization of group work with young people
• Ensure SEL follow-up for kindergarten and center children,
• Administrative work, system reporting
• Organization of social support activities for beneficiaries (parents and children)
• Participation with the work team in annual planning

Necessary experience:

• Able to support individual cases in need of immediate CP intervention
• Knowledge of current principles and practices of Child Safety and Child Protection; PSEA
• Understanding of child rights (programming) in conflict and post conflict environments
• Strong critical analysis and strategic thinking skills;
• Planning and coordination ability.
• Monitoring and Evaluation ability.
• Ability to provide (creative/interactive) trainings.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to give and receive feedback;
• (Cultural) sensitivity;
• Psychosocial Support experience is an add value
• Knowledge and experience working on RIMS platform add value
• Organize and manage the individual files of each beneficiary,
• Be an active and dynamic member in a multidisciplinary team (versatility, adaptability, flexibility)
• Lead and manage a group of children, young people, parents,
• Motivation for social work with families in difficulty (flexibility, understanding attitude)
•  Communication and listening,
• Writing reports
• Knowing how to plan follow-ups according to the needs of beneficiaries
• Use of office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet)