Social Worker - Education / CDCS

ASSIGNMENT

The Social worker is roving between the shelters and Amel’s community center in Tyre. She/He works under the direct supervision of the Field officer, the management team based in the Headquarter. She/He is in charge of the overall response to the psychosocial needs of the most vulnerable displaced and host communities living in Tyre.

TASKS

Task #1: Providing a quality education:

• Responsible for conducting class observations and ensure the quality of education conducted by the educators in each class, matching with the project’s requirements (completion of homework, remedial sessions, etc.);
• Assist the focal point to design a schedule for Homework Support and Remedial sessions, according to the children’s needs;
• Assist the educators in delivering adapted teaching methods for the children with learning difficulties: elaboration of an individual action plan and follow up of the smooth implementation;
• Monitor the production of extra-worksheets produced by the educators for each session (encouraging active learning) and upload them on the online drive.

Task #2: Protection:

• To be fully aware of Amel’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policies and procedures and to ensure its implementation;
•  Maintain positive discipline practices (“child friendly” class management) ensuring that children feel comfortable, safe and respected.

Task #3 – Retention activities

• Follow up with the project’s focal point on the participants’ engagement in the projects’ activities;
• Support the focal point to address the reasons of drop out and build a collective response to increase attendance with all the team members.

Task #4– Cases identification activities

• Establish a simple internal referral form for all team members in collaboration with the psychologist, clarify the process with all team members and follow up on the implementation of the internal referral pathways;
• Observe on a regular basis the project activities to identify cases in collaboration with the psychologist and the animator;
• Identify through focus group discussions the protection needs of the community members.

Task #5– Referral activities

• Ensure smooth follow up for internal referrals
• Follow up on cases referred internally by the team members and to other services provided by Amel;
• Provide the team members with necessary information about the case’s follow up to adapt their practices if necessary.
• Ensure smooth external referral pathways
• Develop AMEL’s network in the area to increase opportunities for external referrals with the support of the coordinators;
• Create a local mapping of the service providers in the area, with the support of the psychologist and focal point if needed;
• Ensure smooth referral process with external actors (provision of information, follow up with participants, etc.).

Task #6 - Psycho-social counseling

• Responsible for designing a monthly plan with the team members to provide psychosocial activities;
• Support the animators in suggesting SEL activities;
• Conduct weekly awareness sessions with children, parents and community members in collaboration with the psychologist according to the monthly plan;
• Conduct weekly focus group discussions to address specific issues with children and community members according to the monthly plan.

Task #7 – Community events, Parents and children’s Committees and Campaigns

• Design and support the team in the implementation of community event activities;
• Encourage the parents to participate actively in the parents’ committee. The committee will be strongly involved in the design of the activities (ex: events) of the project;
• Encourage the children to participate actively in the children’s committee. The committee will be strongly involved in the design of the activities (ex: events) of the project.
• Lead on the large-scale awareness campaigns to be initiated by the parents’ committee to promote on gender equality and equal access to education.

Task #8 – Coordination & Monitoring and Evaluation

• Facilitate the internal coordination
• Field team’s level: coordinate with all team members to ensure that the Child Protection Protocol is followed and that the SEL monthly plan is shared and completed;
• Take initiative to find collective solutions to challenges due to context / situation changes and adapt the project’s activities according to the retention support project goal (coordination meetings in collaboration with the focal point);
• Send pictures of the activities on the common WhatsApp group.
• Monitoring & Evaluation / reporting
• Submit weekly reports to the coordinators;
• Design assessment for evaluating to the project’s impact (ex: wellbeing) in coordination with Child Protection team;
• Submit other narrative reports such as Focus Group Discussion’s results / community events’ reports / distributions’ reports, etc.

Competencies, Skills and Qualifications:

• Master or Bachelor degree in Social Sciences, Social work, Psychology, Humanitarian Affairs, International Development, or another relevant field. Experience in the Educational field is a plus.
• At least 3 years practical experience in implementing protection and educational projects at international or national NGOs.
• Knowledge of Child Protection in the humanitarian context and familiarity with the main CP tools, the Package safe identification and referrals, and the guidelines on PSEA.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work within multi-cultural environments; ability to work within a team structure or independently, flexible, and can cope with stressful workloads and working with limited resources.
• Demonstrated experience working with multiple age ranges including facilitating trainings and/or activities targeting children and youth.