Social Worker

Generic Duties:

1. Deliver psychosocial support activities, specifically Focus Psychosocial Support (FPSS), within the safe space of the Women and Girls Safe Space (WGSS) for adolescent girls, their female caregivers, and adolescent boys.
2. Establish community-based group structures, specifically women committees, to effectively address protection concerns at the community level
3. Support the women committees to deliver awareness raising sessions on protection and GBV-related topics including gender roles, gender equality, online safety, and prevention of cyberbullying, GBV types and prevention of violence.
4. Ensure that identified individuals at risk are referred to appropriate service providers

Specific Duties:

1. Undertake outreach to key community leaders to access, engage, and mobilize the local communities in the targeted areas.
2. Build the capacity of women committee members to deliver awareness raising sessions on protection and GBV-related topics including gender roles, gender equality, online safety, and prevention of cyberbullying, GBV types and prevention of violence
3. Plan and design focused PSS activities in collaboration with the project activity manager
4. Facilitate the participation and engagement of vulnerable target individuals and groups in planned activities, ensuring appropriate attention is paid to specific emotional and physical needs
5.  Encourage the active participation of community volunteers in jointly conducting sessions aimed at raising awareness about principles related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV), minimum standards, addressing GBV disclosures, ensuring safe referrals, and other relevant topics
6. Undertake and follow up referral of protection cases internally to case managers for individuals at risk, including CP and GBV, and where appropriate to external service providers.
7. Participate in regular project meetings and attend internal and external trainings, , as appropriate and required.
8. Proactively keep abreast of project developments as provided by the project manager and of the context and protection situation of the targeted communities.
9. Implement after-hour sessions to accommodate the availability of beneficiaries, particularly focusing on male caregivers and adolescent boys, as part of the community-based group structures and initiatives addressing protection concerns at the community level

Reporting:

1. Ensure attendance and distribution lists, weekly and monthly inventory sheets are maintained and regularly updated for all activities conducted in compliance with project requirements.
2. Provide daily updates on project activities and file weekly reports to the senior social worker.
3. Ensure senior project staff are kept informed on progress towards targets and issues that impact project/activity implementation