Social Worker

Overview Terre des hommes is a Swiss organization which helps to build a better future for disadvantaged children and their communities. Active in more than 30 countries, Tdh developps and implements field projects to allow a better daily life for over a million children and their close relatives, particularly in the domains of health care and protection. In Lebanon, Tdh currently implements child protection projects in Palestinian camps and gatherings around Tyre and in Dom people communities between Tyre and Saida. Tdh is as well implementing child protection projects for the children displaced from Syria in the districts of Tyre and Saida. Child Protection Policy: -     Commit to respect the Tdh Child Protection Policy and principles of child protection. -     Commit to ensure the best implementation possible of the Tdh Child Protection Policy inLebanon. -     Commit to inform supervisors and to deal with any cases, allegations, or possibility of transgression, even potential, of the Tdh Child Protection Policy.   Main duties and responsibilities: General: -       Promotes, facilitates and encourages the achievement of the action planning objectives. -       Ensures that Tdh’s project actions or activities are non biased, neutral and inclusive of all actors present in the Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian refugee contexts. -       Works directly in the field with children, families and stakeholders of the project locations he/she is allocated to. -       Is a Tdh focal point in the community and represents the organization. -       Facilitates, collects and reports information regarding the overall situation of the children and their families in the community, with specific attention paid to the project children. -       Identifies, networks and connects child protection resources to the child, community and community structures -       Supports and assists in the network mapping of resources specific to the locations he/she operates in. -       Shares child protection resources and information both within the Tdh staff structure and the community he/she operates in. -       Promotes and ensures the principles of child protection and child participation are respected within the Tdh project and with identified child protection resources. -       Informs his/her direct supervisor about any difficulty met in Tdh activities implementation. -       Ensures a strict adherence to Tdh Child Protection Policy at all times, including respect for confidentiality and child centered approach, acts in the best interests of the child.   Specific duties and responsibilities:   Child Protection Resources: -       Identifies, liaises, promotes, facilitates, coaches and when necessary delivers training to child protection resources with a view to strengthening their capacity to respond to child protection needs. -       Assists in the production of a referral pathway tool, clearly identifying both formal and informal child protection resources.   Case Management: -       Assumes primary case management responsibility to project targeted children. -       Ensures that risk assessment, case mapping and exit planning is conducted. -       Ensures a prompt and timely response to children determined and identified at ‘high risk’ through project activities. -       Promotes, ensures and establishes the child as a central actor in case management practices. -       Links the child, his/her family and community to child protection resources and networks of assistance. -       Attends and participates in regular case management meetings. -       Maintains case management files to a high standard, complete with up-to-date information. -       Acts in the best interest of the child.   Relief distribution (dignity kits, baby hygiene kits): -       Participates in the identification of the beneficiaries. -       Participates  in the monitoring of the lists. -       Participates in the organization of the distributions -       Delivers the relief items to the intended beneficiaries with respect and dignity -       Ensures the proper recording of the distribution (filling of delivery papers, signing of distribution lists, returns forms…) -       Ensures the proper handling of the relief items on distribution sites, during transportation and the recording of each item’s movement. -       Supports if needed the animators in their recreational activities   Safety audits and community sessions: -       Organizes and conducts safety audits sessions, with recording of the attendance -       Organizes and conducts community child protection awareness raising sessions as determined by project objectives, with recording of the attendance.   Monitoring: -       Participates in the monitoring of the use of the support using the methodology developed with the Project Manager. -       Performs home visits for post distribution monitoring, using questionnaires.   Reporting: -       Ensures data is collected and collated to prove the achievement of project objectives. -       Assists in the design, maintain and use data collection systems and punctual reporting to enable measurable results to prove the achievement of project objectives. -       Provide reports as required and directed by the Project Manager on the distributions, the awareness sessions, the monitoring, and the case management. -       Participates in the post-distribution monitoring reports   Non-Violent Communication: -       Adhere to the principles of the NVC process while in communication with all project actors, including colleagues. -       Ensure that conflict is addressed with the principles and process of NVC with all project actors and colleagues. -       Support and assume responsibility, if necessary, for conflict transformation activities and actions -       Assist the Tdh T&D department regarding identification, referral and intervention in child protection related conflict events, mediation, training and coaching of resources.   Project Neutrality: -       Ensures that Tdh’s project actions or activities are non-biased, neutral and inclusive of all actors present in the Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian refugee context. -       Reports any breach of neutrality, even if perceived but not true, to the Project Manager. -       Promotes and ensures that all actors, regardless of political or non-political affiliations, are aware of Tdh’s project’s neutrality and activities with all actors in the context.   The social worker is also responsible for complying with all Tdh procedures regarding logistics, administration, security and with the anti fraud/anti corruption policy