Social Worker In The Beirut Center

KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation is a Lebanese non-profit, non-political, non-confessional civil society organization, established on the 8th of March 2005 by a group of activists and professionals who have long years of work experience in women issues, specifically in gender-based violence. The organization seeks to mitigate the causes and results of violence and exploitation of women and children through advocacy and lobbying, raising awareness, and by offering social and legal services to vulnerable cases. KAFA’s overall strategic goal is to contribute to the eradication of all sorts of domestic violence and exploitation of women and children. It focuses its strategies and efforts on three major areas: 1) Gender-based violence, 2) Child sexual exploitation, and 3) Trafficking in women.  Since 2005, KAFA has been operating a Listening and Counseling Center for SGBV cases, providing them with psychosocial, legal and social follow up services.  KAFA needs several social workers to enhance its team of social workers in its center in Beirut, to support the provision of direct services and care provided to women and children subjected to SGBV The case manager would work within the ethics, values and principles of KAFA’s Listening and Counseling Center. More particularly, the case manager is expected to deliver the following tasks: Contribute to setting up policies and procedures for the provision of service to GBV cases; Provide listening and counseling services to victims of violence (children and women) and provide case management for every beneficiary including the development of action plans. Fill-in the questionnaires for the beneficiaries and document case records on the software timely. Provide referral services when needed, and coordinate with family medicine doctors, forensic doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, and other frontline personnel; Maintain and develop cooperative working relationships with relevant service providers (national and international), community centers and organizations, governmental institutions, police stations, companies and local businesses etc.; to enhance work opportunities and cover complementary needs of the beneficiaries; Organize and follow up group activities for the beneficiaries such as Art and Drama therapy sessions; Coordinate and organize awareness raising sessions on different topics related to GBV, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights; Contribute in writing evaluation and periodic progress reports Attend internal and external coordination meetings.