Social Worker

Core responsibilities:

• Assist in designing child protection capacity building plans for staff and partners
• Deliver child protection sessions, trainings and briefings, including tailored trainings where needed and feasible, to staff and partners.
• Coordinate with other team members, mainly CP , CM,  PSS and Education teams, to ensure that child protection connects and is mainstreamed in other WCH areas of work
• Represent WCH externally, in relevant platforms/networks focused on child protection themes, including CPiEW and PSS committee
• Contribute to the development/revision of child protection materials developed in working groups/platforms/networks
• Identify and refer cases in need for protection services.
• Conduct family needs assessment, convene discussions with parents.
• Track cases
• Administrative tasks.

Necessary experience:

• At least one year of experience in delivering trainings;
• Psychosocial Support experience is an add value
• Knowledge of current principles and practices of Child Safety and Child Protection;
• 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) sessions.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to give and receive feedback;
• Affinity with children and young people;
• (Cultural) sensitivity;
• Result-oriented;

Education level: Bachelor degree

Education field: Social Sciences /Psychology/International Development Studies);

Require skills:

• Experience in Child Protection domain and Psychosocial Support
•  Experience in working in complex contexts
• Experience in conducting counseling and awareness sessions
• Fluency in English and Arabic both written and verbal
• Experience in collecting information and writing reports.
• Handling insecure environments
• Planning and delivering results
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Analyzing
• Coping with change
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation of projects

Nice to have skills

• Art intervention skills
• Good knowledge on inclusion
• Previous experience working in camps.
• Good experience working with street children and Child Labor cases

• Years of experience: Minimum 1 year in the field of CP and program implementation;