Community Care Worker - Ghazze, Jeb Janine, Qab Elias, Bar Elias, Taalabeya

Who we are

Save the Children's work saves and improves children's lives around the world. We work to ensure children have healthcare, food and shelter, as well as learning and child protection services when children need it most. We are committed to helping all children achieve their full potential by ensuring they grow up healthy, receive a good education, and stay safe.

Securing children's rights is the foundation of our work. Millions of children around the world are denied their rights, simply because of who they are or where they are from. We know that to ensure every child has the chance for a future, their rights must be upheld. Through our programming, emergency responses and advocacy, we put the most vulnerable children first, tackling the barriers to survival, learning and protection.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Community Engagement and Outreach:

• Facilitation in mapping community needs (Households Needs and Situation Assessment)/regular mapping of existing needs and services/ facilitation of FGD sessions in the community
• Outreach - building rapport through supportive and trusting relationships with children, families, and leaders within the local community (within MAKANI this will be linked to QUDWA as well)
• Monitoring of local protection risks and ensuring referral of most vulnerable children facing protection concerns within the community to more specialized Child Protection services (within MAKANI centers it will be linked to safe identification and referrals to response services)
• Accompanying children and families to services when needed
• Support to caregivers and members of the extended network around positive parenting practices
• Act as a focal point within a community (and within MAKANI) – a place for children and parents to safely report cases of abuse, a place to seek help, a group to provide response and rehabilitation support, and a place to identify needs.

Health and Nutrition Interventions and Tasks:

• Organize and deliver awareness sessions to parents and caregivers on nutrition and health topics bi-weekly at the center
• Coordinate with existing PHCs in the area and link the community to the PHCs and raise awareness on the services provided
•  Ensure referral of mothers with maternal health challenges to the PHCs and to IYCF specialists to receive the necessary help
• Refer women with breastfeeding difficulties and in need of IYCF counseling to Lactation Specialists
• Refer Children aged between 6 months and 59 months to Nutrition partners to receive micronutrient supplements for the vulnerable children 6-59 months, through outreach at the community level
• Organize awareness sessions, one session per week for children aged 6-18 years in the MSCC on the following topics Healthy wellbeing, Healthy diets, obesity and physical activity and immunization
• Coordination with active H&N organizations in the area to conduct workshop, interactive session on H&N topics
• Coordinate with youth facilitator to conduct H&N youth led initiatives in the centers

Experience and Skills:

Within MAKANI, the Community Care Worker should have a degree in the field of Social Work, Sociology, or Health and have some relevant experience in dealing with children (profiles such as teachers or primary health care workers) or in working in the area of child protection specifically. The Community Care Worker must have good public speaking and communication skills and be familiar with the targeted areas, including the local community, population habits and behaviors, public and private stakeholders, focal points or local leaders within the community, concentration of vulnerable population in specific areas. The Community Care Worker will be supported through a package of training that at a minimum includes Child Protection minimum standards and safe identification and referrals, Health and Nutrition and QUDWA.