Social Worker

About the Organization

World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them.

Job Summary

The job holder is responsible to facilitating community participation and enabling children and women access protection services to reduce their vulnerabilities and for leading the provision of Psychological First AID (PFA) and Psychosocial Support (PSS) program in the context of Internally Displaced People, the host community and returnees.

The purpose of the position is to help people to cope with mental health issues, emotional stress and challenging situations using a range of psychological concepts and psychotherapeutic techniques. The incumbent is expected to assist children and women affected by the conflict with purpose of resulting in improve psychosocial functional capacity and coping up with the trauma of displacement, by offering them a structured and focused way of addressing their problems and case management service.

Key Responsibilities

• Taking a lead role in case management of children, youth and women affected by the conflict in the target communities.
• Liaising with local government stakeholders (Women and children Affairs, Social Affairs, Health sector, faith organizations etc) and other stakeholders regarding implementing the psychosocial support measure to ensure complementarity and flexible, efficient service delivery to other emergency response plans.
• Undertaking establishment activities in relation to the measure to enable service delivery to commence as soon as possible
• Undertaking an effective case management approach to the delivery of psychological and psychosocial services.
• Applying evidence based knowledge and understanding of the mental health systems, community health and service needs, service delivery, referral pathways in providing holistic therapeutic services.
• Contributing to the strategic development of child protection and GBV prevention to address the psychosocial support measures beyond the emergency period.
• Representing World Vision as required in relevant meetings, network, promotion, and education and advocacy activities.
• Undertake other duties as required.

Required Qualifications

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:

• Bachelor Degree /Master's degree in counseling psychology, clinical psychology, social work, psychology, sociology or related fields of studies

Required Professional Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years relevant experience
• Knowledge of prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).
• Awareness of or interest in community-based protection mechanisms.
• Relevant experience in child protection in emergency (CPiE) and Child Protection Minimum Standards
• Proven experience in designing and implementing psycho-social training programs and Psychological first aid service delivery mechanisms.
• Knowledge and experience in application of international technical guidelines and standards in Inter Agency for Mental Health and Psycho-social services
• Knowledge and experience on Gender Based Violence programming an asset.
• Knowledge of and ability to implement integrated CP responses, including Gender Based Violence.
• Direct case management and experience working with children and adolescents is an asset.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• knowledge of GBV guiding principles
• proven NGO experience

Required Skills and Competencies

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement:

• Work environment: This is field/project site based position. It's based in Sahela and Dehana. It requires regular movement around Community in targeted locations/ kebles

Language Requirements:

• English and knowledge of local language is advantageous

How to Apply

Employee Contract Type: Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only

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