Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 500,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.
This role is expected to provide support for CFSs for returnee refugees children in to the assigned CFS centres. In addition, this role is expected to Ensure adherence with CiC – Street Child policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines, Prepare and develop status reports as required by line manager, ensure proper filing of documents and to Promote and share ideas for technical improvement.
Generic Responsibilities:
A strong commitment to Street Childs vision, mission and values.
Adhere to all Street Child’s policies and procedures.
Able to represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally.
Carry out all reasonable requests that are within the broad remit of the role.
Specific Responsibilities:
To conduct awareness sessions for the communities and CFS Children.
Vulnerable households’ assessment and identification.
To prepare weekly schedule of activities for the CFS.
To conduct recreational activities and life skill sessions for the CFS children.
To identify and refer children with psychosocial problems and child protection concerns to MHPSS counsellor and child protection services for receiving the appropriate services.
To facilitate monthly meetings with children’s parents and update them of the progress of their children condition and orient them on child rights and child protection topics.
Any other relevant task given by line manager.
Experience and Knowledge:
A minimum of bachelors degree in Social Science, law and politics, Psychology and/ or any other relevant field.
A minimum of 2 years’ experience in social work and/ or CFS facilitation.
Skills and Abilities:
Fluency in both local languages.
Ability to work effectively and independently with minimal supervision.
Responsible, reliable, punctual and having ability to fulfil multi-task.
Knowledge of archiving and filing.
Strong communication skills.
Ability to work under pressure circumstances.
Ability to manage multiple tasks at the same time.
Ability to conduct individual and group therapy counselling sessions.
Ability of problem solving.
Good follow up and organizing skills.
Planning and delivering results.
Empowering and building trust.
Communicating with impact and respect.
Ability of handling insecure environment.
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV (03 pages maximum) and Cover Letter (01 page maximum) to the following email address hr.afg@street-child.org not later than the deadline. Please indicate the position title and Vacancy Number in the e-mail subject line. Any application without position title and vacancy number will not be considered. Also, please do not send additional documents.
Interested and qualified candidates should also fill Children in Crisis Recruitment Form (MANDATORY) through below link:
https://forms.gle/Vwm8XhfYkQSMMRB49
Only short-listed candidates whose education and experiences correspond to the above criteria will be contacted for further consideration and in case you did not hear from us after 3 weeks of deadline, please consider that as a rejection.
FEMALE APPLICANTS ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY!
NOTE: CANDIDATE’S APPLICATION SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED IF THE CHILDREN IN CRISIS/STREET CHILD RECRUITMENT FORM OR CV IS NOT SUBMITTED.
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