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 will be responsible to ensure adherence with CiC – Street Child policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines, prepare and develop status reports as required by managemet and will operate as case worker in child protection project.
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:
Identify vulnerable children at risk.
Provide case management services in line with the National Standard Operating Procedures for case management & Global Child Protection Case Management Guidelines.
Conduct outreach to assess and provide support to the child during house visits, consistently conduct outreach and follow up on the vulnerable, in mechanics’ shops, on construction sites, in agricultural fields and/or in other forms of harmful and exploitative labor.
The case worker will be responsible to ensuring case action plans and relevant administrative forms that facilitate accountability & planning are updated on a daily and weekly basis report in both Dari and English.
The case worker will commit to maintaining excellent documentation of each case management file regarding the child protection safeguarding policy.
The case worker will assume full responsibility to assess the level of risk that a child is exposed to, immediately and officially report all the child protection cases to the child protection specialist.
Participate actively in weekly team meeting remaining open to feedback and self-reflection.
Demonstrate qualities including honesty, kindness, professionalism, on-discrimination, and a commitment to working well in a team whilst staying true to oneself.
Ensure full responsibility & accountability –for maintaining, drafting and updating activity reports which include child protection report.
Be pro-active in identifying opportunities to better support vulnerable children through facilitating processes.
Commitment to serving children, do no harm and best interests.
Strong believer in children being agents of change in their communities.
to work with communities, families and vulnerable children in respect to all Afghanistan rules, regulations and community culture.
Demonstrated understanding of working with children and particularly vulnerable children.
Any other relevant tasks given by the line manager.
Experience and Knowledge:
Bachelors' Degree in Social Science, law and political science, Psychology and any other relevant field.
At least 2 years experience of Project Management within an international or national NGO.
Skills and Abilities:
Proven knowledge and experience of Child protection.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills and capacity to deal with different rural communities.
ability to take initiatives, and pursue work proactively without being intensively supervised.
A flexible approach to working and willingness to work as part of a team.
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.
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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