Job Description
Vacancy: Social Worker
Purpose of the Position: Provide quality, comprehensive OVC support i.e. health, education, psychosocial support, economic opportunity, shelter, nutrition, HIV prevention, Social and legal protection, Economic Strengthening e.t.c
Major Duties and Responsibilities
Visitation
- Conducts needs assessment for individual OVC and recommend necessary care and support.
- Make referrals and follow up of OVC under support through home and school visits
- Network with other partners to ensure child welfare, well being and survival in the community
- Lead and ensure proper distribution of one time relief services to children in need
- Work with health department to advice on the social issues affecting child health and recommend a care plan for the necessary therapy
- Work with vulnerable families and economic empowerment team to assess and advice on social economic needs of the families
- Maintain child documentation and profiling for all the OVC in the program
- Manage and maintain a profile of donor funding to individual families in need
- Assist the households to come up with a quarterly budget and make follow ups to ensure that the households are incurring expenditure as per the stipulated budget.
Communication support
- Ensure effective and quality communication between children and their respective sponsors through;
- Writing ‘thank you letters’ after receiving a gift e.g Direct family funding if and when received
- Writing a Child Status Progress report on a quarterly basis
- Sending a Christmas gift annually
- Developing a school lists for all school going children at all levels
- Assist in any other communication need between the sponsors and the OVC
- Develop and manage a child profiling system for donors
Child Participation
- Ensure child participation in special events like; the day of the African Child, world Malaria day, World Aids day, clean up exercises amongst others.
- Train the OVC on different life skills areas and supervise their progress
- Identify challenges that the OVC may be experiencing and identify possible solutions.
- Assist to carry out holistic empowerment of the OVC
- Ensure all caregivers are registered in Village Savings and Loaning groups where they abide by the groups laws and undergo continuous capacity building.
- Properly maintain parent/guardian group lists
Internal Administration
- Writing monthly status reports
- Complete the home visits records as well as OVC information and submit the same to the supervisor
- Assist in Coordinating, monitoring and supervising the implementation of OVC activities
- Write and analyze the field reports before submission to the supervisors
- Attend meetings whenever called for and participate with opinions and ideas.
Other duties and responsibilities
- Actively participate in the Saturday Psycho-Social Support, for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children and build the community’s capacity to eventually run the Saturday PSS on their own.
- Any other duties and responsibilities assigned by the supervisor from time to time and which are geared towards achieving the overall goal of home visitation.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Level of education:
- Diploma in any Social Science discipline focused on community development.
Specialized Training / Professional Qualifications
- Computer skills in Word, Excel and Access
- Records Management Training
How to Apply
Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. |
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