Social Worker Job in Kenya - 2015

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;

1. Writing ‘thank you letters’ after receiving a gift e.g Direct family funding if and when received


2. Writing a Child Status Progress report on a quarterly basis


3. Sending a Christmas gift annually


4. Developing a school lists for all school going children at all levels


5. 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

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.