Job Description
Terre des Hommes TDH has announced 14 Social Worker positions in Nangarhar. Under the direct supervision of the Regional Manager, the social worker helps to establish conditions for Returnees, IDPs, and conflict-affected host population children and their families to be active in their development and promote social linkages and solidarity where they live.
About Terre des Hommes TDH:
Humanity’s Property (TDH) is a Swiss child welfare agency that offers help and protection to the world’s most vulnerable citizens. (TDH) Since 1995, Kabul, Herat, Takhar, and Nangarhar provinces, focusing on child protection, access to justice, maternal and child health, and livelihood programs, have been working in Afghanistan.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Conduct outreach to identify vulnerable children to register CFSs and provide case management for children with special needs.
- Within the workplace area, adults and children participate in community child protection programs.
- Conduct an awareness session on child rights and psychosocial assistance through CMS with the project’s returnees, IDPs, and conflict-affected populations, ensuring that they better grasp the standard on child protection in emergencies (CPiE).
- Collect data and keep a personal record (follow-up forms, individual files, etc.)
- Develop positive working relationships with other relief organizations and local authorities in the areas where you work.
- Collect the case studies and success stories regularly, and highlight the positive developments.
- Maintain positive relationships with communities and be sensitive to the cultures and traditions of those communities.
- Children who are qualified are referred to specialist treatment or outside service providers.
- Attend any internal and external training and meetings that are required.
- Report on the progress of his/her actions to the Line Manager weekly.
- Perform any other similar duties as directed by your line supervisor.
- Implement an action plan and methodology for child protection interventions in collaboration with the beneficiaries.
- Avoid potentially dangerous mobility scenarios by avoiding unnecessary or premature movements, prioritizing fast activities, and making it easier to watch the kid move.
- Create a child protection reference directory by identifying the support services, resources, and organizations that exist in his or her intervention zone (partner visits, reference records, etc.)
- In the course of your task, be careful not to insult any children (not harm)
- Data collecting and record-keeping on the children’s database, which is shared with the data clerk.
Other Duties:
- Participate in community activities and use his or her knowledge of the phenomenon of children’s vulnerability to influence local decision-makers.
- Using CMS (Case Management System) in working areas, IDPs, Returnees, and conflict-affected children and their families can address their safety concerns.
- Develop their abilities to assist them in keeping or reclaiming their independence and integrating into society.
- Together with the beneficiaries and their families, decide on the intervention strategies.
- Take any step that may help beneficiaries and their families avoid or overcome challenges.
- Collect facts and statistics about the child’s circumstances, then fill up each child’s particular file.
- Analyze and assess the information and facts.
- Report, refer, and document all sorts of abuse.
- Take the necessary steps to relieve and protect the youngster (protection, treatment, etc.)
- Supply these services, identify and activate helpful external resources.
- Develop activities that adhere to the recommendations for the psychological monitoring of the children who are receiving assistance.
- Ensure to keep the data private.
- Make a plan for the young person’s (re)integration into the public education system.
- Networking trips to other organizations to learn about their intervention fields so that referrals can be made.
- Use observation skills to see any behavioral changes or unique vulnerabilities in children that could cause worry, then communicate your findings with your immediate supervisor and the social workers’ team in joint weekly staff meetings to discuss the best course of action.
- Ensure that all child protection activities are compliant with child protection minimum relevant standards and improve programs and activities based on the CPMS.
Job Requirements:
- High School Diploma and bachelor’s degree is preferable.
- Work experience in a comparable field of at least three years.
- Meets deadlines and manages time and priorities.
- Cooperates and contributes to the achievement of objectives
- Support and counsel coworkers
- Adapts communication to a multicultural setting
- Respect others
- Well-versed in the community’s good and bad habits and the context of working and assimilating into the community’s norms.
- Models of Behavior Change Communication have been used in the past.
- Fluency in Pashto, Dari, and English for oral and written communication and representation, liaison, and negotiation abilities.
How to apply for the related positions at Terre des Hommes TDH:
Eligible people can use the link below to apply.
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