SOS Children’s Villages invites applications from suitably qualified and interested candidates who fulfill the eligibility criterion for the below position.

Position title           :     Temporary Social Worker ( 2 Positions – 1 Mogadishu, 1 Hudur)

Reporting to                :      Child Protection Officer

Location                       :      Mogadishu & Hudur

MA                                 :     Somalia

Position Summary:

Under the leadership of the Child Protection in Emergency Officer, the social worker supports the implementation of the Child Protection in Emergency Activities within SOS Health and nutritional facilities in Mogadishu and Hudur. Key interventions include – Implementation of Child Protection Case management, structured and non-structured MHPSS activities through static CFS, capacity building and facilitation of community-based awareness activities. The candidate is to ensure that children are kept within thier exieting biological families and prevent crisis that can lead sepration. Social worker is responsible to support children who are at risk of losing the care of their biological family which includes direct work with the children, caregivers and communities, based on the professional social work practice, ethic, values to achieve the sustainable development of the families and integration in the community. He/she is also responsible to ensure the timely completion of the case management procedures at all stages based on the individual approach and on the active participation of children, parents/caregivers. He/she is a member of the multidisciplinary team in the project and coordinates multidisciplinary team work within the case he/she is responsible for.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Programme Development

• Supports Child Protection officer in the implementation of the drought response CPIE interventions across the project locations.
• Oversee the provision of structured and non-structured PSS activities through the estatic and mobile Child friendly spaces within the organisation.
• Adapted existing training materials and translated and use them for the different awareness and training activities for the response.
• Supports identification of cases of children who are at risk of losing care from their families of origin through different resources (referral, outreach, self-referral etc.).
• Conducts comprehensive assessment of children and families in strong cooperation with the multidisciplinary team using different resources and social work techniques/methods to identify family needs and strengths and define the required services.
• Conduct awareness session meetings and capacity buildings for beneficiaries
• Enhance children and youth participation in the decision-making process of their future
• Provides guidance and counselling services to children and families, in close cooperation with project team.
• Support Community Education Committees to refer cases based on the national referral system.
• Train school children from target schools on Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST) and Child Hygiene and Sanitation Training (CHAST) using WHO guidelines
• Arranges, provides and coordinates the delivery of services to children and families in strong partnership with other service providers and in line with the development plan.
• Keeps regular contacts with child and family during the implementation of development plan through phone calls, home visits and meetings in project premises.
• Documents appropriately all activities conducted during the case management stages in the child/family case file by applying methods and tools for gathering information, as well as forms/templates, based on the requirements of national legislation and/or regional guidelines.
• Provide regular reports on project implementation and progress of activities

1. Monitoring and Evaluation

• Reassesses periodically the child/family needs and progress in meeting the objectives defined in Development Plan and make decisions on the case closure, in cooperation with family members and the multidisciplinary team.
• Enters data regularly in the Database module, ensures quality of data and uses regularly the reports and data stored in the database to track individual progress of children and families.
• Upon the request of CPIE Officer and in accordance with the national legislation, informs regularly the child protection authorities on the case progress.
• Supports CPIE Officer in the self-evaluation and/or external evaluation processes of EduCare project.
• Follows-up, evaluates and recommends measures to be taken in order to improve services to children and youth.
• Collects regularly information about different indicators as defined in the M&E plan of the project unit and reports to CPIE Officer

1. Human Resource development

• Participates regularly in intervention sessions, individual or group external supervision.
• Maintains personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the job, participates in appropriate training activities and keeps up with organisational procedures, legislation and developments in the professional practice
• Support teachers dealing with difficult behaviour students

1. Child Safeguarding (CS)

• Responsible to raise awareness of the SOS Child Protection Policy principles and to prevent and protect children and young people from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination
• Ensures strong focus on CS prevention by organising informal and formal discussions, workshops and other capacity buildings activities for children and young people to make them understand the CS risks and protection mechanisms
• Responsible to report any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately, following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the CS team at project level and/or to the respective line manager