Main Purpose 

The social worker is responsible for providing quality and consistent psychosocial services for the children to deal with past trauma, abuse, and abandonment so they can rebuild their lives and look to the future.

Location  Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Reporting to Head of Social Work 

Programmatic:

-Provide psychosocial support to children to prepare them for reintegration.

- Provide counselling and therapeutic interventions for the children

- Provide Life Skills training for the children at the Lighthouse

- Participate in regular child care reviews to assess the progress of children through the Hope for Justice programmes

- Travel to rural areas to reunify children with their families and follow them up

- Provide families during the reunification process with training in effective parenting and child protection as well as emotional/psycho-social support to care for their children within the family.

-Provide families with income-generating assistance grants and small business skills training to strengthen the families’ economic stability if necessary.

- Provide older children who growing in independence and learning skills with support to manage their own lives independently

-  Conduct awareness raising in the community about dangers of domestic work, trafficking, child labor 

- Keep good, accurate and confidential records of all counselling sessions

- Keep excellent case files on every client

- Follow our standard operating procedures at all times

- Make appropriate professional referrals for children who require psychiatric assessment/treatment

Child Safeguarding

-Maintain policies, procedures, and systems that provide the requisite safeguarding measures for children accessing our services in collaboration with the country’s designated safeguarding officer.

-Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.

General

-Uphold and work within Hope for Justice’s policies and procedures, including Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, and Child and Vulnerable Adult Protection policies.

- Promote Hope for Justice’s core values of Honoring, Openness, Professionalism and Empowerment across the organization and partners

- Undertake any other duties, as appropriate to the post, as delegated by Project Manager

-Represent the organization in different review meetings, workshops, and network meetings.

Job Requirements

-  BA in Social work, Psychology or Sociology

- At least 3 years’ experience working in a similar position in INGO/LNGO

- Experience working with vulnerable children and families

- Having experience of victim centered and trauma informed counselling techniques

How to Apply

Submit your CV, credentials & other supporting documents with compiled PDF via email: info.ethiopia@hopeforjustice.org

Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Please put 'Social Worker-Bahir Dar’ in the subject line.

The Hope for Justice promotes diversity in the workplace. Regardless of age, marital status, ethnicity, sex, color, country origin, religion, or sexual orientation, Hope for Justice evaluates all applicants solely based on their merits