Job Purpose    

The Social Worker is responsible to provide 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, help children develop positive social skills and behaviour, learning non-violent ways of expressing emotions, especially anger/frustration, and growing in self-worth and self-esteem. In addition, the employee is responsible for family tracing and supporting girls to reunify with their families or reintegrate to alternative care. Accurate and timely documentation of services provided to the children is essential. 

HFJ Vision and Mission  

Hope for Justice vision is Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. 

Duties & Responsibilities
Programmatic:

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

• Provide counselling and therapeutic interventions for the children 

• Provide training Life Skills training for the children at the Lighthouse

• Participate in regular childcare 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 IGA grant 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

• 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 DCPO.

General

• Uphold and work within Hope for Justice’s policies and procedures, including Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Child & 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 meeting, workshop and network meetings.

Department: Programmes

Duration: Maternity Cover – 6 Months 

Reporting To: Head of Social Work Department

Job Requirement

Experience & Qualifications
•    BA Degree in Social work, Psychology
•    At least 3 years’ experience working in a senior position
•    Experience working with vulnerable children and families 

Key Skills & Attributes
•    Computer literacy in all Microsoft Office functions
•    Ability to write accurate, concise and informative reports
•    Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills,
•    Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written are required
•    Able to work with youth from all backgrounds
•    Be empathetic and understand the issues surrounding vulnerable youth 
•    Flexibility to cope with unexpected situations 
•    Resolute and committed to achieving high quality standards and striving for excellence.
•    Be proactive in pursuing this within Hope for Justice.
•    A team player and have a desire to learn and be stretched in new areas of your profession.

How To Apply

Please send your job application letter and CV with recent experience letter and credential document via email: hr.admin.et@hopeforjustice.org 

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.

HFJ has zero tolerance for safeguarding violations. Protection from all forms of abuse is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct. All staff must ensure that they understand and act following this clause.

Successful candidates will be asked to bring Certificate of Good conduct from Crime Investigation Bureau.

If you applied by email, please write the position title ''Social Worker - Maternity Cover'' in the subject line.

Closing Date:  5th July 2024

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for assessment.