The PATH Social Worker will be based in Chiro Town (Asebe Teferi), West Hararghe Zone, Oromia region, and is expected to perform duties and responsibilities including the following:

Duties and Responsibilities:

Beneficiary Selection:

• Participate in beneficiary selection and admission

  • Go home-to-home to investigate families eligible for admission according to government referral and intake criteria

  • Fully fill out intake and assessment forms

  • Document family stories and backgrounds

• Assess and investigate the eligibility of the beneficiaries according to set criteria

• Interview and review beneficiary background information and properly document it in the beneficiary intake form

Child Beneficiary Mentorship and Oversight:

• Provide counseling (including family counseling) to child and family beneficiaries including home-to-home visits and center sessions

  • Track beneficiaries’ ongoing behavioral changes; fill out forms/reports on changes and developments in beneficiary behavior

  • Communicate with other PATH staff members and beneficiaries’ parents regarding child behavior

  • Ensure that children and families are taking proper care of school and personal materials including clothing, backpacks, and shoes

  • Conduct follow-up counseling as needed until behavior and character issues positively change

• Track the school performance of the children and record their educational progress

  • Communicate with teachers on student behavior

  • Track students’ grades and school performance

• Participate in weekly beneficiary mentorship/leadership/tutorial program

  • Observe and follow up on child behavior

  • Provide guidance and counseling as necessary to correct behavior and build character

  • Prepare and provide trainings and education on matters of teambuilding, leadership, ethics, maintaining personal hygiene, how to care for one’s self, and maintaining and keeping personal health

Women Beneficiary Mentorship and Oversight:

• Supervise and assist with women's empowerment activities

• Provide financial coaching and consulting to beneficiaries

• Organize women into Self Help Groups (SHGs) and facilitate weekly meetings

  • Track and record women’s weekly attendance

  • Assist and encourage women in weekly SHG meetings in weekly money savings, in problem solving, and in preparing their Income Generating Activities (IGAs)

• Mentor women beneficiaries as they develop business ideas, market analysis, and plans of action while they complete their training and meet on a weekly basis

• Perform home-to-home visits for ongoing follow up and reporting

  • Ensure that PATH provided food assistance is being fed to and consumed by beneficiary children

• Prepare and provide trainings in business skills, life skills, home economics, capacity building, parenting skills, and nutrition and health

• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders and facilitate market linkage

• Visit women in their places of work and at their homes when they begin and expand their IGAs

  • Track and record women’s work and personal development, progress, and successes

  • Fill out workplace visit forms and success story forms in order to update administration of current standings of each beneficiary

MHM (Menstrual Hygiene Management) Program

• Participate in new school and student screening and surveying as necessary

• Participate in giving Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management awareness training for students and teachers, as well as any other relevant trainings under this program

Adult Education Program

• Assist in preparing and providing adult education trainings in reading, writing, and mathematics

• Prepare and provide trainings in business skills, life skills, home economics, capacity building, parenting skills, and nutrition and health

General Responsibilities:

• Continuously update child and guardian profiles ensuring that all information is present and up to date

• Conduct quarterly follow-up assessments

• Perform regular follow ups of activities, maintain accurate records/documentation, and prepare relevant reports, including communicating with school teachers, beneficiary families, government stakeholders, and administration for accurate and updated student information

• Perform other duties to be assigned by the program coordinator or administrative management of the organization

• Communicate well with office staff

• Work with a self-improvement mindset

• Coordinate with other program staff in relevant activities including food distribution and information gathering

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Education, or related fields

• 3+ years of relevant experience in woman and child protection and related fields

• Direct case management experience working with impoverished and vulnerable women and children

• Demonstrated flexibility and creativity in planning and problem solving

Skills and Qualifications

• High competency in time management and usage of time management tools and resources

• Physical ability to give frequent trainings and to go into the field, often on foot, to visit beneficiaries in their residences and places of work

• Intermediate and above proficiency in the following computer skills:

  • Microsoft Word

  • Microsoft Excel

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

• Ability to prepare field reports and write letters 

• Fluency in Amharic and Afan Oromo

• Excellence in written English

Preferred Skills

• Proficiency/experience in various surveying and data collection software (like Kobo Toolbox)

• Training or Certification in Entrepreneurship

• Excellence in spoken English

During a shift, social workers are expressly forbidden to engage in behavior that goes against PATH ethics including but not limited to:

• Drinking alcohol, chewing chat, smoking, stealing property

• Verbally or physically abusing staff, volunteers, guests, or beneficiaries. This includes the express prohibition of hitting beneficiary children for any reason.

Salary and Benefits

• Gross Salary up to 17,000 ETB

  • Salary is fixed to current USD exchange rate 

• Phone Communication:

  • 2000 Minutes per Month

• Medical Coverage

• Transportation Allowance

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants can apply online using THIS LINK