Duties and Responsibilities.
- Ensure that children feel supported, encouraged, and free to seek guidance and help from the social worker with all their problems, both at school, home and at the Centre.
- Encourage and motivate students to do their very best in school.
- Develop a strong, mutually respectful relationship with Parents/Guardians and ensure parents/guardians understand their roles through regular home visits to assess family situations.
- Develop a strong, mutually respectful relationship with social welfare office and school administrators for regular updates and information of children progress through school’s visits.
- Increase awareness to Children of various future options (academic and vocational) and help guide the selection of a path that will lead them to self-reliance.
- Maintain and update accurate and appropriate records in children files.
- Compile weekly and monthly reports on all activities, indicators, case studies and lessons learned to share with the donors.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in social work.
- At least two (2) years of relevant professional experience.
- Experience in working with children/youth environment will be added advantage.
- Ability to work independently, self-organize, use initiative, keeps commitments, and meets deadlines.
- The candidate should possess the emotional stability to lead and guide the large community of children and youth, by maintaining the required high standards.
- Ability to build positive working relations with local Government including Social Welfare department.
- Mature personality (male or female), stable socially and emotion- ally.
- Strong interpersonal and team skills.
- Fluent in English and Swahili.
- Computer literacy
Mode of applications:
Send your application letters together with updated CVs to [email protected] cc [email protected] .Closing date is 29th December , 2023.at 5:00pm (17hrs)
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
