Job Description

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.  

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday 
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. 
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child. 
Female applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Position: Social Worker Assistant
Location: Sa’ada
Grade: 5        
Contract Length: 5 months
This post is based on Sa’ada, so candidates from Sa’ada will take the priority and preference.

The Opportunity:

The Social Worker (Assistant) (hereinafter: Social Worker Assistant) is responsible for identification of vulnerable, at-risk children and implementing case management interventions in line with set criteria and inter-agency approaches.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Needs Analysis and Program Design:

• Participate in required child protection and child rights governance assessments.
• Contribute to situation analysis and inform child protection strategy.

Coordination and Representation:

• Build and maintain strong partnerships with key counterparts in the community (children, caregivers, community leaders, service providers and NGOs) and with other SCI colleagues and partner.
• Attend Child Protection Committee (CPC) meetings and support CPC members to identify and refer child protection cases.
• Coordinate all case management processes within SCI and with partners
• Adhere to and promote SCI Code of Conduct, Child Safeguarding Policy and values, both inside and outside of the workplace

Program Implementation:

General

• Plan and implement case management program activities ensuring that delays and constraints are documented, and solutions identified.
• Contribute to data entries and prepare progress reports with statistical and narrative information on identification, active caseload, closing of cases and any other activities; ensure that reports are timely, of high quality and serve to inform management decisions; for specific events/trainings falling within the scope of responsibilities, ensure that a separate event/training report is submitted.
• Specific
• Support and contribute to the design of case management tools and procedures, including clear case management eligibility and closure criteria
• Identify vulnerable, at-risk children; work with different stakeholders to obtain referrals
• Conduct ongoing service mapping and update the service directory accordingly
• Assess the situation of individual children and/or families to determine whether they meet case management eligibility criteria 
• Work with children and/or families to help them understand problems, define goals, and develop realistic plans; initiate and implement action to ensure children are safeguarded from harm
• Implement case plans for children and families, including referrals to service providers where needs cannot be met by SCI
• Monitor and review individual cases, for example during regular case conferences, home visits or other monitoring visits (as required under the specific circumstances) with the aim to ensure timely and high quality assistance
• In accordance with set case closure criteria, close cases of those individuals who have resolved the immediate protection concerns and, as far as possible, have developed sustainable solutions to the underlying problems 
• Ensure high quality case management documentation (including case management plan, referral documentation, other relevant documentation), whereby making sure that confidentiality and information sharing protocols are met
• With support from the Case Management Officer - and CP Officer, ensure that the community is well informed on the case management service (eligibility/target, function, etc.) 
• Facilitate implementation of awareness raising sessions with community members on identification and referral of children with protection concerns
• Provide information to community members referring to the services providers on how to better protect their children
• To design, prepare and provide quality trainings sessions, workshops and teaching events  on psychosocial and life skills in all impact locations according requirements
• Actively support baseline / endline / other surveys for MEAL (monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning) purposes

Qualifications and Experience:

• Post-secondary education in Social Work or related field; relevant work experience may be considered
• At least 2 years experience in a humanitarian work context
• At least 1 year experience working as a Social Worker, conducting case management work or working with children and families in difficult situations
• Computer literate
• A very good understanding of at least of key technical areas of CP programming and a working knowledge of the other sectors that include education, livelihoods and health  
• Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices and hours in the event of emergencies
• Ability to analyze information, evaluate options, and follow the strategic directions as guided
• An in-depth understanding of national development issues, law and national policies in particular as relates to children
• Previous  experience  of working with a multi-cultural team and  the  adaptability to varied team dynamics
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in written & spoken Arabic; able to communicate and write in English. 
• Commitment to Save the Children Code of Conduct, Child Safeguarding Policy and values

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice) 

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds others
• accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
• Creates a managerial environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves, takes responsibility for their own personal development 
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a country wide scale

Collaboration:

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
• Team player
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, beneficiaries (children and adults), and partners
• Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Identifies linkages with other programs / partners to coordinate activities to ensure effective use of resources and to maximize impact

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
• Displays consistent excellent judgement
• Commitment to Save the Children Code of Conduct, Child Safeguarding Policy and values - both inside and outside of the workplace

Application Information:

DIVERSITY BELIEF 

Save the Children International is committed to create a truly inclusive, effective and representative organisational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We want our people to be truly representative of all sections of society. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, disabilities, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent and serve our beneficiaries better. We are guided by our values in everything we do, and recognise that being a diverse and inclusive employer helps us fulfil our responsibility to make a difference for children around the world.
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations on this Link .   A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply

“Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer. Women are strongly encouraged to apply”