Job Description

Job Title: Orphan Social Worker
Salary: Competitive 
Location: Aden
Hours: Full-time
Reporting to: OCW Officer 
Start date: ASAP

Human Appeal is a non-profit organisation working across the globe to strengthen humanity’s struggle against poverty, social injustice and natural disaster. Through the provision of immediate relief and establishment of sustainable development programmes, we aim to invest in real effective solutions.

Now over 27 years, Human Appeal has a presence in 24 countries spanning across 3 regions: Asia, Africa, and middle east in addition to international offices in Europe. 2020 is an exciting time as we continue to build on our achievements to transform the lives of millions of people across the world. We are looking for a dynamic candidate who is passionate about international development to join our Human Appeal Yemen team. 

Job Purpose:

Orphan Social Worker will be responsible for the day-to-day activities of orphan child welfare programme by providing support to the orphan operations, facilitate good practice and ensuring legal compliance to applicable implementation process of a child welfare interventions in Yemen-Aden.

MAJOR Essential Duties RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Orphan child welfare social worker will be fully engaged in ensuring safe and productive environment for orphans and other children under Human Appeal sponsorship scheme in Yemen and will assess and report general living, and learning standard of …. Human appeal sponsored orphan children and also provide advises, awareness and orientation on safeguarding’s. 
• Assist in generating data for quarterly cases studies after every quarterly disbursement.
• Assist in maintaining sponsorship orphans’ records in soft and harp copies.
• Keep track of orphans who failed to attend school and find out factor hindering their process.
• Visiting and collecting orphan visit reports of individual and upload visit report twice in a year through the system.
• Attend and a times represent the child welfare sector in the monthly child protection working group meetings
• Visit orphan children at their families for routine monitoring of their general progress
• Prepare photos, letters for the baseline data for progress reports and other reports.
• Updates Bio data online continuously.
• Assist Under take seasonal and other Ramadan food distributions for the orphans.
• Inform guardians/Mothers arrival of their entitlements.
• Collection of orphan school progress reports and filing of the same.

Security 

1.    Ensures application and compliance of security protocols and policies.Person Specifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in social science, Developmental Studies, Law or any equivalent degree.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Team player and strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Proficient in computer applications, especially with MS Word and MS Excel, MS PowerPoint a plus.
• Very good English language speaking and writing abilities.