Job Vacancy

CP Psycho-Social Support (PSS) Social Worker
Department: Protection

Syria

Albab

Posting Date: 07 Jan 2025

Closing Date: 13 Jan 2025

Job Purpose:

The role of child protection psychosocial support workers is to provide psychosocial support to children, participate in monitoring needs and gaps related to psychosocial support, and contribute to planning and designing appropriate interventions, including various methods such as theater, play, art, and others.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Identifying the psycho-social needs of target beneficiaries including people with disabilities.
  • Organize recreational activities for adults and children.
  • Conduct structured PSS sessions using specific programs such as child resilience
  • Involve active beneficiaries in all stages of assessment and response to ensure the sustainability of the intervention.
  • Facilitate group support sessions
  • Keep individual files complete for each person visited, including a detailed description of the services provided.
  • Writing a case study for beneficiaries and project activities
  • Maintain data records for all individual and group meetings
  • Document any protection concerns and report them to the direct supervisor
  • Write weekly activity reports to the direct supervisor and line manager.
  • Provide regular updates and reports to line managers as required
  • Respects the privacy and confidentiality of the beneficiary
Note: The above-mentioned key responsibilities/accountabilities are illustrative ones. Other future responsibilities/accountabilities may be assigned to the job depending on the department’s organizational chart.
Qualification (Education – Work Experience):
Essential:
    • A University degree in Psychological counseling/Psychology, Social Sciences, Sosiology, Education, or any other related field of study.
    • Previous practical experience in the same job position in an NGO.
    • Having basic proficiency in using e-mails and filling in beneficiaries’ information on electronic forms.
    • Commitment to the basic morals of working with vulnerable people and respecting confidentiality.
    • Ability to work independently and with a team at the same time.
    • Ability to conduct individual and group PSS sessions for children and sdults
Desirable:
    • Master’s degree in Education or Social Sciences.
    • More than three years of professional experience in the same position.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Core & Managerial Competencies:
Core Competencies:
    • Communication.
    • Teamwork.
    • Planning and organizing.
    • Accountability.
    • Creativity.
    • Stakeholder Orientation.
    • Commitment to Continuous Learning.
    • Technological Awareness.
Supervisor – Managerial Competencies:
    • Leadership.
    • Building Trust.
    • Vision.
    • Managing Performance.
    • Empowering Others.
    • Judgment/Decision-making.
Technical Competencies:
    • Advanced knowledge of computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook).
    • Ability to work independently and responsibly.
    • The ability to adapt to work conditions and deal effectively with different environments and cultures.
    • Possessing flexibility, responsibility and reliability at work.
    • Good understanding of social welfare standards and protection mechanisms.
    • Commitment to support the child protection policy, as well as the principles of do no harm, confidentiality and the policy of sexual exploitation and harassment.
Submission:

Interested candidates should use the following link for registration.

https://tinyurl.com/IYD25-MS26-CPPSS-ALBAB

We are strongly encouraging females to apply for this position.

Compliance to Anti-Harassment, PSEA, and Child Safeguarding:
  • Child abuse in all forms is unacceptable to IYD, which recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work. IYD is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach towards any kind of child abuse and exploitation.
  • IYD employees and related personnel must not under any circumstances take part in any form of discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside IYD.
General Information:
  • Multi-sent CVs will be ignored (please send your CV only one time at a time).
  • No resume will be reviewed after the specified date for receiving CV’s to the announced vacancy.
  • IYD is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply.
  • IYD does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
  • IYD is not able to respond to every applicant individually due to the anticipated high number of applications.
  • IYD retains the discretion to re-advertise the vacancy, to cancel the recruitment, to offer a contract with a modified job description or for a different duration, or to offer a contract at a lower grade.
 
We thank all applicants. However, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews.
Website: https://iydrelief.org