Social Worker

Job Description

Title:  Social Worker 

Location:  Addis Ababa

Reports to: Head of Social Worker 

Company Description

Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. Around the world, we are growing a movement of abolitionists who believe freedom is worth the fight. Our team works from more than 30 locations across five continents. Hope for Justice Ethiopia currently operates 4 Lighthouses (transition shelter) in Addis Ababa, Sodo, and Bahir Dar, to rescue and reintegrate children at-risk and survivors of trafficking by providing shelter, psychosocial services, catch-up education, and life skills programmes. Hope for Justice runs effective community prevention programs, focusing on safe migration, child protection, parenting skills, and economic strengthening. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you.

Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.

Overall purpose 

The Social Worker is responsible to provide quality and consistent psychosocial services for the children to deal with past trauma, abuse, and abandonment so they can rebuild their lives and look to the future, help children develop positive social skills and behaviour, learning non-violent ways of expressing emotions, especially anger/frustration, and growing in self-worth and self-esteem. In addition, the employee is responsible for family tracing and supporting children to reunify with their families or reintegrate to alternative care. Accurate and timely documentation of services provided to the children is essential.

Programmatic:

- Provide psychosocial support to children to prepare them for reintegration.

- Provide counselling and therapeutic interventions for the children

- Provide training Life Skills training for the children at the Lighthouse

- Participate in regular child care reviews to assess the progress of children through the Hope for Justice programmes

- Travel to rural areas to reunify children with their families and follow them up

- Provide families during the reunification process with training in effective parenting and child protection as well as emotional/psycho-social support to care for their children within the family.

- Provide families with IGA grant and small business skills training to strengthen the families’ economic stability if necessary.

- Provide older children who growing in independence and learning skills with support to manage their own lives independently

- Conduct awareness raising in the community about dangers of domestic work, trafficking, child labor 

- Keep good, accurate and confidential records of all counselling sessions

- Make appropriate professional referrals for children who require psychiatric assessment/treatment

Child Safeguarding

- Maintain policies, procedures and systems that provide the requisite safeguarding measures for children accessing our services in collaboration with the Country DSO.

General

- Uphold and work within Hope for Justice’s policies and procedures, including Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Child & Vulnerable Adult Protection policies.

- Promote Hope for Justice’s core values of Honoring, Openness, Professionalism and Empowerment across the organization and partners

-  Undertake any other duties, as appropriate to the post, as delegated by Project Manager

- Represent the organization in different review meeting, workshop and network meetings.

 For all roles:

Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise. 

Key result 

· Children received quality & Consistent psychosocial service

· Children improved their self-esteem and social skill and be ready for reunification

- Families traced and supported for sustainable family reunification  

Soft Skills 

- Having the ability of active listening

- Being empathy

- proactive problem solving

- Having experience of victim centered and trauma informed counselling techniques

- In-depth knowledge on trafficking and modern slavery concepts

- Contributing to team success

- Stress tolerance and client focus.

Hard Skills 

- Training facilitation skill;

- Communication skill;

- Language proficiency in written and spoken English;

- Computer literacy in Microsoft office packages;

-  Interpersonal communication and report writing skills;

- Firm belief in teamwork,

- Gender equality,

- sensitivity to child protection concerns;

- Knowledge of local context;

Job Requirement

Education

- BA in Social work, Psychology or Sociology 

Experience

- At least 3 years’ experience working in a senior position

- Experience working with vulnerable children and families