Social Worker

To improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable and poor people living with and those affected by HIV and AIDS and strengthen OVCs child protection and safeguarding systems in the selected project implementation areas through increased access to education, poverty and child abuse reduction and increasing access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information and services for poor and vulnerable children.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Properly investigate client issues and implement appropriate interventions
• Propose interventions and share with Case Management Officer
• Plan and implement interventions with timelines
• Respond to the needs and provide required support
• Facilitate access to services through internal and external referrals
• Facilitate building of sustainable formal and informal interventions to address common needs of clients in communities which promote peer and children support
• Facilitate partnerships, information sharing and linkages with likeminded stakeholders like the Department of Social Development DSD
• Collect and record accurate and informative data for monitoring, evaluation and reporting
• Create and maintain files containing client’s documents and information
• Maintain an effective internal and external referral system, that is, police, schools, churches, other organizations+

Qualifications and Experience

• A Degree in Social Work.
• Minimum 2 years humanitarian work.