Position: Social Worker
Location: Mathare
Reports
to: Headmistress
Hours: Mon- Fri, 7:30am to 4:30pm
Key
Responsibilities and Duties
Key
responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Conduct
regular home visits for the daycare and preschool children using the home
visit tools to ensure the care-giving environment is conducive to help
children grow into healthy and happy to harness full development potential
- Organize
and conduct parent/caregiver support group meetings to discuss
essence of early child development issues and mobilize them into group
savings and loan activities as economic strengthening at household level
- Use
a variety of appropriate formal and informal tools and techniques to
evaluate the progress and performance of students and families based on
child development milestones
- Develop
long-term and short-term intervention plans consistent with children’s
developmental needs to help children attain full development potential
- Keep
proper records of the children in the daycare and preschool programs
including family background, health, social and key interventions and
follow-up visits forms
- Assist
ECD coordinator to carry-out individual child assessment to ensure each
child is attaining proper development milestones
- Carry
out any other duties as assigned by the supervisor, community programs
officer and programs manager
- Performing
other related duties as may be assigned
Personal attributes
- High
level of motivation, organization, honesty, commitment and professional
responsibility
- Ability
to work independently with minimum supervision
- Exceptional
interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Accurate
and detail oriented
Requirements
- Must
have good counseling skills.
- Key
knowledge on Early Childhood Development
- Must
have at least 2 years working experience
Academic Qualifications
- Degree/Diploma
in Community Development
- Certificate/diploma
in Early Childhood Development is desirable
Interested applicants should send their applications together
with a detailed CV to the HR Officer at
jobs@shininghopeforcommunities.org quoting their current and expected
salaries.
Hard
Copies application can be dropped at our Mathare Office any day from
8:00am-5:00pm
Applications
should reach us no later than 28th March 2016.
Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
