PSS Worker

Job Title:

PSS Worker

Job Location:

Gaziantep

Reporting to:

Project Sr. officer

General Description of the Programme:

SENED is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization licensed and registered in Türkiye with the number 27-15-175. SENED Organization was established shortly after the Syrian Nakba and in response to the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey as well as internally displaced people in Syria, with the aim of alleviating suffering, achieving justice, equality, and freedom, strengthening the role of civil society, and supporting and developing the local community. SENED works in the humanitarian work sectors to support, empower, and educate the community through several programs, and takes special care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.

SENED Association emphasizes the need to create safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for the emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development of individuals by focusing on the people with disabilities. Beyond the medical perspective on disability, it tries to find solutions to the problems faced by disabled people with a holistic perspective by considering the disabled people, their families, and the society they live in, focusing on the conditions they experience. SENED Association aims to create a safe and supportive environment and space by conducting family-oriented activities to help disabled individuals and their families to become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee disabled people, identifying problems and needs, SENED strives to ensure harmony between disabled refugees and local people with a voluntary, professional team and a community-based approach. In all activities, education, research, advocacy, etc. carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.

Job purpose:

To facilitate group and individual PSS sessions in Gaziantep to help build the beneficiaries skills, abilities and educational levels.

Duties, objectives, and competencies:

· Plan, prepare and deliver PSS sessions and social cohesion activities to people with and without disabilities.

· Prepare daily plans prior to every PSS session in line with the existing PSS curriculum; prepare appropriate materials and/or visual aids in advance of the session

· Deliver PSS sessions to targeted age groups; facilitate engaging sessions that encourage individuals’ active participation.

· Conduct pre- and post-assessment sessions to gauge the beneficiaries’ progress towards their learning and development goals.

· Ensure that all assessments, follow-ups and weekly and progress reports are completed in a timely manner

· Maintain quality up-to date documentation on all interactions with beneficiaries and their parents

· Effectively plan, prepare, develop and implement PSS tools and resources to demonstrate progress and growth in beneficiaries learning and development goals

· Positively interact with CwDs, communicate clearly so they feel safe and respected at all times.

· Ensure inclusive participation by following an age-, gender-, and types of disabilities sensitive approach.

· Build trusting relationships with beneficiaries.

· Ensure the activities and sessions are following safe learning practices at all times.

· Follow up on the beneficiaries’ wellbeing, attendance and specific needs.

· Report on the number of individuals, participations, achievements, and new registration requests; update Sened’s Program and technical team on any issues, challenges or gaps in implementation.

· Ensure that all data collected is entered and reported in a timely manner (monthly)

· Contact CwDs and their families regarding any updates and changes in PSS or Caregiver Engagement schedule and implementation.

· Take parts in seminars and outreach events for CwDs and caregivers.

· Support the direct manager in the capacity of curriculum writing/changing, lesson plans, assessments, reviews and objectives.

· Collaborate closely with MEAL team to monitor activities with existing PSS, social cohesion, and Caregiver Engagement monitoring tools and use PSS selection criteria effectively.

· Respect and apply all principles of PSEA, and demonstrate high commitment to report any sexual exploitation and sexual abuse

Note: the above mentioned key responsibilities/accountabilities are illustrative ones. Other future responsibilities /accountability may be assigned to the job depending on the department organizational chart.

Requirements: Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in education, psychology, sociology, or any other relevant field.
• Fluent in the Arabic language.
• Minimum of 1 year of proven experience in a similar position.

Requirements (desired)

• Intermediate skills in the English and/or Turkish language.
• Experience in humanitarian work and principles.
• Experience in work with PwDs (People with Disabilities)

Technical Competencies:

• Advanced knowledge in curriculum development.
• Advanced knowledge in teaching principles.
• Basic knowledge in report writing.
• Basic knowledge in Excel & Word

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Disabled beneficiaries, children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SENED shows this ongoing commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Diversity

SENED is committed to creating a genuinely inclusive, effective, and representative organizational culture, encouraging employee equity and diversity, and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, etc., including various experiences and capabilities, helps us understand, represent, and serve children better. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, religion, gender, disability, or age.

Procedures

If needed, SENED will submit a work permit application for the selected candidate after the job offer is accepted. Failure to provide the required documents or rejection of a work permit application by the Government of Türkiye will result in rescinding the employment offer.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. SENED reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of SENED’s work, we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, which may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible.

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