Social (Case) worker

Job Title: Social (Case) worker
Job code: TR-PRO-0016
Application closure date: 06/02/2022
Location: Elâzığ – Turkey
Sector: Program unit

Takaful Al Sham Charity is a non-governmental civil society organization devoted to alleviating the suffering and improving the sustainability mechanisms of conflict-affected populations.
Takaful Al Sham Charity partners directly with affected Syrian populations delivering humanitarian and development programs, Livelihood, Education, and Protection, to enable them to improve their living practices and their sustainability mechanisms.

Job Purpose

Role Purpose: He/she will be responsible for implementing specialized protection activities including case management, IPA, and referral, to ensure achieving project protection objectives in the correct form as planned and ensuring documentation and implementation accordance to the requirements of the administration and donors, submitting periodic reports in full transparency.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement case management and IPA activities according to inter-agency guidance in Turkey, Elâzığ city, including setting up clear objectives for opened cases, and apply all adopted standards, SOPs, and formats.
• Conduct life skills and PSS sessions, in addition to referral services.
• Ensure case management steps, case management meetings, referrals and documentation are happening in timely and quality manner.
• Conduct social cohesion activities for members of host and refugees communities.
• Submit a monthly financial and narrative reports of protection activities to the line manager.
• Ensure that project protection goals and plans are implemented on time and on budget, and according to donor/partner/other
• Maintain the principles of humanitarian work and community based approached during the implementation of the project.
• Follow up with the Media Department on the design success stories for protection project.
• Compliance with codes of conduct, child protection policies and sexual exploitation.

Qualification (Education/Work Experience/Languages)

Essential:
Bachelor’s degree in Social and psychological studies
• Technical experience in implementing child protection, PSS, IPA, Case management and protection activities in Turkey context.
• Experience for at least three years in similar projects in non-profit organizations in Turkey context.
• Excellent level of negotiation, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in working with MS Office, especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Good level of presentation skills, effective communication (verbally and in writing) and speaking with confidence.
• The ability to work under pressure.
• Very good command in Arabic languages, reading, writing and speaking.

Desirable
• Residence in Elâzığ
• Turkish proficiency
• Facilitation skills
• Certificates in Psychosocial First Aid, CM, IPA,

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Takaful Al-sham 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.

Takaful Al-sham’s employees and volunteers are obligated not to practice sexual exploitation and abuse, in exchange for the services they provide, in addition to assuming their responsibilities to protect children from harm and abuse and to ensure a safe environment for them, and to work to create a safe work environment for everyone free from any form of harassment, abuse, exploitation or misconduct during work that diminishes the dignity and safety of the volunteer or employee.