Social Worker (Education Project)

About Tdh-F

Terre des hommes Foundation – Helping children worldwide (Tdh), is the leading Swiss foundation for children’s aid, with its headquarters in Lausanne, and registered in Iraq with the No 2178598. Tdh aims to create a positive impact on children’s lives in almost 40 countries around the world, through our Health, Access to Justice, Migration and Child Protection transversal programmes.

Tdh started its operations in Iraq in Dec 2014 responding to needs of children and youth between the age group of 9-22 years, affected by the ISIL -driven crisis of 2014-2017. Due to high unmet needs for children, youth, and their families affected by the crisis, Tdh scaled up its interventions to 12 districts within 5 governorates (Anbar, Kirkuk, Ninewa, Baghdad & Salah al-Din), providing assistance in child protection, juvenile justice, education and WASH assistance in emergency.

In the long-term, through its Multi-year Country Strategy 2022 – 2024 and its long term Vision for the Country Programme, Tdh plans to reinforce and expand interventions due to the persistent overwhelming needs of children, youth and families through a NEXUS approach, responding to the protracted humanitarian needs while contributing to achieving durable solutions for the most vulnerable and at-risk population groups in the sectors of Child Protection, Education, WASH and Access to Justice for children, youth and women.

As of December 2021, Tdh with its 120 staff employees, is currently implementing a 7,5 Million CHF emergency, rehabilitation, and development program, across the country through its bases and offices in Baghdad, Ninewa, Salah al-Din and Kirkuk governorates working alongside and in collaboration with local partners and national authorities. The main donors are USG, UNOCHA, ECHO, SDC, GIZ, UNICEF. The main coordination office is in Erbil with a multi-cultural, very experienced, and highly motivated team providing support, technical expertise and ensuring accountability, while working closely with the collaborators in the Regional office in Amman, Jordan and the Head Quarters (HQ) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Reporting to the Child Protection and Education Officer and in close supervision of the Child Protection and Education Project Manager, the Social Worker is responsible to implement educational activities in  selected schools and communities. The activities include establishing and strengthening of Parent Teachers Association (PTAs), School Based Management Committees (SBMC), Community Outreach, formal and non-formal education, working with community based Child Protection Mechanisms and integrating child protection and education with an overall aim of increasing access to education, improving learning outcome and promoting social and emotional well being of children.

Main responsibilities :

• Identify in a systematic manner the most vulnerable children, out of school children and drop outs with special attention to girl child and children with disability and facilitate school enrollement in collaboration with the community and school management.

• Support the implementation of remedial education, catch-up classes, and accelerated learning programs in line with Tdh and Ministry of Education standards.

• Engage and support community based protection mechanisms to conduct Back-to-Learning and Backto-School campaigns particularly targeting girls’ access to secondary school.

• Identify using a set vulnerability criteria to identify vulnerable girls and facilitate the provision of Cash Voucher Assistance to encourage retention in the formal school system.

• Enhance protective environments for children at community level through capacity building and reinforcement of community/school-based structures (attentive care, CPCs, PTAs, SMCs).

• Promote the implementation of child friendly Codes of Conduct and complaint and reporting mechanisms in the selected schools by sensitizing the school management and children.
• Support the distribution of teaching and learning materials to children and schools.

• Enhance the school environment by linking school management with the community through establishment of Parent Teachers Associations and promoting linkages to the community based child protection mechanisms.

• Identify vulnerable children in the school and in the community and refer them to the child protection team using set procedures.

• Fully comply with Tdh Code of Conduct and ensure Child Safeguarding Policy is upheld at all times.

• Any other duties assigned by supervisor

Required Competencies:

• Good command of Arabic and is required. Spoken and written English is an advantage. Also other local languages is andvantage.  
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (social work, psychology, education, social sciences, etc.) or similar higher diploma level.
• Superior organizational skills, ability to prioritize, and to take initiative, with a result-oriented approach and positive attitude.
• At least two years of humanitarian experience is required. Previous experience in case management, education and social work is a distinct advantage.
• The ability to communicate effectively with children and adults, authorities and other partners, and express oneself in a clear and concise way.
• Proficient capacity building skills and previous capacity building experience.
• Good knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word and MS is an advantage.
• Ability and willingness to travel within Ninewa, and other parts of Iraq.
• Strong cross-cultural communication and resilience skills.

Values:

• The post holder must know, implement and promote humanitarian principles and specifically child protection principles and information management principles.
• The post holder is polite, respectful, honest, punctual and neutral.

S/he uses Tdh equipment, vehicles, resources and premises economically and responsibly.

Application Process:

Application should contain the following two attachments: CV and Cover letter.

Application should be submitted to ” [email protected] ” with writing the exact subject (Social Worker  – Sinjar). Otherwise CV not be accepted.

• Sending CV with Link will be disregarded.
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
• Preference will be given to qualified candidates from the targeted area