Family Work Co-ordinator

HAPANI; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fixed-term contract

Salary £15,570 per annum

Belfast location

Job summary

HAPANI in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is seeking an experienced Family Work Co-ordinator to lead frontline delivery of the Belonging Together project, supporting refugee and asylum-seeking families—especially women and children—through safe, inclusive, and culturally sensitive family and community activities.

The role focuses on leading Belonging Circles and play/early years sessions, building partnerships with schools and health services, safeguarding, and mentoring peer supporters to strengthen

Qualifications

• Experience in family support, community development or refugee integration work.
• Ability to create trauma-informed, culturally sensitive spaces.
• Strong safeguarding knowledge and practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead Women & Family Belonging Circles and Parent–Child Play & Early Years sessions.
• Create safe, welcoming spaces that support wellbeing and participation.
• Coordinate childcare support and work with the English Tutor to build confidence.
• Identify and mentor refugee women as peer supporters and community connectors.
• Build partnerships with schools, health services, ESOL providers and community organisations.
• Maintain safeguarding standards, project records, participant feedback and funder reporting.
• Demonstrate lived experience of migration or displacement and work across cultures.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Bilingual Arabic/Somali

Job description

SALARY
£15,570 per annum CONTRACT
Fixed term – 2 years, subject to funding

EMPLOYER
Horn of Africa People’s Aid Northern Ireland (HAPANI) REPORTS TO
CEO

Support families in building confidence, connection, and a stronger sense of belonging.

HAPANI is seeking an experienced, values-driven Family Work Co-ordinator to lead frontline delivery of the Belonging Together project, supporting refugee and asylum-seeking families – particularly women and children – through safe, inclusive and culturally sensitive family and community activities.

Key responsibilities

• Lead Women & Family Belonging Circles and Parent–Child Play & Early Years sessions.
• Create safe, welcoming and trauma-informed spaces that support wellbeing and participation.
• Integrate childcare support and work with the English Tutor to build informal English confidence.
• Identify, support and guide refugee women as peer supporters and community connectors.
• Build partnerships with schools, health services, ESOL providers and community organisations.
• Maintain safeguarding standards, project records, participant feedback and funder reporting.
• Lived experience of migration or displacement.
• Experience in family support, community development or refugee integration work.
• Experience working with women and children experiencing poverty, isolation or trauma.
• Experience facilitating community-based group sessions and knowledge of safeguarding responsibilities.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and organisational skills and ability to work sensitively across cultures.
• Bilingual proficiency in Arabic or Somali, including reading, writing and speaking.