DESCRIPTION
The social worker is focused on working with schools, CBTC and YDTCs to drive Bright Future's programs and initiatives. The purpose of this role is to actively engage with stakeholders effectively to increase their participation in the organization's programs. This will help support adolescents and youth development in the areas of life skills and employability skills. Doing so helps Bright Future realize its vision of connecting education to employability right from the school level.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct community mapping and profiling exercise to identify key stakeholders and schools to partner with
- Design and facilitate stakeholder engagement activities in line with findings of the above exercise
- Organise event/session/workshop for communities with parents, youth groups, NGOs and other stakeholders to build awareness in the community through the CBTC
- Create youth and adolescent and schools pipeline and database ready for the program to achieve the goal smoothly with help of alumni and change leaders and stakeholders and mobilise youth and adolescents to ensure minimum expected enrolments in the programs
- Mobilise youth and adolescents to ensure minimum expected enrolments in the programs
- Conduct follow‑ups on calls with children, parents, alumni and stakeholders or home visits to ensure regular attendance of youth and their parents in the program and to proactively address any issues that may prevent the same
- Coordinate with relevant authorities to get permissions to bring aspirants for exposure visits to ensure smooth implementation of exposure visits (for both Livelihood and Step to Livelihood programs)
- Monitor Drama for Development (D4D) activities and handhold change leaders through implementation of the D4D program
- Maintain documentation on the program to be inputs into the monitoring and evaluation system
- Maintain data of mobilisation, planning, stakeholder forms, community profile forms, permission letter file, minutes of meetings, individual meet forms, photographs of events, community events reports, school profile forms
COMPENSATION
Best in the Industry
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Master of Social Work or Social Sciences
- Minimum of 1 year experience in community work or preferably with youth or adolescence
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE
- About areas in which there is a need to work with adult stakeholders, including identifying parents with parenting and other challenges, and how to educate them on possible solutions
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Planning and event management skills
- Influencing and counselling skills
- Written and oral communication
- Excellent communication with stakeholders
- Basic computer skills (MS Power Point, Excel and Word)
- Analytical and critical thinking skills