Outreach Worker

Job Title:

Outreach Worker

Job Location:

Kahramanmaraş

Reporting to:

Child Development Officer

The application deadline is the 27 Aug 2024.

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, to alleviate 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, takes exceptional care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.

SENED Association emphasizes creating safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for individuals’ emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development by focusing on 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 become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee-disabled people and 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. All activities, education, research, advocacy, etc., are carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.

Job purpose:

The primary focus of this role is to identify and enlist community leaders, overseeing their capacity building training, monthly gatherings, events, and community mobilization sessions. This involves actively gathering data in the field to understand social norms, potential risks, and community concerns. Additionally, the position entails establishing effective two-way communication channels between the community and service providers. A crucial aspect of the role is the implementation of parenting sessions tailored for caregivers of children with disabilities. The overall aim is to foster stronger community connections, address social issues, and enhance support structures through strategic engagement and organized activities.

Duties, objectives, and competencies:

o Find and register community leaders who will mobilise and engage the community through sessions and events continue Covid Appropriate Behaviours,

o Organise capacity building trainings for community/youth influencers and faith-based leaders to raise their skills to promote inclusive approach for people with disabilities.

o Organise community mobilisation sessions with influencers to raise acceptance, mobilise and mitigate community’ negative perceptions on people with disability.

o Distribute brochures and educational resources.

o Support call center assistant for the calls received about problems of people with disabilities,

o Organise events and social media campaigns.

o Support the team in preparing the activity places.

o Prepare procurement requests and follow-up the process.

o Perform duties for administrative and logistic needs of project.

o Representing organization when needed professionally.

o Follow up the referrals of child protection risks

o Perform any other tasks related to the program when required.

Requirements: Essential

§ Bachelor’s degree (preferable to be in a medical department).

§ Advance level in the Arabic and Turkish language.

§ Minimum of 1 year of proven experience in a similar position.

Requirements (desired)

§ Intermediate level in the English language.

§ Experience working with Persons Living with Disabilities.

§ Verified experience in humanitarian work and principles.

§ Verified experience in health activities.

Technical Competencies:

§ Intermediate knowledge in outreach works.

§ Intermediate 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.

SENED Organization does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. jobs-near-me.org SENED Kuruluşu işe alım sürecinin hiçbir adımında ücret talep etmemektedir.

SENED retains the discretion to re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer a contract with a modified job description or for a different duration, or offer a contract at a lower grade.