• Job Title: Orphan Social Worker
• Salary: Competitive 
• Location: Aden Office
• Hours: Full-time
• Reporting to: OCW Officer 
• Start date: ASAP

Human Appeal is a non-profit organisation working across the globe to strengthen humanity’s struggle against poverty, social injustice and natural disaster. Through the provision of immediate relief and establishment of sustainable development programmes, we aim to invest in real effective solutions.

Now over 28 years, Human Appeal has a presence in 25 countries spanning across 3 regions: Asia, Africa and Europe as well as international offices in Europe and USA. Human Appeal operates in a voluntary organizational framework with a global perspective, and aims to provide the affected communities by emergency assistance, emergency relief and humanitarian programs to contribute to a radical solution to the problems of the needy around the world and is seeking to provide effective solutions to real living challenges faced by vulnerable groups. We are looking for a dynamic candidate who is passionate about international development to join our Human Appeal Yemen team. 

Job Purpose:

Orphan Social Worker will be responsible for the day-to-day activities of orphan child welfare programme by providing support to the orphan operations, facilitate good practice and ensuring legal compliance to applicable implementation process of a child welfare interventions in Aden.

MAJOR Essential Duties RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Orphan child welfare social worker will be fully engaged in ensuring safe and productive environment for orphans and other children under Human Appeal sponsorship program and will assess and report general living conditions, and learning standard of Human Appeal’s sponsored orphan children and also provide advises, awareness and orientation on safeguarding. 
• Assist in generating data for quarterly cases studies after every quarterly disbursement.
• Assist in maintaining sponsorship orphans’ records in soft and harp copies.
• Keep track of orphans who failed to attend school and find out factors hindering their process.
• Visiting and collecting orphan visit reports of individual and upload visit report twice in a year through the system.
• Attend and represent the child welfare sector in the monthly child protection working group meetings.
• Visit orphan children at their families for routine monitoring of their general progress
• Prepare photos, letters for the baseline data for progress reports and other reports.
• Updates Bio data online continuously.
• Assist in implementation of seasonal and other Ramadan food distributions for the orphans.
• Inform guardians/Mothers arrival of their entitlements.
• Collection of orphan school progress reports and filing of the same.

Security and safeguarding policies:-

1.    Ensures implementing and complying to security and safeguarding policies and compliance of security protocols and policies.

Person Specifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in social science, Developmental Studies, Law or any equivalent degree.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Team player and strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Proficient in computer applications, especially with MS Word and MS Excel, MS PowerPoint a plus.
• Fluency in Arabic and very good English languages speaking and writing abilities.