OCW Social Worker(3 Positions)

Job description

Job Title: OCW Social Worker(3 positions: 2 for Mogadishu and 1 in balad-hawa/Dolow)
Reporting To: Orphan Child Welfare Coordinator
Location: Mogadishu & Balad-hawa/Dolow Somalia.
Closing date: 16 July 2025
Salary range: Market competitive salary depending on experience and skills.
ATS Link: https://humanappeal.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=8058423d-87b7-4458-aff8-
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Here at Human Appeal, we have an exciting opportunity for Orphan Child Welfare Social Worker to be based at our Somalia office in Mogadishu Banadir and in Gedo Region. This is 6 month fixed term contract, renewable depend on availability of funding.
Human Appeal is a faith-based charity that aims to abolish poverty by providing humanitarian aid, sustainable development programs and championing advocacy for our beneficiaries worldwide. Human Appeal has 8 International Field Offices across Africa, Asia and the Middle East (Iraq, Senegal, Sudan Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia, Turkey, and Yemen). Human Appeal Somalia Field office programme operations are based in Mogadishu, Gedo region and previously Bai region, with programmatic focus in the sectors of; WASH, Shelter,
FSL, Education/Child Sponsorship, Protection and Health & Nutrition.
Job Summary: Orphan Child Welfare 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 Mogadishu-Banadir Scope of the Role: Orphan child welfare monitor will be fully engaged in ensuring safe and productive environment for orphans and other children under Human Appeal sponsorship scheme in Mogadishu and will assess and report general living, and learning standard of 360 model of Human appeal sponsored orphan children and also provide advises, awareness and orientation on child rights .
Some of the overall scope of the OCW-social worker duties are but not limited to the following:
Programme Support
 Orphan child welfare social worker will be fully engaged in ensuring safe and productive environment for orphans and other children under Human Appeal sponsorship scheme in Mogadishu and will assess and report general living, and learning standard of 360 Human appeal sponsored orphan children and also provide advises, awareness and orientation on safeguarding’s.
 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 factor hindering their process

 Visiting and collecting orphan visit reports of individual and upload visit report twice in a year through the system.
 Attend and a times 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 Under take 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.
Reporting and Representing
 Preparation and submission of monthly and quarterly progress reports to the respective people.
 To participate the clusters for maintaining and promoting a positive image of Human Appeal and its activities especially child protection clusters.
 Provide verbal and written feedback on a daily basis to direct line manager; assist in writing regular narrative and quantitative reports when requested.
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS
 Proactive, flexible and adaptable disposition.
 Respect and follow child Protection Policies.
 General Behaviors:
 Demonstrate behavior that reflects actions based on HA Values and policies.
 Demonstrate approach to work characterized by commitment, motivation and energy.
 Strong interpersonal, listening and communicative skills to develop long-term relations with communities, families and child.
 Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, a variety of team members and external contacts.
 Strong on assessments and case management.
 Solid understanding of the political context in Somalia, including security and economic situation.
 Excellent cross-cultural awareness.
 Experience working in security-sensitive environments and enforcement of team security protocols is an asset.
 Familiarity with the inter agency standing Committee (IASC) guidelines for interventions in humanitarian settings

Skills and qualifications

Key Competencies and Requirements
 Bachelor degree in social science, Developmental Studies, Law or any equivalent degree
 Extensive experiences in working for NGOs or INGOs on developmental field as Child Welfare/Protection, Social Worker with a maximum of 1-2 years of relevant experience
 Must have good communication and interpersonal

How to apply

We are looking to appoint this role ASAP and will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis, so for the best chance of success and please apply today to become our Orphan Child Welfare Social Worker - Somalia, we would love to hear from you.
Please note that we will only be contacting the Shortlisted candidates.
*Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply*