JOB at Caritas Development Office Diocese of Mbeya

 CARITAS DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

DIOCESE OF MBEYA

JOB VACANCY

ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE STREET OUTREACH WORKER (1 POST)

Caritas – Mbeya is a development organization under the Catholic Diocese of Mbeya working with urban and rural poor communities in the region/diocese. Briefly, it is a coordinating and facilitating body of the Diocese of Mbeya (Mbeya Region), working in partnership with local organizations through training, awareness creation, capacity building, fundraising, research, lobby and advocacy, and other ways of technical support to strengthen their effectiveness in helping them utilize their resources to meet their basic needs for justice and wellbeing of everybody.

Vision, Caritas exists to empower the poor and marginalized through facilitation, training, lobbying, advocacy, and information sharing in collaboration with other Stakeholders; our work is inspired by the Gospel values of love, justice, respect for human life and dignity and the social teaching of the Church. Mission to facilitate the empowerment of the poor and marginalized to identify causes of the ongoing problems including poverty, meet their basic needs, obtain and reclaim their right sustain ably.

Caritas in collaboration with PACT Tanzania and Railway Children Africa are implementing Kizazi Kipya project in Mbeya City and Mbeya District council under result four which focus on Children Living and working in the street with the support from USAID and DFID.  

Job Title:  Street Outreach worker

 Reporting to: Program Coordinator.

 Location base: Mbeya City.

 JOB DESCRIPTION ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 Street outreach worker shall be responsible to the Program Coordinator of CLWS (Children Living and Working in the street) the Kizazi Kipya-USAID New Generation Program.

The duties and responsibilities of the Street outreach worker are listed below:

Identify and making contact with new children in the street through daily street work.

Observe child protection policy and ensure project beneficiaries are safe.

Engage CLWS with intentional street based activities that support them in transition from street life.

Facilitate referral of CLWS  to health, social and HIV services 

Maintain close working relationship with family workers staff and ensure documentation of background information for CLWS that are either referred to a temporary shelter center.

Conduct individual child assessment.

 Qualifications and experiences.

First degree in Sociology, Rural development, Social work, Community development, psychology

Experienced in working with street children, and adolescents’ youths.

 Skills and abilities.

Strong computer literacy, especially in Microsoft Word, Excel and Access.

Ability to use accounting packages, such as Quick-book

Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.

Capability to cope with increased workload and to work under pressure to meet reporting deadlines.

Excellent interpersonal relations and ability to mentor and to supervise other staff.

Excellent communication and report writing skills including command of both Kiswahili and English.

How to Apply:

 If you believe you are the ideal candidate we are looking for, please submit by email only, your application, Curriculum Vitae detailing your experiences, one copy of your Degree/Diploma Certificate, one copy of your birth certificate and the names and contact (phone number, email) of three referees to: caritas.recruitment@yahoo.com.  

 PLEASE NOTE.

The closing date for applications is 13 February 2019

Only applications sent by email will be considered; hard copy applications sent by post or by hand will not be considered.