Early Childhood Development Social Worker Job in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya

Position: Early Childhood Development Social Worker (One)
 

Location: Kibera
 

Reports to: ECD Coordinator and Community Programs Officer
 

Hours: Mon- Fri, 8:00am to 5:00pm and varied Saturdays
 

Key Responsibilities and Duties
 

The Social worker along with key technical staff will be responsible for coordinating caregiver – early child psycho-social program activities. 

Key responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Conduct regular home visits for the daycare and preschool children using the home visit tools to ensure the care-giving environment is conducive to help children grow into healthy and happy to harness full development potential
• Organize and  conduct parent/caregiver support group meetings to discuss essence of early child development issues and mobilize them into group savings and loan activities as economic strengthening at household level
• Use a variety of appropriate formal and informal tools and techniques to evaluate the progress and performance of students and families based on child development milestones
• Develop long-term and short-term intervention plans consistent with children’s developmental needs to help children attain full development potential
• Keep proper records of the children in the daycare and preschool programs including family background, health, social and key interventions and follow-up visits forms
• Assist ECD coordinator to carry-out individual child assessment to ensure each child is attaining proper development milestones
• Carry out any other duties as assigned by the supervisor, community programs officer and programs manager
• Performing other related duties as may be assigned

Personal Attributes

• High level of motivation, organization, honesty, commitment and professional responsibility
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Accurate and detail oriented

Requirements

• Must have good counseling skills.
• Key knowledge on Early Childhood Development
• Must have at least 2 years working experience

Academic Qualifications

• Diploma in Community Development
• Certificate/diploma in Early Childhood Development is desirable

To apply for this positions, candidates should send their applications to the email address jobs@shininghopeforcommunities.org not later than 7th November 2014.