ECCO Project Counselor Job in Kenya

ECCO is a child focused charitable organization that works directly with street children and street youths in Eldoret, Kenya.

ECCO also involves the government, CCI’s and other actors’ in addressing the plight of street families. Founded by former street children who after finding opportunities to rehabilitate their own lives, wanted to reach out to other street children in their community.

The organization addresses the situation of street children and youths in three dimensions: rehabilitation, creation of referral networks and advocacy.

In our partnership with Save the Children UK we are implementing a programme called, “Action for the Rights of Street Children and Youths living on the street in Eldoret for a period of 4 months.

We are therefore, looking for a suitable person to fill the following position as soon as possible:

Project Counselor

Duties and Responsibilities

• Spearhead the provision of counseling services to street children and youths within the project.
• Participate in Identification, Documentation Tracing and Reunification (IDTR) process for reformed children.
• Visiting field sites (Barracks) on weekly basis and explore children’s needs.
• Support the implementation of all direct activities within the institution with a special emphasis on counseling, referring street children for services and reintegration.
• Assist in the identification of critical elements for the effective psychosocial support systems and assist in the documentation of the same.
• Under the guidance of the programme officer assist in the development of all technical information in regard to programme implementation.
• Attending weekly and bi-monthly review meetings and documenting lessons learnt and action points.
• Guiding volunteer social workers in counseling children and case management.
• Production of weekly reports and monthly reports.
• Any other duty that you may be called upon to execute from time to time

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Must have Bachelor of Arts degree in Counseling psychology, social work or any other social science related discipline.
• Must adhere to child protection policy
• Must have training and facilitation skills.
• Must have experience in developing case histories for children
• Must have demonstrated experience in counseling children and young people
• Experience in counseling children in difficult circumstances is an added advantage
• Must have a strong disposition to and experience in working with disadvantaged children and youth.
• Experience in Behavioral Change Communication and substance abuse prevention programming is an added advantage.
• Must have excellent interpersonal, communication and writing skills with fluency in English.
• Must be a team player with the ability to work with others to achieve high goals.
• Must be an outstanding role model for street children youths, of unquestionable integrity and high ethical standards.

If you meet the above requirements and interested for the position, Please send your letter of your expression of interest and quote the range of salary you need alongside detailed Curriculum Vitae with three referees, a day-time telephone contacts to info@exstreetchildren.org.

The email should have a subject line: PROJECT COUNSELOR or post it to:

The Program Manager,
P.O Box 6770-30100,
Eldoret.

To be received by the close of business on 7th April 2011

We regret that only short-listed candidates will be contacted

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