Botswana Family Welfare Association (BOFWA),Counselors Jobs in Botswana

Job description
Botswana
Family Welfare Association (BOFWA) is looking to fill the following position:
Counselors (2 Kanye, 1 Gaborone)
Main
purpose of the Job:

To provide comprehensive counseling services to OVCs and their Caregivers in
each district and to link them to care, in line with the goal and

objectives of
the project.

Responsibilities
and duties:
  • Mobilize
    OVC (communities, adolescents, youth and young mothers) to access care
    services
  • Support
    Community Health Providers to conduct comprehensive family care assessment
    among communities
  • Conduct
    home visits to provide comprehensive SRHR services
  • Link
    clients to health and socio-economic care services
  • Together
    with the project teams and other Implementing Partners working in the
    area, identify and map the community’s needs
  • Together
    with project teams and other Implementing Partners working in the area,
    facilitate community conversations
  • Together
    with the project team, other Implementing Partners and communities link
    OVC to care services
  • In
    coordination with the community leaders, and together with the Technical
    Officers, participate in engaging communities in healthy conversations.
  • In
    coordination with the project team (Social Worker), plan and document
    targets reached and maintain clients data and submit reports in
    collaboration with the project team
  • Participate
    in identification and set up of the training venues, including the
    logistical aspects for the same
  • Provide
    written and concise reports for all training and community outreach
    activities undertaken
  • Provide
    weekly monthly reports to the M&E and project officer
Requirements
Requirements
  • BGCSE
    and Minimum Certificate in Counseling
  • Excellent
    communication and report writing skills
  • People
    skills/interpersonal skills
  • Highly
    professional, Self motivated and innovative
  • ICT
    skills
  • Timely
    delivery of set targets
  • Teamwork
  • Experience
    in community mobilization approaches
  • Working
    knowledge of the respective language of the communities
Company profile
Botswana
Family Welfare Association (BOFWA) is a National non-governmental organization
(NGO) and member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
BOFWA working to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive health
information, services and advocate for the rights of adolescents/youth,
orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) and Key Populations.
Overall
Project mission

In 2016 BOFWA entered into an agreement with PCI International, to implement a
PEPFAR funded OVC Project PCI led partnership in two of the seven PEPFAR high
priority scale-up districts – greater Gaborone and Southern (entailing
Gaborone, Moshupa, Kanye, Lerolwana, Selokolla, Gasita ). The overall mission
of the project is to improve the health and social status for vulnerable
adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), children and adolescents living with
HIV, and HIV-exposed infants, especially infants of young mothers, contributing
to the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals for Botswana. The OVC Project seeks to provide
targeted, evidence-based and comprehensive OVC care and service interventions
that empower families, strengthen community support structures to identify and
protect OVC.
Closing date and application
instructions
Interested
candidates send your CV, cover letter indicating education and experience to:
The
CEO
BOFWA
PO Box 00100 Gaborone
Email: bofwa@bofwa.org.bw
Or hand deliver plot 23789 Phase 4 G/West
Closing
date: 11th November 2016
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