Botswana Family Welfare Association (BOFWA),Social Worker Jobs in Botswana

Job description
Botswana
Family Welfare Association (BOFWA) is looking to fill the following position:
Social Worker (1 based in Gaborone)
Main
purpose of the Job:

To provide overall management of the OVC care

project at district level; in
collaboration with the district coordinator ensuring comprehensive services to
OVCs and their Caregivers, timely implementation and achievement of set
targets, 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
  • Coordinate
    comprehensive family care assessment among communities
  • Coordinate
    provision of comprehensive SRHR services
  • Manage
    linkages of clients to care services
  • Together
    with other Implementing Partners working in the area, identify and map the
    community’s needs
  • Identify
    champions in the community in liaison with the community leaders and the
    technical officers
  • Together
    with the project team, other Implementing Partners facilitate engagements
    of community in healthy conversations
  • In
    coordination with the Technical Officers, build capacities of project team
    to deliver comprehensive care to OVC
  • Plan,
    manage data collection, storage, achievement of set targets and timely
    reporting to the M&E and programs manager
  • Manage
    project team performance at district level
Requirements
Requirements
  • BGCSE
    and Diploma in Social Work (Minimum)
  • Management/Leadership
    skills
  • Good
    communication and writing skills
  • People
    skills/interpersonal skills
  • Self
    motivation
  • Experience
    working in rural communities
  • Working
    knowledge of the respective language of the communities
  • ICT
    skills
  • Experience
    in innovative community mobilization approaches
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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