Starting Date: ASAP

Status: Full Time/ Fixed-term

Child Safeguarding Policy: Level 3 – Job holder will have regular contact with children.

Reports To: Project Area Manager

Child Safeguarding Policy: Level 3 – The job holder will have regular contact with children

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• In collaboration with the teaching staff, identify and provide individualized support to children with psychosocial and/or special educational needs and/or disabilities;
• Undertake and complete enrolments in formal education for migrant/refugee children who are out of school.
• Promote and enable school access for refugee/migrant children through the provision of technical and administrative support to parents and education stakeholders (RECs, public school administration and teaching staff etc.)
• Conduct regular mapping of beneficiaries, needs assessment and service mapping ensuring the access of refugee/migrant children to formal education and non-formal education/after-school support opportunities.
• Perform social work duties and undertake procedures’ implementation when referral(s) to other services are required, within the Athens Solidarity Center services or external partners/organizations etc.
• Organize an identification and referral system for children at risk including services such as medical, legal, psychological, WASH, shelter etc;
• Organize and facilitate awareness-raising and group psychosocial support activities, with a support of a psychologist when needed, on a broad range of issues for children as part of the life skills and psychosocial development and learning process inside the classroom;
• Organize and facilitate parents’ meetings and provide specialized support to parents combating school dropout and resolving challenges that might arise regarding school attendance and children’s needs;
• Regular reporting and data keeping.

 Required qualifications and skills

• University degree in Social Work, or other Social Science (e.g. Psychology);
• Minimum one-year professional experience in social work within the civil society sector, preferably working with vulnerable groups and refugees/migrants;
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team;
• Ability to troubleshoot and ease potential tensions between the project’s beneficiaries;
• Previous experience in a job entailing direct contact and exchange with vulnerable groups of beneficiaries is an asset;
• Fluency in Greek and English required;
• Proficient with MS Outlook, Excel, and Word business software;
• Experience in community mobilization;
• Cross-cultural awareness and flexibility;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, listening and observation skills, including ability to create trust, support, respect and interact with parents and children of all ages, background and diversity;
• Strong team player and able to handle pressure well;
• Well organized and efficient, with ability to organize and prioritize workload, using initiative when appropriate;
• Good report writing skills.

If you are interested in applying, please send your CV and motivation letter to recruitment@solidaritynow.org mentioning in the email subject “SN Social Scientist _HCAC Athens”.

SN is an equal opportunity employer. Persons with disabilities and from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Due to the urgency of recruitment, SN reserves the right to complete the process as soon as the suitable candidate has been identified. Interested candidates should submit their applications (CV and motivation letter) not later than by March 25th, 2024.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Remarks: Before submitting your CV, please read carefully the employees’ privacy notice on the processing of personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the respective Greek legislation. For roles that will have regular contact with vulnerable populations SolidarityNow is obliged to seek information about criminal convictions and offences, and selected candidates will be requested to provide a recent copy of criminal record.