About the Job
Internal and External Vacancy
DISTINCT FUTURE OF CVDA
Common Vision for Development Association (CVDA) is an indigenous, non-governmental, non-for-profit, humanitarian aid association. It was established on October 28, 2005 by a group of dedicated persons from diverse social, economic, professional and religious backgrounds.
The following are CVDA’s vision, mission, goals, principles and values:
VISION
CVDA envisions a poverty-free Ethiopia where equity and equality are ensured.
MISSION
CVDA’s mission is to enhance socioeconomic development in health, education, agriculture, environment, livelihood, and WaSH, humanitarian responses, community-based peace-building, and good governance through holistic approaches and working with the community to contribute towards sustainable development and an improved standard of living in Ethiopia.
OVERALL GOAL
CVDA’s goal is to contribute to poverty alleviation through community-based approaches by implementing programs for development, good governance, and humanitarian responses in different regions of the country.
- Health and Nutrition: Enhance the provision of equitable and quality primary health services and nutrition.
- Education: Support the academic performance improvement of primary and secondary school children and functional literacy.
- Environment and Agriculture: Enhance the capacities of households and communities on environmental protection and agricultural productivity.
- WaSH: Improve access and quality of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene.
- Emergency Responses: Provide humanitarian and emergency responses for disaster- affected communities.
- Enhance Peacebuilding, democracy, and good Governance
PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES
1, Reproductive and Primary Health Program
2. Water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Program
3. Food Security, Livelihood Diversification and Natural Resource Conservation Program
4, Education Program
5, Emergency and Relief Program
General roles and responsibilities
SSWs will be responsible for coordinating, overseeing and supporting case management activities in their respective Kebele. SSWs will work closely with CCC/CCs to prioritize and select the most vulnerable households. Once households have been selected, they will assign each household to a CW and will mentor and support the CW in enrolling each household, assessing their needs, and developing a care plan with the family. SSWs will also support CWs during individual and group follow-up meetings with families. Each SSW will mentor and supervise 20 CWs/ 400 Children. The intensity of the mentoring and support SSWs provide to each CW will depend on the CW’s level of experience and the level of risk of families in the CW’s caseload. SSWs will be more actively involved in cases where children/families are at very high risk and the CW is not very experienced. SSWs will also be responsible for reviewing and compiling the information submitted by CWs and submitting it to the LIPs.
Specific roles and responsibilities include:
- Monitoring, coaching, and supervising Case Workers to provide quality of services to OVC and CG
- Facilitate identification of vulnerable children and caregivers in collaboration with CCCs and CWs.
- Conduct and support different household assessments including household HIV/AIDS and economic vulnerability; needs and strength assessment; and HIV risk assessment.
- Support development of care plan for each household to improve their situation.
- Manage data entry to ensure real time data use by utilizing eCM/CommCare.
- Facilitate access to services in the care plan through referral and direct support and ensure that families are on track to achieve healthy, stable, safe and schooled benchmarks of OVC.
- Monitor and report about the situation of target children and families; and
- Support and conduct graduation readiness assessment of each household as required
- Facilitate closure of cases as per the OVC guidance up on case plan achievement/transfer/ attrition
- Support CCC in documentation, timely reporting, local resource mobilization, service coordination and the use and management of case files at Kebele level
- Support, supervise and mentor all caseworkers under his/her kebele/catchment areas
Project: USAID Family-Focused HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Services
Reports to: OVC Service Specialist
Vacancy closing date: November5, /2024
No of positions: 3
About You
Minimum requirements for Social Service Workers
- A bachelor’s degree/diploma in social or health science field
- 0 to 2 years’ experience
- Preferably resident of Hawassa and familiar with local administration
- Able to understand and use case management forms and tools
- Strong communication and facilitation skills and comfortable to work with children, households and kebele administration
- No history of child abuse, crime or substance abuse and who has good reputation by community and local administration
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Required Skills
- Communication
Application procedure: through email: [email protected] CC [email protected] & [email protected] Write on subject of the email; position and also attach
summary sheet
Registration place: submit summary of your profile as per format below, copy of application letter, C.V stating 3 work related reference & minimum salary expectation and other confidential:
CVDA
Hawassa Branch office around Atote street, & Head office; Bekele Eshte Tower, which is along Torhailoch Total road 5th floor, Room No.504 For further information contact 0113691051
You can deliver in had or submit through email.
Format for Summary of Application : Please fill this form and attach when you apply via the link.
More Information
- Address Ethiopia
- Experience Level Junior
- Total Years Experience 0-5
