Outreach worker – Protection At Sened Organization

Job Title:

Outreach worker – Protection

Job Location:

Syria / Azez

Reporting to:

Project Officer

General Description of the Programme:

SENED is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization licensed and registered in Türkiye with the number 27-15-175. SENED Organization was established shortly after the Syrian Nakba and in response to the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey as well as internally displaced people in Syria, to alleviate suffering, achieving justice, equality, and freedom, strengthening the role of civil society, and supporting and developing the local community. SENED works in the humanitarian work sectors to support, empower, and educate the community through several programs, takes exceptional care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.

SENED Association emphasizes creating safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for individuals’ emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development by focusing on people with disabilities. Beyond the medical perspective on disability, it tries to find solutions to the problems faced by disabled people with a holistic perspective by considering the disabled people, their families, and the society they live in, focusing on the conditions they experience. SENED Association aims to create a safe and supportive environment and space by conducting family-oriented activities to help disabled individuals and their families become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee-disabled people and identifying problems and needs, SENED strives to ensure harmony between disabled refugees and local people with a voluntary, professional team and a community-based approach. All activities, education, research, advocacy, etc., are carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.

Job purpose:

The primary focus of this role is to support the implementation of Protection activities in A’zaz camps.

Duties, objectives, and competencies:

o Identify and register cases in need of protection activities.

o Identify the most common protection risks.

o Conducting field assessments and surveys to identify the most vulnerable individuals and Households in the project area.

o Support call center assistant for the calls received about problems of people with disabilities

o Communicating with the service providers in the project area when needed.

o Coordinating with the volunteers and social committees.

o Distributing awareness brochures about protection risks.

o Facilitating awareness-raising sessions about protection-related topics.

o Any other tasks required by the line manager.

Requirements: Essential

§ Bachelor’s degree.

§ Advanced level in the Arabic language.

§ Minimum of 1 year of proven experience in a similar position.

Requirements (desired)

§ Experience working with Persons Living with Disabilities.

§ Verified experience in humanitarian work and principles.

§ Verified experience in Protection activities.

Technical Competencies:

§ Intermediate knowledge in outreach works.

§ Intermediate knowledge in Excel & Word

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Disabled beneficiaries, children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SENED shows this ongoing commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Diversity

SENED is committed to creating a genuinely inclusive, effective, and representative organizational culture, encouraging employee equity and diversity, and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, etc., including various experiences and capabilities, helps us understand, represent, and serve children better. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, religion, gender, disability, or age.

Procedures

If needed, SENED will submit a work permit application for the selected candidate after the job offer is accepted. Failure to provide the required documents or rejection of a work permit application by the Government of Türkiye will result in rescinding the employment offer.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. SENED reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of SENED’s work, we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, which may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible.

SENED Organization does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. | SENED Organization does not charge a fee at any step of the recruitment process.

Job purpose:

· The main focus of this position is to support the implementation of protection activities in Azaz camps.

Duties, objectives, and competencies:

· Monitoring and recording cases that need protection activities provided by the Sanad Center in Azaz.

· Monitor protection concerns most in need of support.

· Implementing a field assessment and questionnaires in order to identify the most vulnerable individuals and families.

· Supporting the support line employee in order to receive the problems of people with disabilities.

· Communicate with service providers in the project area when needed and network with them.

· Coordination with volunteers and community committees in the project area.

· Distributing awareness brochures about protection risks.

· Facilitate awareness sessions when needed on protection-related topics.

· Any other tasks requested by the direct manager.