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Psychosocial officer | Horizon Center Team
Reports to: Horizon Team Leader
Project: Horizon Center
Employment type: Part time (20 hours per week)
Contract length: 3 months (with the potential of renewal)
Work location: Athens, Greece
About Faros:
Faros is a Christian non–profit organization established in 2014 to provide humanitarian care and support to unaccompanied children and refugee youth in Greece. Our services include child–protection, accommodation, education and integration services. Our team of 50 staff throughout our Drop–in Center, Shelter and Horizon Center work with our values of compassion, competency, trust, honesty, and person–centered care towards the vision of seeing every unaccompanied child and refugee youth live with dignity and hope and be equipped to make a positive change in society.
About Horizon Center:
The Horizon Center provides an innovative education, employability & integration program for unaccompanied minors and refugee youth based in Athens, Greece (in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology D–Lab).
The purpose of the program is for the youth to become self–confident, resilient individuals, able to recognise their potential, possess great self–awareness, and have a desire to continually improve to achieve their goals and realise their place in the world.
Duties and Key Responsibilities:
Tasks relating to Faros Holistic Approach:
- To plan and conduct individual assessments and Holistic Action Plan meetings with beneficiaries.
- To provide targeted psychosocial coaching on the educational, occupational, integrational goals.
- To lead the Interdisciplinary team meetings and ensure the development of holistic action plans for each beneficiary.
- To develop and facilitate culturally and age–appropriate life skill classes and workshops.
- To implement and ensure consistency with Faros holistic approach (Holistic Wheel & Faros Ways: Pedagogical, Psychosocial, Educational & Integrational) at the Horizon Center.
- To monitor and report on beneficiaries’ general well–being and progress on achieving their goals.
Other General Tasks:
- To connect beneficiaries with relevant services and provide referrals, when necessary.
- To support networking and building effective and efficient relationships with local NGOs.
- To support the Horizon Center Team Leader when responding to emergencies.
Education / Experience needed:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Education or similar with a minimum of 2 years of post–licensure experience.
- Strong understanding of protection issues; including child protection
- Experience facilitating individual and group psychosocial meetings.
- Experience working with refugees or vulnerable populations is essential.
- Experience working in cross–cultural teams is preferred.
Skills & Personal Qualities required:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Desire to see young people develop and reach their potential.
- A passion for working with refugee youth.
- Ability to apply theory to practice.
- Ability to discuss sensitive issues with respect and empathy including ability to provide basic Psychological First Aid support.
- Ability to work goal oriented with youth and provide mentoring coaching
- Strong organisation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
- Highly self–motivated, self–reflective, and self–critical.
- Willingness to learn and develop further skills.
- Ability to work independently and as a team member in a fast–paced, cross–cultural environment.
- Proficiency working with word processing, spreadsheets and presentation software.
Language skills required:
Fluency in Greek and English language is essential.
Working Hours:
Monday to Friday, 11 am – 3 pm
Application:
Application Deadline: October 25, 2022
If you are interested in applying for this role, please email your resume along with a motivation letter to jobs@faros.org. In the subject header, please write ‘Psychosocial Officer’.
Please note:
- Due to the immediate need to fill this position, the selection process may start before the application deadline for the submission of resumes.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
