Η προθεσμία υποβολής των αιτήσεων είναι έως τις 25 Οκτωβρίου 2022.
Psychosocial officer | Horizon Center Team
Reports to: Horizon Team Leader
Project: Horizon Center
Employment type: Full time (40 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 lead the Psychosocial Program and ensure implementation and follow-up on the Faros Holistic Care Model
- 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, 10 am – 6 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.
