Summary
Date Posted: Friday, November 12, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania is a local non-government organization affiliated to SOS Children’s Villages International, a worldwide child care and protection or­ganization that provides orphaned and destitute children with a permanent home and educational opportunities. Established 60 years ago, SOS Children’s Villages International the umbrella organization, currently has Children’s Villages and other projects in 135 countries around the world. Globally, it runs the SOS Children’s Vil­lage Programme which has two main arms, i.e. Family Based Care based at SOS Children’s Villages and Family Strengthening Programmes supporting families in local communities. SOS has been working in the United Republic of Tanzania since 1991, and implements its programs in the following locations Zanzibar, Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Mwanza and Iringa. SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania seeks to recruit suitably qualified candidates to fill the following vacant positions;
Job Title: Counselor (1 Post)
Duty station: Dar es Salaam
Reporting to: Alternative Care Coordinator

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Counselor is responsible to provide professional support for children, youth, and caregivers by designing, implementing, evaluating and enhancing a compre­hensive counseling program that promotes and enhances children and youths suc­cess. To help all children and youth develop skills in the areas of personal/social growth, educational planning, and career and vocational development. Responsible for providing services to children, staff, parents, and the community on issues per­taining holistic development. Support to coordinates all counseling services for chil­dren, youth and caregivers, and to assists in the coordination and implementation of services in the alternative care program.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES.
• Develops program location counseling, mental health and psychosocial services and develops activities and resources tailored to individual child, youth, or caregiver’s identified needs.
• Provides individual and group counseling and psychosocial support to meet the social emotional, and health child and adolescence developmental, pre­
• ventive, and remedial
• Foster appropriate adult/child relationships; maintain appropriate boundar­ies and facilitate recreational activities, group meetings, and any additional counseling, mental health or psychosocial program activities, both on and off the compound, including
• Support the developmental needs of children focusing on the uniqueness of children in areas of academic, career and personal/social through counsel­ing, guidance, psychosocial support, consultation and
• Developing and providing developmental guidance programs for all children in the areas of self-awareness, interpersonal skills, education awareness, and career awareness.
• Conduct psychological/psychosocial assessment of children and youth to determine their needs, and develop individual intervention plan or safety plan during admission, service provision and reintegration
• Collaborate with other staff to strengthen integration of Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health (ASRH), Psychosocial Support (PSS), and Mental Health services into Family-Like Care (FLC) programming.
• Contribute to the development and design of mental health educational ma­terial, programs, and presentations as required.
• Acting as a facilitator of the parent-child relationship by providing short-term advising/counseling services and by conducting conferences for the pur­pose of interpreting academic data and behavioral
• Serving a liaison function between parents other professionals in and out of the program and the community by facilitating appropriate referrals.
• Assist parents, and care givers in SOS Children’s Villages programs to have a realistic perception of their children’s attitudes, aptitude, interests etc and means of managing it.
• Supports the Sponsorship Coordinator on getting all necessary correspon­dences from Mothers, Aunts, Child and Youth Development Officers, and any other staff for sponsors’
• Creates result reports that demonstrate immediate, intermediate, and long- range effectiveness of comprehensive counseling, mental health and psy­chosocial support
• Contribute to the preparation of annual program work-plan, budgets, perfor­mance reports, and quarterly reports.
• Prepares and submits for approval long and short-term plans for counselling, mental health and psychosocial
• Maintains proper documentation of Counselling, Mental Health and Psycho­social Services to individual children, parents and SOS Children’s Villages caregivers. These include interview notes, psychometric and other assess­ment reports, communication regarding the client, risk assessments and safety plans, signed consent forms and any authorities to release informa­tion; update case management information system inline with SOS Children’s Villages and the National Case Management Standards.
• The counselor analyzes outcome data to guide future action and improve future results for all
• Follows-up, evaluates and recommends measures to be taken in order to improve counseling, Mental Health andPsychosocial Services to children in alternative
• At all times ensures that personal data of donors, sponsors, SOS Children’s Villages’ beneficiaries and their families as well as SOS co-workers is han­dled confidentially and in accordance with prevailing SOS-Kinderdorf Inter­national data protection

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCES:
• Bachelor Degree in Counselling Psychology, or Guidance and Counselling from recognized Universities.
• At least three (3) years of relevant professional experience.
• Ability to work independently, self-organize, use initiative, keeps commit­ments and meets deadlines.
• The candidate should possess the emotional stability to lead and guide the large community of children and youth, by maintaining the required high
• Mature personality (male or female), stable socially and emotion- ally.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Excellent communication skills
• Fluent in English and Swahili.
• Computer literacy

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested candidates for any of the above positions should submit their applica­tion letter by email describing how your experience, qualifications and competen­cies make you the right candidate for this position. Enclose ONLY detailed and updated CV with telephone contacts, email address and details of at least 3 refer- ees.The candidate MUST clearly indicate the title of position applied for. Only con­tacted candidates for the interview will submit copies of academic, professional certificates and passport size photo. Closing date is 25th November, 2021. To apply please send to;
The National Director SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
recruit.sostanzania@sos-tanzania.org 

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