Are you interested in building innovative social services for children & youth, their families and their communities? Are you a dynamic team leader who is passionate about supporting teams on the field and building their capacity? Then join us!
You will be joining the multi-disciplinary team of Friends-International (FI) comprised of over 600 professionals committed to creating innovative social services for youth, children and families worldwide.
What will you do?
As a Social Work Technical Advisor you will take a senior and very important role in our team with a mission to directly ensure high quality and expansion of social services that protect and save lives of marginalized children & youth, their families and communities across Southeast Asia and beyond.
This includes providing direct support and capacity building to Friends programs and partners; and coordinating the technical support in social services.
As a SOCIAL WORK TECHNICAL ADVISOR your responsibilities will include the following:
You will be joining the multi-disciplinary team of Friends-International (FI) comprised of over 600 professionals committed to creating innovative social services for youth, children and families worldwide.
What will you do?
As a Social Work Technical Advisor you will take a senior and very important role in our team with a mission to directly ensure high quality and expansion of social services that protect and save lives of marginalized children & youth, their families and communities across Southeast Asia and beyond.
This includes providing direct support and capacity building to Friends programs and partners; and coordinating the technical support in social services.
As a SOCIAL WORK TECHNICAL ADVISOR your responsibilities will include the following:
- Leading a team of technical advisors to build and maintain thehighest quality of social services in Friends programs and partners
- Building capacity of teams on the field through support, trainings, guidance, individual coaching and specialist consultations
- Ensure social services standards of procedures, guidebooks and child protection policies are updated and well implemented by the teams
- Represent Friends on all key relevant meetings with various stakeholders including partners, donors and government, by
- advocating Friends position, values, vision and mission
- Provide input into annual strategic plans to ensure relevance of services and alignment with the national priorities
- Support Friends and partner teams on the field by providing specialist consultations and monitoring activities for quality and relevance
- Provide and facilitate technical contributions to new funding proposals for social services in Friends programs
About you:
- You are a dynamic, innovative, effective and proactive team leader who enjoys
- building capacity of your peers in a participatory and enabling approach, while
- keeping an open mind to environment and local context
- You are passionate and driven by child-centered approaches by maintaining focus on bringing high quality social services for marginalized children & youth, their families and their communities
- You have relevant and proven knowledge, skills and experience (5 - 10 years) in the field of social service provision, managing people and building systems
- You’re open to and excited by learning and adapting to new contexts and situations with humility and reverence for your peers and Friends partners
- You have high-level skills in supervising projects that involve multiple stakeholders across different countries
- You can write and understand logical frameworks; and can support and guide peers in understanding outcome-based activity flows
- You have excellent skills in training and coaching on the job with a focus on transferring knowledge and skills
- You’re able to think strategically, globally and collaboratively; bring practical, hands-on solutions to the table
- You are comfortable working within an international team environment
- You have superb communications skills especially working with non-native English speaking peers
- You have excellent English language skills, and any other Asian language would be a plus!
You will be based in our Headquarters in Phnom Penh with travels nationally and in the
region.
Salary and benefits will be commensurate with qualifications and experiences.
About us:
Friends-International is a social enterprise that works with marginalized urban children and youth, their families and communities, to help them become independent and productive citizens of their country.
We drive an innovative network of government and non-government organizations working together to solve the problems children and youth face worldwide. The objective is to significantly improve the quality and impact of services to marginalized
urban children and youth and related groups through an effective network of internationally recognized organizations. We have developed a holistic social integration cycle that is based on individual and community needs to achieve best practice
methods directly or in collaboration with partners.
Join us by:
Submitting your cover letter with a CV and salary expectations to hr@friends-international.org with the caption subject: Social Work Technical Advisor
Please mention "Cambodiajobs.Biz" where you saw the ad when you apply!
Friends-International is an equal opportunity employer and the successful candidate will be selected based on merit.
The successful applicant will be expected to comply with Friends-International’s Child Protection Policy.
Please submit you application before 8th January, 2016
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.
