Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Keeping Girls in School (KGS) Initiative is a component under the Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihood (GEWEL) Project which is currently being implemented by the Government of Zambia with support from the World Bank. The Project which is being implemented in three Ministries namely the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), Ministry of Gender (MOG) and Ministry of General Education (MOGE) has three components. The first component is the Supporting Women's Livelihoods initiative, while the second component supports the keeping Girls in School Initiative, and the third component supports institutional strengthening and system building in MOG and MCDSS for women's empowerment and social protection.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
The goal of the Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihood (GEWEL) Project is to increase access to livelihood support for extremely poor rural women and access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent girls in extremely poor households in selected districts. The objective of KGS is to help adolescent girls in extremely poor households to access secondary education, by providing support to cover secondary school fees for adolescent girls in extremely poor households that are benefitting from the government's existing Social Cash Transfer.
KGS was designed in response to the fact that very few adolescent girls in rural areas are enrolled in school and increase in school dropout due to:
(i) the inability of the poorest families to bear the costs (or opportunity costs) of educating girls and
(ii)the lack of options available to girls to develop the skills needed to generate sufficient income to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. KGS will therefore increase the opportunities available to these girls to improve their living standards in the long run by ensuring that they acquire the needed education.
The Ministry of General Education is inviting applications from interested persons who meet the minimum requirements to fill the following positions. Kindly note that those who responded to our earlier advertisement are advised to apply again.
CASE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST (1)
Location - Lusaka Reports to- Project Coordinator .

Duties and Responsibilities
• Plan and provide guidance on the implementation of all Case Management activities across Project areas:
• Oversee the plans, activities and outputs of the case management consultant during the implementation of the case management pilot:
• Review and update all the referral centres and institution support the Case Management implementation under the GEWEL Project;
• Link Case workers with service providers and support effective collaboration for referrals;
• Coordinate all trainings related to Case Management for all Project staff, stakeholders and Case workers;
• Document best practices in the implementation of Case Management;
• Collaborate with all stakeholders and cooperating partners and follow up on at risk children and families;
• Review and follow-up on all Cases and ensure all cases are managed within acceptable timelines;
• Supervise and support the case workers in family visits if necessary, in coordination with the District Social Welfare Team;
• Organise case management meetings with all case workers and with the participation of the social welfare teams;
• Ensure that case workers respect confidentiality and follow ethical guidelines
• Ensure documentation at both paper and computer level with respect to all cases across Project areas:
• Work in close collaboration with community mobilisation to strengthen the relationship between the community referral centres;
• Provide high quality individual and group support to children, adolescents, their caregivers and their teachers, through the use of evidence based on techniques that build beneficiaries' coping strategies, trust, resilience and self-confidence in a durable way
• Ensure constant and transparent internal and external communication and collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including community members, community leaders and families;
• Document best practice, case studies and learning;
• Share information on field-level successes and challenges and ensure that major challenges are flagged early, and addressed in an appropriate way;
• Provide psycho-social counselling to the KGS beneficiaries in KGS schools:
• Assist school administrators and educators with planning and carrying out school related programmes and events;
• Analyse KGS beneficiaries' performance in the classroom to provide guidance and identify potential problems;
• Learn beneficiaries' names, career objectives and other details in order to serve them better;
• Help students develop academic plans in accordance with their skills, talents and strengths:
• Facilitate crisis intervention and prevention programmes;
• Communicate with teachers, parents and administrators on an on-going basis about behavioural and academic problems;
• Submit regular reports.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Qualifications, Experience and Key Attributes
• University Degree in social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Counselling or other relevant fields or equivalent;
• Extensive experience in working directly with children and adolescent girls;
• 5 years relevant experience in working with communities especially in the area of child protection, case management, grievance redress, education and social programmes or relevant field;
• Experience in community mobilization and conducting outreach activities;
• Good understanding of social welfare systems and child protection mechanisms;
• Strong interpersonal skills and ethical sensitivity:
• Able to work to tight deadlines under pressure;
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Fluency in Zambian local language(s) an added advantage

Job Education Requirements: University Degree in social Work,

Job Experience Requirements: 5 years relevant experience

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested candidates who meet the minimum qualifications should apply through the address below not later than 14th January, 2021.
The Permanent Secretary-A .
Ministry of General Education 89 corner of Chimanga & Mogadishu Road.
P.O.Box 50093 .
LUSAKA

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