Social service worker Full Time NEW

Internal/External Vacancy Announcement for Anticipated position

 DISTINCT FUTURE OF CVDA

CVDA has been re-registered and licensed by the Ethiopian Ministry of Justice, Charities and Societies Agency, on November 30, 2009 as an Ethiopian Residents charity in accordance with the Charities and Societies proclamation No. 621/2009 with registration No. 0588. As per 1113/2019 proclamation also re-registered on July 30, 2019.

CVDA has permission to work at the national level however so far operates marginal parts of Benshangule Gumuz Region, Sidama region, South Ethiopia Region, Central Ethiopia region, South west Ethiopia region, Oromiya region, Afar region and Addis Ababa City administration.

It is member of Consortium of Reproductive Health Association (CORHA), Union of Ethiopian Women Charitable Association (UEWCA), Ethiopian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative/EEITI/, Ethiopia Civil Society Coalition for Scaling up Nutrition/ECSC-SUN/ and Afar Region Health Partner Forum.

The following are CVDA’s vision, mission, goals, principles and values:

Vision

CVDA envisions a poverty-free Ethiopia where equity and equality are ensured.

Mission:

CVDA’s mission is to enhance socioeconomic development in health, education, agriculture, environment, livelihood, and WaSH, humanitarian responses, community-based peace-building, and good governance through holistic approaches and working with the community to contribute towards sustainable development and an improved standard of living in Ethiopia.

Overall goal:

CVDA’s goal is to contribute to poverty alleviation through community-based approaches by implementing programs for development, good governance, and humanitarian responses in different regions of the country.

CORE VALUES

CVDA and its operations enshrine the following values.

• Integrity: Upholding the principles of honesty and responsibility and maintaining the highest ethical standards possible.
• Courage of conviction: CVDA’s pledge is to fight against poverty and hunger and always take sides with the poorest and most disadvantaged groups and help them bring about positive changes in their lives.
• Accountability: This espouses CVDA’s ongoing commitment to be accountable for its actions and to respond periodically to questions concerning its activities or answer to those who will be affected by our decisions or actions.
• Transparency: CVDA takes decisions and implements them in a manner that follows the rules and regulations. Moreover, CVDA shall provide key stakeholders with reliable, relevant, and timely information on matters that concern them.
• Sensitivity: CVDA is sensitive to conflict, gender, resources, culture, and social values in all of its program design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting and hence it wishes to be impartial and equitable in all its actions and activities

5.5       PRINCIPLES

CVDA adheres to the following principles:

• Real-time and change-oriented performance
• Belief that results can be achieved if the process is sound and suitable
• Trustworthiness
• Team spirit
• Ownership
• Volunteerism
• Compliance and commitment
• Do no harm
• Value for money\
• Sustainability

PROGRAMSANDACTIVITIES

1. Reproductive and Primary Health Program
2. Water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Program
3. Food Security, Livelihood Diversification and Natural Resource Conservation Program
4. Education Program
5. Emergency and Relief Program

Description of the Vacancy

The American state Department Funded Family Focused HIV Prevention Care and Treatment Services (FFHPCT) is aimed to strengthen local HIV epidemic management in order to accomplish the three 95 targets/goals. HIV mitigation services for children at risk concentrate on case finding and connecting undiagnosed children living with HIV to treatment, improving health outcomes through HIV viral load suppression, and creating interpersonal, family, and community norms to achieve HIV and violence prevention.

To serve families infected or affected with HIV who are newly diagnosed, at high risk of default, or do not achieve viral suppression. American state Department Funded Family Focused HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Service award represents a transition from two unique programs OVC & HIV Care and treatment to one integrated program. To serve families infected or affected with HIV who are newly diagnosed, at high risk of default, or do not achieve viral suppression. Hence, this TOR is to employ social service worker to closely oversee OVC Service package activities at the implementation site, and health-related activities.

POSITION TITLE:  Social service worker

REPORTS TO: OVC Specialist

Type of Employment: Full-time employment on a contract basis

Number Required: One

Salary: As per organizational scale

Duty Station: – Addis Ababa (Gulele sub city)

Vacancy opening date: 27/10/2026G.C

Vacancy closing date:  02/11/ 2026G.C

General roles and responsibilities

SSWs will be responsible for coordinating, overseeing and supporting case management activities in their respective Woredas. SSWs will work closely with CCC/CCs to prioritize and select the most vulnerable households. Once households have been selected, they will assign each household to a CW and will mentor and support the CW in enrolling each household, assessing their needs, and developing a care plan with the family. SSWs will also support CWs during individual and group follow-up meetings with families. Each SSW will mentor and supervise 20 CWs/ 900 Children. The intensity of the mentoring and support SSWs provide to each CW will depend on the CW’s level of experience and the level of risk of families in the CW’s caseload. SSWs will be more actively involved in cases where children/families are at very high risk and the CW is not very experienced. SSWs will also be responsible for reviewing and compiling the information submitted by CWs and submitting it to the LIPs.

Specific roles and responsibilities include:

• Monitoring, coaching, and supervising CW to provide quality of services to OVC and CG
• Facilitate identification of vulnerable children and caregivers in collaboration with CCCs and CWs.
• Conduct and support different household assessments including household HIV/AIDS and economic vulnerability; needs and strength assessment; and HIV risk assessment.
• Support development of care plan for each household to improve their situation.
• Manage data entry to ensure real time data use by utilizing CommCare.
• Facilitate access to services in the care plan through referral and direct support and ensure that families are on track to achieve healthy, stable, safe and schooled benchmarks of OVC.
• Monitor and report about the situation of target children and families
• Support and conduct graduation readiness assessment of each household as required
• Facilitate closure of cases as per the OVC guidance up on case plan achievement/transfer/ attrition
• Support CCC in documentation, timely reporting, local resource mobilization, service coordination and the use and management of case files at woreda level
• Support, supervise and mentor all caseworkers under his/her woreda /catchment areas

Qualification

Job Requirement

Required qualification and experience

To be considered for this position, candidates must possess the following qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree/diploma in social science or a related field.
• Previous experience in social services or a related field is preferred.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team and independently.
• Proficiency in relevant computer software and tools.
• Work Experience on community work.