SOCIAL SCIENTIST

• In collaboration with the teaching staff, identify and provide individualized support to children with psychosocial and/or special educational needs and/or disabilities;
• Organize an identification and referral system for children at risk including services such as medical, legal, psychological, WASH, shelter etc;
• Perform social work duties and undertake procedures implementation when referral(s) to other services are required;
• Organize and facilitate awareness-raising and group psychosocial support activities on a broad range of issues for children as part of the life skills development learning process inside the classroom;
• Organize and facilitate parents' meetings and provide specialized support to parents combating school dropout and resolving challenges that might arise regarding school attendance and children's needs;
• Conduct regular mapping of beneficiaries , needs assessment and service mapping ensuring the access of refugee children to formal education and non-formal education/after-school support opportunities.
• Promote and enable the access to school for refugee children through the provision of technical and administrative support to parents and education stakeholders (RECs, public school administration and teaching staff etc.;
• Cooperate with interpreters where needed for the provision of social services or other required activities;
• Closely cooperate with other team members, passing on crucial information and expressing the need of action clearly and concisely;
• Directly support and coach beneficiaries through the usage of simple communication and moral uplifting techniques;
• Regular and ad hoc reporting and data keeping.

• University degree in Social Work, or other Social Science (e.g. Psychology);
• License to work as Social Worker/Psychologist
• Minimum one-year professional experience in social work within the civil society sector, preferably working with vulnerable groups and refugees/migrants;
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team;
• Ability to troubleshoot and ease potential tensions between the project's beneficiaries;
• Ability to perform fact finding tasks and clearly articulate results in a fair and balanced way;
• Previous experience in a job entailing direct contact and exchange with vulnerable groups of beneficiaries is an asset;
• Fluency in Greek and English required;
• Proficient with MS Outlook, Excel, and Word business software;
• Experience in community mobilization;
• Cross-cultural awareness and flexibility;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, listening and observation skills, including ability to create trust, support, respect and interact with parents and children of all ages, background and diversity;
• Strong team player and able to handle pressure well;
• Well organized and efficient, with ability to organize and prioritize workload, using initiative when appropriate;
• Good report writing skills.

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