Senior Assistant Social Welfare Officer at Nsanje District Council

Local Government Service Commission is inviting applications from suitably qualified Malawians for the following vacancies existing at Nsanje District Council

POST: Senior Assistant Social Welfare Officer
GRADE: J/M8

QUALIFICATIONS
Applicants must be serving Assistant Social Welfare Officers and serving Assistants Community Development Officers (Grade K M9) with a minimum of four years’ Experience at that grade in the Local Authorities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Interprets, Government policy, standards and guidelines and provides technical backstopping to officers to ensure effective application of probation and rehabilitation strategies
2. Undertakes basic research into international practices and facilitates inputs into standards setting to support alignment with international practices
3. Works with vocational training department to develop life and survival skills to be included in the probation and rehabilitation services
4. Represents the Principal at technical meetings within and outside the country.
5. Compiles different reports on the activities of the juvenile reformatory centre highlights process and challenges and use the reports as a basis for making operational and management decisions
6. Works with Community Participation section to develop and implement strategies for community mobilization aimed at improving community participation in child rehabilitation activities.
7. Designs and implements practical sessions to equip community member and community-based care givers with child counselling psychosocial support skills in order to help them support reform process of children coming from the centre
8. Identifies capacity building needs of the centre, especially technical staff, and facilitate training to ensure that acquire new knowledge and skills and benefit from the career path of the profession.
9. Supervises, and monitors activities such as counselling juveniles and offer advice to Social Workers and Instructor on how to make counselling more effective.
10. Assists with the identification of counselling needs of children and participates in counselling

Method Of Application

Interested candidates should submit their applications together with their certificates and Curriculum Vitae to the address below clearly marking envelop the position they are applying:

The Executive Secretary
Local Government Service Commission
P. O. Box 766, LILONGWE

To reach him no later than 21st August, 2024