Community Worker Grace Centre – Lushomo Trust

Lushomo Trust – Grace Centre, a Community-Based Project based in Kazungula is currently looking for a qualified person for a position of Community Worker.

ORGANISATIONAL PROFILE

Lushomo Trust – Grace Centre is a Community Based Project located in Kazungula District along Mambova road.

The Centre offer skills Training programmes and also supports vulnerable girls with education sponsorship in Primary and Secondary schools.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Certificate in Social Work or Community Development.
2. Should be Computer literate with ability to work with Microsoft office programs (Word and Excel)
3. Strong communication skills in both verbal and written.
4. Should be experienced in community mobilization strategies including strengthening community responses.
5. Minimum two years of experience in the advertised position.

DUTIES

1. Work with the community, Grace Centre Village Committees, churches, Non-Governmental organizations and the schools in identifying the vulnerable girls who need assistance from Grace Centre and report matters to the Facility Principal.
2. Investigate all sexual and physical abuse cases reported to Grace Centre with the help of the community to establish the genuine cases.
3. Establish effective Grace Centre Committees in all 19 villages and to be an effective link between the Grace Centre and the community.
4. Sensitizing the community about the objectives of Grace Centre and to work with the Facility Principal to achieve the objectives and purposes why the Grace Centre is established.
5. To attend meetings in all the villages in Kazungula and surrounding villages on a weekly basis, write minutes of the meeting and guide the Committees for the intention as to why the Committees have been started and report about the girls’ performance to the communities where the girls are coming from.
6. Provide all necessary information required by the Facility Principal in respect of all the girls and carry out the duties as requested.
7. Organise sensitization programmes in the community, schools, churches etc. on a periodic basis.