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Psychosocial officer | Horizon Center Team

Reports to: Horizon Team Leader
Project: Horizon Center
Employment type: Full time (40 hours per week)
Contract length: 3 months (with the potential of renewal)
Work location: Athens, Greece

About Faros:

Faros is a Christian non-profit organization established in 2014 to provide humanitarian care and support to unaccompanied children and refugee youth in Greece. Our services include child-protection, accommodation, education and integration services. Our team of 50 staff throughout our Drop-in Center, Shelter and Horizon Center work with our values of compassion, competency, trust, honesty, and person-centered care towards the vision of seeing every unaccompanied child and refugee youth live with dignity and hope and be equipped to make a positive change in society.

About Horizon Center:

The Horizon Center provides an innovative education, employability & integration program for unaccompanied minors and refugee youth based in Athens, Greece (in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology D-Lab).

The purpose of the program is for the youth to become self-confident, resilient individuals, able to recognise their potential, possess great self-awareness, and have a desire to continually improve to achieve their goals and realise their place in the world.

Duties and Key Responsibilities:

Tasks relating to Faros Holistic Approach:

• To lead the Psychosocial Program and ensure implementation and follow-up on the Faros Holistic Care Model
• To plan and conduct individual assessments and Holistic Action Plan meetings with beneficiaries.
• To provide targeted psychosocial coaching on the educational, occupational, integrational goals.
• To lead the Interdisciplinary team meetings and ensure the development of holistic action plans for each beneficiary.
• To develop and facilitate culturally and age-appropriate life skill classes and workshops.
• To implement and ensure consistency with Faros holistic approach (Holistic Wheel & Faros Ways: Pedagogical, Psychosocial, Educational & Integrational) at the Horizon Center.
• To monitor and report on beneficiaries’ general well-being and progress on achieving their goals.

Other General Tasks:

• To connect beneficiaries with relevant services and provide referrals, when necessary.
• To support networking and building effective and efficient relationships with local NGOs.
• To support the Horizon Center Team Leader when responding to emergencies.

Education / Experience needed:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Education or similar with a minimum of 2 years of post-licensure experience.
• Strong understanding of protection issues; including child protection
• Experience facilitating individual and group psychosocial meetings.
• Experience working with refugees or vulnerable populations is essential.
• Experience working in cross-cultural teams is preferred.

Skills & Personal Qualities required:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Desire to see young people develop and reach their potential.
• A passion for working with refugee youth.
• Ability to apply theory to practice.
• Ability to discuss sensitive issues with respect and empathy including ability to provide basic Psychological First Aid support.
• Ability to work goal oriented with youth and provide mentoring coaching
• Strong organisation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Highly self-motivated, self-reflective, and self-critical.
• Willingness to learn and develop further skills.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member in a fast-paced, cross-cultural environment.
• Proficiency working with word processing, spreadsheets and presentation software.

Language skills required:

Fluency in Greek and English language is essential.

Working Hours:

Monday to Friday, 10 am – 6 pm

Application:

Application Deadline: October 25, 2022

If you are interested in applying for this role, please email your resume along with a motivation letter to jobs@faros.org. In the subject header, please write ‘Psychosocial Officer’.

Please note:

• Due to the immediate need to fill this position, the selection process may start before the application deadline for the submission of resumes.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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