CARE Singapore offers year-long comprehensive, preventive, holistic, supportive, and motivational life skills programmes designed for Primary and Secondary School students. Research-based, field-tested, proven, and cost-effective, these programmes have impacted over 30,000 lives since 1997.


Youth workers provide social-emotional support to vulnerable and at-risk children and youth in schools or community settings. Working with a team, they also engage stakeholders like school key personnel, parents, volunteers, etc., to provide holistic support to the client involved.


Key Responsibilities:

• Develop case and care plans for youths

• Implement assessment frameworks and approaches for casework and group work

• Conduct casework interventions

• Develop programmes using evidence-based framework

• Deliver programmes independently

• Evaluate the effectiveness of programmes

• Assess the needs of youths based on information and feedback collated from multiple stakeholders

• Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve common goals

• Manage volunteers in the delivery of programmes and interventions

• Implement the outreach plans

• Implement core programmes and services to be delivered in schools

• Implement interest or play-based programmes for youths with partner organisations

• Implement support mechanisms in promoting youth development

• Identify gaps between the programmes, policies and schemes

• Implement legislative frameworks, protocols and procedures in youth work
  

Technical Competencies:

• Degree in either youth work, counselling, psychology or social work

• At least 2-3 years of relevant experience working with youths

• Imparting life skills, engaging children and youths in a large group (up to 40)

• Conversant in English

• An additional command of Chinese, Malay or Tamil would be good

• Occasional out-of-hours work may be required
  

Core Competencies:

• Desires to make a positive impact on youths and young persons

• Able to perform basic administrative duties

• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment for events

• Have the desire to learn and passion to serve community needs

• Resilience, passion for service, and team player
  

Preferred Achievements/Characteristics:

• Reliability, quality, efficiency and courteousness of services delivered

• Effective teamwork and contribution to the achievement of team goals
  

Please mention your expected salary and availability.

• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.