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Hope and Homes for Children
Community Development Practitioner, South Africa
FULL TIME
September 2, 2024
About the role:
As our Community Development Practitioner, you will support the increasing agency of families in preventing family separation, through early identification, quick and effective intervention and linkage to specialist, support and statutory services. This role requires in-depth understanding of the challenges facing families in communities and the capacity to engage with and promote strong, evidence-based and collaborative relationships between all stakeholders. Prevention is a key element of successful care reform and is a priority for our work in South Africa.
About you:
To be our Community Development Practitioner you will have strong experience in community development with the focus on family strengthening, networking, liaison and linkage of service delivery organisations. You will have a sound knowledge of community development with the prioritisation of family strengthening and a good understanding of relevant child rights legislation, policies and regional instruments. You will have excellent people and negotiation skills and the ability to engage and unite groups of people.
About Hope and Homes for Children:
We believe children belong in families, never orphanages. Because orphanages harm children. The majority of those who experience life inside an institution suffer violence, abuse and neglect. Denied the chance to grow up in a family, they’re more likely to become homeless later in life, to have run-ins with the law, and to experience mental and physical health issues.
The shocking truth is that these are almost always children who have, or could have, a family to look after them. To love them. But every day, a broken system puts pressure on parents to give up their children. They'll be safe from war, can escape poverty, will get an education. False promises. No child should have to trade their family for their future.
Today, over 5.4 million children are trapped within institutions. It’s not right and it must stop. Children deserve so much better. Always.
Since 1994, Hope and Homes for Children has been working to stop the institutionalisation of children. We’re 250 people, in ten countries, inspiring organisations, including the UN, EU and governments around the world, to close the doors of orphanages forever. Instead, we fight for every child to feel the love and belonging of a safe family home.
Further details
Location: OCOF HHCSA Head office, Gauteng communities, provincial NGO partners with flexible home-working for part of the week considered.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours
Salary: ZAR 349,000 - 354,000 gross per annum.
Closing Date: The final cut off for applications is 29th September 2024. However, we may close the vacancy early if we receive strong applications. So, don’t delay, please get in touch if you have the right skills, experience, and passion for our cause.
To apply, please upload your CV and a brief covering letter indicating why you are interested in joining us and (reflecting on the role profile) why you believe your skills and experience make you suitable for the role.
HHC actively encourages equality and diversity, and we look to recruit across age, gender, ethnicity and background as we believe diversity brings us closer to our mission of eliminating orphanages.
As our Community Development Practitioner, you will support the increasing agency of families in preventing family separation, through early identification, quick and effective intervention and linkage to specialist, support and statutory services. This role requires in-depth understanding of the challenges facing families in communities and the capacity to engage with and promote strong, evidence-based and collaborative relationships between all stakeholders. Prevention is a key element of successful care reform and is a priority for our work in South Africa.
About you:
To be our Community Development Practitioner you will have strong experience in community development with the focus on family strengthening, networking, liaison and linkage of service delivery organisations. You will have a sound knowledge of community development with the prioritisation of family strengthening and a good understanding of relevant child rights legislation, policies and regional instruments. You will have excellent people and negotiation skills and the ability to engage and unite groups of people.
About Hope and Homes for Children:
We believe children belong in families, never orphanages. Because orphanages harm children. The majority of those who experience life inside an institution suffer violence, abuse and neglect. Denied the chance to grow up in a family, they’re more likely to become homeless later in life, to have run-ins with the law, and to experience mental and physical health issues.
The shocking truth is that these are almost always children who have, or could have, a family to look after them. To love them. But every day, a broken system puts pressure on parents to give up their children. They'll be safe from war, can escape poverty, will get an education. False promises. No child should have to trade their family for their future.
Today, over 5.4 million children are trapped within institutions. It’s not right and it must stop. Children deserve so much better. Always.
Since 1994, Hope and Homes for Children has been working to stop the institutionalisation of children. We’re 250 people, in ten countries, inspiring organisations, including the UN, EU and governments around the world, to close the doors of orphanages forever. Instead, we fight for every child to feel the love and belonging of a safe family home.
Further details
Location: OCOF HHCSA Head office, Gauteng communities, provincial NGO partners with flexible home-working for part of the week considered.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours
Salary: ZAR 349,000 - 354,000 gross per annum.
Closing Date: The final cut off for applications is 29th September 2024. However, we may close the vacancy early if we receive strong applications. So, don’t delay, please get in touch if you have the right skills, experience, and passion for our cause.
To apply, please upload your CV and a brief covering letter indicating why you are interested in joining us and (reflecting on the role profile) why you believe your skills and experience make you suitable for the role.
HHC actively encourages equality and diversity, and we look to recruit across age, gender, ethnicity and background as we believe diversity brings us closer to our mission of eliminating orphanages.
For more information about Hope and Homes for Children and a detailed Job Pack, please visit our website at www.hopeandhomes.org.
HHC in South Africa is: One Child One Family HHCSA NPC registration number: 2017/489514/08.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: R349 000,00 - R354 000,00 per year
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