International Organization for Migration (IOM) Indonesia is looking for a Community Support Assistant according to the terms of reference below:
I. Position Information
Reference No
Position title
Position grade
Base Salary
Duty station
Type of Contract
SVN/ID10/2013/015
Community Support Assistant
General Service Staff, Grade 4
IDR 9,266,750 per month
Kupang
Special All Inclusive Contract for 3 (three) months. The tenure of contract of internal candidate holding a Fixed Term/Regular contract will remain unchanged.
Seniority band:
Job family:
Organizational unit:
Position number
Position rated ¨
Subject to rotation
Band IV
Operations
RCA
n/a
n/a,
n/a
Reporting directly to
Head of Sub Office, Kupang, in close coordination with Psychosocial Support Coordinator and Senior MH Adviser, for technical matters
Overall supervision by
Head of Sub-Office/Programme Coordinator (East of Indonesia Region) in Makassar
Managerial responsibility
No
Directly reporting staff
0
II. Organizational Context and Scope
Under the administrative supervision of the Head of Regional Office in Kupang, in close coordination with the Psychosocial Support Coordinator and Senior MH Adviser in Jakarta for technical matters and under overall supervision of the Head of Sub-Office/Programme Coordination (East of Indonesia Region) in Makassar, the incumbent will provide support and monitor the implementation of the care and maintenance assistance activities for the irregular migrants in Indonesia.
III. Responsibilities and Accountabilities
1. Assist in the monitoring of the Irregular Migrants (IMs)activities and ensure that all basic services (accommodation facilities, basic personal supplies and toiletries, security and medical assistance including psycho-social counselling; provide them what they need such as identification cards, transportation requirements. Coordinate with the Medical and Psychosocial Social Support teams to ensure that all IM’s are provided adequate and appropriate medical services, including psychosocial counselling.
2. When required, visit the IM’s and undertake activities as indicated in the visit activity/work plan prepared in coordination with the supervisor. Prepare and submit reports to supervisor on the activity.
3. When required, provide counselling to IM’s on their options to enable them to make informed decisions in relation to continued stay in Indonesia or voluntary return to country of origin.
4. Coordinate with local authorities on IM activities in the area of responsibility.
5. Coordinate changes on the IM’s status with supervisor and colleagues within the unit. Coordinate with the supervisor and colleagues handling resettlement and voluntary repatriation on IM movements to ensure accurate and updated IM statistics.
6. Escort IM’s on the movement.
7. Provide assistance in the ticketing requirements of the Jakarta office. Maintain a database for ticketing.
8. Serve as procurement focal point for weekly and monthly supplies to the Detention Centre.
9. Work closely with Social Works to ensure a tailored psychosocial program activities for the irregular migrants (IMs) and ensure that the implementation of social, religious and educational/vocational activities and the like, are culturally appropriate and fully respects the confidentiality of the information on migrants.
10. Ensure presence in IMs communities through regular visits to detention centres, temporary settlement areas to collect information on the conditions faced by IMs including the availability of humanitarian assistance (shelter, food, water/sanitation, health and education) and access to services by different segments of IMs populations.
11. Actively engage the IMs in the development of psychosocial activities and use available resources within the target population. Encourage migrants to provide assistance to their own community members by sharing their own knowledge and skills to influence the decision making process affecting their daily living situations.
12. Provide basic counselling and implementation of psychosocial activities where needed, possible and appropriate in a scheduled manner including specific educational activities addressing the identified social-health issues.
13. Perform other duties as may be assigned.
IV. Competencies
The incumbent is expected to demonstrate the following technical and behavioural competencies
Behavioural
Accountability
Accepts and gives constructive criticism
Follows all relevant procedures, processes, and policies
Meets deadline, cost, and quality requirements for outputs
Monitors own work to correct errors
Takes responsibility for meeting commitments and for any shortcomings
Client Orientation
Identifies the immediate and peripheral clients of own work
Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with clients
Identifies and monitors changes in the needs of clients, including donors, governments, and project beneficiaries
Continuous Learning
Contributes to colleagues' learning
Demonstrates interest in improving relevant skills
Demonstrates interest in acquiring skills relevant to other functional areas
Keeps abreast of developments in own professional area
Communication
Actively shares relevant information
Clearly communicates, and listens to feedback on, changing priorities and procedures
Writes clearly and effectively, adapting wording and style to the intended audience
Listens effectively and communicates clearly, adapting delivery to the audience
Creativity and Initiative
Proactively develops new ways to resolve problems
Leadership and Negotiation
Convinces others to share resources
Presents goals as shared interests
Performance Management
Provides constructive feedback to colleagues
Provides fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations
Uses staff evaluations appropriately in recruitment and other relevant HR procedures
Planning and Organizing
Sets clear and achievable goals consistent with agreed priorities for self and others
Identifies priority activities and assignments for self and others
Organizes and documents work to allow for planned and unplanned handovers
Identifies risks and makes contingency plans
Professionalism
Masters subject matter related to responsibilities
Identifies issues, opportunities, and risks central to responsibilities
Incorporates gender-related needs, perspectives, and concerns, and promotes equal gender participation
Persistent, calm, and polite in the face of challenges and stress
Treats all colleagues with respect and dignity
Works effectively with people from different cultures by adapting to relevant cultural contexts
Knowledgeable about and promotes IOM core mandate and migration Solutions
Teamwork
Actively contributes to an effective, collegial, and agreeable team environment
Contributes to, and follows team objectives
Gives credit where credit is due
Seeks input and feedback from others
Actively supports and implements final group decisions
Technological Awareness
Learns about developments in available technology
Proactively identifies and advocates for cost-efficient technology solutions
Understands applicability and limitation of technology and seeks to apply it to appropriate work
Technical
a) Knowledge in assisting emergency operations activities;
b) Effectively applies knowledge of psychosocial issues in execution of responsibilities at appropriate level
c) Maintains confidentiality and discretion in appropriate areas of work
d) Proven ability and experience in liaising with UN, Government Departments/Authorities and other international organizations;
e) Proficient in computer applications: Ms-Office.
V. Education and Experience
a) Diploma Degree in social work / psychology. A university degree in any of these fields will be highly regarded.
b) At least four years of direct work experience in social work, have worked in settings with protection issues such as battered women, rape victims, family/domestic abuse and trauma/post care.
c) Experience in working with irregular migrants; trafficked persons; general counselling and networking
VI. Languages
Proficient in the English language, proficiency in languages spoken by migrants (Farsi, Arabic, Tamil, Myanmarese) is an advantage.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates are invited to send the application in ENGLISH, with :
a) Cover letter, clearly specify suitability and availability date,
b) Complete the Personal History Form which can be downloaded at the following link :
http://www.iom.or.id/loadpdf.jsp?lang=eng&pgs=pcmain&file=phform.xls
c) Detailed curriculum vitae, including historical salary and minimum three referees (preferably former direct supervisors).
Please submit the application by email to recruitment-indonesia@iom.int and indicating the reference code above (SVN/ID10/2013/015) as subject. Only applicant who meet the above qualification will be short-listed
The deadline for applications is 29 March 2013
For more detail info about us, please visit www.iom.or.id
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