1. About CVM

Comunità Volontari per il Mondo (CVM) is a non-profit making Christian Organization based in Ancona, Italy. It was founded in 1978 by a group of people who had deeply dedicated but also had the concern to help people in their struggle to exist in this world irrespective of who are and where they are from. Comunità Volontari per il Mondo (CVM) has been working in Ethiopia since 1995, focusing its work on water, hygiene, and sanitation, HIV prevention, and control through socio-health interventions, promotion of social policies and human rights, promoting social inclusion and minority rights, support for training and access to education, leather sector, socio-economic and micro-credit development, decent work for Domestic Workers and safe migration. CVM is being implemented diverse projects in different regions of Ethiopia.

2. Function of the Job 

The social worker accompanies the beneficiaries (minors, returnees, fragile groups) facilitating their psyco-social reintegration.

3. Responsibilities

• Organizes training and orientation in Life Skills and BBS for the identified beneficiaries

• Accompanies beneficiaries in counseling with the psychologist according to their psychosocial status

• Ensures that the training methodology is compatible with the educational level of the beneficiaries

• Promotes the active participation of all beneficiaries during training

• Manages emergency cases to meet the needs of minor women and girls and organizes their family reunification

• Manages activities to search for beneficiaries' families together with the relevant offices

• Monitors the status of the beneficiaries and the implementation of the activities

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in social sciences; in areas related to the project will be preferred

• Previous experience of at least two years in social intervention coordination and/or equivalent functions 

• Previous experience working with migrant women preferred

• Strong interpersonal and empathic skills, analytical, reporting, independent and teamwork skills

• Native speaker of Amharic, excellent knowledge of spoken and written English

• Good computer skills (Microsoft Office)

• Equal skills preference will be given to female candidates to facilitate the relationship with the beneficiaries

5. Safeguarding issues

CVM is committed to ensure the safeguarding of our project beneficiaries and staff. It includes but not limited to sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CVM Safeguarding, employee and the child protection policies. CVM has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, voluntaries, partners and consultants. To do so, CVM reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment that the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.  CVM also has a right to conduct police check at the time of recruitment process.

By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CVM requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks

How to Apply

If you are interested to be part of our team, please send your application composed of none returnable CV with three references, Covering Letter with “ Social Worker” written in the subject line within 10 consecutive days to THIS LINK

CVM has the right to identify the possible candidates on rolling basis.