Position- Social Case Worker
Organizational Overview
Butterflies is a non-profit organization committed to the protection and empowerment of vulnerable children, especially street connected. With a rights-based, participatory, and non-institutional approach, Butterflies works to ensure that children have opportunities to live safe and healthy lives and realise their full potentials. Our initiatives aim to provide quality support to children for formal education and life skills education, mental health wellness, protection and empowerment of families, communities, and schools to ensure continuum of care.
About the project:
Preventing risk behavior among adolescents is one of the initiatives of Butterflies to minimize/prevent delinquency among adolescents in targeted communities of Southeast Delhi following a preventive, child-cantered, participatory, and community-based, non-institutional approach.
Through this initiative, the organization intends to implement interventions to address factors that put children at risk of being involved in unlawful activities. Along with working with children, families, communities and formal systems, the program also supports children to strengthen their social and emotional abilities to deal with negative influences, engage in constructive activities. Moreover, the interventions will also include making a network with stakeholders such as JJB, DCPU, Schools, and local government to seek their support in project interventions and building capacities of parents and community members and linking them with social welfare schemes and programs.
About role:
Butterflies is looking for a Social Case Worker to implement a targeted child protection and prevention program in Southeast Delhi. The initiative focuses on early identification of at-risk children, protecting them from vulnerabilities, building their emotional resilience against negative peer and environmental influences, and engaging them in meaningful, constructive activities. The Social Worker will apply professional therapeutic methodologies specifically social case work and social group work to support children and provide them high-quality support to remail away from risks leading to conflict with the law.
Key responsibilities:
- Conduct community outreach and mapping within targeted communities and assess risk factors pushing children into conflict with the law.
- Establish trusting relationships with children, families, and community stakeholders (schools, local leaders, community centers) to ensure relevance intervention and effective participation.
- Develop care and support plans for children identified as at high-risk and provide individual support to address behavioural challenges, and developmental needs.
- Implement life skills education with children focusing on equipping them with essential emotional and behavioral coping mechanisms to resist negative peer pressure, decision making, conflict resolution and prevent risky behaviors.
- Engage children in constructive activities (such as arts, sports, educational support, and creative expressions) for fostering creativity and engagement in positive and constructive activities.
- Apply effective therapeutic approaches to help children regulate difficult emotions, cope with stress, and build resilience against negative external influences.
- Conduct regular sports activities and prepare a process documentation to record the transformation through this activity.
- Work closely with parents and family members to promote, maintain and improve positive family environment, quality support by parents to children.
- Extend support to families for accessing government welfare schemes, educational resources, and external support systems.
- Collaborate with formal child protection systems, local leadership and schools secure a safe protective environment for children in the communities.
- Conducting meetings and collecting actions with community social protection committee (CSPC) and also organize trainings for them.
- Prepare periodic reports, progress updates and documentation required by the project.
- Other task as assigned by supervisor/head of programs.
Qualification, Experience and Essential Knowledge, Skills:
- Master’s degree in social work (MSW), specialization in medical and psychiatric social work.
- Minimum of 2–3 years of professional field experience working with children and adolescents directly, community-based social work. Fresher may also apply.
- Strong knowledge and expertise in applying social case work and social group work methods.
- Ready to learn new methodologies.
- Passionate to work with children from most marginalized communities.
- Strong organizational, documentation and planning skills.
- Proficiency in Hindi and English.
Compensation:
Salary will be commensurate with qualification, experience, and organizational norms.
Nature of contract:
Initially, there is a six-month provision period and afterward, one-year contract will be given which will be renewed every year based on performance appraisal and availability of funds.
How to apply: