Job Description
Life Community Services Society is a mid-sized social service agency with a vision to enable every child to be the best that they can be. Our mission is to empower children and families through care and mentoring.
MightyKids, Families & Community (MKFC) is one of the core programmes of Life Community, where we serve children & youth from low-resourced, vulnerable families in the Telok Blangah region. We operate an activity centre in the community that seeks to provide a safe space for these children & youth, with programmes to support their needs and holistic development.
Duties & Responsibilities
Your main duties and responsibilities include the following:
- Manage a team of staff to ensure the smooth running of the programme’s daily operations and maintenance of our MKFC centre.
- Provide guidance and motivation to staff to achieve the programme objectives, develop workplans for the team in alignment with agency goals.
- Conduct internal and external environmental assessments to identify areas for development and improvement so as to better meet the needs of the clients.
- Oversee the curation and development of programmes based on needs of clients.
- Provide coaching and guidance for casework management, needs assessment and intervention plans.
- Perform casework management for complex issues and conduct home visits with the team, as needed.
- Ensure service standards are maintained through programme supervision, strong operational framework and monitoring of programme outcomes.
- Spearhead and sustain MKFC community outreach efforts through regular engagement and collaboration with external stakeholders (including volunteers, corporate partners, donors, FSCs, grassroots community).
- Oversee budgeting, financial planning of the programme including but not limited to funding applications and co-supporting fund-raising events.
- Work closely with all the corporate function teams to ensure smooth organisational processes.
Any other duties as assigned by Deputy/Director or CEO to support the cultivation of the agency’s values, vision and mission within the team
Skills, Competencies and Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in social work, with a minimum of seven years of postgraduate professional experience in social work.
- Social work accreditation with SASW. Candidates with counselling experience and professional accreditation in this field may also apply.
- Passion for working with children and families from vulnerable backgrounds.
- Strong leadership skills, possess at least 3 years of people management experience, with strong stakeholder management and people skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
- A good team player, and also able to work independently with good problem-solving skills, and an ability to multi-task across a variety of tasks, projects and responsibilities.
- Knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, and ethical standards governing social work practice.
- Good command of English, both spoken and written.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and online engagement platforms.
- Must have the flexibility to be able to work on some evenings and Saturdays.
If you are keen to speak with us, please download the application form (https://bit.ly/39SFegq) and submit the completed form to [email protected], along with your resume.
