CARE Singapore offers year-long comprehensive, preventive, holistic, supportive, and motivational life skills programmes designed for Primary and Secondary School students. Research-based, field-tested, proven, and cost-effective, these programmes have impacted over 30,000 lives since 1997.
Youth workers provide social-emotional support to vulnerable and at-risk children and youth in schools or community settings. Working with a team, they also engage stakeholders like school key personnel, parents, volunteers, etc., to provide holistic support to the client involved.
Key Responsibilities:
· Develop case and care plans for youths
· Implement assessment frameworks and approaches for casework and group work
· Conduct casework interventions
· Develop programmes using evidence-based framework
· Deliver programmes independently
· Evaluate the effectiveness of programmes
· Assess the needs of youths based on information and feedback collated from multiple stakeholders
· Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve common goals
· Manage volunteers in the delivery of programmes and interventions
· Implement the outreach plans
· Implement core programmes and services to be delivered in schools
· Implement interest or play-based programmes for youths with partner organisations
· Implement support mechanisms in promoting youth development
· Identify gaps between the programmes, policies and schemes
· Implement legislative frameworks, protocols and procedures in youth work
Technical Competencies:
· Degree in either youth work, counselling, psychology or social work
· At least 2-3 years of relevant experience working with youths
· Imparting life skills, engaging children and youths in a large group (up to 40)
· Conversant in English
· An additional command of Chinese, Malay or Tamil would be good
· Occasional out-of-hours work may be required
Core Competencies:
· Desires to make a positive impact on youths and young persons
· Able to perform basic administrative duties
· Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment for events
· Have the desire to learn and passion to serve community needs
· Resilience, passion for service, and team player
Preferred Achievements/Characteristics:
· Reliability, quality, efficiency and courteousness of services delivered
· Effective teamwork and contribution to the achievement of team goals
Please mention your expected salary and availability.
*Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.
