Peace worker (f/m/d) for strengthening and quality assurance of psychosocial services for young people in vocational training in (Sierra Leone) At Dienste in Übersee

Background and Partner Organisation

The Civil Peace Service (ZFD) is a programme for violence prevention and peacebuilding in crisis and conflict regions. ZFD professionals provide long-term support to local people in their commitment to dialogue, human rights and peace.

More than 60% of Sierra Leone’s population is under 35 years old, and youth unemployment is a pressing problem. The Sierra Leone Opportunities Industrialization Centre (SLOIC), founded in 1977, is a nationally known vocational training provider that gives disadvantaged young people new opportunities to earn their own income. SLOIC provides a wide range of vocational training – including carpentry, bricklaying, agricultural extension, IT services (IT systems management), fashion designing and hairdressing. Additionally, psychosocial counselling helps to develop the young people’s individual potential and improves their participation in social and political life in Sierra Leone.

You will live in Bo (the provincial capital of Southern Province) with occasional trips to branches in Mattru Jong (Southern Province), Makeni (Northern Province) and Lungi (Nothwestern Province). The location is currently not advisable for families with young children.

Job Scope

You support SLOIC using participatory methods to expand and professionalise the existing psychosocial counselling services for the trainees.

In more detail, you would be responsible for the following:

• Needs assessment and context-adapted concept and strategy development for psychosocial counselling work with young people.
• Selection and testing of suitable creative methods of psychosocial work with young people.
• Conducting trainings for SLOIC staff in methods of psychosocial counselling work with young people (e.g. techniques to avoid secondary trauma).
• Improvement of methods for supervision, monitoring and evaluation of the psychosocial counselling work carried out.
• Participatory development of methods for knowledge management (e.g. creation of training videos and/or guidelines).

Profile

• You have a relevant university degree (at least Bachelor), e.g. in psychology, social pedagogy or vocational pedagogy with additional qualification in psychotherapy, developmental/adolescent psychology and/or trauma psychology.
• Creative methods characterise your pedagogical work with young people
• You enjoy finding constructive solutions even under difficult conditions, and passing on your knowledge
• You have successfully tested your very good English skills in practice, preferably in an intercultural context

Citizenship of a Member State of the European Union or Switzerland is required.

Benefits provided by Bread for the World and Dienste in Übersee
Bread for the World provides a framework in which the professionals of Dienste in Übersee share their knowledge and skills with people of another culture.

Supportive cooperation, mutual learning and intercultural exchange are enabled by:

• Individual preparation
• Three year contract with benefits in accordance with the German Development Aid Workers Act
• Coaching