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IGCP Student Life Counsellor and Safeguarding Associate Jobs 2024 – South Africa NGO Jobs.
IGCP South Africa looking for “Student Life Counsellor and Safeguarding Associate”.
Applicants with a Post-graduate degree may apply on or before 30th June 2024.
IGCP was formed in 1991 to address the long-term conservation of the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) and its regional Afromontane Forest habitat in the Virunga Bwindi Landscape. Our aim has been to work together as a single gorilla conservation program in order to expand and consolidate the successes of the Mountain Gorilla Project and other initiatives at a regional level.
The IGCP has published a job vacancy announcement on 03rd June 2024 for qualified South Africa’s to fill in the vacant post of Student Life Counsellor and Safeguarding Associate to be based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Counselling children on personal concerns concerning their classmates, school experiences and home life to keep them comfortable and focused
- Promoting emotional and mental wellbeing through various educational materials, guest speaker engagements and other activities on subjects such as bullying, peer pressure and maturing.
- Collaborating with teachers, administrative personnel and parents to resolve behavioural or situational concerns to help students succeed
- Assisting in the mediation and resolution of conflicts to ensure that personal altercations don’t hinder the student’s academic goals and development
- Coming up with counselling programmes such as alcohol and drug prevention programmes and peer mentoring programmes
- Promote child safeguarding among students, staff, parents:
- Be the reference on the Child Safeguarding Policy in the school.
- Organise and run child safeguarding training sessions for students, parents and staff.
- Display and spread information about child safeguarding in the school
- Manage all child safeguarding issues:
- Actively participate in all child safeguarding meetings and workshops.
- Be the point of contact for emergency services: police, hospital, ambulance
- Make referrals as necessary to external agencies, including child and adult social services, to protect and support the student appropriately.
- Listen to the incidents and put into practice the different steps
- Education process.
- Get to know students and families to be able to understand family contexts.
- React appropriately when an incident is disclosed to you.
- Report all incidents according to the organization process:
- Report all types of incidents rigorously via the online form.
- Provide, collate, maintain and monitor regular, accurate and timely data on incidents and outcomes for child safeguarding.
- Contribute to the design of systems;
- Commit to advancing and improving Child Safeguarding in group.
- Liaise closely with the Child Safeguarding Manager within the central team.
- Any other duties as may be determined necessary
Eligibility Criteria
- Post-graduate qualification in Counselling or Psychotherapy
- Have experience in the education sector
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to work with others
- Accessible enough for people to come and talk about their child safeguarding concerns
- Able to actively listen to others without judgement or prejudice
- Able to encourage others to come and talk
- Able to stay calm and focused
- Demonstrate patience and focus rather than letting emotions cloud judgement
- Able to work under pressure
- Know how to show sensitivity and understanding
- Able to maintain anonymity and confidentiality of information when necessary
Other Details
- Job Schedule: Full time
- Selection Process: Interview
- Salary: Negotiable
- Application Process: Online
How to Apply IGCP Student Life Counsellor and Safeguarding Associate Jobs 2024
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI………
The Closing Date: 30th June 2024
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
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