Field Officers Role & Responsibilities

FIELD OFFICERS ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES AS WELL SOCIAL WORKERS.
PLEASE READ BOTH ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

SUPPORT FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL (SFWACI) Shall have field officers in different parts of the country and they shall be responsible for the following :-

The Field Officers shall be responsible to monitor all the beneficiaries of the Organization’s financial loan scheme. They shall check on the beneficiaries on a weekly basis and collect from them the weekly amount of money they are suppose to pay to the Organization. After collecting these monies, the Field Officers will in turn report to the Organization’s office and hand over the monies and information regarding their work to the Organization’s Secretary or the Junior Treasurer for proper accounting and filling.
As the Organization will also be embarking on Agricultural activities such as providing incentives, fertilizers and other farming equipments to farmers especially women farmers, the Organization’s Field Officers will be tasked with the responsibility of checking on these farmers from time to time to make sure that the standards of the Organization are met and the incentives or equipments provided are well taken care off.
The Field Officers shall also be tasked with the responsibility of monitoring the works done by the Organization’s staffs at their various Schools, Hospitals, Vocational Institutes and any other business set up by the Organization.
The Field Officers shall report directly to the Vice President or the Organization’s Secretary.
After collecting the report from the Field officers. at the end of the day or week The Vice President or the Organization Secretary should now making Final official Report to the Founder and Chief Executive by email him the details report of the weekly activities of the Organization from Field officers. Email to paulabangura@sfwaci.org

Field officer shall be responsible for particular tasks related to the selection of the beneficiaries, monitoring activities, communication with counterparts involved in the project in the project preparation, implementation and evaluation in accordance with the existing regulation. requirements.
Involvement into the project site monitoring, and regular reporting to the Project Coordinator.

Field Officer will be based in the political administration compound and will work with line departments and other government structures, as appropriate, at the Agency level. The Field Officer will be required to travel extensively to the field areas and sub office and main office if required.

Specific duties and responsibilities

The Field Officer’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

Advise Agency Development Officer (ADO) on programmatic strategy, including where to focus program resources, how to develop operational relationships with the PA’s office, and how to address programmatic challenges as they arise.
To assist ADO in planning, management, execution and monitoring of all project activities.
To work in close coordination with technical section to ensure quality of work.
Manage relationships with relevant stakeholders, including but not limited to Government departments at the Agency and local levels, community and tribal elders, and local organizations and communities.
Monitor and report on the rapidly changing environment and actively contribute to the FSP overall strategy, design and implementation.
Establish and oversee consultative processes between GOP structures and target communities to identify, recommend, design, and develop projects for funding.
Identify potential communities with the consultation of political administration and address their demands accordingly to program policy.
Ensure the successful implementation of project activities, including planning and the transparent procurement of grant-related goods and services. Successful implementation should include on-going consultative processes, and government and community involvement in all phases.
In conjunction with other program staff, evaluate completed projects.
Share with other program staff successful methodologies for consultative approaches to grant development and implementation.
The FO will identify the area/region based on strategic objectives of the program to prioritize the FSP grants.
To persistently coordinate with the implementing partners to track physical progress of the ongoing grants.
To interact/ hold meetings with the POC and TOC members aiming at improving the quality and deliverables and subsequently gaining the confidence of stake holders.
Participate in the bidding of grants and assist the logistics in relevant documentation.
Writing of grant ideas, success stories and weekly grants updates.
To assign duties to field staff and AFO,and their capacity building in report writings, grants updates and community mobilization.
To supervise and manage all activities in absence of ADO/team leader.
The Field Officer must have the capacity to understand and analyze national, regional, and local politics, and the creativity and analytical capacity to design and implement grants with the interface between government and communities.

Field officer shall be responsible for particular tasks related to the selection of the beneficiaries, monitoring activities, communication with counterparts involved in the project in the project preparation, implementation and evaluation in accordance with the existing regulation in the Republic of Serbia and Donor requirements.
Involvement into the project site monitoring, and regular reporting to the Project Coordinator.

A field officer collects data, often used for research purposes. Field officers conduct surveys for a wide array of industries, from anthropology to geography, marketing, advertising and social sciences. Most turn over their findings to others within the industry to help them determine what type of work needs to be done.

How to become a Science Field Officer

Science field officers perform support functions in the field by making observations, collecting and analysing samples, recording information, and looking after the practical tasks involved in maintaining a remote field operation, or operating a city-based office, laboratory or workshop. They may specialise in a number of different areas, such as agriculture, environment, forestry, geoscience and marine science.

Education & Training for a Science Field Officer

To become a science field officer you usually have to complete a VET qualification. As subjects and prerequisites can vary between institutions, you should contact your chosen institution for further information. Entry to this occupation may be improved if you have a degree in science at university. To get into these courses you usually need to gain your Senior Secondary Certificate of Education. Universities have different prerequisites and some have flexible entry requirements or offer external study. Contact the institutions you are interested in for more information. For further details,

Duties & Tasks of a Science Field Officer

Science field officers:

order, check, pack and ship equipment and supplies for field surveys
manage or maintain small field camps
mark outlines of ore, waste and drillhole patterns in operating mines
collect, record and transport samples of rock, soil, plants, water or other materials
sort information collected from a range of samples and carry out computer processing of the data
assist with all aspects of supporting personnel in the field
operate and maintain collections and a wide range of equipment (mechanical, electrical, computing).

Working conditions for a Science Field Officer

Science field officers may be required to spend long periods working in remote locations throughout Australia and overseas, but may also work in exclusively city-based operations.

Employment Opportunities for a Science Field Officer

Science field officers may work for mining and exploration companies, engineering and construction firms, and environmental organisations. Some science field officers may also work for government agencies in a variety of science areas. Science field officers may progress to such roles as technical assistants and technical officers. They may also be involved in laboratory work. Many officers work on a contract basis as demand is seasonal. Job opportunities also largely depend on the level of activity in scientific research. Competition is very strong for available entry-level positions.

A 4.2 Job description for Field Officer – example

Team and responsibilities

The Field Officer (FO) functions in a team comprising of other Field Officers and a Documentation Officer (DO), all managed by the Field Supervisor (FS). The FO reports to the Field Supervisor. The team works from the field office. The FO attends monthly team meetings in the organic field office. Progress and any problems are reported and a plan made how to solve them. The FO is assigned to a certain area, a locality, a group of farmers for whom he/she is responsible. The FO is expected to live in that area. The FO is not expected to be a farmer unless it is a model farm. During the time of internal inspection (2 months of the year), the FO may be transferred to the locality of a fellow FO. The FO shall be a good representative of the exporter. This includes that the right information from the exporter is communicated to the farmers, and that important information from the farmers is fed back to the exporter (via the Field Supervisor). Good communication normally means through contact farmers.

Assistance to farmers

The FO shall be responsible for correctly informing the farmers (men and women) of the standards of organic production as laid down in the internal regulation. This means that regularly, awareness and training workshops are held on demonstration farms, or otherwise. The FO shall assist the farmers (men and women) in improving agricultural production in a sustainable organic way. This may involve some experimentation on the demonstration farms or on individual farms. The strategy for farm improvements is decided every year in the team. The FO is to implement that strategy. The FO shall work with the farmers to produce predominantly Grade 1 produce; picked at the right time in the right way, properly fermented, washed and dried.

For more information contact Support For Woman And Children International (SFWACI) at www.sfwaci.org

WHAT ARE THE MAIN ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF A SOCIAL WORKER?

Social workers support individuals and their families through difficult times and ensure that vulnerable people, including children and adults, are safeguarded from harm. Their role is to help in improve outcomes in people’s lives. … Qualified social work professionals are sometimes supported by social work assistants.

Skills of a Social Worker:

In dealing with the multitude of problems that social workers address, they must employ a variety of skills depending on the job that needs to get done. While some of these skills may be natural, many of them are honed while a social worker earns his or her bachelor’s or master’s degree. Below is a list of traits that a well-trained social worker might employ while assisting and guiding a client from (SFWACI) online website: www.sfwaci.org

Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Specializations

Within the field of social work, there are many different specializations and industries that professionals can pursue and focus on. While these different fields all require practitioners to show the cornerstones of social work: empathy, flexibility, and persistence, and respect for different circumstances; there are some skill sets and knowledge that social workers will need to utilize in order to become the as effective at their jobs as possible. Social workers can be required to aid with issues directly caused by trauma, disability, poor family circumstances, abuse, mental and emotional problems, addiction, and acute, chronic, or terminal illnesses. Some social workers prefer to focus their skills on one area of expertise by going into specific fields.

Family, child or school social work involves providing assistance and advocacy to improve social and psychological functioning of children and their families. These social workers attempt to maximize academic functioning of children as well as improving the family’s overall well-being. These professionals may assist parents, locate foster homes, help to arrange adoptions, and address abuse. In schools they address problems such as truancy, bad behavior, teenage pregnancy, drug use, and poor grades. They also advice teachers and act as liaisons between students, homes, schools, courts, protective services, and other institutions.
Public health social workers are often responsible for helping people who have been diagnosed with chronic, life threatening or altering diseases and disorders, helping connect patients with plans and resources in order to help them cope. One of the most difficult things a person can go through is dealing with acute, chronic, and terminal illnesses and these social workers provide services to ease these patients’ process. These services include advising family care givers, providing patient education and counseling, making referrals to other services, case management interventions, planning hospital discharge, and organizing support groups. These social workers are often employed at health care centers, assisted living homes or in hospitals.
Addictions and mental health social workers offer support and services to those struggling with unhealthy grounding techniques, connecting them with facilities that serve to teach healthier behaviors and get patients back on track. These patients often struggle with mental and emotional problems as well as addictions and substance abuse problems. Services that mental health and substance abuse social workers provide include individual and group counseling, intervening during crises, case management, client advocacy, prevention, and education. They also focus on counseling families to assist in understanding and dealing with the patient’s problems.

Other Social Work Tasks

Accomplishing administrative duties and diligently completing paperwork are generally a requirement for social workers, no matter what their specialization is. Social workers are generally employed from 9-5, but those who offer emergency services in hospitals and other industries can also be assigned to shift work. For many social workers, outside visits and meetings are a constant challenge, as well as high case loads and understaffing. These obligations can often make it seem as though a social worker’s job is never done, but the most successful professionals relish the challenge. Many social workers find that despite these obstacles and the difficulties presented by these strains, this field can be a very satisfying career path.

In case you’re still unsure of what exactly a social worker does on a daily basis, peruse the helpful list of responsibilities and duties below, provided by (SFWACI) online, to get a better idea of what the job is all about.

Collaborate with other professionals to evaluate patients’ medical or physical condition and to assess client needs.
Advocate for clients or patients to resolve crises.
Refer patient, client, or family to community resources to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness and to provide access to services such as financial assistance, legal aid, housing, job placement or education.
Investigate child abuse or neglect cases and take authorized protective action when necessary.
Counsel clients and patients in individual and group sessions to help them overcome dependencies, recover from illness, and adjust to life.
Plan discharge from care facility to home or other care facility.
Monitor, evaluate, and record client progress according to measurable goals described in treatment and care plan.
Identify environmental impediments to client or patient progress through interviews and review of patient records.
Organize support groups or counsel family members to assist them in understanding, dealing with, and supporting the client or patient.

SOCIAL WORKER:

The duties and responsibilities of a Social Worker include:

Serve as link between the school and home through social work intervention with habitually absent students, their families and school staff. School visits and home visits are carried out as and where necessary;
Provide practical assistance to families of habitually absent students including teaching them home management, parenting and interpersonal for the benefit of the education of the children;
Support and guide students on personal matters, including stigmatisation, scapegoating, labelling, self-fulfilling prophecies, bullying, substance abuse, challenging behaviour and relationship difficulties;
Work with families concerning home situations that relate to school attitudes and performance;
Empower students, parents and school staff to access available opportunities and resources to fully develop each student’s learning potential;
Act as liaison with students, parents, school staff and community resources;
Making the necessary referrals according to established procedures and policies;
Work within a multidisciplinary team in the respective College;
Remain conversant with current social work issues and practices both nationally and internationally;
Organize and participate in case conferences and inter-agency liaison meetings;
Provide the necessary support to students, parents or guardians and other family members, School Management Teams and teaching Staff and act as a mediator between the school and family;
Serve as an advocate for students by ensuring equity regarding service provision as well as demonstrate awareness of cultural differences and individual needs of students particularly those coming from vulnerable groups;
Prepare and present social reports for, and participating in, Regional Tribunal Sittings, and the Juvenile Court, Malta and Gozo;
Provide consultation on relative matters to College Principal, School Management Teams, teachers and other professionals within DES;
Undertaking research in areas relevant to one’s professional role as directed by Principal Social Workers and the Directorate for Educational Services
Being accountable to the Principal Social Worker, the Education Psycho-Social Service Manager and Director Student Services Department;
Assess and vet applications for school exemptions in Colleges.

Responsibilities of a Social Worker

While breaking down the role of a social worker into one of the five major responsibilities below seems to simplify the work at hand, they are richly different activities for each client and every social worker. There is no “one size fits all” plan to therapy — no two treatment plans or clients are the same. These steps in mental health care are critical, and only a qualified social worker with a degree in mental health care can provide them.

1. Assess Your Client

Assessment involves getting to know your client on a multidimensional level to determine the most effective way to work with towards positive change. In this stage, you’ll gather information about the client’s situation within their individual, organizational, and societal systems, which allows you to learn the details of their family and medical histories, friendships, schools, jobs, and the issues they’ve had within each system. Assessment allows you to attain a deeper understanding of how your client sees their own situation, which areas they wish to address, and what strengths they bring to therapy. When assessment is complete, you’ll have a stronger idea of how to work with your client to develop an effective treatment plan.

Personality Traits — You’re: Perceptive, Objective, Analytical

2. Create and Implement A Treatment Plan

Once you’ve assessed your client, it’s time to work on a treatment plan that will empower them to overcome, recover from, or adjust to their situation. At this stage, you’ll listen carefully to the client in order to jointly define the goals and criteria that establish wellness for your client. Treatment plans generally include continued one-on-one individual therapy sessions to help your client move towards their desired goal, and could include group or family sessions geared toward a specific challenge they’re dealing with. Flexibility in treatment plans is necessary. As goals are met, new problems make themselves known, or crises erupt. They can also include referring clients to other resources that may help them such as support groups and medical professionals.

Personality Traits — You’re: Patient, Empathic, Flexible

3. Secure and Refer Needed Resources

Many times, creating and implementing a treatment plan involves more than just “talk-therapy.” Clients often benefit when they’re connected to community resources and government agencies such as food banks, health care and unemployment services, and benefits programs such as food stamp programs. Social workers may also refer clients to medical professionals for further treatment, support groups specifically geared to their client’s issue, job-placement recruiters, and child-care resources to help them successfully meet their wellness initiatives.

Personality Traits — You’re: Organized, Connected, A Strong Advocate

4. Evaluate and Monitor Improvement

Once treatment is underway, you’ll continuously evaluate whether your client is moving towards their goals according to the criteria established when you created their treatment plan. The objectives are to determine how you can continue to support your client and if your current methods are effective. For instance, sometimes the treatment plan needs to be changed according to new problems or information presented during treatment, if goals have been met, or if a crisis erupted along the way. The key is to remain flexible in helping your client move towards their goals in the most effective way.

Personality Traits — You’re: Perceptive, Flexible, Analytical

5. Serve as a Client’s Advocate

Being a client’s advocate is oftentimes what beckons social workers to make this work their life’s profession. Whether they think of advocacy on a micro, mezzo, or macro level — being a direct advocate for an individual, advocating within organizations and communities, or engaging in advocacy at the policy/research level — they have a strong calling to make the world a better place by representing those who cannot effectively represent themselves. On an individual level, social workers stand for another person, often in complex situations. For instance, they’ll provide necessary interventions when a child is in an abusive home, working with the family, police, and DCFS to provide immediate and continued safety for the child. On the mezzo and macro levels, social workers function within groups, within community organizations, and amongst policymakers to develop or improve programs, services, policies, and social conditions that will benefit individuals and the field of social work at local, state, and national levels.

Personality Traits — You’re: Courageous, Impactful, Persistent

Additional roles or tasks for Social Worker.

Social workers provide appropriate advice, support and resources to individuals who are experiencing personal difficulties to help them overcome their problems.

What does a social worker do?

Typical employers | Qualifications and training | Key skills

Social workers work with specific groups of clients including children, the elderly and people with mental health problems. Generally social workers specialise in either adult or child social care. The nature of the work varies according to setting.

Typical duties include:

assessing, counselling and offering advice to clients
arranging appropriate care, resources or benefits
liaising with relatives, colleagues and other professionals
report writing
budgetary and managerial administration
attending or contributing towards court cases

Unsociable hours are common, and in certain settings this may include shift work. Promotion is possible through specialisation, research positions or managerial roles. Ongoing professional development is an important feature of the work.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AS A SOCIAL WORKER:

You could support lots of people including older people, those with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health conditions such as people with depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and personality disorders.

You’ll usually provide support for a limited period of time to help them adjust to changes in their lives such as illness, age related problems, disability or bereavement.

Your role might include:

finding out what type of care and support the person needs
doing assessments to make sure people continue to get the right care
offering information and counselling
intervening when people need support or safeguarding
keeping records and writing reports.

You’ll usually work as part of a team but have responsibility for a number of different people. You’ll also need to work closely with other organisations such as the police, health services, schools and probation services.

Some of the many professional roles in Social Work are

Broker

The social worker is involved in the process of making referrals to link a family or person to needed resources. Social work professionals do not simply provide information. They also follow up to be sure the needed resources are attained. This requires knowing resources, eligibility requirements, fees and the location of services.

Advocate

In this role, social workers fight for the rights of others and work to obtain needed resources by convincing others of the legitimate needs and rights of members of society. Social workers are particularly concerned for those who are vulnerable or are unable to speak up for themselves. Advocacy can occur on the local, county, state or national level.

Some social workers are involved in international human rights and advocacy for those in need.

Case Manager

Case managers are involved in locating services and assisting their clients to access those services. Case management is especially important for complex situations and for those who are homeless or elderly, have chronic physical or mental health issues, are disabled, victims of domestic or other violent crimes, or are vulnerable children.

Educator

Social Workers are often involved in teaching people about resources and how to develop particular skills such as budgeting, the caring discipline of children, effective communication, the meaning of a medical diagnosis, and the prevention of violence.

Facilitator

In this role, social workers are involved in gathering groups of people together for a variety of purposes including community development, self-advocacy, political organization, and policy change. Social workers are involved as group therapists and task group leaders.

Organizer

Social Workers are involved in many levels of community organization and action including economic development, union organization, and research and policy specialists.

Manager

Social Workers, because of their expertise in a wide variety of applications, are well suited to work as managers and supervisors in almost any setting. As managers, they are better able to influence policy change and/or development and to advocate, on a larger scale, for all underprivileged people.