Social Scientist at SolidarityNow (Athens/ Thessaloniki)

SolidarityNow (SN) was founded in 2013 upon an initiative of the Open Society Foundations (OSF). SN is a network of people and organizations working together to alleviate the suffering of those worst affected by the socio-economic crisis. Until now SN has supported and funded over 70 projects around Greece in the areas of legal, medical, psycho-social support, education and culture, job-creation amongst others. SN’s initial intervention took place in the wider area of Thessaloniki and Athens through Solidarity Centers; these are “one stop shops”, hosting a variety of civil society organizations and covering a wide range of relief and context-related services and actions (i.e. medical aid, legal and psycho-social support, employability support, human rights monitoring, promotion, protection and advocacy). SN is also greatly involved in the recent emergency response related to refugees and migrants arriving in the country. During summer 2015, SN was the only donor that allocated a total of more than 6 million euros for a blend of projects raising from emergency response to medium and longer term concepts as migrants’ integration and anti-trafficking.

The organization seeks for:
- Social Scientist (Athens/ Thessaloniki).
Qualifications & skills
Required:
- University degree from an accredited academic in Humanities or Social Sciences;
- Experience in social work within the civil society sector, preferably working with vulnerable groups and refugees/migrants;
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team;
- Ability to organize and prioritize workload, using initiative when appropriate;
- Confidence with IT tools and software;
- Ability to work unsupervised and at flexible working schedules;
- Ability to troubleshoot and ease potential tensions between the project’s beneficiaries;
- Ability to perform fact finding tasks; clearly articulate results in a fair and balanced way;
- Strong communication skills;
- Basic knowledge of humanitarian sector and stakeholders in Athens and Thessaloniki;
- Previous experience in street-work and/or a job entailing direct contact and exchange with groups of beneficiaries, clients, students etc.;

Desired:
- Understanding and speaking of Arabic, Kurdish, Farsi, Pashtu or Urdu;
- Awareness of the cultural background of Arabic speaking and Asian (i.e. Afghani, Pakistani, Iranian) populations, in the context of the current people on the move emergency.

If you are interested in applying, please fill send your CV and motivation letter to recruitment@solidaritynow.org by March 16th, 2016 (EOB), mentioning in the email subject “Social Scientist_Athens” or “Social Scientist_Thessaloniki” (depending the location of your choice). If you speak one of the languages referred in the desired qualifications section, please indicate this too at the subject of your email e.g. “SocialScientist_Athens_Arabic” etc.