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PLACE OF ASSIGNMENT: DSWD CENTRAL OFFICE

PLACE OF EXAMINATION AND INTERVIEW: DSWD CENTRAL OFFICE, IBP ROAD, BATASAN COMPLEX, CONSTITUTION HILLS, QUEZON CITY

NOTE:  QUALIFIED APPLICANTS MUST SUBMIT/ATTACH THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS IN A COMBINED PDF FILE FORMAT WITH AT LEAST 1 MB USING THIS LINK https://combinepdf.com/
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We wish to inform you that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Central Office has one (1) vacant permanent position with details as follows:

Office: Program Management Bureau

SOCIAL WELFARE OFFICER III

Item Number                  :            OSEC-DSWDB-SOCWO3-229-2004

Compensation               :            SG 18 (Php 43,681.00)

Place of Assignment      :            Adoption Resource and Referral Division

 

CSC PRESCRIBED QUALIFICATION STANDARDS

Education          :  Bachelor's degree in Social Work

Experience        :  Two (2) years of relevant experience

Training             :  Eight (8) hours of relevant training

Eligibility            :  RA 1080 (Social Worker)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education          :  Bachelor's degree in Social Work

Experience        :  At least three (3) years of relevant experience on alternative parental care

Training             :  At least sixteen (16) hours of relevant training on alternative parental care (within the last five (5) years)

Eligibility            :  RA 1080 (Social Worker)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Under the direction of the Bureau Director, will be in-charge to oversee the implementation of Domestic Adoption and Foster Care Processing.

FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Monitor the existence, number and movement of cases of children eligible for adoption/foster care, prospective adopter/s and foster parent/s developed by the Field Offices;
2. Maintain profiling and database of available prospective adoptive/foster parents, children issued with CDCLAA, locally matched, adopted, placed under foster care and cleared for intercountry adoption and monitor the movement of cases;
3. Sustain a nationwide information and advocacy campaigns on domestic adoption and foster care, in coordination with partner agencies/offices;
4. Monitor the existence of children for alternative care under the care of NGO and DSWD managed residential care facilities using the case load inventory of children;
5. Conduct monitoring, as needed, to FOs counterpart to evaluate the status of implementation of adoption/foster care programs;
6. Monitor issuance of foster care licenses and/or foster placement authority by DSWD field offices, ensuring that the foster children are placed under proper family care and to qualified foster parents;
7. Provide assessment and technical assistance to FOs counterpart on the over-all implementation of the domestic adoption and foster care programs thru conduct of field visit and monitoring;
8. Coordinate with the Standards Bureau and Center Development Division of PMB to harmonize the schedule of providing technical assistance and conduct of field visit and monitoring to DSWD residential care facilities and NGO child-caring/placing agencies to ensure fast movement of cases of children for adoption and placement of eligible children to foster care;
9. Facilitate capability-building activities to enhance the social workers’ knowledge, attitude and skills (KAS) on domestic adoption and foster care;
10. Lead in the program implementation review on domestic adoption and foster programs; and
11. Network with the Association of Child-Caring Agencies of the Philippines (ACCAP), Inter-Country Adoption Board (ICAB) and other concerned agencies, offices, groups or communities on matters related to CDCLAA, domestic adoption and foster care, particularly on advocacy, arising issues and program development. Renders technical assistance relative to program implementation, network management, innovates strategies to enhance technical assistance monitoring and advocacy efforts.

PRIMARY TASKS

1.  Evaluates and submits reports of the division

2.  Recommends policy for development and research

3.  Executes policies and programs standards

4.  Renders technical assistance relative to the program implementation.

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Applicants should be guided by the following Criteria for Evaluation:

·       Education (E)                                                                     25%

·       Training (T)                                                                        10%

·       Experience (E)                                                                   25%

·       Written Examination

IQT                                                                        10%

Special Exam                                                        15%

·       Interview                                                                            10%

·       IPCR or any related Performance Assessment/Review      5%

Total                                                                   100%

Initial Shortlisting:	Obtain 75% of the maximum total score on ETE and only those who obtained a high average percentile on Initial Qualifying Test
Second Shortlisting:	Top five highest rating but overall rating should not be less than 80%

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Qualified applicants must submit the following documents in a combined PDF file format (https://combinepdf.com/) on or before 07 November 2021:

Kindly fill out the Job Application Form through this link https://forms.gle/Y88CzJ8HE9p9yF3t5

1. Application Letter stating the desired position, item number/code, salary grade and office/bureau/service/unit addressed to Director Leonardo C. Reynoso, CESO III of Human Resource Management and Development Service;

2.  Duly signed and updated Personal Data Sheet (PDS) with recent passport size picture and thumbmark (Note: For internal applicants, Electronic-PDS may accomplish and access through the DSWD HRMIS account or you may download it through the CSC website);

Link for downloading PDS from CSC Website: https://bit.ly/PDS__WES

3.        Duly accomplished Work Experience Sheet (https://bit.ly/PDS__WES);

4.     Scanned authenticated copy of Civil Service Eligibility and/or Valid PRC ID /proof of payment or schedule of appointment for the PRC renewal license.

5.     Scanned authenticated copy of Transcript of Record and/or Diploma;

6.     Scanned authenticated copy of Certificate of Grades for Master’s Degree earned units (If applicable);

7.     Copy of certificate of relevant trainings and seminars attended (If applicable);

8.     For government personnel applicants: Certificate of No Pending Administrative, Civil, and/or Criminal Case (CENOPAC) (For internal applicants from DSWD Central Office, you may access the CENOPAC request through this link https://hrmis.dswd.gov.ph/cenopac_requestlist.php)

For applicants from private companies: Certificate of Employment

9.   Copy of Individual Performance Contract Rating (IPCR) in the last rating period or its equivalent for external applicants (Performance Evaluation/Appraisal).

Note: All vacant positions shall be open to all qualified applicants regardless of age, gender, civil status, disability, religion, ethnicity, social status, class, political affiliation, or other similar factors/personal circumstances which run counter to the principles of merit and fitness for the job and equal employment opportunity.

Walk-in applicants will not be entertained in observance to the new normal.

Files should be in a PDF and must not be compressed into archive file formats such as RAR or ZIP. If applying for multiple positions, submit a separate set for each.

Any application emailed to jobs@dswd.gov.ph shall use the email subject (Surname_Item Number/Code_Office Assignment), unless otherwise it will not be entertained nor processed.

Email subject Ex.

CRUZ_OSEC-DSWDB-SOCWO3-229-2004_PMB

Request for extension of submission and application with incomplete documents will not be entertained. All communications pertaining to your application will be sent via e-mail.

**Qualified applicants will be notified thru text message and/or email