WR
Asylum Seeker Case Worker - 2025798
Chicago, IL · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
LeadershipProblem SolvingCritical ThinkingAdaptability
About the role
- Conduct comprehensive assessments with immigrant families to assess needs and barriers, and to facilitate connections to appropriate services for meeting identified needs.
- Orient participants to the healthcare system including making appointments, arranging transportation, and communicating important information to physicians.
- Provide education/orientation to families regarding their new surroundings in the city of Chicago.
Responsibilities
- Maintain timely and accurate client files, case notes, and reporting records
- Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.
Nice to have
- Highly self-motivated with strong follow-through and ability to work independently
- Adaptable and comfortable working in a fast-paced and changing environment
- Knowledge of the immigrant experience highly preferred
- Strong mediation and problem-solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal and relational skills.
- Detail-oriented, organized, and able to follow through on projects and assignments
- Experience and/or training in working with traumatized populations or trauma informed care
- Desire to engage the local church in partnership with our service to asylum seekers
Benefits
- Assist asylum seeking families in accessing and understanding public benefits such as Medicaid, All Kids, VTTC and WIC.
- Assist immigrants in scheduling and attending appointments with social service and medical providers, at times providing transportation
Company info
- Are you a person of compassion?
- An advocate for justice?
- Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten?
- Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
- If you answered 'yes', to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
- At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world.
- We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.
- If you're looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.
- World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
- The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe.
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