Social Assistant

Job Posting: 18/Jul/2025
Closure Date: 01/Aug/2025, 4:59:00 PM
Organizational Unit: FLBRA - FAO Representation in Brasil
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)
Grade Level: N/A
Primary Location: Brazil-Sao Luis
Duration: 12 months
Post Number: N/A
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**Organizational Setting**
In April 2025, the Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) for the Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Legal Amazon approved the UNJP/BRA/097/UNJ project "Environmental Regularization Project through Land Governance and Territorial Planning, as a pillar for Sustainable Development / Land for Women Project". The intervention was conceived by the Institute of Colonization and Lands of Maranhão (ITERMA) and will have the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as the executing agency.
The "Land for Women" project aims to promote land and environmental regularization in settlement areas and rural communities in Maranhão, with a priority focus on women heads of household. Seeking to reduce social inequalities, expand territorial governance and promote sustainable agricultural practices, the intervention will combine land titling actions, training in sustainable practices and entrepreneurship, access to credit and environmental monitoring, with a view to ensuring land tenure security, promoting access to public policies and strengthening economic autonomy.
The project is organized into three project components/deliverables, namely:
- Formalization of women's lands in rural and traditional communities.
- Training in bioeconomy practices, sustainable management and female entrepreneurship.
- Technical capacity of the Governments of Maranhão and Pará for land monitoring and environmental enforcement strengthened.
**Reporting Lines**
The Social Assistant will work under the overall supervision of the Assistant to the Representative for the FAO Programme Unit in Brazil and under the technical guidance of the MPTF Project Coordinator.
**Technical Focus**
The Social Assistant will work in the technical scope of the "Lands for Women" project, with an emphasis on the analysis and intervention in the expressions of the social issue, through the elaboration, execution, monitoring and evaluation of public policies, programs, social projects. The work includes activities of assistance and monitoring of individuals, families and groups in situations of vulnerability or violation of rights, with the realization of social studies, home visits, interviews and referrals to the social protection network, according to legal and technical requirements, promoting the actions of the project, in accordance with the parameters of FAO, MPTF and Brazilian legislation.
**Tasks and Responsibilities**
- Prepare opinions, reports and social reports, based on theoretical and methodological foundations, to support administrative, judicial or institutional decisions linked to the project.
- Provide socioeconomic analysis and situational diagnostics.
- Promote the articulation of resources and intersectoral policies in health, housing, social assistance, social security and justice.
- Identify and act on social needs, seeking to promote equity and inclusion.
- Develop planning, advisory and technical consulting actions for communities, focusing on the formulation, management and social control of social policies.
- Support the overall coordination of the project in complying with legal guidelines, socio-environmental and gender safeguards, and in the formalization of execution acts.
**CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING**:
**Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelor's degree in Social Service.
- Minimum professional experience of 5 (five) years of proven activity in social service.
- Working knowledge of (level C) Portuguese and Spanish and/or English.
- Brazilian nationality.
**FAO Core Competencies**
- Results Focus
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Building Effective Relationships
- Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
**Technical/Functional Skills**
- Previous work with land regularization of social interest

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