About the Role
The Sozialdienst katholischer Frauen e.V. Berlin (SkF e.V. Berlin) offers diverse and challenging tasks, helping women and families in special life situations, engaging in youth welfare, and supporting people with disabilities. We are seeking a Consultant (w/m/d) for our Open Social Work team, specifically for the contact point for single parents in Neukölln, to start on 10/15/2026. This is a part-time (35 hours/week) position, initially temporary as parental leave cover.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a functional contact point for single parents within the district structures of Neukölln.
- Advise single parents, including outreach or at cooperation partners like family centers.
- Conduct and initiate advisory, information, and exchange formats for single parents, such as group offers and online counseling.
- Network with all relevant stakeholders in the district for competent referral counseling.
- Collaborate closely with the coordination office of the district network for single parents in Neukölln.
- Public relations.
- Documentation.
- Project administration, including creating progress reports and assisting with applications and accountability statements.
- Regular participation in further training and exchange meetings with the Senate Administration and state coordination.
Requirements
- Completed degree in Social Work, Social Pedagogy, Psychology, Law, or Social Sciences, or equivalent professional experience in these fields.
- A qualification in systemic counseling is advantageous.
- Knowledge of counseling work and the life situations and needs of single parents.
- Ideally, experience working with single or separated parents.
- Solid knowledge of financial claims and benefits for single parents, such as child benefit, parental allowance, and housing benefit.
- Knowledge of dealing with psychological and social stress factors for single parents and their career prospects.
- Appreciative and resource-oriented approach towards clients.
- Work in a discrimination-sensitive, diversity-oriented, and prejudice-conscious manner.
- Friendly, professional demeanor and confidence in dealing with the public, authorities, and media.
- Willingness to participate in group supervision.
- Ability for independent knowledge acquisition and structured work.
- Additional language skills are desirable.
Skills
- Counseling
- Networking
- Public Relations
- Documentation
- Project Administration
- Systemic Counseling (advantageous)
- Knowledge of financial claims and benefits for single parents
- Understanding of psychological and social stress factors
- Understanding of career prospects for single parents
- Discrimination-sensitive work
- Diversity-oriented work
- Prejudice-conscious work
- Independent knowledge acquisition
- Structured work
Location
- Neukölln
Work Type
- Part-time
- Temporary (parental leave cover)
Education Level
- Degree in Social Work, Social Pedagogy, Psychology, Law, or Social Sciences or comparable
- Equivalent professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- Attractive remuneration according to AVR Caritas (including annual special payment)
Benefits
- Extensive onboarding and training
- Professional support from a state coordination office
- Regular exchange with colleagues from other district contact points
- Company pension scheme
- Capital-forming benefits
- Subsidy for VBB company ticket (after probation period)
- 30 days of vacation
- Up to 2 regeneration days
About the Company
- Sozialdienst katholischer Frauen e.V. Berlin (SkF e.V. Berlin) helps women and families in special life situations, engages in youth welfare, and supports people with disabilities.
- Our more than 380 employees are as unique as the people we accompany daily.
- The project 'Contact and Coordination Point for Single Parents in the Neukölln District' is funded by the Senate Department for Labor, Social Affairs, Equal Opportunities, Integration, Diversity, and Anti-Discrimination.
Equal Opportunity
- We live diversity! We look forward to your application - regardless of your religious beliefs, cultural or national origin, gender or sexual identity, age, or disability. We expect you to support our values.
