Senior MHPSS Officer

Confidential

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Posted date	13th December, 2024	Last date to apply	28th December, 2024
Country	Pakistan	Locations	Peshawar, Quetta
Category	Program Management
Salary	PKR200,000 - 220,000
Type	Full Time	Positions	2
Experience	4 years

This position is open on a rolling basis and will be filled upon the availability of a suitable candidate.

Job Profile

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Senior Officer will work closely under the technical supervision of the MHPSS Coordinator to support the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support programs within the organization. The role involves assisting in the delivery of MHPSS services to individuals and communities affected by crises, conflicts, or challenging circumstances. The MHPSS Senior Officer will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to promote mental well-being and resilience. The position is supervisory to lead the MHPSS field team and is responsible for counselling, psychosocial support education and awareness and building capacity of the project staff. He/she will ensure standards are being adhered to in the quality of services and care provided through supported channels and mechanisms.

Key Responsibilities

1.Planning and Implementation of MHPSS Activities

•Ensure beneficiary identification and provide leadership and oversight of mental health and psycho-social services in the community.

•Be the focal point for designing and disseminatingappropriate MHPSS awareness-raising and educational materials.

2.Technical Support and Capacity Building

•Make a weekly and monthly plan for sessions in the community.

•Develop and maintain close relationships with partners responsible for MHPSS in the designated areas.

•Capacity building of MHPSS staff and Community Health Care Volunteers (CHCVs)

•Provide support for MHPSS-related workshops, seminars and meetings at different levels.

•Linkages development with health institutions for referral of identified cases

3.Monitoring and Supervision

•Maintain up-to-date data related to MHPSS activities.

•Facilitates and encourages regular review meetings and review schedules.

•Prepare a monthly program and program support plan that helps to visit field activities and provide formal and informal feedback to the program staff in terms of recommendations for improved performance.

•Conducts regular mentoring to community health workers and develops their groups.

4.Reporting and Ensuring Data Quality

Verify data quality and ensure consistency of information by community health workers and report against their plan, variables in data collection tool and report.

Ensure improved data collection and reporting systems during supportive supervision or monitoring field visits to targeted areas.

Establishes and maintains documentation system for all MHPSS activities including minutes of technical meetings.

Prepare quarterly, high-quality progress reports from community health workers draft narrative reports and share them with the MHPSS team leader.

Assist in Identifying program gaps, areas of growth, and strategies and share these findings with line manager

5.Learning and Documentation

•Work with the team lead, MEAL officers, and other staff of the project to document project learning, success stories, case studies, and learning briefs.

Behavior and Conduct

Will ensure the highest standards of behavior inside and outside of work promotes the values in Organization code of conduct and safeguarding policies

Will be a model for ethical conduct standards for other team members

Will ensure own actions and the actions of the team members they manage do not impact the safety of the team and the vulnerable communities we serve

Will ensure external stakeholders are aware of organizational conduct and reporting mechanisms

Report any concerns

Person Specification

Skills, knowledge and expertiserequired for the role.

Essential criteria

Minimumbachelor's degree in psychology/clinical psychology and experience in a field related to humanitarian assistance, emergency response and development especially with refugee programming.

Minimum of 4+ years related working experience in psychology, social work, community mobilization and mental health with proven track records. Desirable if certified in Psychosocial First Aid or another mental health certification

Proven experience responding to and managing sensitive psycho-social/protection / safeguarding matters in a confidential manner

Experience in providing training sessions to beneficiaries on psycho-social issues.

Good oral and written English, Urdu and Pashto communication skills

Understanding of changing dynamic of Afghan refugees and host communities

Proven track record of engagement with refugee programming

Experience in providing training sessions to project participants on psychosocial issues

Cultural sensitivity and awareness around confidentiality and ethics

Willingness and ability to travel in other locations of the project

Desirable criteria

Development of key manuals and sops for MHPSS

Understanding of IASC, WHO and relevant donorsie. UNHCRguidelines

Proactive and compliant with the project targets

Experience in Refugee and host programming

Familiar with new developments in MHPSS field

Empathy and the ability to establish rapport with desired individuals and communities.

Knowledge of mental health and psychosocial support principles and best practices.

Understanding of Safeguarding and Protection principles

We are equal opportunity employer.

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