Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Field Officer - Psychologist (Barda)
- Beynəlxalq Qızıl Xaç Komitəsi / ICRC
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Elanın qoyulma tarixi: 15.08.2017Vakansiyaya müraciət tarixi bitmişdir.
İşin təsviri
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
The ICRC Delegation in Azerbaijan is seeking candidate, male or female, for the position of:
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Field Officer - Psychologist
Minimum required knowledge, experience and core competences:
• High education in Psychology. Clinical psychology (MA) is desirable
• 3-years work experience, ideally in community-based psychosocial activities, training on psychosocial interventions and monitoring
• Knowledge of common mental disorders and psychosocial violence-related problems
• Experience/knowledge in training process and inter-vision/supervision.
• Outstanding communication skills and proven reporting skills, both in English and Azerbaijani languages; ability to cope with stressful and highly emotional situations
• Communication aptitude, open-mindedness, creativity, pro-activity.
• Mastering of regular office computer packages
• Excellent team-player, self-starter and has the capacity to work towards multiple objectives and priorities
• Solution-oriented commitment
• Good knowledge of the political, social and cultural assigned environment
• Interest in self-development and training on mental health
Standard function description:
• Collect and compile information according to procedures
• Execute field tasks mainly independently and report to superiors
• Act as technical focal point for projects with a psychological/mental health/psychosocial component
• Provide written contributions to delegation and institutional reporting
• Contributes to ensure a transparent management of the financial resources allocated to the project, and makes suggestions for that purpose
Technical Responsibilities:
Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in frontline communities
• Implement the MHPSS program in selected villages/areas of frontline communities
• Contribute to design (contents and guidelines) and implements trainings on MHPSS accordingly.
• Provide adequate skills/training on MHPSS to community key actors
• Ensure close follow-up on the trained teams and regular field supervisions in order to provide technical guidance and to assure quality of psychosocial support to the communities
• Participate in MHPSS needs assessments
• Monitoring & evaluation: collaborate to design and implement the data collection tools, support the MHPSS DB analysis and writes regular technical reports with the main findings/outputs
• Assess individual severe cases when needed and provide technical referrals accordingly
• Is in charge of contacts with the technical interlocutors (mental health supervisors, psychologists and psychiatrists)
• Prepare MHPSS technical reports.
• Translate institutional and non-institutional documents and interprets while in meetings or field visits.
This is a full-time position based in Barda.
If you consider to have all the necessary qualifications and the ability to take over the designed tasks, please send your CV and a motivational letter in English and copies of diplomas/certificates to the e-mail [email protected] with subject line indicating “MHPSS Field Officer - Psychologist”.
Deadline for receiving CVs: 7 September 2017
Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted.
For more information, please visit the ICRC website: www.icrc.org
