IRC CWI Mental Health Psychosocial Support Officer Jobs 2023 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs. IRC Ethiopia looking for “CWI Mental Health Psychosocial Support Officer“. Applicants with a degree in BA Degree may apply on or before 7th April 2023.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association, at the request of Albert Einstein, and changing its name in 1942 after amalgamating with the similar Emergency Rescue Committee, the IRC provides emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution, or natural disaster.
IRC CWI Mental Health Psychosocial Support Officer Jobs 2023
The IRC has published a job vacancy announcement on 28th March 2023 for qualified Ethiopians to fill in the vacant post of CWI Mental Health Psychosocial Support Officer to be based in Asosa, Ethiopia.
| Recruiter | International Rescue Committee (IRC) |
| Position | CWI Mental Health Psychosocial Support Officer |
| Location | Asosa, Ethiopia |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | BA Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum Two years |
| Application Deadline | 7th April 2023 |
IRC Job Vacancy 2023
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- The CWI MHPSS officer will provide relevant training, guidance, mentoring, and direct support to those who are suffering from mental health problems and to GBV survivors.
- The CWI MHPSS Officer provides direct mental health counseling for very difficult cases to support CWI clients to heal from trauma and/or PTSD, strictly adhere to the IRC CWI’s survivor-centered approach and GBV guiding principles.
- The role will also require support for capacity-building, including but not limited to, enhancing staff expertise in psychological first aid, trauma counseling, subsentence abuse, and self-care for secondary trauma and stress management to build internal knowledge and enable the best quality of services to beneficiaries.
- The MHPSS Officer support other CWI staff in training for implementing partners from the health, protection, and legal sectors, and will support the design and roll-out of psychosocial programming in safe spaces to support the healing, resilience, and empowerment of refugee women and adolescent girls to ensure mental health best practices are followed for optimal recovery and healing.
- Provide guidance and technical support to CWI Response Officers and refugee Social Workers managing cases of trauma, and/or PTSD.
- Develop guidelines and tools as requested in specific areas of mental health, trauma, and stress management.
- Build positive working relationships with relevant GBV program stakeholders and support CWI RO and CWI PO and the Health Clinical MHPSS Officers as requested in conducting training and mentoring sessions for service providers in the camp and for government actors in the local community.
- Work with CWI management to develop a series of sessions on mental health topics, stress management, and self-care, and deliver these sessions to refugee women and adolescent girls in the IRC’s Women’s and Girls’ Wellness Centers.
- Contribute to the development of CWI IEC/BCC materials to ensure that mental health and trauma topics are well-presented for raising community awareness.
- Organize Mental health day mass campaign and mini-awareness campaigns on harm related to alcohol and other substance use.
- Work with CWI Response Officers and Social Workers to support their well-being and management of secondary trauma, and lead group activities and workshops as requested/needed.
- Work with IRC CWI management to develop more comprehensive strategies, guidelines, and programs for stress management and staff wellbeing.
- Support CWI training, workshops, and retreats in other field sites as requested.
- Responsible for the overall provision of protection case management services and provision of the community-based, focused, and non-specialized psychosocial support
- Make sure to follow case management data protection protocol for case files and beneficiary identifying personal information.
- Compile and produce weekly and monthly MHPSS activity reports to provide information on activities conducted, topics discussed, challenges faced.
- Support the implementation of monitoring and evaluation tools and collaborate with the health clinical MHPSS Officers Integrated protection Information and PSS beneficiary counts to advise the donor reports.
- Ensure daily reporting of attendance per activity and ensure that the data collected is accurate.
- Ensure the development of effective working relationships within CWI team and Health team and stakeholders including partner agencies, UNHCR, RRS, community leaders and service providers for prompt referral, follow up and information sharing.
- Referral cases for specialized support and receive cases referred from other agencies and allocate those cases among team members. Ensure provision of feedback regarding actions taken to other agencies, when necessary and appropriate considering confidentiality requirements.
- Assist the CWI Manager with the integration of mental health and psychosocial support into general health care. These include but are not limited to training in psychological first aid, designing holistic recreational, vocational and social activities; development of material for awareness campaigns.
- Establish, equip and run recreation centres to people in need of psychosocial support.
- Work in keeping with IASC guidelines on mental health and psychosocial support and promote guidelines where appropriate.
- Participate in camp-based protection monthly coordination meetings along with the CWI team.
- Organize psycho-education sessions on mental health issues with support from Health clinical MHPSS team.
- Discharge other duties and responsibilities that can be given by immediate and technical supervisors.
Position in Organization:
- Requisition ID: req39850
- Job Title: CWI Mental Health Psychosocial Support Officer
- Sector: Community Development
- Employment Category: Fixed Term
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Open to Expatriates: No
- Location: Assosa, Ethiopia
Qualification & Experience:
- BA/Master’s degree in psychology, psychiatric nurse or related field.
- At least 2 years of mental health and psychosocial programming experience.
How to Apply IRC CWI Mental Health Psychosocial Support Officer Jobs 2023
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/39850?c=rescue
The Closing Date: 7th April 2023.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
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| Official Website | www.rescue.org |
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