UT-VA-2414, MHPSS Supervisor (Part Time)– Ninawa

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

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Ultimate Talent Firm is seeking on behalf of Save the Children International Organization for a talented and qualified candidate for a Part Time Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Supervisor ( based in Ninawa/Mosul (Jadaa Camp):

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Job Summary:

The MHPSS Supervisor role will be providing high quality individual and group support to children, adolescents, their caregivers and teachers, provide high-level technical assistance to MHPSS program staff and partners, lead the setting up and delivery of Iraq MHPSS programs for children, adolescents, their caregivers and teachers and contribute to high quality of proposals and reporting.

Th MHPSS Supervisor will have level 3 contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide high quality individual and group support to children, adolescents, their caregivers and their teachers, through the use of evidence based MHPSS techniques that build beneficiaries’ coping strategies, trust, resilience and self-confidence in a durable way.
• Conduct MHPSS needs-assessments to identify the MHPSS needs of girls and boys in schools and out of the schools, in addition to the assessments of the capacities of the teachers and wellbeing staff in schools and targeted communities.
• Building the capacities of the parents and caregivers in providing support to the children at homes through training them and equipping them with resources.
• Support Child Protection staff through MHPSS training.
• Support MHPSS team and in coordination with the MHPSS specialist, to identify severe cases to be referred to psychological/psychiatric service providers in the area.
• Conduct MHPSS capacity building for community members & partners
• Support partners in planning and implementing MHPSS activities in their areas and provide all needed trainings to ensure efficient and quality implementation.
• Conduct MHPSS awareness raising events.
• Ensure that MHPSS activities at field level have sufficient resources at hand to build capacity, monitor, quality-assure, capture evidence and learning, and help in developing further in their ability to provide quality and needs-based MHPSS interventions.
• Identify training needs of the MHPSS teams and support the MHPSS specialist in the development and conducting of training modules, MHPSS implementation tools and awareness raising activities for staff, volunteers, key community members and partners’ staff on various topics.
• Lead on regular participatory activities with different groups of children, adolescents and youths to identify issues affecting children in their communities, and assist the teams to develop appropriate responses;
• Support in the continuous assessment of MHPSS needs of children, adolescents, their caregivers and teachers and ensure that these are appropriately reflected in field offices’ contextual strategies.
• Support the designing of children, adolescents and youth and family assessments and M&E tools and supervise their administration.
• Invest in building positive relationships with the communities, with specific focus on caregivers and teachers and raising awareness of MHPSS work;
• Participate in regular national meetings with other MHPSS focal points in each intervention location, in order to provide and receive technical support to MHPSS program staff.
• Work with cultural sensitivity and respect the dignity of refugees and members of the host communities at all times
• Perform other functions relative to Child Protection activities and initiatives that may be assigned by the direct supervisor.
• Respect boundaries of work and technical capacity and do not engage in harmful practice.
• Ensure that in all interventions and support provided, gender equality is guaranteed.
• Set-up of safe mechanisms for responding to the needs of vulnerable children at individual level;
• Ensure full compliance of Child Safeguarding Policy at field level and especially with SC engaged personnel.
• Respond to all Child Safeguarding Policy concerns expressed or discovered appropriately and effectively.
• Roll out of SCI common approaches for MHPSS and socializing the common approaches on interagency levels and governmental related entities.
• Maintain appropriate records of activities & input and share data through the MEAL system.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability

• Support the MEAL team and in coordination with the MHPSS Specialist, the MEAL framework, and support in MHPSS assessments.
• Provide technical support to MHPSS staff in terms of technical and/or sensitive assessments and monitoring and evaluation.
• Work with the MHPSS Specialist and MEAL team to identify and incorporate project suitable accountability mechanisms.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, mental health, social work, counselling or other relevant field.
• Minimum two years of relevant experience in MHPSS position of field.
• Fluency in Arabic and English languages.
• Sound knowledge of protection in humanitarian aid context specifically in Iraq
• Proven capacity to supervise, and coach staff in child protection technical skills and project management,
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including team leading and influencing.
• Experience in capacity building and training of local communities, and protection stakeholders regarding education programming
• Comfortable with high levels of ambiguity and able to take decisions independently in fluid context.
• Commitment to Save the Children values and Child Safeguarding.
• The work is based in Ninawa- Jadaa camp.
• Priority will be given to applicants from program location Ninawa.