Psychological Well being and Psychosocial Assist (MHPSS) Advisor – Jordan

Warfare Baby believes no little one needs to be a part of struggle. Ever. Youngsters have the suitable to develop up in peace, free from concern and violence, develop their full potential and change into the younger individual they wish to be. By means of a mix of schooling, little one safety and psychosocial help, Warfare Baby ensures a long-lasting influence. We unleash kids’s interior energy with our artistic and fascinating method. And encourage as many individuals as we are able to to take part in our trigger. Warfare Baby is current in 14 international locations all over the world, working in collaboration with organisations each native and international. www.warchildholland.org

Warfare Baby Holland is searching for a:

Psychological Well being & Psychosocial Assist Advisor,

Syria Response Programme, Primarily based in Amman, Jordan (Nationwide Contract)

Warfare Baby is searching for a professional and skilled Psychological Well being & Psychosocial Assist Advisor (MHPSS), for our Syria Response Programme primarily based in Amman, Jordan. This job provides you the possibility to be a part of a rising organisation providing a dynamic work surroundings and the chance to hitch a various staff that’s firmly devoted to serving to kids affected by struggle. We’re searching for somebody who’s dedicated to our trigger, is ready to work successfully with colleagues throughout departments and totally different areas and brings a can-do angle.

Your Problem

The MHPSS Advisor is answerable for the event, coordination and mainstreaming of psychosocial help programming for the Syria response. They may develop MHPSS competencies of workers inside the WCH Syria programme and with native companions. The MHPSS Advisor experiences to the Programme High quality and Improvement Supervisor and coordinates with the programme implementation division, in addition to with different key features inside the nation workplace. Sturdy collaboration and communication is predicted with the Baby Safety Advisor, the Schooling Advisor, and the MEAL staff. The MHPSS Advisor is supported and coached by the Center East Regional MHPSS Advisor in all technical areas and works with them and others within the Analysis and Improvement staff (R&D) and the World Programme High quality staff to share finest practices, promote inside skilled improvement in groups and establish areas for strengthening MHPSS programming at a country-level, regionally and globally the place relevant. They may work intently and collaborate with the Undertaking Managers, associate focal factors, and Regional thematic colleagues together with the MHPSS staff within the area. The post-holder will straight handle MHPSS Coordinator(s) and Officer(s) and will probably be answerable for their improvement and supervision of MHPSS technical actions, with the chance to construct out the staff as wanted.

Consequence Areas

Consequence Space 1: Improvement, high quality assurance and follow-up of psychological well being and psychosocial help interventions and Instruments; making certain MHPSS applied actions are applied at minimal requirements and result in higher MHPSS outcomes for kids and their households.

• Work collaboratively with MHPSS workers to establish MHPSS wants and points to tell MHPSS programming,

• Set clear goals and indicators for MHPSS actions and take part within the improvement of an M&E plan and instruments in collaboration with the PQDM, MEAL Supervisor, supervisors, and native communities to information implementation of top quality MHPSS applications,

• Lead on analysis actions round bettering high quality of MHPSS programme implementation (evaluation, information assortment),

• Present ongoing help, steerage and advise program implementation workers within the discipline of MHPSS

• Lead in conducting MHPSS programme associated assessments,

• Comply with up on the standard of implementation of MHPSS actions, figuring out alternatives and constraints and any changes wanted, together with further staffing or workers coaching (together with coaching modality), in addition to sharing finest programming practices and classes learnt all through the mission cycle,

• Help in designing and growing MHPSS and/or actions inside WCH technique, together with contributing to related fund-raising and proposal-writing actions, figuring out funding alternatives, constructing donor relations and having a radical understanding of donor presence and mapping in areas WCH implements and seeks to work sooner or later,

• Guarantee high quality of MHPSS within the Syria programme: standing, strategies used and outcomes achieved by proactively participating with MHPSS colleagues and implementing companions in any respect factors of programme implementation, in addition to offering actionable suggestions to the R&D staff and making crucial contextual changes to, actions and interventions in coordination with regional and international MHPSS advisors,

• In keeping with high quality programming and finest practices, roll out and guarantee applicable data alternate and communication on the subject of the MHPSS requirements, methodologies and monitoring instruments to make sure all MHPSS programming is aware of wants and tailored to contexts,

• Work with CP and Schooling colleagues within the Syria program and regional advisors to foster integration of programming and mainstreaming of crosscutting points,

• Contribute to the Syria Programme technique, annual plan, proposals, experiences and evaluations in relation to MHPSS.

Consequence Space 2: Supply of psychosocial help capability constructing; making certain workers and companions have the capability and really feel supported in such a fashion that enables high quality MHPSS interventions to be applied.

• In collaboration with the regional MHPSS Advisor, and primarily based on workers capability evaluation, construct the MHPSS competencies of Warfare Baby workers and companions workers by way of coaching, supervision and training along with steady help to the mission workers and native implementing companions (Psychological First Help, community-based psychosocial help interventions, proof primarily based MHPSS interventions, life expertise DEALS methodology, group mobilization and consciousness elevating on MHPSS),

• Develop Capability Improvement plans along with mission associate and set up plans to help studying course of and the retaining of trainees’ expertise,

• Guarantee high quality implementation of WCH MHPSS by way of steady liaison with implementing companions on the bottom and advise on any technical points associated to MHPSS,

• Actively, observe up with companions and guarantee high quality common monitoring and analysis of MHPSS applications, and generate suggestions to enhance the standard, standing, strategies used, and outcomes achieved of MHPSS programming,

• Establish alternatives to strengthen inside insurance policies, capacity-building coaching and sectoral requirements by way of evidence-based suggestions and rising finest practices within the MHPSS sector in addition to direct suggestions and proposals from associate organisations,

• Finalize coaching experiences collected by the MHPSS technical officers, and evaluations to establish high quality gaps, doc finest practices, classes discovered, suggestions, and advise the sphere programme staff for enchancment,

• Guarantee all capability improvement coaching necessities are met as outlined in WC coaching of trainers (ToT) pointers, primarily based on the worldwide ToT standards.

Consequence Space 3: Inner and exterior coordination and illustration – to make sure psychological well being and psychosocial help is mainstreamed and MHPSS sectoral traits, new supplies and rising assets are utilised to enhance the standard of MHPSS programming and lift the organisation’s profile to be recognised as a frontrunner in MHPSS programming.

• Coordinate, talk and collaborate with different staff members internally at country-level, regionally and globally (primarily CP and Schooling groups), to make sure that MHPSS is built-in, connects, and mainstreamed in different areas of WCH work,

• Critically mirror and consider the standard of programming and tasks, sharing finest practices and classes learnt internally and externally as a basis for improved future programming,

• Foster current, and actively develop new relationships and networks to characterize WCH externally, in related platforms/networks centered on MHPSS themes, together with MHPSS working teams, technical committees, and cluster teams and guarantee synergy and coordination with related actors. Assist work round advocacy and communications to focus on Warfare Baby Holland’s Imaginative and prescient and Mission and to lift exterior consciousness for programming and outcomes.

• Contribute to the event/revision of MHPSS supplies developed in working teams/platforms/networks/WCH international MHPSS working teams.

• Share MHPSS materials and different helpful and related data, together with instruments and methodologies, with workers and companions.

Data and Expertise

• Related tutorial background in Psychology, ideally a grasp’s in scientific psychology or Counselling Psychology,

• Deep data and understanding of present rules, finest practices and international requirements in MHPSS,

• Minimal 5 years’ expertise in Psychological Well being and psychosocial programming in an (I)NGO, ideally with kids in battle and post-conflict environments,

• Minimal 2 years’ expertise in MHPSS mission administration,

• Minimal 3 years in workers capability constructing, facilitation, coaching and competency constructing (each face-to-face and remotely),

• Demonstrated expertise in monitoring and analysis of tasks,

• Fluent in Arabic and English, each Oral and written is a MUST,

• Earlier expertise working in Northern Syria is an asset.

Abilities and Competencies

• Capability to specific oneself skillfully in written and oral English and Arabic,

• Sturdy vital evaluation and strategic considering expertise,

• Management, Planning and coordination skill,

• Familiarity with artistic methodologies,

• Optimistic, respectful angle, and collaborative method to variety. Culturally delicate

• Monitoring and Analysis skill,

• Capability to design and ship learner-centered participatory coaching programmes,

• Glorious communication expertise; skill to provide and obtain suggestions,

• Affinity with kids and younger individuals,

• Consequence-oriented,

• Work nicely inside a staff, but in addition capable of work independently,

• Versatile in endeavor new duties and cozy in a versatile working surroundings.

Location

Amman, Jordan. The profitable candidate have to be eligible to work in Jordan.

Travelling to nation workplaces of Warfare Baby Syria Response, its associates and elsewhere is required to fulfil the obligations of this position.

We Supply

Working as a part of a multinational, multilocational staff, dedicated to help kids affected by violent battle, who’re palms on to make change occur! A dynamic and difficult work surroundings, with alternatives to develop and improve your expertise.

Contract

Please be aware this place is open to those that have the suitable to work in Jordan; nationwide phrases and circumstances apply. It is a nationwide contract with corresponding advantages, for a length of 12 months and with the intention to extend relying on efficiency and fund availability.