MHPSS Officer - Aswan

JOB TITLE: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Project Officer (Pending donor’s approval) TEAM/PROGRAMME: Program Operation, (Pending Donor's Approval) LOCATION: Aswan area, Egypt GRADE: 4 CONTRACT LENGHT: One year

Child Safeguarding:

Level 3: The role holder will have 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 in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ORGANISATION PROFILE / PROGRAMME SUMMARY:

Save the Children International is the world’s leading independent organization for children. We work in 113 countries together with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. In Egypt, Save the Children International has been working to ensure that children’s rights are respected, protected, and promoted since 1982. We carry out both long-term development work and, more recently, emergency humanitarian work.

SCI Egypt Country Office is currently expanding its programs in Aswan to implement SGBV response and prevention interventions, including case management, MHPSS, and community-based prevention activities for refugee and migrant survivors, both children and adults. These services aim to respond to, and address protection needs and provide urgent support to survivors of violence that may have occurred in their country of origin, during their journey, or at their temporary or permanent destination.

ROLE PURPOSE:

This position will be responsible to play a leading role in supervising the implementation of the psychosocial project activities following SC programs and modules. S/he has significant responsibilities for monitoring the quality of the psychosocial group activities and individual counselling ensuring delivery of timely results. S/he will be responsible to provide technical support for staff, and establish good relationships with different stakeholders

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Project Manager

Staff directly reporting to this post: __Psychologists and __ MHPSS Facilitators.

Dotted Line: MHPSS TA

Close coordination with Hub Coordinators/Receptionist, the Child Protection Case Management Officer and the Operation Officer, other MHPSS team members from different projects.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Project Implementation

• Lead and oversee the implementation of the MHPSS interventions inside the project, ensuring high quality deliverables are developed and implemented, and fulfil our obligations to stakeholders at all levels;

• Provide regular structured supervision to MHPSS team to ensure that they are providing high-quality evidence-based psychosocial interventions, based on the agreed intervention models/packages and practice guidelines/SOPs; and provide day-to-day remote support on complex cases as needed.

• Provide expert and technical support for team staff to ensure that psychosocial activities are implemented in quality and timely manner;

• Support mainstreaming of MHPSS interventions across the relevant project components (Education, Youth and Adolescents Development, Child Protection and Case management, make regular field visits, and document such visits, to review field coordinators performance.

• Ensure that the project operates according to the work plans, budget, timeline and M&E system as designed.

• Revise and approve on monthly basis field activities plans.

• Monitor the quality of filed activities and ensure innovative techniques are used to ensure children’s participation.

• Maintain close coordination with other project teams to ensure good synergy with other project components to ensure provision of comprehensive support for the project beneficiaries;

• Ensure that all psychological interventions offered are informed by current scientific evidence.

• Monitor effectively the expenditures of the MHPSS interventions on a monthly basis;

• Support mainstreaming of SCI Child Safeguarding policy in all activities

• Make regular field visits, and document such visits, to review team performance.

• Ensure the ongoing professional development and management of staff.

Budget and Grant Management and Compliance

• Ensure expenditures are within budgetary limit and follow SCI’s and donor policies.

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Reporting and documentation

• Draft concise, useful and analytical reports, case studies, and other documents as needed on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis and as requested by SC, donors and other stakeholders.

• Regular reporting to the project manager with projects updates.

• Organize and maintain project filling system.

• Ensure proper documentation of the MHPSS interventions, especially the individual counseling session.

• Coordinate with MEAL person to support in project assessment activities.

• Compile concise quantitative and qualitative reports on a monthly, and quarterly basis;

• Ensure that ongoing program monitoring/learning feeds into alterations into program design.

Coordination and collaboration:

• Collaborate actively with the MHPSS TA and solicit advice and feedback as related to MHPSS interventions.

• Maintain close communication with other project officers to ensure effective coordination across the different refugees and migrants projects.

• Support the project manager in coordinating the establishment of good relationships with donors, partners, government authorities, private sector and other actors to ensure continued support for SC programs and enlist their support and assistance in working towards achieving sustainable and replicable programs models.

• Network with other partners to support the project beneficiaries to implement their initiatives.

In case of Emergency:

· Promote children's rights, contributing to their well-being and protection in times of emergencies, guided by humanitarian principles and code of conduct.

· During emergencies, he/she should act in a way that facilitates SCI’s response to emergencies, giving priority to all assigned.

· Be prepared to support SCI interventions in response to emergencies and show needed flexibility

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice) Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve

performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same

• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

• Future orientated, thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters

• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions • Willing to take disciplined risks Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Psychology; having master’s degree is preferable.

• Minimum of 4-5 years of experience in development/humanitarian aid; previous experience in Psychosocial support and understanding of SGBV guiding principles field is required;

• Previous management experience is required;

• Highly developed interpersonal, communication skills, writing and organizational skills;

• Good training and facilitation skills;

• Fluency in English and Arabic (spoken and written) is required;

• Previous experience working with refugee/marginalized communities is required; preferably with previous experience working with UASC;

• Commitment to Save the Children values and Child Safeguarding;