Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Advisor – Engender Health

Development and Project Management

Engender Health

EngenderHealth is a leading global reproductive health non-profit organization working to improve the health and well being of people in the poorest communities of more than 20 countries around the world. We do this by sharing our expertise in sexual and reproductive health and transforming the quality of health care. We promote gender equity, advocate for sound practices and policies, and inspire people to assert their rights to better and healthier lives. Working in partnership with local organizations, we adapt our work in response to local needs (for more information, please visi www.engenderhealth.org).

EngenderHealth Ethiopia seeks to employ qualified personnel for its Programs in Ethiopia and invites competent applicants for the following post:

INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCMENET

TITLE:                         Mental Health and Psychosocial Social Support (MHPSS) Advisor 

PROGRAM OFIICE:    Ethiopia Country Program, SRH Emergency project

REPORETS TO:            Associate Project Director    

DUTY STATION:           Addis Ababa

COMPANY SUMMARY:

EngenderHealth envisions a gender-equal world where all people achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights. We believe this is essential for ensuring all people can achieve their full potentials. To achieve this vision, we implement high-quality, gender-equitable programs that advance sexual and reproductive health and rights

JOB SUMMARY:

The MHPSS Advisor will coordinate, coach, and mentor the MHPSS Officers and field level facilitators in order to support their capacity to implement MHPSS intervention components safely, effectively as well as ensure quality of program implementation at regional level. Moreover, they will supervise, monitor, and closely support MHPSS officers in their role of supervising group based psychological interventions such as interpersonal psychotherapy for groups (IPT-G) and Group problem management plus (G-PM+).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Details:

a)   Technical Support & Program Implementation:

• Guides the implementation of MHPSS under projects having SGBV responses
• Provides technical oversight and field monitoring of the program staff in close coordination with M&E and program managers to ensure high-quality implementation of MHPSS frameworks and tools.
• Review and share program-specific tools/resources/curricula and work with both country office and field level program staffs for context specific consumption
• As needed, contributes to the development of case studies of successes and lessons learned, and other publications
• Lead, organize and provide trainings for health care providers and community volunteers
• Provide onsite backstopping support; including emotional resilience interventions for health care providers
• Ensure the proper identification, referral, and case management of critical mental health cases based on established referral protocols.
• Supervise Zonal and Woreda level MHPSS staffs and support the ongoing supervision of MHPSS Officers as they monitor and support the community-level facilitators.
• Identify skill gaps of the MHPSS officers in regular basis and provide technical support accordingly.

b)   Partnership Development & Coordination:

• Contribute to positioning EngenderHealth as key actor and partner of choice on MHPSS in related clusters and forums
• Serve as technical representative in coordination meetings including in protection cluster; emergency SRHR TWG; MHPSS cluster and others
• Facilitate the development, strengthening and expansion of partnerships with national Ministries of Social Services and Health, pertinent UN agencies, and other relevant stakeholders on MHPSS issues
• Contributes to capacity building to MHPSS staff of EngenderHealth, health care providers and key partners and other stakeholders at the regional and national level

c)  Monitoring & Evaluation, and Research:

• Contributes to case studies, promising practices, lessons learned and other knowledge based products
• Ensure the proper Collection of key MHPSS client data at regional level and prepare reports on progress made, together with observations, challenges faced, and lessons learned.
• Support program monitoring in collaboration with KMMER and Emergency SRH directors and MHPSS project staff and ensure monitoring data is used to inform programming as needed to ensure high-quality implementation of MHPSS for survivors of SGBV

EDUCATION:

• Mental Health professional with Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Counselling, Psychology, clinical Psychology
• A minimum of 5 years of experience implementing MHPSS programming in humanitarian settings
• Demonstrated experience in implementation of multi-sectoral response to MHPSS, including (but not limited to) to SGBV and protection
• Knowledge/experience of mental health considerations and best practices related to the treatment for individuals impacted by displacement, conflict, torture, gender based violence, and other human rights violations
• In depth understanding and practical experience with IASC MHPSS guidelines, in addition to other MHPSS global guidelines and best practices
• Demonstrated ability to train staff and implementing partners on MHPSS, including excellent communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated capacity and experience in conducting field level assessments and developing assessment tools, e.g. questionnaires, focus group discussions
• Understanding of general MHPSS supervision skills.
• Ability to work in collaboration with people affected by depression, stress, anxiety and other common mental health conditions.
• Excellent group facilitation skills,
• Up to 40% travel may be required

ESSENTIAL SOFT SKILLS:

• Committed to EngenderHealth’s core organizational values of reflection, inclusion, integrity, respect, and transformation.
• Demonstrated creativity and innovation skill
• Ability to participate as a team member and work independently, with limited supervision; willingness to take full responsibility of own work actions.
• Ability to build good relationships with staff and external partners
• Collaborative, flexible team player with the ability to think creatively, logically and critically about solutions to gaps in economic inclusion programming
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills, including the ability to regularly communicate with, motivate and support field-based staff as well as effectively communicate key program achievements and operational challenges

PREFERRED SKILLS, ABILITIES AND FUNCTIONS:

• Excellent analytic, writing and verbal communication/presentation skills in English.
• Computer skills – MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to develop, inform and sustain professional relationships, partnerships and networks
• Positive attitude and flexible approach to working; able to re-organise tasks as appropriate in response to changing demands.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and demands, establish priorities and work effectively in a deadline driven environment; accuracy and attention to detail in the performance of duties is of critical 

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