Emergency Response Roster - Mental Health and Psychosocial Support; MHPSS Advisor

Position: Emergency Response Roster - Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Advisor
With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

International Assignment - Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

* Country location to be determined based on response
**** Please submit your Cover Letter and CV in English.
*** Children’s lives can change in an instant in the wake of war, disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We see how vulnerable they are and how much they need our protection.

Joining our Emergency Response Roster means you can be a part of our response, providing immediate support when disaster strikes.#
** Here's where you come in:
** As a
** Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Advisor
** during a response, you will provide Mental Health and Psychosocial Support technical guidance for programming, clinical supervision, and capacity building of staff, implementing partners and guiding mental health and psychosocial support interventions. You will ensure effective implementation and monitoring of psychological intervention of mental health and psychosocial support, in relation to all tasks related to support of field and office  order to perform this role effectively, you must be able to promote and encourage a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the implementation.

As applicable to the position, you will maintain a clear understanding of the refugee context, donor compliance, ethics standards and adheres to those standards. You will conduct work with the highest level of integrity and communicates World Vision’s Mission, Vision and Values to staff and to partners.#
** Key Responsibilities
*** Oversee the technical quality of programming and technical expertise of the staff, while keeping with established international best practice guidance and emerging evidence.
* Provide clinical supervision to staff offering mental health and psychosocial support services and create a peer supervisory network built on foundations of knowledge exchange.
* Participate in the development and implementation of group-based psychosocial programming
* Develop and disseminate detailed plans and guidelines that will support delivery of sound MHPSS strategies appreciating the unique contexts where the different MHPSS interventions will be implemented.
* Ensure proper planning and implementation of mental health and psychosocial support interventions in the project areas.
* Ensure all grant interventions are implemented within schedule, plans and budgets and regularly review project status.
* Provide effective technical support to field project teams/partners on roll out of the recognized and approved MHPSS models and approaches (such as Problem Management Plus, Interpersonal Therapy for Groups (IPT-G), Self Help Plus (SH+) and Doing What Matters in times of Stress (DWM).
* Ensure implementing partners, and partner Government entities and Community workers have adequate skills and knowledge to deliver psychosocial support interventions at the household level through weekly supervision sessions, and provide training throughout the supervision process when and as required with the project clinical Supervisors
* Support structured MHPSS activities for groups of boys and girls of different age groups, with particular attention to survivors of SGBV, unaccompanied children and other children who present with signs of poor mental health and distress
* Ensuring assistance is provided to children affected by the conflict in a dignified, respectful, equitable and inclusive manner that supports their resilience
* Ensure children in acute distress are assisted to alleviate their stress, by ensuring that all staff / partners are trained on PFA and feel confident to use it.
* Provide materials for supervision sessions in liaison with the global MHPSS technical advisor.
* Guarantee MHPSS project team and partners compliance to all interventions as per WHO guidelines.…