Job Purpose:

Experienced Psychologist to support the implementation of GBV activities including psychosocial support
to GBV Survivors. The Psychologist will assist MHNT members and GBV Case Managers to provide
psychological support to most critical identified cases by the officers and community volunteers, promoting
an integrative and holistic survivor centered approach.
Responsibility
The Psychologist will ensure quality case management by providing individual counseling, informing
the survivors about all available services, drafting an action plan and, after seeking consent of
survivors, referring to adequate services.
Ensure continuous guidance to GBV and PSS case workers and officers, including providing training
and ongoing coaching and mentoring to ensure that appropriate psychosocial support is given to GBV
survivors.
Ensure that identified GBV cases are provided with direct psychosocial support and internal and
external referral as needed, accordingly to a beneficiary/survivor centered approach and based on
guiding principles.
Assist the GBV and PSS Social workers and officers in the detection of most vulnerable cases.
Provide a clinical assessment on identified cases of persons at risk and survivors of GBV.
Open individual files for survivors, monitor the service provision and ensure that cases under
assistance receive all the care and support needed.
Support the GBV and PSS Social workers to provide quality case management and general staff (of
all projects) by offering trainings to ensure that protection issues are mainstreamed in field
interventions and detection of cases can be efficiently referred in timely manner.
Produce and maintain accurate records and follow up action plans of the beneficiaries: cases files
and technical reports must be archived in locked and secure location, access to them should be
restricted only to relevant, authorized GBV project staff.
Participate to formal and informal meetings with the team, and contribute to a qualitative analysis of
the different kinds of issues, at individual, familial and community level.
Reporting
Integrate, along with the Protection Information Management Assistant inter-agency efforts aiming to
ensure safe and ethical collection, storage, analysis and sharing of reported GBV incident data, using
the GBV information Management System (GBVIMS).
Ensure a daily quantitative and qualitative reporting through specific reporting tools (Assessment
Form, Psychological follow up form, Intake Form, etc.).
Participate to the reporting of activities and evolution of the beneficiaries’ psychosocial situation.
Provide Report to the MHNT leader in a timely manner
JOB REQUIREMENT

Requirement
BA in psychology (clinical psychology, counseling psychology preferable) and above
At least 3 years work experience in the same domain (GBV programming, counseling/provision of
psychosocial support) in an NGO setting.
Knowledgeable in and previous experience of implementing the IASC MHPSS guidelines and best
practices
Previous experience of implementing individual and community-based counselling/ psychosocial
support
Strong organizational and supervisory skills
Proficient in use of Microsoft Office Packages including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Experience of working within the GBVIMS system
Fluency in English is required and fluency in local language is plus
Excellent time management skills, resourcefulness, with strong attention to detail
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