Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Technical Advisor, UCR

World Vision International (WVI)—a leading international non-governmental organization—is looking for Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Technical Advisor UCR , Dnipro

World Vision’s focus is 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 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

World Vision is committed to safeguarding children and adult beneficiaries believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation and expects all employees, interns, volunteers and all WV affiliates share the same commitment. WV takes diligent measures to screen out all people who might seek to use WV to harm children or adult beneficiaries, or whose past actions indicate an unacceptable risk of such harm. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedures include extensive identification checks prior to employment or engagement with WV in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

Join a highly motivated team of world-class international and local humanitarian professionals to establish, build, and grow World Vision’s presence in Ukraine. You will work alongside global professionals, improving your knowledge, skills, and abilities in a multinational organization that will prepare you for work in the world’s best-in-class companies in the future.

Requirements

• Mental Health professional with a Degree in Counselling Psychology, Psychology, Clinical Psychology related field in Mental Health. ? Knowledge of public health, protection, human rights, international development, project management or other relevant field is an added advantage 
• Clinical experience at community level, either in a research or clinical capacity 
• A minimum of 3 years working experience in mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings or, one of which has to be at a supervisory level. 
• Experience providing clinical supervision in individual and group settings and setting up supervisory models for large-scale MHPSS programs 
• Experience working with MHPSS Implementing partner’s in humanitarian settings 
• Experience conducting MHPSS-related trainings and development of training materials 
• Fluent Ukrainian and English
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time

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 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). 

• 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.

• Coordinate and monitor high-quality MHPSS programming throughout the response, in collaboration with the MHPSS technical team, field staff, and program managers. 

• Conduct regular field visits for programmatic support and technical capacity building. 

• Develop or revise MHPSS training materials, monitoring and evaluation tools, and client documentation forms as needed in collaboration with Global MHPSS technical advisor. 

• Support the professional, technical development of the MHPSS technical team.

• Conduct regular MHPSS trainings and capacity-building sessions for staff on topics including case management, psychological first aid, Problem Management Plus (PM+), Interpersonal Therapy for Groups (IPT-G), and evidence-based interventions.

• Represent World Vision at relevant coordination meetings, including co-chairing Technical Working Group and promote interagency coordination and MHPSS guidelines. 

• Liaise and collaborate with existing government structures and local authorities organizing MHPSS activities and advocating for collaboration on local MHPSS initiatives.

• Assist national partners in the development of the detailed mental health and psychosocial needs implementation plan in accordance with World Vision’s and donor requirements

• Ensure close working collaboration with key Government line ministries and other like-minded Partners.

  
  
  

 Additional Information

• Full-time in office presence
• Official employment according to Ukrainian Labour Law
• Medical insurance
• Foreign language courses
• WVI Institutional trainings
• Travel up to 25% is likely
• Only candidates with Ukrainian citizenship or authorization to work in Ukraine will be considered
• Submit resume and cover letter IN ENGLISH
• Resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis and this position may close sooner than anticipated