NHF MHPSS Officer at Street Child of Nigeria

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection, and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organizations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale-up of programmes to create maximum impact for most children at the lowest cost.

We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 338,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 29,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: NHF MHPSS Officer

Locations: Gwagwalada – Abuja, Maiduguri – Borno, Adamawa, with travel across North East
Employment Type: Full-time
Openings: 3
Task Manager: Child Protection Departmental Manager
Specification: Nigerian Nationals Only
Starting from: As soon as possible
Contract Duration: TBC

Job Description

• Build the capacity of Caseworkers, PSS Facilitators, and the community volunteers (CVs) in the identification of beneficiaries in need of specific psychological counselling
• Assess the beneficiaries’ psychological condition by using psychological tools to detect the vulnerable cases and ensure psychological follow-up.
• Ensuring individual or group support for identified beneficiaries are created and clear plans are made
• Support the implementation of structured MHPSS activities for boys and girls, organized in age-appropriate groups with a clear methodology or curriculum to promote mental well-being.
• Identify appropriate training and providing them regular training on Mental Health & Psych-Social Support (MHPSS)
• Actively participate in supervision meetings.
• Assist in the development of referral networks between partners and implementation of referral pathways
• Monitor Implementing psychosocial activities and providing psychological consultations on regular basis.
• Work closely with implementing partners to ensure quality implementation and accurate reporting

Experience

• Interested candidates should possess a Master’s Degree
• A qualified psychologist; or a professional with equivalent proven experience.
• MHPSS experience is a plus.
• 2-3 years of experience in mental health and psychosocial programming for IDPs.
• Experience working in the Humanitarian context.

Behaviors:

• Excellent interpersonal, listening, and communication skills;
• Demonstrated ability to work and deliver under pressure and tight deadlines;
• Willingness to work in the flexible, sub-optimal, stressful and unstable environment;
• Commitment to Street Child mission, vision and values, and the ability to convey with enthusiasm Street Child’s role in accompanying and serving forcibly displaced people and in advocating for their right to protection and a life in dignity;
• Ability to positively influence others and successfully reconcile differences;
• A self-starter with a strong results orientation and with high levels of integrity, credibility and dependability;
• An energetic team player who can effectively collaborate, and who can stand alone when necessary;
• Ability to work in international settings and with various departments to implement successful approaches to Education;
• High integrity, honesty and confidentiality; ability to deal tactfully and discreetly with situations, people, and information;
• Ability to coordinate and manage a wide range of program staff and provide solutions to arising internal and external challenges.
• Acceptance of diversity and inclusion as a core value.

Core Values:

• Commitment to Street Child mission, vision and values, and the ability to convey with enthusiasm Street Child’s role in accompanying and serving forcibly displaced people and in advocating for their right to protection and a life in dignity;
• This role will involve working with vulnerable people and children and requires relevant knowledge of safeguarding principles
• High integrity, honesty and confidentiality; ability to deal tactfully and discreetly with situations, people and information;
• Acceptance of diversity and inclusion as a core value.
• Willingness to work in flexible, sub-optimal, stressful, and unstable environments.

Child safeguarding:

• Our work with children to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children in all areas of our work.
• Street Child incorporates appropriate job responsibilities to specific staff positions to support and ensure effective implementation of organizational strategies to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse.

Language:

• Fluency in English and excellent writing skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly and sensitively in Kanuri and Hausa an advantage
• Technical skills
• Strong analytical, reporting, strategic thinking, and planning skills.
• Strong monitoring and evaluation skills/experience
• Knowledge of project cycle management.

Terms and Conditions

• The contract is for 1 year and renewable according to performance review, with an initial probationary period of three months.
• The salary will be proportioned to the candidate’s experience and balanced to the Street Child salary scale.

Deadline: 29th July, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online