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Action Against Hunger is an international non-governmental organization working in more than 40 countries in the fields of nutrition, food security and livelihoods, water sanitation and hygiene, and care practices. ACF is looking for its program in Jordan for Psychosocial Worker
Work place: Jordan- location TBD
Position Overview: To provide capacity building and conduct psychosocial activities at community based level, through identified CBOs and partners
Responsibilities:
1) To implement awareness raising sessions on mental health and psychosocial support
· Provide direct awareness-raising sessions based on a guidebook, focused on mental health and psychosocial issues such as stigma, traumatic event, depression, anxiety, stress, grief, family issues, etc. in line with ACF guidelines and procedures
· Evaluate the beneficiaries’ knowledge before and after the sessions.
· Favour exchange and participation among the beneficiaries.
· Identify and support local partners (CBOs) in delivering awareness and psychoeducation activities and facilitate their access to beneficiaries
· Contribute to MHPSS campaign through volunteers, by training and supporting them, and developing mass media tools (such as radio).
2) To build capacities of identified CBOs, local partners and community members
· Train and supervise CBOs, partners and community members on basic helping skills, Problem Management + and on referral pathway; and on training their own staff
· Participate in elaborating self-help technics and adapting them according to the target population
· Support local partners to observe, monitor their activities and evaluate their impact
· Provide training on Psychological First Aid (PFA) and referral pathways to employers
3) To contribute to all planned activities related to MHPSS and others
· Conduct counselling and group sessions for identified people in need if needed
· Participate to ACF psychosocial workers training and supervision on WHO approaches and ACF methodologies conducted by the MHPSS programme manager and the technical expert.
· Contribute to identification and mapping of PHCCs, CBOs, other actors and potential partners in the area with the aim to build their capacities or coordinate with them
· Support actively the referral system model of the project
· Support on delivery of group intervention to beneficiaries meeting specific criteria
· Contribute to needs and gaps assessments
· Participate to local and national workshops organized by the programme manager, involving partners, community members, etc.
· Contribute to monitoring and evaluation by collecting data in the field
· Understand and follow the logistics, financial and security procedures enabling the project implementation
· Participate actively and regularly to technical supervision conducted by the DPM or the HoD
4) To guarantee and ensure the strict respect of confidentiality
· Ensure data confidentiality, ownership of project beneficiaries and ACF
· Guarantee the confidentiality of individual or group counselling
5) Ensure adherence to Action Against Hunger gender requirements
· Commit and comply with ACF gender, age and diversity principles & policies (working with people, communication)
Support the implementation and the promotion of gender, age and diversity principles through daily activities and or through the management of the team (managing performance & development)
Job Details
| Posted Date: | 2021-12-20 |
| Job Location: | Jordan |
| Job Role: | Support Services |
| Company Industry: | Non-profit Organization |
| Monthly Salary: | US $1,000 |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Entry Level |
| Nationality: | Jordan |
| Degree: | Bachelor's degree |
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