Internal/ External Advertisement
Title: CWI Psychologist
Number of positions required: 1 (one)
Location: Assosa
Length of Employment – Definite
Salary & benefits – ETB 17,664.00/month based on the candidate’s qualification plus 25% hardship allowance
Posting Date – April 16, 2018
Closing Date – April 23, 2018
ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION:
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well-being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. The IRC is committed to a culture of bold leadership, innovation, creative partnerships, and client responsiveness and accountability to all those we serve. In Ethiopia, the IRC’s Community Wellbeing Initiative (CWI) program is a leader in providing holistic, grassroots gender-based violence (GBV) programming in humanitarian and emergency contexts. The CWI approach includes GBV response and prevention interventions and has a strong capacity-building and coordination component. In Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, the IRC’s CWI in currently operational in five refugee camps and two host communities.
SCOPE OF WORK/ JOB PURPOSE:
Under the direct supervision of the CWI Manager in Assosa and technical supervisors in Addis Ababa, the CWI Psychologist will provide relevant training, guidance, mentoring, and direct counseling services to enhance the quality of counseling and psychosocial support provided to GBV survivors. The CWI Psychologist will provide direct mental health counseling for very difficult cases to support CWI clients to heal from trauma, and will adhere to the IRC CWI’s survivor-centered approach and GBV guiding principles. The role will also require support for capacity-building, including but not limited to, enhancing staff expertise in psychological first aid, trauma counseling, and self-care for secondary trauma and stress management. The CWI Psychologist will support other CWI staff in training for implementing partners from the health, protection, and legal sectors, and will support the design and roll-out of psychosocial programming in safe spaces to support the healing, resilience, and empowerment of refugee women and adolescent girls.
DETAILED RESPONSIBILITY AND TASKS:
2. Provide guidance and technical support to CWI Response Officers and refugee Social Workers managing cases of trauma, to ensure mental health best practices are followed for optimal recovery and healing.
3. Travel to five refugee camps on a regular basis to support CWI Response Officers and refugee Social Workers, staying overnight in IRC guesthouses as required.
4. Develop and deliver training as requested by CWI and other relevant IRC staff on the most pertinent mental health and trauma topics to build internal knowledge and enable the best quality of services to beneficiaries.
5. Develop guidelines and tools as requested on specific areas of mental health, trauma, and stress management.
9. Contribute to the development of CWI IEC/BCC materials to ensure that mental health and trauma topics are well-presented for raising community awareness.
10. Work with CWI Response Officers and Social Workers to support their wellbeing and management of secondary trauma, and lead group activities and workshops as requested/needed.
11. Work with IRC CWI management to develop more comprehensive strategies, guidelines, and programs for stress-management and staff wellbeing.
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Requirements
NOTE: Female applicants are highly encouraged