Mental Health and Psychosocial Services Advisor (M/F) at Medecins Du Monde

Location: Maiduguri
Job type: Fixed-term contract
Duration: 9 months
Starting date: January 2019

Job Description

• Under the supervision of the medical coordinator, you are ensuring the quality of mental health and psychosocial services (MHPSS) activities.

Job Responsibilities
More specifically, your responsibilities are to:

• Develop the strategy and mechanisms to integrate a mental health and psychosocial support into MdM programs
• Manage daily program, including planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting
• Conduct routine project needs assessments and program reviews
• Provide technical support in developing and reviewing MHPSS training packages
• Ensure that all MdM staff receive appropriate and adequate MHPSS orientation
• Develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework for MHPSS programs
• Take a lead in MHPSS program development and new proposal writing
• Implement sustainability strategy, ensuring community engagement, mobilization and capacity development in an effort to hand over services to the local community
• Contribute to develop and implement integrated referrals mechanism
• Propose adaptations regarding the program if needed
• Establish systematic data collection for reports
• Coordinate with the medical coordinator and the gender based violence coordinator to address the protection issues for the beneficiaries
• Manage the MHPSS team, evaluate their capacities and train them
• Draft and update job descriptions
• Conduct interviews with the MHPSS staff candidates and actively participate in the recruitment process
• Participate to the coordination meeting and represent MdM in relevant external meetings

Conditions of Employment

• 22.5 RTT per year
• 5 weeks of paid leaves per year
• Break policy
• Health insurance (60% covered by MdM)
• Insurance (repatriation…)
• Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility

Job Requirements

• Clinical psychologist Diploma
• Significant experience on a similar position and in conflict/post conflict context
• Knowledge of public health issues
• Strong organizational and supervisory skills
• Capacity to create relationships with the communities, government authorities, INGO and UN agencies
• Ability to create tools and monitoring process
• Hard-working and self-motivated
• Patience and stress management
• Ability to work with minimum support
• Capacity to take initiatives to changing requirements
• Good communication skills
• Languages: Fluent in English written and spoken, French is a plus

Salary

• 2, 763 euros gross monthly salary on 13 months.
• Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month).
• Transportation cost (home-work), vaccines and visas covered.