Counsellor at American University of Nigeria (AUN)

Location: Bama and Kukawa LGA, Borno
Department: Atiku Center
Nature of Employment: Project Assignment
Duration: 1 (One) Year
Slot: 4 Openings

Position Background

• The Counsellor will help the beneficiaries to manage and overcome depressions, manage harmful emotions and behaviours.
• S/he will listen to, empathise with, encourage and help to empower PoCs and other project beneficiaries, depending on the nature of problems encountered.

Primary Responsibilities

• The counselor will engage beneficiaries in a series of formal sessions at a regular time and in a private place and talk about the client’s issues and feelings.
• Will assist in counselling the beneficiaries to cope with traumatic experience and events.
• Provide counselling face to face, over the telephone and/or online.
• Will work with individual beneficiaries, families or groups.
• Keeping confidential records of beneficiary cases.
• Build a relationship of trust and respect with clients
• Listening to clients’s concerns, emphathising with them and helping them to see things more clearly or in a different way.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the

Position Requirements

• BSc. in relevant field (sociology, psychology, counselling, human rights etc.)
• 1 year of work experience as a counsellor with an INGO is preffered, or at least 2 years of working experience in a related field (Required).
• Excellent communication skills (oral and writing) and Fluent in Local language(s).
• High reporting skills (excellent writing skills)
• Strong ability to multi-tasks and work independently, attention to details.

Description of Benefits

• Salary and benefits are commensurate with experience and job classification as approved by the Project.