Counselor

Job Description

Title: Counselor

Company Name: Dhaka Ahsania Mission

Vacancy: 1

Age: At least 50 years

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Tk. 26460 (Monthly)

Experience:

• 2 to 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): College, NGO, Hospital

• Masters

• Masters in Social Science, Psychology, Other relevant subjects

• 2 to 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): College, NGO, Hospital

• Age At least 50 years

• 2-3 years of experience in counseling service at street and working children context, good community mobilization skill, excellent linkage building.

Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) is a National NGO with Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC and UNESCO. It works for social and spiritual development of the community. Founded with the motto of ‘Divine and Humanitarian Service’, over 67 years DAM has been serving the human community for improved living conditions enhancing people’s capacities to multi-dimensional field programs and inner potentials.

Dhaka Ahsania Mission is implementing a 03 years’ project for underprivileged Street and Working Children titled ‘ODHIKAR 2024’ at Kamalapur in Dhaka City with the financial support of Human Appeal and DAM-UK.

Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) Invites applications for the following positions for immediate appointment in ongoing project.

Duty Station: Kamalapur Project office

• Actively promotes the availability of counseling services.

• Conducts individual and group counseling for street and working children and their family members.

• Work with the team for assessing need of psychosocial service (PSS) and specialized mental health support among the target group.

• Develop the capacity of front-line staff on Psychological First Aid (PFA)

• Provide Psychological First Aid (PFA) to children at first contact.

• Ensure PFA is provided to all children and making sure proper documentation is in place through collaboration with other staff to ensure.

• Effective coordination with base office staffs to develop and proper implementation of care plans and documentation of counseling information in respective case file of children.

• Provide distance or face to face Counseling to individual children and parents.

• Take appropriate measures to refer most critical mental health cases to experts.

• Assist Case Management Officer & Project Manager to produce quality periodic reports

• Provides weekly, monthly, and periodic counseling reports to the Project Management.

• Make necessary field visits to assess the quality of the action of the project and keep notes of the findings.

• Perform any other duties as and when required.

• Others: Be able and willing to respond to natural disasters or emergency situations, when needed and any other task assigned by Supervisor and /or Senior Management of DAM.

• BDT 26,460 per month.