Counselor (SGBV)
Job Description
Title: Counselor (SGBV)
Company Name: FH-CXB
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor degree in any discipline, Masters degree in any discipline
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ The Counselor will be responsible for providing psychosocial support and counselling to the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) victims. The job holder provides quality client centered health services through supporting counselling and linkages to support services to survivors of gender Based Violence in Primary Health facilities and counselling in the delivery of HIV/PMTCT (upon approval).
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Work as part of a multidisciplinary team alongside doctors, nurses, psychologists, education professionals within the Primary Health Care settings and in cooperation with other professionals like those involved in Clinical Management of Rape
∎ Participate in any assessments that may be conducted by the organization, GBV sub sector and wide humanitarian response in support of adding to the evidence base of practice in the Rohingya refugees’ settings.
∎ Represent JRRP in MHPSS Technical Working Group and Task forces, as may be required, upon approval from the Medical Coordinator.
∎ Participate in documenting gaps, bottlenecks and challenges, planning, monitoring and evaluating of protection and social work activities in the health facilities and catchment area;
∎ Provide technical guidance, on the job training, coaching and mentoring to the health workers team on GBV minimum standards;
∎ Track capacity building needs of staff members and establish to improve counselling skills among health workers at the health facility.
∎ Interview patients and relatives with social needs;
∎ Offer counselling, social care and emotional therapy to patients and other persons;
∎ Carry out home and follow-up visit to patients;
∎ Provide social work services with linkages to relevant protection/referral pathways.
∎ Maintain patient data in a confidential manner;
∎ Compile and submit technical and performance reports to the relevant authorities.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ A commitment to serving the poor and in full agreement with FH’s foundation and beliefs as expressed in The Heartbeat: our Values, Vision, and Purpose;
∎ Excellent people skills including warmth and sensitivity, conversational, able to relate to and effectively communicate with people from different cultures (at various levels within the organization);
∎ High integrity and a strong sense of professional ethics;
∎ Able to self-manage a diverse and dynamic set of responsibilities, proactively solve problems and / or suggest viable solutions while advancing goals and objectives;
∎ Demonstrated computer operating skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office products, Google platform, and virtual technologies such as Skype and / or GoToMeeting;
∎ Excellent organizational skills; ability to plan and coordinate work, ensure the efficient flow of projects and processes;
∎ Strong people management skills / interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate, teach and mentor staff and volunteers;
∎ Comfortable and persuasive when speaking before both large and small groups;
∎ Ability to interact positively with all levels of the organization and across organizational and cultural boundaries.
∎ Medical fitness to live and travel in rural and urban areas with extreme conditions and limited medical support;
∎ Ability to work in insecure locations.
Salary: Negotiable
Application Deadline: September 29, 2019
Company Information:
∎ FH-CXB
∎ Address : The White House, Across from Police Line, Between bus station and Dolphin Circle
∎ Business : Food for the Hungry is assisting the Rohingya`s with a medical mission.
Category: NGO/Development
Read Before Apply: "Food for the Hungry (FH) is an international relief and development organization with operations in 20 countries. FH was founded in 1971, has been working in Bangladesh for more than 40 years. At Food for the Hungry, we operate under a set of guiding principles we call "The Heartbeat." This includes our Values, Vision and Purpose, which serve as the explanation of who we are and how we work as an organization. Together we follow God's call responding to human suffering and graduating communities from extreme poverty."
