Project Assistant (MHPSS)

Job Description

Title: Project Assistant (MHPSS)

Company Name: Enroute International Limited

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar

Salary: --

Experience:

Published: 2024-07-03

Application Deadline: 2024-07-16

Education:

• Completed degree in psychology, social science or relevant field with at least three years of relevant professional experience.

• Professional chartered status in psychology, counselling and/or social work an advantage.

Experience Requirement:

1. Experience in providing coordination supervision, coaching, and mentoring to national staff and non-specialists
2. Experience in providing services to displaced populations, migrants, refugees or conflict affected populations
3. Experience in managing and following up on larger teams in the field
4. Experience and knowledge of UN and international agencies structures
5. Experience in capacity building activities and curriculum development is an advantage
6. Operational and field experience in health-related issues of migrated and/or displaced persons, programme development, migration health, including conceptualisation, analysis and implementation of programme, international public health and resource mobilization
7. Previous experience in international organization is an advantage
8. Skill in strengthening service delivery programs, performance and quality improvement and monitoring and evaluation
9. Skills in identifying problems and presenting possible solutions to colleagues while taking into account cultural sensitivities
10. Strong oral and written communication and presentations skills in English

Competencies:

1. Inclusion and respect for diversity: respects and promotes individual and cultural differences; encourages diversity and inclusion wherever possible.
2. Integrity and transparency: maintains high ethical standards and acts in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct.
3. Professionalism: demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges.
4. Teamwork: develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
5. Delivering results: produces and delivers quality results in a service-oriented and timely manner; is action oriented and committed to achieving agreed outcomes.
6. Managing and sharing knowledge: continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate.
7. Communication: encourages and contributes to clear and open communication; explains complex matters in an informative, inspiring and motivational way.
8. Leadership: provides a clear sense of direction, leads by example and demonstrates the ability to carry out the organization’s vision; assists others to realize and develop their potential.
9. Empowering others & building trust: creates an atmosphere of trust and an enabling environment where staff can contribute their best and develop their potential.
10. Strategic thinking and vision: works strategically to realize the Organization’s goals and communicates a clear strategic direction.

Languages:

1. Required- Fluent in English and Bangla, Desirable – Local Dialect.

Skills Requirements:

1. Accountability: Accepts and gives constructive criticism, Follows all relevant procedures, processes, and policies, Meets deadline, cost, and quality requirements for outputs, Monitors own work to correct errors, Takes responsibility for meeting commitments and for any shortcomings
2. Technical: Effectively applies knowledge of mental health and psychosocial issues in execution of responsibilities at appropriate level, Maintains confidentiality and discretion in appropriate areas of work, Skilled at developing culturally relevant MHPSS interventions, Demonstrated expertise and thorough knowledge on the practical application of the IASC Guidelines on MHPSS in Emergency Settings, Knowledgeable on the psychosocial impact of forced displacement.
3. Client Orientation: Identifies the immediate and peripheral clients of own work, Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with clients, Identifies and monitors changes in the needs of clients, including donors, governments, and project beneficiaries, Keeps clients informed of developments and setbacks
4. Continuous Learning: Contributes to colleagues` learning, Demonstrates interest in improving relevant skills, Demonstrates interest in acquiring skills relevant to other functional areas, Keeps abreast of developments in own professional area
5. Creativity and Initiative: Actively seeks new ways of improving programmes or services, Expands responsibilities while maintaining existing ones, Persuades others to consider new ideas, Proactively develops new ways to resolve problems
6. Leadership and Negotiation: Convinces others to share resources, Actively identifies opportunities for and promotes organizational change, Presents goals as shared interests, Articulates vision to motivate colleagues and follows through with commitment
7. Performance Management: Provides constructive feedback to colleagues, Identifies ways for their staff to develop their abilities and careers, Provides fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations, Uses staff evaluations appropriately in recruitment and other relevant HR procedures, Holds directly reporting managers accountable for providing fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations
8. Planning and Organizing: Sets clear and achievable goals consistent with agreed priorities for self and others, Identifies priority activities and assignments for self and others, Organizes and documents work to allow for planned and unplanned handovers, Identifies risks and makes contingency plans, Adjusts priorities and plans to achieve goals, Allocates appropriate times and resources for own work and that of team members
9. Technological Awareness: Learns about developments in available technology, Proactively identifies and advocates for cost-efficient technology solutions, Understands applicability and limitation of technology and seeks to apply it to appropriate work
10. Resource Mobilization: Establishes realistic resource requirements to meet IOM needs
11. Emergency and Crisis: Works effectively in high-pressure, rapidly changing environments; Coordinates actions with emergency response actors and making use of coordination structures; Supports adequate levels of information sharing between internal units, cluster partners, IOM and other emergency response actors; Establishes and maintains effective relationships with implementing partners; Makes correct decisions rapidly based on available information.

• Coordinate, and monitor the work of MHPSS mobile field teams. This includes daily monitoring activities, organizing team meetings, addressing gaps and providing overall support.

• Provide administrative support to MHPSS component to ensure logistics and procedures to deliver services in the camps.

• Liaise and provide support to the Senior Project Assistant, especially with regards to weekly reporting mechanisms.

• Provide guidance to the MHPSS mobile teams in organizing and implementing community based MHPSS activities including community-initiated activities and discussion groups, ensuring a specific focus on women, girls, elderly and youth.

• Identify gaps and opportunities for MHPSS and assist in the development of interventions addressing the identified needs, this may include organizing refresher trainings as necessary.

• Provide regular reports to the MHPSS Officer on activities to date and indicators achieved in line with the Monitoring and Evaluation tools developed.

• Ensure maintenance of confidential documentation and records of all psychosocial activities implemented.

• Support the implementation of relevant trainings for the MHPSS mobile teams, humanitarian actors, key community members and others as relevant.

• Collaborate with other agencies on the ground and participate in meetings on behalf of IOM and in the interest of the beneficiaries.

• Coordinate safe custody of IOM items and equipment on the ground including maintaining an up-to-date inventory.

• Perform such other duties as may be assigned.

Compensation & Benefits:

Monthly gross salary for this position is BDT 96,687.92