Job Description
Title: Psychologist Supervisor-Health
Company Name: Friendship
Vacancy: 1
Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Minimum Salary: Negotiable
Published: 20 Mar 2025
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Provide technical support to the ECCD and MHPSS counselors, supervise, feedback, and organize training. Evaluate work of ECCD and MHPSS counselors. Ensure the fluid monitoring and evaluation of the project and data collection, produce reports, assessments, and analysis. Coordination and collaboration with GoB and other NGOs and INGOs which are working in ECCD and MHPSS areas is an important role for this position.
∎ Provide support, supervise, and evaluate the work of the ECCD & MHPSS counsellor through weekly supervision meetings.
∎ Assist in recruiting and training the ECCD & psychosocial team, set up and assure a coherent and sufficient curriculum of trainings with very close supervision on the field.
∎ Provide technical support to the teams when collecting information on the needs of the beneficiaries in the field of mental health.
∎ Ensure constant Monitoring & Evaluation of the ECCD & MHPSS component (staff performance, data collection and analysis) in the working location (significant field presence is expected).
∎ Contribute and participate in writing the programme’s monthly activity report.
∎ Manage monitoring and evaluation systems for the ECCD & MHPSS component component and come up with a database of beneficiaries (ease of use of technology is expected).
∎ Coordinate with different department and stakeholders working in ECCD and MHPSS.
∎ Participate in different internal and external meetings.
∎ Ensure the monthly reports (statistics and narrative) from field on time.
∎ In formal and informal meetings with the team, participate to a qualitative analysis of the different kinds of issues, at individual, family, and community level.
∎ Drafting of activity progress report (APR).
∎ Conduct individual clinical interviews and group discussions when necessary and as part of on-the-job training ECCD and MHPSS Counsellor.
∎ Supervise and evaluate the impact of the activities ECCD and MHPSS.
∎ Contribute to the elaboration and respect of logistics and administrative procedures.
∎ Evaluate the level of skills of the ECCD & MHPSS counsellors and their technical training needs.
∎ Organize and provide training ECCD & MHPSS counsellors.· Prepare regular and ad-hoc reports as requested and timely submit to DPM or PM.
∎ Participate in trainings as requested.
∎ Other assigned task/s report by supervisor.
∎ Master’s degree in clinical/counselling/general psychology
∎ At least 2-3 years’ experience in clinic/ hospital at psychotherapy unit. Priority will be given who has training and experience to work with NGOs in Clinic/ hospital at psychotherapy unit.
∎ Strong interest in working with nutrition, women and child care, psychological and psychosocial support and communities is required.
∎ Knowledge and experience of early childhood care and development (ECCD) programs and techniques, theory, and practice.
∎ Knowledge of humanitarian MHPSS·
∎ Capacity to evaluate the quality of the work of the ECCD and MHPSS Counsellors.
∎ Excellent skills in planning, organizing and implementation of capacity building activities.
∎ Sense of confidentiality.
∎ Capacity to keep accurate records of activities and report in a timely manner.
∎ Willing to work any location under listed camp area of Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazila.
∎ Capacity to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
∎ Technical knowledge on Community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programming.
∎ Demonstrated leadership and supervisory role to lead a large field team.
∎ Ability to problem solving and good decision-making skills.
∎ Hands on experience in using advanced Microsoft Excel, Power Point and Word and analytical tools/software i.e., SPSS, EPI info, Epi Data entry package and ENA for SMART software etc.
∎ Demonstrated experience at using digital platform for data collection i.e., ODK/KOBO/ONA and online data visualization tools.
∎ To protect children in connection and Non-discriminatory and gender sensitive.
∎ Role Profile:
∎ Provide technical support to the ECCD and MHPSS counselors, supervise, feedback, and organize training. Evaluate work of ECCD and MHPSS counselors. Ensure the fluid monitoring and evaluation of the project and data collection, produce reports, assessments, and analysis. Coordination and collaboration with GoB and other NGOs and INGOs which are working in ECCD and MHPSS areas is an important role for this position.
∎ Responsibilities:
∎ Provide support, supervise, and evaluate the work of the ECCD & MHPSS counsellor through weekly supervision meetings.
∎ Assist in recruiting and training the ECCD & psychosocial team, set up and assure a coherent and sufficient curriculum of trainings with very close supervision on the field.
∎ Provide technical support to the teams when collecting information on the needs of the beneficiaries in the field of mental health.
∎ Ensure constant Monitoring & Evaluation of the ECCD & MHPSS component (staff performance, data collection and analysis) in the working location (significant field presence is expected).
∎ Contribute and participate in writing the programme’s monthly activity report.
∎ Manage monitoring and evaluation systems for the ECCD & MHPSS component component and come up with a database of beneficiaries (ease of use of technology is expected).
∎ Coordinate with different department and stakeholders working in ECCD and MHPSS.
∎ Participate in different internal and external meetings.
∎ Ensure the monthly reports (statistics and narrative) from field on time.
∎ In formal and informal meetings with the team, participate to a qualitative analysis of the different kinds of issues, at individual, family, and community level.
∎ Drafting of activity progress report (APR).
∎ Conduct individual clinical interviews and group discussions when necessary and as part of on-the-job training ECCD and MHPSS Counsellor.
∎ Supervise and evaluate the impact of the activities ECCD and MHPSS.
∎ Contribute to the elaboration and respect of logistics and administrative procedures.
∎ Evaluate the level of skills of the ECCD & MHPSS counsellors and their technical training needs.
∎ Organize and provide training ECCD & MHPSS counsellors.· Prepare regular and ad-hoc reports as requested and timely submit to DPM or PM.
∎ Participate in trainings as requested.
∎ Other assigned task/s report by supervisor.
∎ Skill and Competencies:
∎ Educational Requirements:
∎ Master’s degree in clinical/counselling/general psychology
∎ Required Competences & Skills:
∎ At least 2-3 years’ experience in clinic/ hospital at psychotherapy unit. Priority will be given who has training and experience to work with NGOs in Clinic/ hospital at psychotherapy unit.
∎ Strong interest in working with nutrition, women and child care, psychological and psychosocial support and communities is required.
∎ Knowledge and experience of early childhood care and development (ECCD) programs and techniques, theory, and practice.
∎ Knowledge of humanitarian MHPSS·
∎ Capacity to evaluate the quality of the work of the ECCD and MHPSS Counsellors.
∎ Excellent skills in planning, organizing and implementation of capacity building activities.
∎ Sense of confidentiality.
∎ Capacity to keep accurate records of activities and report in a timely manner.
∎ Willing to work any location under listed camp area of Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazila.
∎ Capacity to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
∎ Technical knowledge on Community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programming.
∎ Demonstrated leadership and supervisory role to lead a large field team.
∎ Ability to problem solving and good decision-making skills.
∎ Hands on experience in using advanced Microsoft Excel, Power Point and Word and analytical tools/software i.e., SPSS, EPI info, Epi Data entry package and ENA for SMART software etc.
∎ Demonstrated experience at using digital platform for data collection i.e., ODK/KOBO/ONA and online data visualization tools.
∎ To protect children in connection and Non-discriminatory and gender sensitive.
∎ Read Before Apply
∎ Please note that application via any other method will not be considered.
∎ “FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, beneficiaries including communities where we work and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with, has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding. FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature”.
∎ Photograph must be enclosed with the resume.
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Company Information:
∎ Friendship
∎ K-14/2A, Baridhara North Road (Kalachadpur), Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh
∎ https://friendship.ngo/
Address::
∎ K-14/2A, Baridhara North Road (Kalachadpur), Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh
∎ https://friendship.ngo/
Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job
Application Deadline: 26 Mar 2025
Category: NGO/Development
