Senior Counsellor

Job Description

Title: Senior Counsellor

Company Name: Enroute International Limited

Vacancy: --

Location: Cox's Bazar

Experience:
∎ At least 2 years

Published: 17 Jun 2025

Education:
∎ Graduate/Post graduate studies in clinical/counselling/developmental/general psychology.
∎ Graduate/Post graduate studies in clinical/counselling/developmental/general psychology.

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience Requirement:
∎ At least 2 years of previous experiences in clinical psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions in emergencies.
∎ At least 1 years of previous experiences in providing services to displaced populations, migrants, refugees or conflict affected populations
∎ Significant experience in providing clinical supervision, coaching, and mentoring to national staff and non-specialists
∎ Experience in capacity building activities and curriculum development is an advantage.
∎ Skills:
∎ 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
∎ 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
∎ 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
∎ Communication: Actively shares relevant information, Clearly communicates, and listens to feedback on, changing priorities and procedures, Writes clearly and effectively, adapting wording and style to the intended audience, Listens effectively and communicates clearly, adapting delivery to the audience
∎ 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
∎ 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 commitments
∎ Languages:
∎ Required (specify the required knowledge): Fluent in English. Desirable: Local language.
∎ Experience Requirement:
∎ At least 2 years of previous experiences in clinical psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions in emergencies.
∎ At least 1 years of previous experiences in providing services to displaced populations, migrants, refugees or conflict affected populations
∎ Significant experience in providing clinical supervision, coaching, and mentoring to national staff and non-specialists
∎ Experience in capacity building activities and curriculum development is an advantage.
∎ Skills:
∎ 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
∎ 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
∎ 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
∎ Communication: Actively shares relevant information, Clearly communicates, and listens to feedback on, changing priorities and procedures, Writes clearly and effectively, adapting wording and style to the intended audience, Listens effectively and communicates clearly, adapting delivery to the audience
∎ 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
∎ 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 commitments
∎ Languages:
∎ Required (specify the required knowledge): Fluent in English. Desirable: Local language.

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Provide individual and group counselling to the affected population in need.
∎ Coordinate with the Project Assistant and other members of the team the integration of mental health considerations in community-based activities along the full spectrum of the intervention pyramid.
∎ To set up an ethic and confidential service and formalize inclusion of IOM levels 3 and 4 services (e.g. psychological first aid, stress counselling, brief therapies, solution focused therapy, trauma focused psychotherapy, PM+, group IPT) in relevant referral pathways and networks, customize it to local context and sensitize partners to the service ToRs, modalities of referral and methodologies
∎ Work in close collaboration with the health and protection team to ensure ongoing needs of at-risk groups, women and girls are being met in the prevention related activities.
∎ Ensure the psychological follow-up of the beneficiaries in regular basis.
∎ To maintain appropriate records/database of assessments and any clinical/casework undertaken, and collect and collate statistics for analysis
∎ To conduct clinical supervision sessions for other team members of MHPSS team and community volunteers
∎ In collaboration with other team members to design psychoeducation sessions for the communities, based on identified and emerging needs.
∎ Provide training sessions in PFA and basic counselling skills to humanitarian actors, community focal points and volunteers and other team members.
∎ Identify and refer people with severe mental disorders, in coordination with the referral team.
∎ Coordinate with the MHPSS social worker and other team members the inclusion of people with mental disorders in other activities promoted by the teams.
∎ Develop awareness messages/campaigns related to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support to be disseminated to communities.
∎ Facilitate MHPSS needs assessments, surveys, researches in the concerned communities of the project to enhance access to community based psychosocial services and specialized mental health care for the affected population, if needed.
∎ Map existing support provisions at the microlevel and design together with the supervisor initiative to reinforce their capacity.
∎ To proactively assess and analyze the context and propose interventions to enable expansion of both IOM geographic coverage in Ukhiya and Teknaf (Main camp sides) (e.g. psychosocial support in IOM health facilities livelihood interventions for youth and women, Educational Psychology for children etc.).
∎ To be ready to provide services in Covid-19 Isolation Treatment Centres, if needed.
∎ Support emergency responses after critical incidents (fire incidents, cyclones, etc.), if requested.
∎ Prepare weekly reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing treatment and results data and trends based on MHPSS tools.
∎ To perform and other duties as may be needed and agreed with the Project Assistant and MHPSS Officer.
∎ Employment Status: Contractual (until September 30, 2025) as a replacement for staff on maternity leave.
∎ Job Responsibility:
∎ Provide individual and group counselling to the affected population in need.
∎ Coordinate with the Project Assistant and other members of the team the integration of mental health considerations in community-based activities along the full spectrum of the intervention pyramid.
∎ To set up an ethic and confidential service and formalize inclusion of IOM levels 3 and 4 services (e.g. psychological first aid, stress counselling, brief therapies, solution focused therapy, trauma focused psychotherapy, PM+, group IPT) in relevant referral pathways and networks, customize it to local context and sensitize partners to the service ToRs, modalities of referral and methodologies
∎ Work in close collaboration with the health and protection team to ensure ongoing needs of at-risk groups, women and girls are being met in the prevention related activities.
∎ Ensure the psychological follow-up of the beneficiaries in regular basis.
∎ To maintain appropriate records/database of assessments and any clinical/casework undertaken, and collect and collate statistics for analysis
∎ To conduct clinical supervision sessions for other team members of MHPSS team and community volunteers
∎ In collaboration with other team members to design psychoeducation sessions for the communities, based on identified and emerging needs.
∎ Provide training sessions in PFA and basic counselling skills to humanitarian actors, community focal points and volunteers and other team members.
∎ Identify and refer people with severe mental disorders, in coordination with the referral team.
∎ Coordinate with the MHPSS social worker and other team members the inclusion of people with mental disorders in other activities promoted by the teams.
∎ Develop awareness messages/campaigns related to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support to be disseminated to communities.
∎ Facilitate MHPSS needs assessments, surveys, researches in the concerned communities of the project to enhance access to community based psychosocial services and specialized mental health care for the affected population, if needed.
∎ Map existing support provisions at the microlevel and design together with the supervisor initiative to reinforce their capacity.
∎ To proactively assess and analyze the context and propose interventions to enable expansion of both IOM geographic coverage in Ukhiya and Teknaf (Main camp sides) (e.g. psychosocial support in IOM health facilities livelihood interventions for youth and women, Educational Psychology for children etc.).
∎ To be ready to provide services in Covid-19 Isolation Treatment Centres, if needed.
∎ Support emergency responses after critical incidents (fire incidents, cyclones, etc.), if requested.
∎ Prepare weekly reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing treatment and results data and trends based on MHPSS tools.
∎ To perform and other duties as may be needed and agreed with the Project Assistant and MHPSS Officer.

Skills & Expertise:

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Monthly gross salary for this position is BDT 77,350.17
∎ Monthly gross salary for this position is BDT 77,350.17

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Read Before Apply:

Interested candidates are requested to apply within June 30, 2025 with a complete CV including contact number and recent passport size photograph. The applications for this position will only be accepted via BDjobs

(Selection will be based on early application and only short-listed candidates shall be contacted.)

Special Note/Mention:

Any personal persuasion/phone-call will result in disqualification of candidature. No intermediary is allowed to expedite or facilitate such process.

Enroute have a Zero-Tolerance Policy for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA). The ideal candidate is committed to upholding the organization's PSEA Policy and to reporting any incidents of suspected or actual PSEA.

There is no cost involved with applying for any positions at Enroute International Limited. Enroute never asks for or accept any kind fees through different Mobile Banking options or in person. Any solicitation of fund/money/favor from job applicant should be regarded as fraudulent activities.

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