Job Description

Title: Senior MHPSS Specialist

Company Name: Mukti Cox's Bazar

Vacancy: 1

Age: at most 45 years

Location: Noakhali (Hatiya)

Salary: Tk. 100000 - 110000 (Monthly)

Experience:
∎ At least 4 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO, Development Agency

Published: 9 Oct 2024

Education:
∎ Advanced master’s degree with specialization in psychology/mental health, or related areas.
∎ At least 4 years of previous experience in a similar position or in clinical psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions in emergencies, in particular working with people at heightened risk.
∎ Sound technical understanding of child protection principles, community-based and rights-based approaches, and trauma-informed care.
∎ Experience in providing MHPSS to adolescents and youth.
∎ Prior supervisory or management experience is highly preferred.
∎ Additional training in MHPSS, PFA, counseling skills, and evidence-based MHPSS interventions is highly preferred.
∎ Fluency in Chittagonian or Rohingyan is required. Fluency in English is highly preferred.
∎ Have good interpersonal skills, including written, and oral communication skills.
∎ Advanced master’s degree with specialization in psychology/mental health, or related areas.
∎ At least 4 years of previous experience in a similar position or in clinical psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions in emergencies, in particular working with people at heightened risk.
∎ Sound technical understanding of child protection principles, community-based and rights-based approaches, and trauma-informed care.
∎ Experience in providing MHPSS to adolescents and youth.
∎ Prior supervisory or management experience is highly preferred.
∎ Additional training in MHPSS, PFA, counseling skills, and evidence-based MHPSS interventions is highly preferred.
∎ Fluency in Chittagonian or Rohingyan is required. Fluency in English is highly preferred.
∎ Have good interpersonal skills, including written, and oral communication skills.

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 45 years
∎ Key Competencies:
∎ ●  Integrity and Transparency: Maintain high ethical standards and act in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct.
∎ ●  Managing and sharing knowledge: Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge, and innovate.
∎ ● Professionalism: Demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent, and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges.
∎ ● Inclusion and respect for Diversity: Respects and promotes individual and cultural differences; specifically, the ability to work with people from different cultural settings; encourages diversity and inclusion wherever possible.
∎ ● Responsible, committed, and professional on ethical issues.
∎ Additional Skills:
∎ ●  Planning and organizing skills.
∎ ●  Ability to work in a team, be capable of working under pressure, and be able to work in a sensitive manner.
∎ ● Works with trustworthiness and integrity and has a clear commitment to Mukti Cox’s Bazar core values and humanitarian principles.
∎ ● Ability to work under extreme circumstances, including stress, high-security risks, and harsh living conditions. Works and lives in a flexible, adaptable, and resilient manner.
∎ ●  Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to gender and diversity.
∎ ● Excellent communication skills in cross-cultural contexts.
∎ ●  Problem-solving and decision-making,
∎ ● Applying technical and professional expertise,

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ To meet the program's objectives for safeguarding and PSEA implementation, make sure team members are protected from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation. serve as a major resource for help, direction, and knowledge on safeguarding for developing a safe workplace. To ensure that safeguarding standards are used in every course of action, team members should practice, advocate, and embrace safeguarding policy concerns
∎ Mukti Cox’s Bazar and UNFPA aim to equip girls aged 10-19 years with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that will empower them to realize their health, well-being, and dignity, and develop respectful social and family relationships. The IMHM project specifically contributes to the improved prevention of and response to violence against adolescent girls in the camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bhasan Char, as well as in immediate host communities in Teknaf, Ukhiya, Sadar, and Moheskhali. The IMHM education empowers them to fully participate in society and live a healthy, self-determined life.
∎ Major Duties and Responsibilities:
∎ Service Delivery:
∎ ●  Set up ethical and confidential services and formalize inclusion of different MHPSS services (e.g. psychological first aid, stress counselling, solution-focused therapy, trauma-focused psychotherapy, etc) and customize it to local context.
∎ ● Provide MHPSS services (group and individual) to adolescents and youth to improve their mental health and psychosocial conditions.
∎ ● Practice duty of care by ensuring the mental health and well-being of the MHPSS counsellors, Youth Mentors and other staff of A&Y Centers.
∎ ●Provide PFA for other community members, particularly caregivers, as needed.
∎ ●Refer adolescents, youth, and other persons of concern to appropriate referral institutions for specialized MHPSS or any other support (if needed).
∎ ●Document client data accurately in the intake forms, ensure they are under lock and key and ensure that the MH-related Data Tool is accurately updated on a regular basis.
∎ Capacity Building and Supervision:
∎ ●Conduct assessments and evaluations to determine the nature and extent of mental health and psychosocial issues faced by  A&Y and propose interventions to address them.
∎ ●Conduct training needs assessment to identify knowledge gaps and design appropriate training focusing on MHPSS for the identified audiences.
∎ ●Provide training on MHPSS topics as appropriate, depending on identified needs (e.g. key aspects of psychological first aid and relevant aspects of IASC guidelines), to MHPSS counsellors, Girl Shine staff, Youth Mentors, and staff from other organizations where needed.
∎ ●Support MHPSS counsellors to identify people with specific psychosocial needs, provide them with necessary support, such as developing treatment plans that help them to identify their problems and formulate solutions.
∎ ● Supervise and provide technical guidance to psychoeducational activities and peer-to-peer support activities implemented by Youth Mentors.
∎ ● Facilitate coordination and knowledge-sharing among MHPSS counsellors and other relevant staff to improve MHPSS service delivery. Coordination:
∎ ● Coordinate with other members of the team in the integration of mental health considerations in community-based activities along the full spectrum of the intervention pyramid.
∎ ● Work in close collaboration with the other sectoral actors to ensure the ongoing needs of adolescents and youth, especially on MHPSS, are being met in prevention- and response-related activities.
∎ ● Ensure participation in MHPSS Bhasan Char-level coordination mechanisms and participation in all relevant meetings on the island.
∎ ● Work with other organizations to promote MHPSS support and strengthen referral mechanisms.
∎ ●Use established protocols to refer clients in need of treatment, and link clients to specialized MHPSS sessions.
∎ ●Collect key data and prepare reports on progress made, together with observations, challenges faced, and lessons learned, while maintaining the principle of confidentiality.
∎ ●To proactively assess and analyze the context and propose interventions.
∎ ● Support emergency responses after critical incidents (fire incidents, cyclones, etc.), if requested.
∎ ● Prepare Monthly reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing treatment and result data and trends based on MHPSS tools.
∎ ● To perform other duties as required and agreed upon with the Project Manager.
∎ Safeguarding and PSEA:
∎ To meet the program's objectives for safeguarding and PSEA implementation, make sure team members are protected from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation. serve as a major resource for help, direction, and knowledge on safeguarding for developing a safe workplace. To ensure that safeguarding standards are used in every course of action, team members should practice, advocate, and embrace safeguarding policy concerns

Skills & Expertise:

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ T/A, Mobile bill, Weekly 2 holidays
∎ As per project provision.
∎ As per project provision.

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Full Time

Gender:
∎ Only Female

Job Location: Noakhali (Hatiya)

Job Highlights:
∎ Responsible for the provision of MHPSS services to adolescents and youth.
∎ Provide support to other staff, partners, and target populations in relation to MHPSS programming activities.
∎ Ensure the timely and quality provision of services .
∎ Responsible for the provision of MHPSS services to adolescents and youth.
∎ Provide support to other staff, partners, and target populations in relation to MHPSS programming activities.
∎ Ensure the timely and quality provision of services .

Read Before Apply:

Mukti Cox’s Bazar is one of the recognized organization in the development sector in Cox’s Bazar that has been working at Cox's Bazar, Chattogram and Noakhali district since 1996. In continuation of that, Mukti Cox’s Bazar is seeking for "Senior MHPSS Specialist (Bashan Char)" for project titled "Delivering life skills education and improving menstrual health of adolescent girls and women in Cox’s Bazar and Bashan char, Bangladesh". The project will be implemented in partnership with UNFPA. Interested candidates must be send their application with cover letter, CV with names of two references current/ previous professionals, 2 copies recent color passport size photograph, educational and experience certificates, clean photocopy of national ID card to the undersigned on or before 19 October 2024. No application will be entertained after that time. Application must be submitted to the Director-Human Resources & Admin, Mukti Cox's Bazar, Head Office, Mukti Bhaban, Goldighirpar, Cox's Bazar-4700 or send to jobsmukticox@gmail.com or online.

Please write the position applied for on the top of the envelope or in the subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be called for interview. Only female candidates are encouraged to apply for this position. 

For the position, only female candidates have applied and Bashan Char, Hatia, Noakhali is the posting area.           

Mukti Cox's Bazar has a non-negotiable policy of ZERO TOLERANCE towards Safeguarding. All employees are expected to abide by the Code of Conduct, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), HR Policy, Financial Policy, Gender Policy, Safeguarding Policy, the Child Safeguarding Policy, and Anti-fraud Policy of Mukti Cox's Bazar.         

Mukti Cox's Bazar is committed to ending gender inequality and achieving a gender balanced workforce. Mukti Cox's Bazar promotes equal opportunities for women and men from different caste, ethnic and religious backgrounds and encourages them to apply for this post.