Senior Project Officer, PSS Counsellor, Humanitarian Development Coexistence Nexus, HCMP

Job Description

Title: Senior Project Officer, PSS Counsellor, Humanitarian Development Coexistence Nexus, HCMP

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:
∎ At least 2 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO, Development Agency

Published: 3 Jun 2025

Education:

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ 1 year working experience as a PSS Counsellor
∎ 1 year working experience as a PSS Counsellor
∎ KNOWLEDGE:
∎ • Understanding of psychosocial support frameworks.
∎ • Knowledge of trauma-informed care and GBV protection principles.
∎ • Awareness of Rohingya culture and contextual psychosocial challenges.
∎ SKILLS:
∎ • Strong counselling and facilitation skills.
∎ • Case management and psychosocial assessment skills.
∎ • Training facilitation and capacity-building skills.
∎ • Strong interpersonal and communication abilities.
∎ • Report writing and documentation skills.
∎ COMPETENCIES:
∎ • Emotional resilience and active listening.
∎ • Cultural sensitivity and gender awareness.
∎ • Problem-solving and conflict resolution.
∎ • Teamwork and collaboration.
∎ • Ethical integrity and safeguarding accountability.
∎

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Provide individual and group-based psychosocial support sessions to affected individuals, especially emotionally vulnerable women and adolescent girls.
∎ Develop care and safety plans with clients based on their immediate and long-term psychosocial needs.
∎ Refer complex cases to psychiatrists or mental health professionals as needed.
∎ Conduct psychological assessments and maintain confidential case documentation.
∎ Design monthly and weekly PSS activity schedules based on PSS framework.
∎ Facilitate community-based recreational and psychosocial group activities.
∎ Identify individuals in need of special support through coordination with case management and outreach teams.
∎ Conduct awareness sessions and support groups for persons with specific needs, including trauma survivors, GBV survivors, and individuals with disabilities.
∎ Facilitate training sessions on Psychological First Aid (PFA), GBV guiding principles, and basic psychosocial care for staff and volunteers.
∎ Coordinate with case management, protection, and health teams for integrated service delivery.
∎ Maintain proper records, generate timely reports, and contribute to donor and internal reporting.
∎ Actively engage in safeguarding compliance and ensure all psychosocial interventions meet ethical and protection standards.
∎ Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme's goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.
∎ The Senior Project Officer, PSS Counsellor will be responsible for delivering individual and group-based psychosocial support (PSS) services to vulnerable populations, particularly women and adolescents, following the 4-tier PSS intervention framework. The role involves structured PSS planning, referrals, capacity-building, and community-based psychosocial activities to address mental health needs and emotional well-being of beneficiaries in the humanitarian context.
∎ Direct Psychosocial Support Services
∎ Provide individual and group-based psychosocial support sessions to affected individuals, especially emotionally vulnerable women and adolescent girls.
∎ Develop care and safety plans with clients based on their immediate and long-term psychosocial needs.
∎ Refer complex cases to psychiatrists or mental health professionals as needed.
∎ Conduct psychological assessments and maintain confidential case documentation.
∎ PSS Programme Implementation and Community Engagement
∎ Design monthly and weekly PSS activity schedules based on PSS framework.
∎ Facilitate community-based recreational and psychosocial group activities.
∎ Identify individuals in need of special support through coordination with case management and outreach teams.
∎ Conduct awareness sessions and support groups for persons with specific needs, including trauma survivors, GBV survivors, and individuals with disabilities.
∎ Capacity Building, Coordination, and Reporting
∎ Facilitate training sessions on Psychological First Aid (PFA), GBV guiding principles, and basic psychosocial care for staff and volunteers.
∎ Coordinate with case management, protection, and health teams for integrated service delivery.
∎ Maintain proper records, generate timely reports, and contribute to donor and internal reporting.
∎ Actively engage in safeguarding compliance and ensure all psychosocial interventions meet ethical and protection standards.
∎ Safeguarding:
∎ Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme's goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.
∎

Skills & Expertise:

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ • Health & Life Insurance
∎ • Paternity/ Maternity leave
∎ • others as per Organisation policy.
∎

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Read Before Apply:

BRAC believes that everyone we work with including our staff, programme participants, partners, and the communities have the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). We uphold human dignity and inclusion for all, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, disability, ethnic origin, or socio-economic condition. As an equal-opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from gender-diverse individuals and people with disabilities

Selected candidates will have to go through a rigorous reference and background checking process which may include police verification

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Company Information:
∎ BRAC
∎ BRAC 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
∎ brac is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.
Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.

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∎ BRAC 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
∎ brac is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.

Application Deadline: 15 Jun 2025

Category: NGO/Development