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| MHPSS Supervisor (Local Recruitment) | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Daikundi, |
| Categories | Health Care, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2023-02-11 | Close Date | 2023-02-15 |
| Vacancy No | AAH/AFG-2022-221 | Gender | Male |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | End of December 2023 (Extendable) |
| Education | Diploma/Bachelor’s degree in psychology, psychosocial services, Public Health or related field from reputed university | Experience | Minimum 2 year experience in NGOs including preferable experience in protection and/or psychosocial support |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | As per AAH Salary Scale |
About Company
About Action Against Hunger: Action Against Hunger/Action Contre La Faim (AAH/ACF) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that was created in France in 1979. AAH/ACF has been active in Afghanistan in the medical, nutrition, food security, and water and sanitation fields since 1995. AAH/ACF improved access to health and nutrition services for the most vulnerable people, who live in remote areas without a local health system. In particular, the country team supported pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under five, who are at greater risk of malnutrition. Nutrition programmes rely on an integrated approach, addressing both primary and underlying causes, in order to have a lasting impact on nutritional status. The country team worked at community level, in villages and at provincial level, strengthening the public health system. It also worked at national level to ensure reliable information about the nutritional situation reached the wider humanitarian community. Covid-19 prevention was integrated into all interventions and additional response activities were implemented, such as the disinfection of health facilities and public places, cash assistance, psychosocial support and the distribution of hygiene kits to affected populations.
Job Description
Goal
Ensure quality services regarding psychosocial and protection intervention
Supervision, monitoring and follow up of the psychosocial and protection activities
Objective 1: Ensure quality services: supervision, monitoring and follow up & management of material
- Ensure all staffs receives training, refreshers and capacity building to be able to provide quality services to the beneficiaries
- Ensure protocols and guidelines are followed for all activities
- Support the team when necessary
- Make sure that daily, weekly and monthly record of beneficiaries is in place and fulfilled efficiently.
- Identify strategic areas to implement activities
- Prepare and follow supervision planning
- Support on the organization and implementation of all the activities
- Ensure a good collaboration and coordination between AAH and other stakeholders
- Prepare the material need for fix and mobile team activities
- Follow up on the daily, weekly, monthly consumption
- Ensure the Program Manager receives the list of needs
- Support the MHPSS-P Focal Point when needs be.
Objective 2: Lead in implementing protection and child protection mainstreaming in Emergency Response and Nutrition and Health interventions:
- Elaborate a detailed mapping of all actors in the area and liaise with possible actors to strengthen the referral system and proper follow-up
- Support the identification of protection needs in jointly with the teams in the field in beneficiaries throughout all our programs
- Analyse the needs for vulnerable cases jointly with the beneficiary concerned and provide support through a survivor centred approach
- Liaise with different sectors to make a comprehensive referral system with multiple sectors as mental health, physical health, shelter, legal and protection, economic empowerment, and livelihoods, and social networks. Provides basic psychosocial support/PFA throughout the process.
- Assess the capacity or potential of psychosocial services within the province, and link with these services for potential referrals
- Strong partnership with key partners to follow-up on the referred cases as well as home visits
- Provide accountability to the beneficiaries
Objective 3: Support management of child friendly spaces and breastfeeding corners:
- Support the identification of protection needs for mother, caretakers and boys and girls in Mobile teams and in TFU, schools and other areas of intervention
- Participate in real time evaluations of child friendly space implementation
- Work closely with the health and nutrition staff and take part in review of cases
- Organize and direct sessions on child protection in emergency best practice standards
- Monitor the provision and supervision of children and admission criteria of children who are admitting in the program
- Train the team on the activities with support of the Programme Manager;
- Establish a work plan for the team;
- In case of absence of a direct team members, manage who will take over the activities
Objective 4: Supervise the referral of vulnerable cases to the pre-identified protection actors:
- Ensure that these persons are given support through interviews, individual counselling and by referring them to the relevant services
- Conduct regular meetings to ensure follow-up of the cases
- Ensure data is collected properly and updated regularly based on follow-ups
- Coordination with protection actors, case manager and focal points
Objective 5: Support program monitoring, data collection and management and reporting
- Ensure all data from the field are provided on weekly and on monthly basis
- Work in collaboration with the Data Entry and provide feedback to the teams in the field to improve the data collection
- Contribute to the Activity Progress Report
- Ensure the teams fill in carefully and correctly register, screening, patient forms and reporting documents
- To provide feedback on the daily data collection and openly with team address promptly and effectively any issues or problems where possible
- Proactivity on proposing different possible solution to adapt and improve the activities
- Ensure mainstreamed Protection and Accountability indicators and practices are reflected in data collection, etc.
- Ensure the security and confidentiality files concerning project activities up to date
- Respect the principals, charter and values of AAH
- Support the development, maintenance and dissemination of complete information system including collections of good practices of protection training and gender mainstreaming
- Coordinate with the MEAL department and the feedback mechanism
Job Requirement
Background/qualifications
- Diploma/Bachelor’s degree in psychology, psychosocial services, Public Health or related field from reputed university
- Minimum 2 year experience in NGOs including preferable experience in protection and/or psychosocial support
- Experience in practice of and capacity building on psychosocial methods
- Good organization, planning and reporting skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skill
- Good team interaction and positive attitude
- Autonomy and flexibility
- Sense of confidentiality
- Excellent knowledge of the intervention area
- Excellent knowledge of local languages
- Good level of English
- High flexibility in deployment to the field
- Familiar with word, excel, Skype and email
Submission Guideline
Qualified and interested candidates should submit a cover letter and full CV with three Referees indicating the vacancy announcement to the address:
Human Resources Department AAH office
or can also be emailed to:
vacancies-dk@af-actionagainsthunger.org indicating the job tile and vacancy number of the position in the email subject line.
Eligible candidates are invited to apply the earliest possible deadline is set for 15 Feb 2023.
Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.
Do not submit academic certificates with the application. These will be requested if the candidate is selected. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the written test/interview.
Action Against Hunger/Action Conter La Faim is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage women and people with disabilities to apply. ACF/AAH has zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA).