Guidance Counsellor at Pan African University (PAU)

The Pan African University (PAU) is a flagship Institution of the African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This was the culmination of the decision of the Assembly of Heads of State and Governments of the African Union to create the Pan African University (EX.CL/579(XVII).  It has five Institutes namely Life and Earth Sciences (including Health and Agriculture) at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Governance, Humanities, and Social Sciences at University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon; Science, Technology and Innovation at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya; Water and Energy (including Climatic change) at University Tlemcen, Algeria and the Institute of Space Sciences, South Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Guidance Counsellor

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The role requires a person who can provide expert advice and helpful resources to students regarding certain personal and academic situations.
• Their main duties will include providing counselling to students to help develop their personal, academic, social, spiritual, and all-round skills as well as providing guidance to the students.

Job Description
The responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Oversee the university’s Guidance & Counselling unit and follow a guidance program to allow students to voice concerns, problems, and other issues.
• Provides personal and social growth counselling which includes individual counselling relating to academic success, understanding of self and others, communication skills, decision-making, relationship skills, conflict resolution and goal setting.
• Liaise/consult with staff and faculty regarding student issues and the resulting impact on academic functioning, integration or re-integration into the university system.
• Get to know students and their unique needs to offer specialized care; recognize and appropriately take care of individual students’ socio-emotional challenges.
• Provides crisis intervention services, e.g., suicide prevention, child abuse, health concerns, substance abuse and follow-up services as appropriate.
• Provide assessment, mental health screening, diagnosis, and recommendations for treatment; assist with mental health-related school programmes and events.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology or a related field.
• Affiliation with a Professional body.
• Average IT skills.

Requirements / Competencies:

• Good collaboration skills.
• Remarkable professionalism and good work ethics.
• Experience in social, emotional, and behavioural management techniques.
• Experience with students who present with behavioural difficulties or developmental challenges.
• Personality should project enthusiasm, professionalism and a high level of credibility.
• Ability to maintain a calm, professional demeanour in the face of competing demands and external pressures.
• Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills with students, parents, colleagues and community members.
• A minimum of five years of counselling or related work experience with young adults in an academic/learning environment

License to Practice:

• Full current license to practice and registration with the appropriate state and national licensing boards for the profession.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.