Psychosocial Counsellor at Future Resilience and Development Foundation (FRAD Foundation)

Future Resilience and Development Foundation (FRAD) is a registered non-profit organization with the corporate affairs commission, in accordance with the Nigerian Law, FRAD work in both humanitarian and development sector to build the resilience of Vulnerable populations through our interventions in thematic areas of WASH, Nutrition, Protection, Education and early recovery and livelihood. Over the years, FRAD has reached more than 19,000 children, men, women and girls through its various interventions.

FRAD work with the Mission to build the Resilience of vulnerable populations using locally available solutions that ensure participation and bring meaningful development, leaving no one behind. Our Mission and Vision guides our programming to ensure no one is left behind.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Psychosocial Counsellor

Location: Maiduguri / Moguno / Gwoza, Borno
Employment Type: Contract

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological, mental health, and psychosocial (MPPSS) support to CRSV survivors participating in the project.
• Provide psychological assessment for participating survivors and identify appropriate services needed for, and by participants.
• Build an interactional framework with survivors based on openness, accessibility, continuous conversations, individual, and group consultations.
• Accompany participating survivors throughout the project life cycle with MHPSS assistance as may be required in designated project locations.
• Keep records of clinical, MHPSS, and medical needs, consultations, and requirements of participating survivors.
• Be available at the request of participating survivors for in-house consultations, visits, personal or familial interventions.
• Implement IRM related to psychological support for participating survivors.
• Provide adequate medical referral pathways for participating survivors.
• Closely monitor MHPSS recovery of cases, ensuring that cases have clear wellbeing outcomes.
• Ensure utmost confidentiality in relations with survivors, survivor data and PSS support provided.
• With psychological and psychosocial support provided, assist survivors in project participation, as well as ensure transformative impact of project is enjoyed by survivors.
• Provide context-related MHPSS support to entities related directly to the survivors’ wellbeing such as husband, family, and community members.
• Support survivor mobilizers in sensitization and awareness campaigns for the project.
• Conduct MHPSS activities, trainings, capacity building sessions, and sensitizations as required for project team and participating survivors.
• Provide regular updates to participating survivor’s case worker on survivors’ journey as related to project processes.
• Ensure that individual MHPSS support is complemented by group MHPSS support, and vice versa.
• Follow principles of respect, confidentiality, non-discrimination, and safety in providing support to participating survivors.
• Provide timely reports on MHPSS support to feed into overall project plan and implementation.
• Lead and manage the PSS case working team as assigned by supervisor.
• Be responsible for managing the participation of survivors in receiving medical IRM.
• Carry out any other project-related task as specified by supervisor.

In conjunction with the implementation team:

• Provide active technical support in the organization and conduct of work consistent with the priorities and schedules defined in the team and validated by the project officer and state coordinator.
• Be active and proactive in team leadership, and supporting all team members to take ownership of the project.
• Participate in conflict resolution and arbitration if necessary, and provide regular, formal, individual, and group evaluations of assigned team members.
• Actively participate in community activities and advocacy meetings (semi-annual, monthly, and ad hoc).
• Ensure contacts with the authorities in the field for a good external relationship with the community and related stakeholders (especially hospitals and other health care providers).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, mental health, guidance and counselling, psychosocial studies, or a related discipline. Master’s degree is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ professional experience in psychological and MHPSS service provision.
• Strong experience working with gender and sexual based violence survivors. Experience with CRSV survivors is an added advantage.
• Proficient skills in English and Hausa. Kanuri and other languages spoken in northeastern Nigeria is an added advantage.
• Team leadership and team management experience is essential.
• Ability to prepare and provide trainings. Excellent presentation skills are thus required.
• Excellent computer, reporting, and tech-savvy skills.
• Openness and accessible demeanor, high attention to detail, and ability to work independently.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to strictly respect the obligations of confidentiality and discretion, as well as strictly respect the protocols of care.
• Ability to listen to and empathize with all the participants, regardless of the violence they have suffered and its context, and regardless of their gender or their social, cultural, ethnic, or religious background.
• Organizational rigor and autonomy in the execution of the required tasks.
• Ability to adapt to a variety of tasks, taking initiative, working under pressure and in difficult areas.
• Good communication and public speaking skills and ability to adapt to the target audience.
• Professionalism in dealing with various interlocutors and partners, especially in a multicultural context.
• Amiable interpersonal skills.
• Ability to proactively take on any additional responsibilities, functions, or tasks that arise during the execution of the program due to absence of other personnel, or any other unforeseen reason.

Application Closing Date
16th November, 2024.