Officer - Psychosocial Support

Job Description

Title: Officer - Psychosocial Support

Company Name: ActionAid Bangladesh

Vacancy: 2

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Graduation in Psychology/Sociology or any discipline.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Project: Prevention and Response to Violence against Children and Women in Rohingya Camps and Host communities project funded by UNICEF ( phase V)
∎ Types of contract: Fixed term contract
∎ Duration of contact: Up to 09 May 2023 (if not extended)
∎ (only women are encouraged to apply)
∎ Provide psychological First aid and psychosocial support to GBV and SGBV survivors with maintaining a survivor center approach. Record keeping of case receive. Psychosocial support is referred to other service providers and kept records through the psychosocial support system. Psychosocial support referred to psychosocial support follow-up and keeping records. Psychosocial support received case closure, CFRM was received and referred. Maintain all psychosocial registers and history books. conduct awareness-raising session. liaison and communication with CIC, site management, service providers & protection actors to ensure proper, service for the survivor. Make weekly, monthly psychosocial support report.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Provide first aid to the survivors by maintaining a survivors center approach.
∎ Provide basic health education hygiene, prevention of communicable disease nutrition, child-caring target for parent women and children, and also provide psychosocial support to the program participants as per their need
∎ Find out GBV or protection related case and Making referrals as per need
∎ Maintain strong confidentiality in psychosocial while handling and kind of GBV or SGB. psychosocial support also ensures protection and psychosocial principles through the service center.
∎ Coordinate with the service providers for very sensitive and confidential services (health, shelter, CFRM,
∎ case management, site management, etc.) and follow up the referred
∎ Organized psychological counseling for the survivors and maintain records also follow up
∎ Making weekly and monthly reports as per the organization's needs
∎ Relationships: The person holds this position will be reportable to Programme Officer - GBV (Gender Based Violence)

Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience in the relevant sector will also be considered favorably
∎ At least 3 years of relevant experience, experience responding to VAWG would be an added value.
∎ Experience in working with marginalized/vulnerable groups
∎ Fluency in Local Language
∎ Understanding of case management and analysis
∎ Understanding of gender, human rights, issues surrounding violence against women and girls
∎ Knowledge of Protection and GBV principals
∎ Working knowledge of written and spoken Bengali and English.
∎ Ability to work independently and foster a team spirit.
∎ Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
∎ Skills in report writing, documentation and presentation.
∎ Gender sensitive and familiar with humanitarian principles, Human Rights Based Approach.

Salary:
∎ Competitive salary with other admissible benefits such as mobile & internet allowance, medical benefit, group life insurance etc

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 4 Jun 2022

Company Information:
∎ 26 May 2022
∎ ActionAid Bangladesh
∎ Business : ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency working in over 40 countries, taking sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together.

Category: NGO/Development

Source: bdjobs.com

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