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Roles & Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design of child and family assessments and psychometric tools and supervise their administration and implementation.
- Conduct individual sessions with children and parents in need of psychotherapy as required.
- Prepare and lead on group counselling sessions with target groups referred from the case management team.
- Develop a detailed monthly action plan for the main psycho-social activities to be conducted.
- Participate in delivering necessary technical support for the project’s staff on providing basic psycho-social support for children through regular field visits, training, and on-site observation.
- Prepare progress reports for all cases supported.
- Collaborate with the communication and reporting team to develop monthly required reports.
- Contribute to the design and facilitation of other project activities building resilience and well-being of target group; in addition to delivering awareness raising sessions.
- Help implement and supervise the case management system.
- Refer severe cases to appropriate psychological/psychiatric service providers.
- Maintain the confidentiality of all the information collected in the exercise of the job.
- Provide Psycho-sensitive education training to our partners.
- Record the data about children and the activities with the children on the database of Acess 2 Justice project.
Job Requirements
Requirements:
- 3 to 5 years of experience in psychological counselling for children
- A university degree in psychology
- Preferably a post-graduate degree in Psychology
Child Protection Context
- Has an in-depth understanding of core theories related to child care and protection.
- Has expert knowledge of national and international legal frameworks and conventions related to child care and protection.
- Demonstrating the ability to explore causes, indicators for and consequences of, existing and emerging forms of abuse, neglect and exploitation.
- Demonstrating the ability to make considered decisions about how to act to safeguard or promote children’s welfare.
- Demonstrating the ability to develop, measure and audit child protection services and service provision in different contexts.
Psychological Evaluation
- Able to conduct clinical interviews.
- Able to use evidence-based assessment tools (e.g., screening instruments, rating scales, and tests that assess risks, development, personality, psychopathology, cognitive functioning, and organizational functioning)
- Able to collect and integrate data.
- Able to summarize and report data.
Psychological Interventions
- Have the knowledge and the ability to plan, implement and monitor progress of interventions designed to alleviate suffering and to promote health and well-being to targeted communities.
Managerial Competencies
Planning & Organizing
- Demonstrating the ability to develop and implement strategies and work plans to achieve projects goals.
- Demonstrating full understanding and ability to allocate time and resources needed to carry out activities and monitoring progress.
- Demonstrating the ability to anticipate obstacles and develop contingency plans to address them; take necessary corrective action when projects go off-track.
Judgment
- Capacity to foresee the indications and repercussions of situations and take the right action to be ready for any probabilities.
- Good judgment and discretion working with highly confidential information.
Communication
- Demonstrating the ability to asking probing questions and actively listening to responses, while engaging and communicating with others and present results in a clear and user-friendly way as well as to write up evaluation reports.
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