Mental Health and Psychosocial Services Coordinator at Medecins Du Monde

Médecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care. MdM operating in Nigeria, Borno state since October 2016.

We are recruiting to to fill the position below:

Job Title: Mental Health and Psychosocial Services Coordinator (M/F)

Location: Maiduguri, Borno, with field visits in Damboa
Employee: Fixed Term
Contract: 9 months
Starting Date: ASAP

Description

• Under the supervision of the medical coordinator, you are responsible for technical program support in activities preparation and implementation in order to ensure the quality of mental health and psychosocial services (MHPSS) in the fields.

More specifically, your responsibilities are to:

• Manage daily program (planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting)
• Conduct routine project needs assessments and program reviews
• Implement sustainability strategy, ensuring community engagement, mobilization and capacity development
• Supervise the mental health supervisors in the field
• Provide direct technical support and capacity building to national staff, in training development and in program implementation
• Participate in the recruitment processes
• Provide technical support in developing and reviewing MHPSS training packages
• Ensure that all staff receives appropriate and adequate MHPSS orientation
• Develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework
• Contribute to develop and implement integrated referrals mechanism
• Take a lead in MHPSS program development and new proposal writing
• Establish systematic data collection for reports
• Participate to the coordination meeting and represent MdM to in relevant external meetings
• Provide support to remote projects with multiple visits to the projects

Conditions

• 2700 gross monthly salary on 13 months
• Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
• Transportation cost (homework), vaccines and visas covered
• Guesthouse housing
• 22.5 RTT per year
• 5 weeks of paid leaves per year
• Health insurance (60% covered by MdM and 40% by the employee)
• Insurance (repatriation…)
• Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility

Profile

• Clinical Psychologist Diploma
• Previous similar experience in conflict and post conflict context
• Knowledge of public health issues
• Languages: English fluent 
• Capacity to create relationships with the communities, government authorities, INGO and UN agencies
• Ability to create tools and monitoring process
• Patience and stress management
• Ability to work with minimum support and capacity to take initiatives to changing requirements
• You are committed to MdM’s values as an organisation and motivated by its nonstatutory, NFP model.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online