Apply for the Vacancy for Health Counselor at IRC in Myanmar. The name of the organization is the International Rescue Committee.

Job Description

Scope of work: The Health Counselor will be responsible for the implementation of mental health and psychosocial support activities in identified IDP camps and villages of targeted townships in the IRC Humanitarian Health Response project. The Health Counselor needs to build MHPSS capacity for other mobile clinic staff. Coordination with the camp management committee and village leaders for smooth implementation of MHPSS activities in IDP camps area and conflicted affected communities.

Responsibilities:

• Implement MHPSS activities in IDP camps and targeted villages
• Also, build MHPSS capacity of Mobile clinic team members and community health workers.
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Reporting

. Implementation of MHPSS activities in IDP camps and targeted villages

• Organize and responsible for MHPSS services in the camp and targeted villages
• Likewise, identify the main mental health and psychosocial problems in targeted camps and villages
• Additionally, provide awareness session related with mental health and psychosocial problems and support to community and volunteers from targeted IDPs camps and villages
• Furthermore, provide individual counseling and psychosocial support to beneficiaries who were detected mental health problem and needed psychosocial support
• Also, facilitate and coordinate with the Camp Management Committee and village leaders to get smooth program implementation activities

MHPSS Capacity building of the mobile team members and volunteers

• Provide MHPSS awareness and first aid training to community health volunteers as quarterly
• Organize training sessions to mobile team members and volunteers on psychosocial first aid training and MHPSS awareness session as needed

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors in Psychology, Social Work or related field
• Also, favorable to the person with previous experience on counseling
• Favorable to the person who has previous experience in working in a humanitarian setting
• Likewise, demonstrated experience in MHPSS
• Adaptable, flexible, and mature in judgment
• Also, good assessment, analytical, planning, and reporting skills
• Have ability and motivation to travel and work long continuous days in remote IDP camps/ remote villages in the Kachin States
• Similarly, demonstrated experience in building capacity, designing and delivering training
• Also, good communication skills

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