MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT (MHPSS) COORDINATOR

MISSION

Medicos del Mundo has been operating in Ukraine since August 2015 and is currently implementing an emergency response and recovery nexus program in the Eastern part of Ukraine (Luhansk oblast, government and non-government controlled areas – GCAs and NGCAs; Donetsk oblast - GCA). The program is implemented around following main components:1) Direct delivery of services through multidisciplinary mobile units including Primary Health Care (PHC), Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) and support to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survivors).2) Strengthening of local health systems (with a specific focus on PHC, SRH, MHPSS and GBV) through capacity building of health and non-health staff, awareness raising and advocacy.3) Support the health system in response to COVID-19 pandemics in Eastern Ukraine.In the area of mental health, the range of interventions includes: training and supervision in mhGAP of family doctors; training and supervision in Problem Management Plus for community based helping professions; MHPSS community awareness raising and promotion of self-help; and advocacy for MHPSS integration in PHC; use of good clinical practices; integrating MHPSS in community – level settings.

JOB SUMMARY

The MHPSS Coordinator is responsible for the design of MdM MHPSS strategy and modalities in the area of intervention, the correct implementation, monitoring and evaluation of MHPSS activities in line with MdM quality standards. He/she also ensures the technical support, training and supervision of MdM and partner MHPSS teams.

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE OF INTERVENTION:

The successful candidate will be based in Kyiv, travelling frequently (50%) to Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

ORGANIZATION CHART

The MHPSS Coordinator reports directly to the General Coordinator.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES

Technical support to MHPSS Program:• 

• Ensures Assess needs and ensure technical framework coherence of MdM’s MHPSS intervention through technical supervision put in place to MdM’s staff and partners following MdM’s standards and in line with Ukrainian health policies.
• • Support the field team in developing and implementing relevant protocols and referral mechanisms in coordination with MedCo.
• • Ensure processes to monitor quality and follow up of activities are in place and applied by MdM and partners.
• • Plan, coordinate, validate Information, Education and Communication (IEC) MHPSS materials to support MHPSS activities.

Innovations in Mental Health:

• • Develop innovative tools, approaches, modalities, interventions to enable access to MHPSS services aiming to bridge the existing gaps due to the under-developed system of MH care or protracted conflict induced limitations (e.g.: community based specialized MH outreach teams; community MHPSS focal points).
•  Adapt existing interventions to hardly accessible areas or with no physical access to beneficiaries (i.e., on-line modalities; tele-medicine; etc.).

Training activities:

• • Develop appropriate training objectives, planning, contents, evaluation tools, and didactic materials for the interventions PM+, mhGAP, community health focal points in areas of mental health and GBV; and other topic areas as defined by programmatic needs.Medicos del Mundo
• • Identify the training needs of staff on MHPSS and GBV and organize relevant trainings (directly or throughexternal resources).
• • Ensure implementation of theoretical and on the job training for the MHPSS team (directly, or throughexternal resources).
• • Evaluate, based on the initial objectives, the acquired capacities of the trained staff based on the set ofestablished frames of competencies).

Advocacy and communication activities:

• • Contribute to the development of the communication strategy of MdM in reaching the strategicobjectives in MHPSS program.
• • Develop, lead and participate in advocacy activities in line with the MHPSS advocacy strategy and plan inclose collaboration with the advocacy manager.

Monitoring activities:

• • Validate the interventions proposed and monitor their effectiveness.
• • Follow-up the MHPSS intervention implementation and ensure it is in line with projects timeline andquality standards.
• • Coordinate with Medical coordinator and Field Coordinators the implementation of technical support ofMHPSS Managers on the bases.
• • Propose programmatic adaptations of the MHPSS program and activities if needed.

Human Resources:

• • Participate in defining Job descriptions/ToRs for MHPSS staff, recruitment, training and coaching MHPSSManagers and other team members as needed in order to build local capacities among MdM MHPSSTeam.
• • Follow-up, update, revise the competency framework for MHPSS team, as part of the annual appraisaland staff review processes or based on the need aimed at monitoring of technical performance.
•  Participate in objective setting and performance appraisal for MHPSS staff.
• • Follow-up on the staff-support intervention for MdM’s staff, planning necessary measures and activitiesto ensure MdM’s staff mental health is adequately supported in collaboration with the GeneralCoordinator and Administrative Coordinator.

Proposal writing and Reporting:

• • Contribute to the identification, design and proposal writing of MHPSS intervention.
• • Provide regular technical reporting on MHPSS activities to the General Coordinator, coordination team,technical referent in HQ in line with established technical report structure.
• • Validate and contribute to Sit-Rep monthly mission reports.
• • Contribute to donor reports by analyzing the M&E data related to MHPSS activities collected andconsolidated from field implementation.
• • Ensure follow-up on technical implementation reports at field level (e.g. training reports).

Other responsibilities:

• • Participate in Coordination team meetings.
• • Represent MdM in external meetings relevant for MHPSS and GBV.
• • Plan and develop tools for the assessment needed to develop MdM’s program and integrated MHPSSactivities.

This list of activities is not exhaustive and may change depending on the situation.

BACKGROUND AND SKILLS:

Academic background required: Psychologist or psychiatrist.

Desirable: Master?s degree in International Development and/or Humanitarian Aid.

Other qualifications: Project management.

Language requirements: Fluent English (written and spoken). An important asset: Russian/Ukrainian.

Computer requirements: Office pack user level.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• • Experience working in different cultural contexts. Knowledge of the political, social and cultural context ofUkraine is an asset.
• • Knowledge in public mental health, as well as integrated MHPSS interventions models inpromotion/prevention and treatments at primary health care level.
• • Knowledge of guidelines and principles, good practices, of mental health and psychosocial support inemergency settings.
• • Ability and proven capacity in planning and monitoring MHPSS programmes in line with the psychologicaland psychosocial consequences of violence, including gender-based violence.
• • Strong oral and written skills, particularly in providing technical support for proposals, reports andadvocacy materials.

COMPETENCE PROFILE:

• • Ability to work independently.
• • Reactivity, anticipation, adaptability, capacity to take initiatives.
• • Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources.
• • Strong problem solving and organisational skills.
• • Ability to prioritize.
• • Listening and diplomacy skills.
• • Team spirit.
• • Capacity to work and live in challenging environments (proximity to armed conflict, unstable situations).
• • Strict compliance with the safety protocols established for the country and MdM mission
• • Alignment with principles and ethics of Medicos del Mundo
• • Identification with MdM?s lines of work, values and mission.

AVAILABILITY

Immediately.

Contract length: 1 year.

SALARY

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Applicants must send CV at follow e-mail address

 included the REFERENCE description noted below:

Website: Send cv through this link:

www.medicosdelmundo.org

ADDRESS:Medicos del Mundo

ATT: Desarrollo de Personas

C/ Conde de Vilches, 15

28028 Madrid

REFERENCE:MHPSS Coordinator, Ukraine.

Please note:

Medicos del Mundo promotes equal opportunities for all people. We establish positive action measures forthose who, due to functional diversity or social and / or cultural exclusion, belong to under-representedgroups in the positions offered.

As a result, no candidate with a valid profile will be rejected because of a functional diversity or for beingculturally or socially excluded for reasons of birth, ethnicity, race, sex, gender or any other personal, social orcultural condition.

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