D Non Family with Residential Location Non Family with Residential Location Danger Pay Budapest, Hungary NOA National Professional Officer Regular > Regular Assignment No 2024-12-01 November 3, 2024

• Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
• Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Years of Experience / Degree Level
For P1/NOA - 1 year relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or no experience with Graduate degree; or no experience with Doctorate degree

Field(s) of Education
Clinical Psychology;
Psychiatry;
Clinical Social Work;
Public Health;
Mental Health;
or other relevant field

Certificates and/or Licenses
Not specified.

Relevant Job Experience
Essential
Knowledge of and experience in various psychological interventions. Experience with provision MHPSS services in refugee settings or other disadvantaged communities. Desired Candidate Profile:

• Fluency in both English and Ukrainian, orally and in writing. Good drafting skills in Ukrainian and English.
• Excellent communication and strong inter-personal skills.
• Demonstrated experience in the humanitarian response to the needs of internally displaced and other war-affected people.
• Experience in community-based protection.
• Demonstrated professional experience in planning for and implementing mental health and psycho-social support services. A background in social work is desirable.
• Demonstrated familiarity with and use of evidence-based scalable psychological interventions (group-based and individual level)
• Experience in supporting national social systems and services related to MHPSS
• Experience in capacity building

Operational Context:
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) describes any type of local or outside support that aims to protect or promote psychosocial well-being and/or prevent or treat mental health conditions. It is therefore, by definition, a multi-sectoral issue. Within the work of UNHCR and partners, MHPSS activities do not constitute a separate sector, but are mainly realized within existing sectors and work fields such as health, nutrition, community-based protection, child protection, and SGBV. The main task of the MHPSS team is to build and maintain capacity for MHPSS interventions within UNHCR and partner programs in order to foster delivery of quality MHPSS interventions for refugees and other persons we work with and for, including the surrounding host communities.

The Assistant Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Officer will enhance UNHCR’s efforts to ensure that MHPSS is well integrated in the humanitarian response, with a focus on multisector scalable capacity building on individual and community-based psycho-social support, evidence-based scalable psychological interventions such as Group Problem Management +, Early Adolescents Skills for Emotion (EASE) and Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA), as well as clinical mental health care (support to primary health care workers around mental health care).

The incumbent will be a part of the Community-based Protection Team of the Protection Unit in the Ukraine Country Office and work under the direct supervision of the Child Protection Officer as part of the CBP Team led by the Senior Protection Officer. The incumbent is also expected to liaise and closely work with the Protection Cluster to strengthen the psycho-social services component in the humanitarian coordination systems. In addition, the incumbent is expected to take an active role in the MHPSS TWG.

The Assistant MHPSS Officer works directly with stakeholders, including other UNHCR staff, government, NGO partners, as well as the communities of concern. The incumbent supports the identification of MHPSS gaps and contributes to the design and implementation of a MHPSS strategy as part of the wider CBP approach by ensuring that it reflects the needs of persons of concern and builds on the capacities of partners. The Assistant MHPSS Officer will further contribute to support offices and partners to deliver an effective response, including with capacity building support and assistance in setting up effective programming and referral pathways.

To fulfil this role the Assistant Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Officer will be required to frequently travel to all of UNHCR’s Field Offices across Ukraine, to provide technical guidance and training to UNHCR and its partners to improve the quality of MHPSS interventions. S/he will also play a key role in monitoring and evaluating MHPSS interventions and providing partners with constructive feedback. S/he will participate in MHPSS coordination and planning meetings within UNHCR, coordinates and engages with relevant Government counterparts and devises ways to support national systems, and will represent UNHCR in interagency MHPSS technical meetings including the national level MHPSS Technical Working Group and regional hubs.

Nationality of the country of the position is required. English Ukrainian CL-Multi-stakeholder Communications with Partners, Government & Community, CO-Cross-cultural communication, MD-Health Information Systems (HIS), PR-Refugee Protection Principles and Framework, WB - Organizational Psychology and/or Psychiatry, WB - Psychosocial risk assessment and recommendation of mitigating measures Bachelor of Arts (BA): Clinical Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (BA): Clinical Social Work, Bachelor of Arts (BA): Mental Health, Bachelor of Arts (BA): Psychiatry, Bachelor of Arts (BA): Public Health Accountability, Analytical thinking, Client & results orientation, Commitment to continuous learning, Communication, Empowering & building trust, Organizational awareness, Planning & organizing, Stakeholder management, Teamwork & collaboration This position requires Functional Clearance