Organization Background:

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergencies, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

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Project Background:

Health Sector Response to protection   & Increasing Access to RMNCAH Services project funded by UNFPA for 2023 will provide psychosocial support services to the beneficiaries through Psychosocial Counselling Centers (PSCCs), Mother and child Health center (MCHC) which are One Stop Assistance Centers in  the targeted provinces each (Kabul, Balkh, Jawzjan, Samangan, Kunduz, Faryab, Baghlan, Bamyan, Daikundi and Paktika.

The objectives of the project are to facilitate access for all women and adolescent girls to knowledge, skills and a range of relevant services, support women’s and adolescent girls’ psychosocial well-being and creation of social networks, serve as a places where women and adolescent girls can organize and access information about the health and PSS services  serve as a key entry point for their  needs and to provide a space where women and adolescent girls can access basic skills training as a way of building a foundation for their livelihood assets.

Job Purpose:

He/ she will provide psychosocial support, basic case management support to vulnerable women and girls through individual counselling follow up support, referrals, and dissemination of information on available services to encourage access to services.

She will in collaboration with the MCHC in charge/ MHPSS technical manager oversee provision of psychosocial /group support, skills building with local partner, information sessions and other recreational activities that promote social support networks and cohesion with women and girls at Community health education/PSCC, MCHC centers.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

The Psychosocial Counselor is responsible for the following:

• Responsible for day-to-day management and supervision of the Woman Friendly Health Services (MCHC).
• Ensure the MCHC guidelines are followed in all activities of MCHC.
• Provide PSS case management, including referral to any other available services (health, specialized mental health, etc.) when requested by the client.
• Regular and continuous follow-up of clients registered in the MCHC.
• Provide individual and group psychosocial support to women and girls to help them cope with the trauma reactions.
• Provide psychological first aid (PFA) and assess the needs of clients through one-to-one sessions.
• Responsible for maintaining and confidentiality of all registered documents.
• Compile and share weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports with the relevant person/Technical Manager.
• In consultation with the technical manager, provide technical support to all MCHC activities, and community mobilizers.
• Based on the request of the authorized person, attend, and participate in all relevant meetings/training-related meetings to the program's purpose.
• Ensure that all work with clients is kept confidential and that ethical practices are always followed.
• Process request and purchase requests for the MCHC needy supplies and ensure MCHC supplies are constant and are used properly.
• Perform other tasks assigned by the supervisor.

Organizational Responsibilities:

Policy Adherence

• Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles and respect international humanitarian law.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.

Compliance & Ethics:

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.

Safeguarding

It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons. 

Qualifications:

• Diploma in psychology, bachelor’s in psychology is preferred.
•  Midwife with two years extensive experience in PSS field for remote location and where the IPs could not onboard the candidate with bachelor’s degree.

Experience:

• At least 2 years of field experience within a Humanitarian NGO/Agency in the same or similar position.
• Good coordination, networking, inter-personal and relationship building skills, and diplomacy.

Competency:

• Extensive experience providing psychosocial support to individuals and groups.
• Good interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Skilled at working as a team member.
• Possess group facilitation skills.
• Able to speak/write in Pashto and Dari with clarity and ease.
• Flexibility and willingness to change work practices and hours.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Demonstrate strong local language correspondence skills. Particularly in fluency in
• To be able to propose solutions to the identified problems/challenges.

Attitudes and aptitude aligned with the positions are essential.

Dear Applicant,

International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document. 

Please note that:

• IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
• IMC will conduct his recruitment on the base of need only.
• Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
• IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
• Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

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Equal Opportunities:

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran.