Overview
Responsible and accountable for implementing staff welfare activities in IOM Ukraine, providing psychological counselling and support to staff members and dependents.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide in-person and online psychological counselling and support.
- Provide psychological and counselling support to staff members in post critical incidents and other emergencies.
- Conduct psychosocial risk assessments in the workplace.
- Provide recommendations on improvements for the implementation of the UN Mental Health Strategy and IOM People Strategy.
- Participate in and coordinate Staff Welfare responses to emergencies and critical incidents.
- Develop and provide training to staff on relevant topics.
- Produce psycho-educational material for dissemination.
- Offer consultations to Managers/Heads of Units.
- Collaborate with colleagues in UN/INGO staff in relevant units.
- Identify and liaise with local and regional mental health resources.
- Ensure reports and other administrative duties are carried out to a professional standard.
- Develop tools for data collection, analysis, monitoring and reporting mechanisms.
- Keep the Senior Staff Welfare Officer updated on numbers and statistics of services provided.
- Participate in Staff Welfare team meetings and activities.
- Participate to the relevant UN Working Group and other relevant technical fora.
Required Experience
- Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, Counselling, or Psychiatry or a related field from an accredited academic institution with five years of relevant professional experience; or, University degree in the above fields with seven years of relevant professional experience.
- Minimum of five years of relevant counseling experience post licensure/certification/registration.
- Experience in a similar setting such as an international and/or humanitarian organization is preferred.
- Experience with counselling and psychosocial interventions.
- Experience of working with other UN Agencies, International Humanitarian Organizations or Employee Assistant Programmes is considered essential.
- Demonstrated familiarity with the impact of working conditions of humanitarian workers on their well-being.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, Counselling, or Psychiatry or a related field from an accredited academic institution; or, University degree in the above fields.
- Must possess an active license or certification, or demonstrate registered membership in a legitimate professional organization in the field most relevant to their degree, including psychiatry (medicine or nursing), psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy, or social work.
