Psychologist

TITLE: PSYCHOLOGIST

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Operations Team
LOCATION: Egypt Country Office

GRADE : ‎5
POST TYPE: National
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed term
CONTRACT LENGTH: ‎6 months (extendable)

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level ‎3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people
either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days
in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country program.

ROLE PURPOSE:
The key purpose of this post is to provide psychosocial support services in
compliance with the relevant SCI guidelines at the country office level in
support to Egypt Response programme. Under the supervision of Response Team
Lead and the Mental Health Psycho Social Support (MHPSS) Technical Advisor
(TA), the psychologist will be responsible for providing individual/group
sessions for at risk unaccompanied and separated children and youth in need of
psychosocial support identified through the project activities and referrals.
S/he will be responsible to conduct the needed assessments and customize the
session topics based on the identified needs of the target group. S/he will
also be responsible for organizing group support and awareness sessions to
children at risk and their families, and refer those with acute psychological
needs to specialized services. The role holder might be at least ‎50% working
in the field with frequent travels outside duty station.

SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Sr Operations Officer
Dotted line to: MHPSS Technical Advisor (if applicable)
Staff directly reporting to this post: ‎2 Facilitators

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Project implementation:
Psychological Support Services:
In close collaboration with the MHPSS TA, the psychologist will:
* Contribute to the design/update of intake forms, session plans, and follow-up forms for children and their families.
* Collaborate with the Monitoring Evaluation Accountability & Learning (MEAL) team to administer the psychometric assessments upon need and deliver reports accordingly.
* Develop psychological intervention plans for identified cases and follow up on them regularly.
* Conduct one to one and group counselling sessions to referred children and families .
* Identify, assess, refer severe cases to appropriate psychological/psychiatric service providers.
* Prepare and submit individual case reports for all cases on their caseload and document case progress.
* Attend one to one and group supervision meetings (face to face and online) with the MHPSS TA to discuss the above mentioned documents and for seeking support.
* Ensure that all psychological interventions offered are informed by current scientific evidence.
* Adhere to the highest standards of practice.
* Work closely with the response team leader to develop and implement the work plan and activities.
Other Activities:
* Assist in material development, and delivering trainings on topics identified through needs assessment.
* Collaborate with the MEAL team to administer remote follow up (By phone or online) and surveys to verify the quality of MHPSS activities.
* Ensure accurate monitoring & evaluation and indicator tracking plans for the MHPSS component with support of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team.
* Work closely with the MEAL team to ensure appropriate accountability and feedback mechanisms are established.
* Ensure that the activities are implemented in a full respect to the child safeguarding polices of SC.
* Support in staff well-being activities that doesn't affect the professional relationship and confidentiality of staff (For Example: peer to peer support groups, work related stress awareness raising and stress management training).
* Responsible for all the administrative and logistics work related MHPSS activities within the response operations.
Reporting and Documentation
* Draft concise, useful and analytical reports, case studies, and other documents as needed on monthly/quarterly basis as requested by SC.
* Regular reporting to Response Team Leader
In case of Emergency:
* Promote children's rights, contributing to their well-being and protection in times of emergencies, guided by humanitarian principles and code of conduct.
* During emergencies, he/she should act in a way that facilitates SCI's response to emergencies, giving priority to all assigned.
* Be prepared to support SCI interventions in response to emergencies and show needed flexibility
General:
* Demonstrate leadership in relation to Save the Children policies and practice with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
* Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to safeguarding policy, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice )
Accountability:
* Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
* Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
* Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
* Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
* Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
* Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
* Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
* Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
* Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
* Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
* honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS
* A university degree in psychology.
* ‎2-‎3 years of experience in family and/or child counselling, experience in working with migrants and refugees is an asset.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
* Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including team-leading and influencing.
* Extensive experience in delivering trainings.
* Experience in providing MHPSS services to SGBV survivors and LGBTQI adolescents and youth is an asset.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills in Arabic and English are required.
* Comfortable with high levels of ambiguity and able to take decisions independently in a fluid context.
* Experience with refugee/marginalized communities is desired.
* Commitment to Save the Children values and Child Safeguarding.

Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the
role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within
reasonableness of their level of skills and experience. In the event of a
major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside
the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI
Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes
rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of
children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI
anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI
Health and Safety policies and procedures.

JD written by: SCI -Ops
Date: October '‎23

JD agreed by: HRD
Date: October '‎23

Evaluated:
Date:

The Organization
We employ approximately ‎25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground
in over ‎100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need
better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and
advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure
their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the
world treats children by ‎2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday


• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,


• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees
play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.We value
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integrity are highly valued.

Application Information:
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Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary
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process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.