Overview
Provide confidential, demand-based psychosocial support services to UNICEF personnel, including individual counselling, crisis support, and wellbeing workshops.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide short-term, confidential individual counselling sessions.
- Deliver crisis support and psychological first response following critical incidents.
- Conduct brief psychosocial assessments and provide stabilization support.
- Identify cases requiring specialized or long-term care and provide appropriate referrals.
- Develop and deliver remote wellbeing workshops.
- Participate in coordination meetings with the National Staff Counsellor.
- Submit monthly aggregated, non-identifiable reports.
Required Experience
- At least three years of demonstrated experience providing individual counselling and crisis intervention services.
- At least three years of experience working in emergency, humanitarian or other high-stress environments.
- At least three years of experience delivering psychosocial workshops or group interventions.
- Ongoing professional supervision practice is required.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree in Psychology or a related field.
- Certification in at least one recognized psychotherapy or counselling approach.
- Formal training or certification in crisis response, Psychological First Aid, Critical Incident Stress Response, trauma-informed approaches, or other evidence-based emergency mental health interventions is strongly preferred.
