Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Technical Advisor Ukraine

World Vision International

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Technical Advisor. Ukraine, you will provide technical guidance for programming, clinical supervision, and capacity building of staff, implementing partners and guiding mental health and psychosocial support interventions in Ukraine (70%) and Moldova (30%). Ensure effective implementation and monitoring of psychological intervention of mental health and psychosocial support, in relation to all tasks related to support of field and office operations.

Requirements include:

• Mental Health professional with a Degree in Counselling Psychology, Psychology, Clinical Psychology related field in Mental Health.
• Knowledge of public health, protection, human rights, international development, project management or other relevant field is an added advantage
• Clinical experience at community level, either in a research or clinical capacity
• A minimum of 3 years working experience in mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings or, one of which has to be at a supervisory level.
• Experience providing clinical supervision in individual and group settings and setting up supervisory models for large-scale MHPSS programs
• Ability to work within a team structure or in isolation, flexible, and can cope with stressful workloads and working with limited resources
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• Fluent in English. Ukrainian and Russian is preferred.