Consultancy: Staff Counselor - Face to face/remote support

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, Care

Since October 2019 UNICEF Lebanon (230 staff in 3 offices across the country) has been experiencing multiple crisis with severe impact on staff wellbeing, starting with the deterioration of economic and political conditions, various prolonged and extreme lockdowns related to COVID 19 (with a latest surge in January 2021), the catastrophic Beirut port explosion in August 2020 and the current conflict in neighboring countries that has direct effect on Lebanon. In addition, the office is working on a fast paced and dynamic environment to deliver for children in need.

The office has been prioritizing UNICEFs value of Care throughout, with a network of local counsellors offering individual and group coaching sessions and providing an enabling work environment as well as accommodating to the various crisis situations in supporting staff in any possible way. Considering the multitude of crisis and severe impact of staff wellbeing, a comprehensive and holistic approach is required to provide an immediate – as well as medium- and longer-term plan to improve a package of support to staff, mental health and wellbeing, self-care and resilience.

Reporting:

The Stress Counsellor will work under the direct supervision of the UNICEF Head of HR Section.

Responsibilities:

The functions of the Staff Counsellor will be performed under the umbrella of occupational safety, health & wellbeing at the workplace:

1. Counseling and Training Activities

• Provides individual and group counseling sessions to the staff

• Organizes and conducts training sessions on stress prevention and stress management

Results expected:

- Easy access to counseling services to staff

- Comprehensive resilience building program including psychosocial education;

- Ongoing improvement in the working environment and monitoring mechanism of the stressful factors and provision of technical advice to senior managers.

How can you make a difference?

Work Assignment Expected Results

Tasks/Milestone****Deliverable/Outputs****TimelineTo provide individual consultation to S/Ms.Number of Individual consultations providedUp to 60 sessions per yearTo provide group trainings and discussion Number of Group Trainings and discussion provided20 hours Quarterly report To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychiatry with a clinical license to provide psychological counseling and/ or psychotherapy
• A minimum of 8 years of continuous professional experience in providing psychosocial services to people from diverse backgrounds is required.
• Experience with international communities and in Employee Assistance Program or Organizational Intervention would be an asset.
• Additional training or certification is also required in a broad range of related fields, such as alcohol/substance abuse, stress management, traumatic stress, cross-cultural communication, conflict resolution, etc.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

UNICEF does not charge any fee during any stage of the recruitment process.