Home-based Consultancy: MHPSS Project Manager Consultant (234 Working days), ECARO, O/P Italy
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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) is an institutional priority for the UN and for UNICEF and is critical for the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025 identifies MHPSS as a priority area, building upon existing programming through child protection, education, and health, shaped by actions and standards set out in the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS), Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) and the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies.In Italy an outposted team from UNICEF ECARO Regional Office is operational since 2016 to respond to the unique needs of migrant and refugee children, providing technical assistance to national authorities and civil societies and direct services when needed.
Italy is one out of 9 Countries where UNICEF, in cooperation with National Authorities and Civil Society, is piloting a 2-years multi-sectoral and integrated programme aimed to improve the mental wellbeing of adolescent migrants and refugees. As resulted from recent evidence generation exercises conducted on MHPSS for migrant and refugee adolescents, though the socio-ecological model is widely valued in Italy, MHPSS services struggle to address the needs of both boys and girls and their caregivers, resulting often in partially efficient interventions and limited in their sustainability over time. This programme is thus intended to address some of the main gaps of Italian response, mainly the poor coordination between the reception system for migrants and refugees and external MHPSS combined with the lack of knowledge and reference to common MHPSS minimum standards across the Italian regions for the identification, referral, and support for the most in need children. In addition, service providers are not adequately equipped to provide age, gender and culturally appropriate MHPSS, schoolteachers are not systematically trained and equipped to deal with students with migrant background, the reception facilities provide only very limited psycho-social prevention activities and the external community-based MHPSS services are not sufficient, or there are barriers preventing access to them (such as the lack of cultural mediators, lack of information about services available, at times lack of support from the reception centre to enable access to external services, etc.). All these factors are exacerbated by the massive stigma and prejudice on mental health that prevent adolescents, especially migrants and refugees, in seeking support when needed and being aware of the importance of self-care, as well as their participation in planning and monitoring MHPSS programmes/interventions.
The programme will have three main areas of focus:
- Facilitate review/development of tools and approaches with local stakeholders for mental health promotions/prevention (based on WHO-UNICEF Helping Adolescents Thrive Package)
- Pilot the adolescent mental health promotion/prevention intervention package (in coordination with Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour and Social Policies and Ministry of Education), including direct services to adolescents and caregivers and capacity building to frontline workers, practitioners, and schoolteachers
- Generate evidence on effectiveness, as well as documented learning on pathways to scalable model
Scope of Work:
The MHPSS Project Manager will be responsible for providing support to oversee the programme, including planning and allocating resources, preparing budgets, monitoring progress, and keeping stakeholders informed throughout the project lifecycle, reporting to donor, ensuring oversight of implementation by implmenting partners . His/her work will be conducted under the supervision of the Child Protection Specialist and close technical guidance of the MHPSS Specialist.
In detail the MHPSS Project Manager will:
- Support the management of the project through:
- Develop and update on quarterly base a project management tool that includes timeline, activities, responsibilities, milestones, budget, expenses, risks and mitigation actions, to ensure that the project is completed on time, on budget, and with the expected quality;
- Development and update on quarterly base a data collection and monitoring tool on quarterly base to report both on quantitative and qualitative aspects of the implemented program
- Organization of Internal meetings to ensure info-sharing and cross-cutting cooperation between CP, ADAP and GBV sectors
- Development of a final documentation report of the overall programme, with achievements, lessons learnt and challenges for its continuous improvement, scale-up or replication
- Creation of 2 financial and narrative reports for the donor
- Conduct regular meetings (once a month) with RO and HQ relevant sections to update on the implementation of the programme and to align it with the overall global programme
- Oversight the activities under the project:
- Support the organization of meetings with the IPs involved in the implementation of the programme to monitor the status and compliance with the programmatic activities
- Support the organization of meetings with the community of practice on MHPSS for adolescent migrants and refugees
- Support the organization of programmatic visits to implementing partners operating under the Adolescent Wellbeing programme
- Support the organization of training sessions with implementing partners to ensure consistency of MHPSS provision across the interventions and locations, in coordination with the MHPSS specialist
- Support the networking and communication of the project
- Support organization of local meetings with stakeholders
- Support communication on elaboration of programme briefs and human interest stories
- Organization of a final event
How can you make a difference?
Deliverables/ Outputs
Timeline/Deadline
Management of the project
Development and updating (every three months) of a tool that includes timeline, activities, responsibilities, milestones, budget, expenses, risks and mitigation actions, to ensure that the project is completed on time, on budget, and with the expected quality
Development of 5 updated data collection and monitoring tool on quarterly base to report both on quantitative and qualitative aspects of the implemented program
5 Internal meetings organized to ensure info-sharing and cross-cutting cooperation between CP, ADAP and GBV sectors
1 final documentation report of the overall programme, with achievements, lessons learnt and challenges for its continuous improvement, scale-up or replication.
2 financial and narrative reports for the donor
Regular meetings (once every two months) with RO and HQ relevant sections to update on the implementation of the programme and to align it with the overall global programme
September 2023/ 6 days
December 2023/ 6 days
March 2024/ 6 days
June 2024/ 6 days
August 2024/ 6 days
September 2023/ 5 days
December 2023/ 5 days
March 2024/ 5 days
June 2024/ 5 days
August 2024/ 5 days
September 2023/ 2 days
December 2023/ 2 days
March 2024/ 2 days
June 2024/ 2 days
August 2024/ 2 days
August 2024/ 14 days
October 2023/ 5 days
August 2024/ 5 days
July 2023/ 2 days
September 2023/ 2 days
November 2023/ 2 days
January 2024/ 2 days
March 2024/ 2 days
May 2024/ 2 days
July 2024/ 2 days
Oversight of activities
Support the organization of 12 meetings with the IPs involved in the implementation of the programme to monitor the status and compliance with the programmatic activities
Support the organization of 5 meetings with the community of practice on MHPSS for adolescent migrants and refugees
Support the organization of 5 programmatic visits to implementing partners operating under the Adolescent Wellbeing programme
Support the organization of 6 training sessions with implementing partners to ensure consistency of MHPSS provision across the interventions and locations, in coordination with the MHPSS specialist
July 2023/ 3 days
September 2023/ 3 days
October 2023/ 3 days
November 2023/ 3 days
December 2023/ 3 days
January 2024/ 3 days
February 2024/ 3 days
March 2024/ 3 days
April 2024/ 3 days
May 2024/ 3 days
June 2024/ 3 days
July 2024/ 3 days
July 2023/ 4 days
October 2023/ 4 days
January 2024/ 4 days
April 2024/ 4 days
July 2024/ 4 days
July 2023/ 3 days
October 2023/ 3 days
January 2024/ 3 days
March 2024/ 3 days
May 2024/ 3 days
September 2023/ 4 days
December 2023/ 4 days
January 2024/ 4 days
March 2024/ 4 days
May 2024/ 4 days
July 2024/ 4 days
Networking and communication
Support organization of 5 local meetings with stakeholders
3 programme briefs developed
Supporting the Communication Officer to identify 5 human interest stories and develop the related articles
Organization of a final event to disseminate the results
September 2023/2 days
December 2023/ 2 days
March 2024/ 2 days
June 2024 / 2 days
August 2024/ 2 days
October 2023/ 4 days
February 2024/ 4 days
June 2024/ 4 days
November 2023 2/ days
February 2024 / 2 days
April 2024/ 2 days
June 2024/ 2 days
August 2024/ 6 days
- Work location: Home-based in Italy
- Payment schedule: The consultant will be paid based on satisfactory and timely submission of deliverables.
- Duration: 234 days between July 2023 and August 2024
- Travel: The consultant is expected to travel.
- All UNICEF rules and regulations related to travel of Consultants apply.
- All travels shall be undertaken only upon the prior written approval by UNICEF.
- The consultant is responsible for his/her for travel arrangements. The most economic and direct route is authorized.
- Travel costs will be reimbursed after the completion of mission upon submission of the invoice together with the supporting documentation.
- The consultant must be fit to travel, be in a possession of the valid UN BSafe certificate, obligatory inoculation(s) and have a valid own travel/medical insurance and an immunization/vaccination card.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- Master’s degree in Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Social Work, Education or related topics
- A minimum of 5years of demonstrated relevant professional work in, implementing, monitoring and assessing MHPSS programmes
- Demonstrated knowledge of migration and asylum context, including children on the move in Italy
- Knowledge and familiarity with psychosocial case management procedures (including case planning, intake, monitoring, referrals, etc.)
- Deep understanding and solid experience with multisectoral teams and interventions
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Excellent analytical, communication and writing skills
- Excellent critical thinking capacity
- Excellent ability to work in team is required
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
- Fluency in English and Italian is required
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please visit here.
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.
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