Mental Health Officer

Contract

This is a NO-C contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be more than 5,550 USD.

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Position no. 439032

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

To ensure that effective WHO country presence is established to implement WHO country cooperation strategies that are aligned with Member State's health priorities, sustainable development agendas and harmonized with the United Nations country teams and partners to improve health outcomes and progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

The incumbent will perform the following duties:1. Oversee the smooth country implementation of WHO global and regional action plans and frameworks on mental health and psychosocial disabilities. Ensure that the implementation is in line with WHO policy and technical guidelines.2. Provide technical advice to the Ministry of Health and other health partners and facilitate smooth project information flow on activities between MoH and other involved partners.3. Make recommendations for action on additional requests by the national authorities, assess feasibility and identify implementation needs and solutions.4. Assess standards, quality of care and needs of services for people with mental health and psychosocial disabilities to inform policy and decision makers on the strengths and weaknesses of existing mental health and social care systems.5. Facilitate expansion of community-based mental health care services and integration of mental health component in the primary health care level as alternatives to institutionalized care.6. Coordinate WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) and MHPSS Working Group. Visit the project implementation sites in different Governorates to monitor and document mhGAP and MHPSS projects' implementation.7. Collaborate with local authorities, institutions and other partners for the development of services for people with psychosocial disabilities.8. Complete regional and global mental health and substance use surveys and country assessments (e.g., Mental Health Atlas) in coordination with relevant stakeholders as needed.9. Contribute to the development of emergencies/resilience policies and action plans for the health of the host and refugees' populations.10. Participate in updating and adapting relevant national guidelines, materials and tools related to mental health.11. Proactively participate in resource mobilization activities by developing project proposals reflecting health priorities in the country, participate in emergency appeal, ensure the needed follow up in terms of funds raising, effort, timely implementation, monitoring, evaluation and donor reporting.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: University degree in medicine, nursing, psychology or mental health related field. Desirable: Master's degree in psychiatry, psychology, psychiatric nursing/social work, public/community health, management, human rights, or another relevant field.

Experience

Essential: 5 years' experience in the areas of mental health and psychosocial support, and psychosocial rehabilitation. Desirable: • Experience in project management and in particular on WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP)• Good knowledge of WHO mental health technical packages and relevant regional and global frameworks, action plans and guidance.• Experience in WHO, other UN agencies, relevant nongovernmental, health cluster partners or recognized humanitarian organizations.

Skills

• Excellent communication and presentation skills;• Demonstrated ability to provide technical advice to all relevant stakeholders;• Demonstrated competence and skills to assess and analyse data to support national programmes and policies; projects and activities, including budget programming and control;• Demonstrated skills in planning and donor and technical reports writing;• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure; complemented by demonstrated ability to identify and manage difficult situations.• Ability to work and collaborate as a team member and to produce results in a challenging and changing environment.• Tact, discretion and ability to promote consensus Education• Knowledge of WHO and UN programmes

WHO Competencies

Enhanced WHO Global Competency Model:

https://www.who.int/employment/WHO_competencies_EN.pdf?ua=1

Teamwork Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences Communication Moving forward in a changing environment Producing results

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English. Expert knowledge of Arabic. Desirable: Intermediate knowledge of WHO language .

REMUNERATION

Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at JOD 47,203 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable) and 30 days of annual leave.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level
• Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply on-line through Stellis. For assessment of your application, please ensure that:

1 -Your profile on Stellis is properly completed and updated;

2- All required details regarding your qualifications, education, training and experience are provided under relevant sections;

3- Your experience records are properly entered with elaboration on tasks performed at the time.

• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

• A written test may be used as a form of screening.

• In the event that your candidature is retained for an interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.

• Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and Manual.

• For information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int.

• WHO is committed to workforce diversity.

• WHO prides itself on a workforce that adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards and that is committed to put the WHO Values Charter into practice.

• WHO has zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct (i.e., discrimination, abuse of authority and harassment). All members of the WHO workforce have a role to play in promoting a safe and respectful workplace and should report to WHO any actual or suspected cases of SEA, sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct. To ensure that individuals with a substantiated history of SEA, sexual harassment or other types of abusive conduct are not hired by the Organization, WHO will conduct a background verification of final candidates.

• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.

• This is a National Professional Officer position. Therefore, only applications from nationals of the country where the duty station is located will be accepted. Applicants who are not nationals of this country will not be considered.