MHPSS Facilitator - Aswan
Support delivery of quality MHPSS services for refugee children and caregivers.
Overview
Support delivery of quality MHPSS services for refugee children and caregivers.
You have:
- Proven Expertise in designing and facilitating group sessions for children between 14 to 24
- Proven knowledge and skills in activity planning, implementation
- Proven expertise in child protection and Child Resilience
- Good Communication and facilitation skills
- Knowledge of one or more refugee languages in addition to Arabic
- Awareness about the security context and political situation in Egypt for refugees
- Able to work effectively within a team and/or individually
- Shares Save the Children’s vision and values
- Previous working experience with NGOs and in refugees-related contexts
TITLE: MHPSS Facilitator (Pending donor’s approval) TEAM/PROGRAMME: Child Protection Program LOCATION: Aswan Field Office GRADE: 6 CONTRACT LENGTH: One year Child SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The role supports the delivery of quality MHPSS services for refugee children and caregivers by facilitating group well-being sessions, awareness activities, and parenting support. The post holder contributes to planning and implementing PSS programmes, ensures full adherence to Child Safeguarding standards, and supports accurate reporting, documentation, and data management, while helping build positive engagement with beneficiaries.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Senior Child Protection and MHPSS Officer
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
· Responsibilities:
§ Facilitate and co-facilitate a group sessions of psychological well-being.
§ Facilitate and co-facilitate a raising awareness session to help to break the stigma of Mental health activities in refugees context.
§ Co-facilitate a POM program session for parents and caregivers.
§ Develop monthly reports reflecting the progress in the project implementation, highlight success cases and document challenges encountered during the implementation of activities.
§ Participation in the planning and implementing of PSS group activities and setting up the monthly plan for the implementation of the group activities.
§ Ensure that the activities are implemented in a full respect to the child safeguarding polices of SC.
§ Contribute in the updating of project database and monitoring system.
§ Draft concise, useful and analytical reports, reporting to the line manager.
§ Provide the required translation support or build a relationship with the beneficiaries during individual sessions when needed.
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS
Accountability:
· Managing resources efficiently, achieving and modelling Save the Children values.
Ambition:
· Sets ambitious and challenging goals for oneself (and their team), takes responsibility for own personal development and encourages others to do the same.
· Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
Collaboration:
· Builds and maintains effective relationships, with team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
· Values diversity as a source of competitive strength
· Approachable and active listener
Creativity:
· Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
Integrity:
· Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Confidentiality and data protection:
· Ensures that beneficiaries’ data are kept confidentially and in line with data protection policies
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Educational Background:
Essential:
· Proven Expertise in designing and facilitating group sessions for children between 14 to 24
· Proven knowledge and skills in activity planning, implementation.
· Proven expertise in child protection and Child Resilience.
· Good Communication and facilitation skills.
· Has a good knowledge of one or more refugee languages in addition to Arabic
· Awareness about the security context and political situation in Egypt for refugees.
· Able to work effectively within a team and/or individually.
· Shares Save the Children’s vision and values.
Desirable:
· Previous working experience with NGOs and in refugees-related contexts.
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Safeguarding our Staff:
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe your experience in facilitating group sessions for children? | The interviewer wants to assess your expertise in working with the target age group. | Provide specific examples of past group facilitation experiences and outcomes. |
| How do you ensure adherence to Child Safeguarding standards in your work? | The importance of child safety must be emphasized in this role. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What strategies would you use to raise awareness about mental health among refugees? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Describe a challenge you faced in a previous role and how you overcame it. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you keep beneficiaries’ data confidential? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| In your opinion, what is essential for effective collaboration in a team? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How would you approach building relationships with beneficiaries? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What is your understanding of the current refugee and security context in Egypt? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |