MHPSS Facilitator - Aswan

Programme & Policy

Overview

Facilitate quality MHPSS services for refugee children and caregivers.

You have:

• Proven Expertise in designing and facilitating group sessions for children
• Proven knowledge and skills in activity planning and 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
• Previous working experience with NGOs and in refugees-related contexts

TITLE: MHPSS Facilitator (Pending donor’s approval) TEAM/PROGRAMME: Program/ Operation. project (Pending Donor's Approval) 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.

ORGANISATION PROFILE / PROGRAMME SUMMARY:

Save the Children International is the world’s leading independent organization for children. We work in 113 countries together with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. In Egypt, Save the Children International has been working to ensure that children’s rights are respected, protected, and promoted since 1982. We carry out both long-term development work and, more recently, emergency humanitarian work.

SCI Egypt Country Office is currently expanding its programs in Aswan to implement SGBV response and prevention interventions, including case management, MHPSS, and community-based prevention activities for refugee and migrant survivors, both children and adults. These services aim to respond to, and address protection needs and provide urgent support to survivors of violence that may have occurred in their country of origin, during their journey, or at their temporary or permanent destination.

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: 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

· 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.

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