National Individual Consultant - Mental Health Facilitator on Long Term Arrangement- 11.5 months, Nepal (Only for Nepalese Nationals)

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Nepal is facing a mental health crisis among its youth. Mental health problems such as depression and anxiety commonly arise in adolescence and often go unrecognized and untreated, which can impact adult mental health and potentially lead to self-harm or suicide. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nepal had the second highest suicide rate in South East Asia. Since the pandemic began, child helplines have reported an increase in calls from children in crisis and statistics released by the Nepal Police show a 41% increase in suicide for girls and 46% for boys.

There is a widespread stigma present in Nepali society surrounding mental health. Mental health has become an even-more pressing issue, as children and adolescents worldwide facing the implications of prolonged lockdowns. This is reflected in UNICEF’s global strategy. One of the Global Advocacy Priorities going forward is to secure investment and action to support and protect the mental health of children and young people, and to bring an end to neglect, abuse and childhood traumas that drive poor life outcomes. The State of the World’s Children 2021 report will focus on adolescent mental health. It will show that children and young people living with mental health conditions without support are likely to face widespread challenges including social exclusion and a reduced capacity to learn. Consequently, UNICEF Nepal is facilitating mental health sessions for private sector employees, to normalize conversations surrounding mental health. The focus of these mental health sessions is on employee and family mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Specifically, the sessions address factors affecting lives at home and at work; self-care; identifying and coping with stress; managing stress among children; and preventing COVID-19 and provide information on family-friendly work environment.

For this, UNICEF Nepal would like to engage the services of psychiatrists to facilitate the sessions to encourage discussions around mental health, provide practical tips and exercises to reduce stress, prioritize mental health for employees and their families and promoting family-friendly work environment. The facilitator is required to prepare the content/ presentations, facilitate sessions, prepare reports and work in close coordination with the B4R team.

The overall objective of establishing this long-term arrangement is to facilitate and expedite the process by which UNICEF Nepal will hire the services of psychiatrist to prepare the content and facilitate the mental health sessions for private sector employees/ entrepreneurs/ related stakeholders. This will contribute in achieving UNICEF Nepal's advocacy goal to aware adolescents and young people in mental health and encouraging them to seek help or refer friends/family to services by 2022.

Specific Tasks

• Prepare content, presentations, facilitate sessions and provide report

Duration of the contract:

The total duration of the consultancy is 11.5 months. Total 10 to 12 mental health sessions are planned within the period of 11.5 months and the consultant will be engaged only when the sessions are planned.

Deliverables for this Assignment:

Description of Deliverables****Target Delivery Date Proposed Fee ( NPR)Submission of report along with content/ presentations and notes of the sessions conducted as decided before the start of the assignmentAs determined before the start of each assignment To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• MBBS, MD Psychiatry (specialization in children and adolescent psychiatry preferred)
• More than three years of practical professional experience in providing psychiatric services/ training/ workshops
• Fluency in English and Nepali to facilitate sessions in English and Nepali
• Excellent communication and working with people
• Previous working experience with UNICEF is an advantage

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

“UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. We welcome applications from females and under-represented groups”.

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.

Kindly submit your financial quotation for this assignment along with your application. The quotation should be based on deliverables for this assignment.

UNICEF is not liable and the consultant/individual contractor is responsible for paying taxes incurred from the remuneration under this contract to the relevant government authorities following the Income Tax Act 2002 of Nepal.

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.