Staff Counsellor (Multy Country) P3 FT - Bamako, Mali

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 115,781 USD and 151,606 USD.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, Hope

UNICEF is a leading humanitarian and development agency working globally for the rights of every child. Child rights begin with safe shelter, nutrition, protection from disaster and conflict and traverse the life cycle: pre-natal care for healthy births, clean water and sanitation, health care and education. UNICEF has spent nearly 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Working with and for children through adolescence and into adulthood requires a global presence whose goal is to produce results and monitor their effects. UNICEF also lobbies and partners with leaders, thinkers and policy makers to help all children realize their rights—especially the most disadvantaged.

The key objectives of the WCAR wellbeing strategy are to mitigate the impact of chronic stress on staff, raise awareness about resiliency, trauma, stress and stress management, facilitate the provision of assistance to staff/family experiencing trauma and/or work related and/or personal problems, facilitate the provision of immediate support following a traumatic incident, and promote social support and other strategies aimed at improving the overall wellbeing of UNICEF staff in WCAR.

How can you make a difference?

The Staff Counselling Unit is committed to the promotion of psychological health and wellbeing with the goal of building the resilience of staff so that they can continue to function at high levels in order to meet the mandate of the organization. This is accomplished through the provision of counselling services to staff members and their dependents and by identifying and addressing psychological risk factors in the workplace.

Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations, P5, # 95696 (Mali CO) and the technical supervision of the Regional Staff Counsellor. The Staff Counsellor, Multi-country (Mali, Niger, Burkina-Faso, Mauritania) will develop and implement a wellbeing programme aimed at attending to the psychological needs of UNICEF staff and management in WCAR. The work will be done from the preventative and curative perspective at the individual, team and organizational levels.

The Staff Counsellor will work in close coordination with the Regional Staff Counselor to provide support to staff and collaborate with Country Management Teams, Emergency Coordinators, HR, Staff Association, Peer Support Volunteers (PSVs), the UN Medical Clinic and UN Staff Counsellors. This is a multi-county post and thus frequent field missions to the designated countries of coverage will be required.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Advanced University degree (master’s or equivalent) in counselling, clinical psychology, or a field related to mental health. Certification or country specific licensure authorizing the incumbent to deliver mental health services is considered an asset.

*A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.

• A minimum of five (5) years of professional experience – among which three at international level in psychological counselling, training skills, with special emphasis on managing critical incident stress. Additional training experience in a broad range of related fields, such as alcohol/substance abuse, stress management, critical incident stress and cross-cultural communication would be an asset.

  Well-developed communication, leadership, and team building skills.

  Work experience with developing and delivering online and face-to-face workshops and webinars on a range of well-being and mental health is desirable.

  Experience either working in a hardship location or providing counselling services to staff working under very difficult and insecure environments is an asset.

  Experience in United Nations System or international development/humanitarian aid sector is desirable. Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.

• Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values attributes:

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability

Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework 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. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. 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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

** Bamako is a Category D; Non-Family duty station. The Rest and Recuperation Cycle is 8 weeks.