Staff Counsellor, P-3, Staff Wellbeing Team, Division of Human Resources, NYHQ

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 140,639 USD and 184,155 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 fulfil 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

How can you make a difference?

Reporting to the Chief of Staff Wellbeing, you will provide expertise to the Organization and its management to support the wellbeing of UNICEF staff, their families and UNICEF teams and offices in New York and around the world. You will contribute towards the implementation of the UN Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy and the development of the new UNICEF Staff Wellbeing Framework. The framework will identify activities aiming at: raising awareness about healthy work practices; improving the care to staff suffering mental health disorders; facilitating the provision of assistance to staff/families experiencing work-related and/or personal problems; facilitating the provision of relevant support after traumatic incidents, assist better support structures and contribute to better quality of life for staff in emergency duty stations; among other activities. You will work in close coordination with other Staff Counsellor in New York and collaborate with colleagues in UNICEF’s global staff counselling team to develop and deliver prioritized wellbeing programmes and toolkits.

More specific tasks include:

1. Facilitate effective psycho-social support for offices, managers and individual staff, aimed at mitigating chronic, work-related stress and booster protective factors by:

1. Providing support and advice to managers on healthy work practices and how to effectively support staff;
2. Providing staff with individual and/or group counselling (i.e. assessment, short-term intervention, referral), following self-referral or referral by the supervisor or another professional;
3. Facilitating the treatment of psychiatric disorders primarily through referrals, including to the UN medical services team (DHMOSH), and through guidance to supervisors and senior management,
4. Provide case management to staff on long term sickleave for mental health disorders and assist in developing "back to work" programmes to staff returning from sickleave
5. Provide emergency psychosocial support to offices and individual staff in New York who have been involved in critical incidents.
6. Design and deliver tailored workshops for specific teams in New York as requested

2. Facilitate the provision of wellbeing support and counselling to staff in New York throughout the Headquarters Efficiencies Initiative (HQEI) process:

1. Providing support and advice to the leadership and managers in New York office on healthy work practices and approaches on how to effectively support staff and encourage resilience throughout the HQEI process
2. Provide staff wellbeing and counselling services to reduce stress and equip staff and managers to better deal with the change, including individual counselling and the design and delivery of relevant workshops/webinars.
3. Assess and monitor psychosocial needs and issues affecting the wellbeing of staff.

3. Develop and provide training, tools and other awareness raising activities on Staff Wellbeing related topics:

1. Explore the use of new modalities to develop a range of engaging materials

4. Play key role in designing and delivering the initiatives and programmesin the framework of the UN Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy and the UNICEF Humanitarian Review recommendations, and contribute to the development of the new UNICEF Staff Wellbeing Framework:

1. Work with project teams on the development of the various UNICEF initiatives
2. Develop specific programmes outlined in the framework

5. Contribute to the advancement of the Peer Support Volunteer (PSV) Programme globally:

1. Play a key role in helping to manage the PSV Programme in New York
2. Be a key member of the PSV working group who are leading the revamp of the current global PSV programme

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

• Advanced University degree (master’s or equivalent) in counselling, clinical psychology or related mental health field is required.
• Additional training or certification in occupational health, staff support and traumatic/critical incident stress as well as a broad range of related fields, such as alcohol/substance abuse, family counselling, training, stress management is an asset.
• Minimum of five years of national or preferably international work experience in staff support, mental health, cross cultural communications, counselling, and related areas, preferably gained within the UN system or international development/humanitarian aid sector.
• The successful applicant must hold a valid licence/registration to practice counselling or psychology, or be eligible to hold a licence/registration to practice from an accredited academic institution
• Experience working in an emergency duty station is an asset.
• Fluency in English (oral and written) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

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.

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

Core Competencies

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

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 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 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 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:

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 be 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.