Staff Counsellor, P-4, FT, Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark

Contract

This is a P-4 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 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 163,655 USD and 210,999 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, Health

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does--in programs, in advocacy and in operations.

The Supply Division (SD) is responsible for overseeing UNICEF's global procurement and logistics operation. The Division supports UNICEF Country Offices and partners in achieving UNICEF's priorities by procuring supplies that meet high standards for quality and value and then ensuring their timely delivery.

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF is striving for a work environment where staff wellness, resilience and work-life balance are integrated parts of the organizational culture. Due to the nature and location of their work, UNICEF staff are frequently exposed to high levels of day to day, cumulative stress, including those stressors related to their workload as well as the demands related to living and working in multicultural, often unstable and insecure, environments.

The position is office-based, located in the Supply Division and reports to the Director with the Technical Supervision of the NYHQ Staff Counsellor. It serves UNICEF Supply Division staff and contributes to the global staff well-being functions and activities.

You will be accountable for:

In collaboration with the Division Director, the NYHQ Staff Counsellor, Human Resources Chief for Supply Division and Colleagues,

1. Facilitate the development, implementation and coordination of a framework aiming at improved Staff Well-Being at the division level and, where required, globally:

a) Assist in developing the framework;

b) Develop strategies for implementing the framework in the Division;

c) Monitor the impact of the framework in Supply Division; and,

d) Lobby and provide input for improvements.

2. Facilitate the provision of effective psycho-social support to staff leadership, managers and individual staff with the aim to mitigate stress and boost protective factors by:

a) Providing support and advice to the leadership and managers on healthy work practices and approaches on how to effectively support staff and encourage resilience.

b) Recommending suitable staff support strategies to managers during and following emergencies and other crises.

c) Providing staff with individual and/or group counselling as needed (i.e. assessment, short-term intervention, referral).

d) Facilitating the treatment of psychiatric disorders, primarily through referrals, including to the medical services, and through guidance to supervisors and senior management, where appropriate.

e) Contributing to identification of creative ways of extending a network of external mental health providers available to provide services to staff around the world.

f) Coordinating the division network of Peer Support Volunteers (PSVs), including selection, training and technical supervision.

g) Coordinate with UNDSS, agency counsellors and PSVs, to ensure the provision of adequate psychosocial support.

h) Assess and monitor psycho-social needs and issues affecting the wellbeing of staff.

3. Provide Critical Incident Stress Management to groups-and/or individual staff following critical incidents, employing a holistic approach which may include services such as practical support, psycho-education, psychological first aid, strategic advice to leadership, family support and individual or group interventions by:

a) Contacting the affected staff member(s) and offering information about typical stress reactions, support and referral information;

b) Facilitating appropriate traumatic stress interventions, following a critical incident or traumatic event;

c) Recommending and arranging for individual and/or group follow-up support to staff and their dependents.

4. Training and awareness raising on Staff Well-Being related topics:

a) Explore and contribute to the development of new modalities, such as e-learning and webinars, which make awareness raising material available and attractive to all staff;

b) Cooperate with Regional and Country Offices to integrate subjects such as health work practices, managing stress and trauma, building resiliency, etc., into global staff well-being learning strategies, in consultation with and guidance by the Chief of Human Resources in Supply Division.

c) Develop wellbeing training module for Supply Division staff as part of the core learnings.

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

Education

• An advanced university degree is required in counselling, clinical psychology or related mental health profession.
• Additional training or certification in 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.

Work Experience

• A minimum of eight years of national and especially international professional 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.
• Track record showing resourcefulness and keen social awareness and sound judgement pertaining to common counselling caveats, e.g. overzealous client advocacy, burnout, the need for self-care and personal counselling. An empathic non-judgmental clinical approach with tact and confidentiality.
• Evidence of previous experience in adhering to professional boundaries, e.g. administrating only those services for which supervised training has been administered.

Languages

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, 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 competencies required for this post are:

• Builds and maintains partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and

• ethical awareness

• Drive to achieve results for impact

• Innovates and embraces change
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Manages ambiguity and complexity

• Works collaboratively with others

• Nurtures, leads and manages people

https://www.unicef.org/careers/media/1041/file/UNICEF%27s_Competency_Framework.pdf

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.

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:

• Applicants will be considered against the requirements.
• UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at: http://www.whed.net/
• 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 may 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.