Staff Counsellor, P3, WCARO Dakar-Senegal

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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 107,719 USD and 141,049 USD.

Salary for a P-3 contract in Dakar

The international rate of 74,649 USD, with an additional 44.3% (post adjustment) at this the location, applies. Please note that depending on the location, a higher post adjustment might still result in a lower purchasing power.

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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, Support

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.

The Staff Counsellor will work in close coordination with the Regional Staff Counsellor 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 post is based in the Regional office but with regional remit and thus frequent field missions to the designated countries of coverage will be required.

Key functions, accountabilities, and related duties/tasks:

  1. Preventative and protective psychosocial support:
  • Facilitate the provision of effective psychosocial support to managers and individual staff prioritizing emergency locations with the aim to mitigating stress and increasing protective factors.
  • Provide a safe and confidential environment where staff members are able to address professional and personal problems, either individually or in groups (modality: assessment, short-term intervention, referral).
  • Provide support and advice to the leadership and managers in offices on healthy work practices and approaches on how to effectively support staff and encourage resilience. Recommend suitable staff support strategies to managers during and following emergencies and other crises.
  • Deliver preventative psychoeducational programmes/training to address systemic issues and recurrent problems within teams and offices; develop and deliver tailored workshops and webinars for staff; raise awareness on common mental health themes and act as an advocate for anti-stigma programming.
  • Provide pre/post-deployment briefings to new staff
  • Develop a creative system to build a network of external mental health providers available to provide services to staff.
  • Coordinate the Peer Support Volunteer (PSV) Programme for the country offices.

2. Provide Critical Incident Stress Management to groups and/or individual staff following critical incidents. A holistic approach to critical incident management is used and may include services such as practical support, psychoeducation, psychological first aid, strategic advice to leadership, family support and individual or group interventions.

The Staff Counsellor will be responsible for:

  • Contacting the affected staff member(s) and offering information about typical stress reactions, support and referral information.
  • Facilitating appropriate traumatic stress interventions, following a critical incident or traumatic event.
  • Recommending and arranging for individual and/or group follow-up support to staff and their dependents.
  • Regular follow-up contact and visits to staff in field offices.
  • Coordination with UNDSS counsellors, agency counsellors and PSVs, to ensure the provision of adequate psychosocial support during emergencies.

3. Monitoring and oversight:

Providing on a regular basis statistics and trends on issues related to staff well-being, whilst maintaining confidentiality. Alert the Regional Staff Counsellor and/or Country Office management team on trends that may be of concern in offices or offices requiring targeted support or managerial intervention. Capture lessons learnt and best practices for dissemination as appropriate.

4. Other

Undertake regular travels to the countries under coverage as per the Regional wellbeing strategy and demands from the country offices.

Identify and recommend prevention measures for systemic issues and trends.

Facilitates interface with the various services and resources of the organization.

Ensure the adherence to the professional standards of the UNSSCG as well as the Code of Ethics for UN Staff Counsellors.

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

Education

Advanced University degree (master’s or equivalent) in counselling, clinical psychology, organizational 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.

Experience:

  • 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.
  • 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.

    Language Requirements:

Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

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

To view our competency framework, please visit 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.

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 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.

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