SVN/2026/29/National MHPSS Officer (NoA)-YAOUNDE

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Overview

Contribute to IOM's Mental Health and Psychosocial Programme activities in Cameroon.

You have:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in clinical, counselling, social or educational psychology, counselling, anthropology, mental health, humanities or social sciences with at least two years of professional experience; or Master’s degree or equivalent in general, clinical, counselling, social or educational psychology, counselling, anthropology, mental health, humanities or social sciences
• Previous experience working on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programmes
• Strong command and ability to fluently communicate about technical MHPSS subjects formally in French and English
• Experience in community-based team supervision, monitoring and evaluation
• Previous experience working with beneficiaries data management, reporting on project activities while respecting data protection and management guidelines
• Experience working in accordance with the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) guidelines on MHPSS in emergency settings
• Skills in representation, liaison with different government authorities at local level
• Leadership and Team management skills
• Communication skills with a wide range of people, including people of culturally diverse backgrounds

Contract

This is a NO-A contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 1 years of experience, depending on education. More about NO-A contracts.

Under the overall supervision of the Chief of Mission, and the direct supervision of the MHPSS Officer, the successful candidate will contribute to the implementation of IOM’s Mental Health and Psychosocial Programme activities in different regions across Cameroon

Qualifications

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in clinical, counselling, social or educational psychology, counselling, anthropology, mental health, humanities or social sciences with at least two years of professional experience; or
• Master’s degree or equivalent in general, clinical, counselling, social or educational psychology, counselling, anthropology, mental health, humanities or social sciences

EXPERIENCE

• Previous experience working on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programmes (required), with leadership roles (desirable).
• Strong command and ability to fluently communicate about technical MHPSS subjects formally in French and English
• Experience in community-based team supervision, monitoring and evaluation (required)
• Previous experience working with beneficiaries data management, reporting on project activities while respecting data protection and management guidelines (required)
• Experience working in accordance with the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) guidelines on MHPSS in emergency settings (desirable)

SKILLS

• Skills in representation, liaison with different government authorities at local level
• Leadership and Team management skills
• Communication skills with a wide range of people, including people of culturally diverse backgrounds.

Responsibilities

1. Ensure that MHPSS programming is implemented in line with IOM’s strategic and operational planning in Cameroon.
2. Ensure compliance with IOM and donor requirements, including those related to procurement, budget utilization, and human resources, maintaining close contact with relevant IOM Cameroon support units.
3. Technical support of mental health and psychosocial teams in the oblasts and cities under their responsibility, ensuring timely and effective execution of project’s activities and operational plans, as well as efficient, transparent and accountable use of allocated funding.
4. Promote partnership, capacity building and strengthening of civil societies organizations, including local NGOs, associations, providing training, coaching and networking.
5. Participate in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support meetings, working groups and other meetings with relevant stakeholders.
6. Supervision of psychosocial mobile team (PMT) leaders to ensure technical and operational oversight of IOM MHPSS community-based programme’s activities in the geographically covered area.
7. Participate in needs assessments, support researches, suggest measures to promote psychosocial wellbeing at local and national level, design operational plans to enhance access to psychosocial services.
8. Provide training sessions to IOM staff, partner organizations and local government partners on various MHPSS subjects.
9. Support the MHPSS programme management with cultural adaptation of standard programming, including input to the relevance of activities for local context, revision of translated materials for accuracy and providing translation in high level official meetings.
10. Assist the MHPSS Programme management and other relevant colleagues/units to prepare project proposals, narrative and progress reports, cost modifications, and public information material, as required by project donor(s) and/or IOM.
11. Perform such other duties as may be assigned.

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