MHPSS Facilitator

TITLE: MHPSS Facilitator

TEAM/PROGRAMME:

 Refugees & Migrants Program LOCATION: Cairo, Egypt Area/Operation GRADE: 6 Start Date: ASAP Post Type: FTA Start Date: 31/12/2024

Child Safeguarding: Level 3:

The role holder will have contact with children and/or young intensively

ORGANISATION PROFILE / PROGRAMME SUMMARY:

Save the Children International is the world’s leading independent organization for children. We work in 120 countries and work, together with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. In Egypt, Save the Children International has been working to ensure that children’s rights are respected, protected and promoted since 1982. We carry out both long-term development work and, more recently emergency humanitarian work.

Project Scope:

This project aims at providing protection and MHPSS services for children from 13: 18 years, the project will work closely with target (children-at-risk and UAC). to ensure their life skills, personal resilience, and psychosocial support them.

· ROLE PURPOSE: To deliver group activities for children from 13:18 Refugees, in prevention, resilience and protection interventions. S/he will work closely with target refugees at risk children and youth to ensure their life skills, personal resilience and psychosocial support for them.

ROLE: OF SCOPE

Reports to: MHPSS Officer

Staff directly reporting to this post: None

Key Areas of Accountability:

Project Implementation

• Conduct vulnerability assessments to select at risk children and youth for entry point activities Facilitate and co-facilitate MHPSS activities sessions provided to at risk children and youth such as: awareness raising events, PSS activities, resilience activities, Art based social connectedness activities... etc.

• Support at-risk children and youth to engage in the MHPSS activity.

• Participate in joint activities that take place with the project’s components (case management and livelihood etc..) as needed.

• Develop monthly reports reflecting the progress in Layer2 PSS activities implemented, highlight success cases and document challenges encountered during the implementation of activities.

• Support MHPSS officer to ensure that activities are implemented in accordance with the Plan of Action (POA) in a timely manner and in line with the project budget.

• Ensure that the activities are implemented in a full respect to the child safeguarding polices of SC.

• Contribute in the development of project data base, monitoring system, and carry out activities according to the agreed upon indicators on a regular basis.

• Facilitate, when necessary, orientation sessions, workshops, follow up visits and other activities for the project.

• Cooperate with the team members aiming the best interest of the child and his/her family; Reporting and documentation:

• Draft concise, useful and analytical reports to the line manager.

• Assist in MHPSS activities logistics, participating in material development, shadow/ co-facilitation training deliveries on topic

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

· Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving results together with children and role modelling Save the Children values.

· Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities, giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition

· Sets ambitious and challenging goals for self and team, takes responsibility for own personal development and encourages team to do the same.

·  Widely shares personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.

· Future oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

· Builds and maintains effective relationships, with own team, colleagues, members, donors and partners

· Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

· Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

· Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

· Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

· Honest, encourages openness and transparency

· Always acts in the best interests of children

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

· Degree in a Social Sciences, humanities, psychology, Or any relevant degree

· Minimum of 1-3 years of experience on the field a of working with children and youth.

· Proven knowledge and skills in activity planning, implementation.

· Evidence of analytical understanding and a commitment to improving child rights

· Good working knowledge of English and Arabic (reading and writing).

· Good training and facilitation skills

· Familiarity with Refugees context is preferred.

· Report writing skills required

 

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedure

JD written by: Date: April 2024 JD agreed by: Date: Updated By: Date: Evaluated: Date: