Position Description:
Heshima Kenya is an international non-governmental organization based in Nairobi, Kenya dedicated to protecting and empowering unaccompanied and separated refugee children and youth, especially adolescent girls, through our specialized shelter, education and advocacy programs. Under the organization’s current child protection partnership with UNHCR, we are seeking an experienced short-term Psychosocial Counselor Consultant to support key project staff, specifically social workers serving children who have experienced trauma, with debriefing and counseling through individual and group sessions. He/she will be required to provide the psychosocial/counseling services two days per month and will report directly to the Child Protection Officer overseeing the project.
Scope of Work
- Undertake preliminary meeting with individual staff to determine their debriefing needs
- Provide bi- monthly psychosocial debriefing and counselling services sessions to a team of ten social workers and three counsellors
- Provide counselling supervision to the staff
- Support the team to develop new counselling techniques
- Undertake individual and group debriefing sessions based on pre-scheduled dates and times
- Prepare and present progress report to the child protection officer every two months
Expected Outcomes
- Increase staff productivity and performance
- Improve staff endurance, including mental and physical
- Enhance teamwork and team spirit
Core Qualifications
- Masters degree in counselling/psychology
- Over 3 years experience in post trauma disorder /work place stress debriefing and counselling
- Over 2 years experience in conducting individual and group psychosocial therapies
- Previous experience in facilitating counselling for corporate or NGO clients
- Capacity to interpret the whole cycle of psychosocial debriefing in a work place
- Must be a Kenyan citizen and have a Certificate of Good Conduct
HOW TO APPLY:
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:Qualified candidates/firms should send their CV, cover letter, and a quotation for projected consultant rates broken into costs for individual and group counseling sessions and other related costs by close of business day on 8th September 2015 to hr2015@heshimakenya.org(cc’ info@heshimakenya.org). Indicate “Psychosocial Counselor Consultant” in the subject line of your email.
