Project Officer Psychosocial
Kenya Red Cross
Society is one of the largest humanitarian organizations in Kenya. Its mission
is to be the leading humanitarian organization in Kenya delivering excellent
quality service of preventing and Alleviating Human Suffering.
Currently, KRCS aims to strengthen disaster
preparedness capacity, by investing in stocks for small scale disasters which
are hard to resource, strengthening systems and procedures, building experience
and improving practice in cash transfer programming, developing human capacity
and enhancing the use of learning to inform future responses.
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Position Title: Project Officer Psychosocial
Reporting to: Social Services Managers
Job
location: Headquarters
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Job Summary:
The principal
function of the post holder is to assist in the setting up, management and
coordination of a counselling programme targeting KRCS staff, volunteers and
survivors of emergency situations and their families. This is a short contract
(3 months) with possibility of extension based on donor funding.
Main Functions of Post:
Technical
support to the project
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Assist in coordination of
all counselling activities in KRCS.
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Assist in ensuring equal
distribution of resources for the counselling unit in KRCS
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Coordinate and Conduct
counselling sessions for staff and their families based on need
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Coordinate and conduct counselling
sessions for responders to various emergency situations
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Support county managers to
coordinate provision of PSS services in the different counties during
emergencies
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Attend the coordination
meetings and share the minutes on behalf of the psychosocial unit as assigned.
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Prepare a proper handover at
the end of the contract and copy all the concerned colleagues
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Coordinate counselling
supervision for volunteer counsellors and staff involved in counselling
activities
Assist in
Facilitating established and maintaining of referral systems and procedures for
clients
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Refer clients for further
PSS support based on need
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Assist in referring clients
where clients can receive maximum assistance.
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Within the bracket of
confidentiality, encourage information sharing with other KRCS officers
coordinating emergency activities
Capacity
building of staff and volunteers in counselling and other psychosocial areas.
- Conduct
training on counselling and other related topics to capacity build and
facilitate professionalism among the staff and volunteers of KRCS
- Assist
in creating the training manuals and tools to be used in the Psychosocial
Unit.
- Assist
in training the community and the humanitarian workers as assigned
Monitoring and evaluation of the counselling
activities
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Assist in the preparation of
weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual work plans for budgeted activities within
the time line given
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Assist in preparation of
monthly, quarterly and annual reports on counselling activities within the time
line given.
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Maintain high quality counselling
services over time and ensure an appropriate level of accountability.
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Monitor the work of the
volunteer counsellors ensuring they are seeing clients as required.
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Periodic progress and annual
reports showing achievements against planned targets as well as providing
justification for performance variance and areas of improvement.
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Document lessons learned and
best-practices.
Minimum
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in counselling and/or psychology,
Masters in the same fields is an added advantage.
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3 years hands on experience in counselling
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Knowledge of gender issues and human rights
Key Competencies
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Working experience in emergency situations will be an
added advantage
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Good facilitation/training and project report writing
skills.
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Ability to work with minimal supervision
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Motivated, innovative and possesses outstanding
organizational and interpersonal skills and integrity
Applications should be sent to the following address
to be received on or before Friday, 16th January 2015.
Secretary
General
Kenya Red Cross
Society
P.O. Box
40712-00100,
Nairobi
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