Project Officer Psychosocial

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 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.

The Society is looking for qualified persons to fill the following position

Position Title:           Project Officer Psychosocial
Reporting to:             Social Services Managers
Job location:               Headquarters

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
·         Assist in coordination of all counselling activities in KRCS.
·         Assist in ensuring equal distribution of resources for the counselling unit in KRCS
·         Coordinate and Conduct counselling sessions for staff and their families based on need
·         Coordinate and conduct counselling sessions for responders to various emergency situations
·         Support county managers to coordinate provision of PSS services in the different counties during emergencies
·         Attend the coordination meetings and share the minutes on behalf of the psychosocial unit as assigned.
·         Prepare a proper handover at the end of the contract and copy all the concerned colleagues
·         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
·         Refer clients for further PSS support based on need
·         Assist in referring clients where clients can receive maximum assistance.
·         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
·         Assist in the preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual work plans for budgeted activities within the time line given
·         Assist in preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual reports on counselling activities within the time line given.
·         Maintain high quality counselling services over time and ensure an appropriate level of accountability.
·         Monitor the work of the volunteer counsellors ensuring they are seeing clients as required.
·         Periodic progress and annual reports showing achievements against planned targets as well as providing justification for performance variance and areas of improvement.
·         Document lessons learned and best-practices.

Minimum Qualifications

·         Bachelor’s degree in counselling and/or psychology, Masters in the same fields is an added advantage.
·         3 years hands on experience in counselling
·         Knowledge of gender issues and human rights

Key Competencies
·         Working experience in emergency situations will be an added advantage
·         Good facilitation/training and project report writing skills.
·         Ability to work with minimal supervision
·         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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