JOB TITLE: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Project Officer LOCATION: Aswan Office, Egypt TEAM/PROGRAMME: Program Operation, EKN Project. TYPE OF CONTRACT: Fixed Term GRADE: 4 CONTRACT DURATION: 5 Months

Child Safeguarding: Level 3: The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ORGANISATION PROFILE / PROGRAMME SUMMARY: Save the Children International is the world’s leading independent organisation 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.

This project aims to empower unaccompanied and separated refugee, asylum seeker or migrant children living in Cairo through facilitating their access to education, protection and livelihood support.

ROLE PURPOSE: This position will be responsible to play a leading role in supervising the implementation of the psychosocial project activities following SC programs and modules. S/he has significant responsibilities for monitoring the quality of the psychosocial group activities and individual counselling ensuring delivery of timely results. S/he will be responsible to provide technical support for staff, and establish good relationship with different stakeholders

SCOPE OF ROLE: Reports to: Project Manager

Staff directly reporting to this post: _Psychologists and __ MHPSS Facilitators.

Dotted Line: MHPSS TA

Close coordination with Hub Coordinators/Receptionist, the Child Protection Case Management Officer and the Operation Officer, other MHPSS team members from different projects.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Project Implementation

• Lead and oversee the implementation of the MHPSS interventions inside the project, ensuring high quality deliverables are developed and implemented, and fulfil our obligations to stakeholders at all levels;
• Provide regular structured supervision to MHPSS team to ensure that they are providing high-quality evidence-based psychosocial interventions, based on the agreed intervention models/packages and practice guidelines/SOPs; and provide day-to-day remote support on complex cases as needed.
• Provide expert and technical support for team staff to ensure that psychosocial activities are implemented in quality and timely manner.
• Support mainstreaming of MHPSS interventions across the relevant project components (Education, Youth and Adolescents Development, Child Protection and Case management, make regular field visits, and document such visits, to review field coordinators’ performance
• Ensure that the project operates according to the work plans, budget, timeline and M&E system as designed.
• Revise and approve on monthly basis field activities plans.
• Monitor the quality of filed activities and ensure innovative techniques are used to ensure children’s participation.
• Maintain close coordination with other project teams to ensure good synergy with other project components to ensure provision of comprehensive support for the project beneficiaries.
• Ensure that all psychological interventions offered are informed by current scientific evidence.
• Monitor effectively the expenditures of the MHPSS interventions on a monthly basis.
• Support mainstreaming of SCI Child Safeguarding policy in all activities
• Make regular field visits, and document such visits, to review field coordinators’ performance.

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