KOSHISH

NGO / INGO / Development Projects

Psychosocial Counselor

Views: 2275|Published on: Nov 16, 2022|

NGO / INGO / Social work

Mid Level

Full Time

Vacancy: 1

Nepalgunj,Banke|

Experience: More than or equal to 2 years|

Not Disclosed

Job Description

Roles and responsibilities of this job

Reports to: Advocacy Coordinator

Main purpose of this job is to render technical/psychosocial support services to the project beneficiaries and taking the lead in the project at implementation level as per the project plan.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop the plan and provide psychosocial counseling to beneficiaries and groups and ensure proper documentation of the intervention.
Provide technical support to project team to prepare project plan, implementation guideline, plan of action, and training manual.
Establish and maintain strong coordination with the municipality, community, community groups (Self-Help Groups), CSOs, Organization of the Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) and other stakeholders.
Identifying, orientating and training to all the project beneficiaries with regard to the mental health and Psychosocial disabilities across the nodes
Develop and facilitate training and orientation program for community groups stakeholders, OPDs etc.
Support and build the capacity of field staff on screening, reporting, documentation, social mobilization etc.
Establish/improve the proper knowledge management and documentation through research/study, documentation the success stories, best practices, innovations and learning.
Prepare systematic records and database of the beneficiaries and ensure the privacy.
Represent KOSHISH in various communities and other forums as per the project guidelines
Prepare and submit periodic and event reports to the Advocacy Coordinator
Report to Advocacy Coordinator to implement project activities as well as work in the consortium team with the purpose of injecting the mental health and psychosocial aspect of the disability across the beneficiaries
Closely work with the employment counsellor
Train the community mobilizers in regard to the overall mental health and Psychosocial Issues
Overall responsible for project area to support and lead the psychosocial counseling aspect of the proejct
Any other task assigned by the organization relevant with the job.

Travel required:

This position is supposed to oversee the project implemented in Banke and Dang. Thus, frequent travel to project area and central office is required as per need.

Remuneration and Benefit: Negotiable as per competence and experience

Job Specification

Required qualifications for this job

Required Education Level:Under Graduate (Bachelor)

Required Experience:More than or equal to 2 years

Other Specification

Excellent communication, presentation, coordination & public relation skills
Able to work effectively and efficiently under pressure and in a team for bringing concrete results
Flexible and able to multitask on several different aspects of the projects
Good in written and spoken both Nepali and English language
Empathetic, Energetic with receptive learning attitude
Sensitive to Mental health and crosscutting issues of disability

Education Level: Minimum of Bachelors Degree from recognized institutions with one year counseling training from certified institution

Experience required: A minimum of 2 years of experience in the similar field

Skills Required

Required skills for this job

Communication

Presentation

Coordination & Public Relation Skills.

Salary

Offered financial and non-financial compensation for this job

Offered Salary:Not Disclosed

Applying Procedure

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Apply Before: Nov 25, 2022

About the organization

KOSHISH

NGO / INGO / Development Projects

Bagdol-4, Lalitpur

KOSHISH is a non-governmental self-help organization registered in District Administration Office, Kathmandu in 2008 and affiliated with Social Welfare Council. KOSHISH is a right-based organization working extensively in advocacy in and multi-disciplinary and holistic mental health and psychosocial support in Nepal. In addition, KOSHISH is also working in system strengthening and creating a model that the government and other stakeholders may able to replicate.

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