With more than 3,900 humanitarian workers employed, and an
average of 180 projects per year across 25 countries throughout Africa, Latin
America and the Middle East, COOPI is the biggest Italian NGO. During its 50
years of activity, COOPI has successfully completed over 1,600 projects in 63
countries, involving 55.000 local operators and ensuring direct benefits to
approximately 100 Million people.
COOPI started its operations in North-East Nigeria in July
2014 to carry out a rapid evaluation of the most relevant constraints suffered
by the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) displaced by the food crisis and the
Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin.
Job Title: Psychologist
Duty Station: Maiduguri
Donor: Unicef
Duration: 12 months
Requested Experience: minimum of 3 years
Starting Date
01-05-2018
Application Deadline
16-04-2018
Scope of the Vacancy
The Psychologist support the Project Manager in the
programming, responsibility of the realization and the follow-up of the
protection activities, guarantying protection services for the beneficiaries.
Project: Protection and Reintegration of children associated
with armed groups in the north east of Nigeria
Reports to: Project Manager
Main duties/Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, he/she:
- Identify the psychological problems of the beneficiaries and put in place the necessary means to answer effectively to the needs
- Establish the psychological and psychosocial criteria of vulnerability and structure a process of detection of the main psychosocial risks
- Create fact sheets and procedures for setting up and evaluating emotional and listening debriefing activities Set up and run the collective emotional debriefing system (training of members, setting up and running meetings, gradually capitalizing on experience)
- Maintain a database of referrals for psychological, medical and community orientations
- Organize and structure collective friendly spaces
- Train the project teams and local partners on approaches, methodology and tools to understand how victims of GBV and other forms of violence are affected by their involvement in armed conflict
- Train and / retrain teams on the proper use of situation assessment and management tools
- Train project staff (psychosocial counselors, community animators) on the individual and collective psychological and psychosocial management of the victims;
- Organize technical meeting with his/her team and other stakeholders
- Direct case management
- Propose and supervise the psychosocial and recreational activities to set up, for children and adults
- Profile pf the candidate
Minimum Requirements:
- Master’s degree in Psychology.
- At least 3 years of working experience with INGO on Child Protection area. Experience working with children associated with armed group it’s an advantage
- Good knowledge of project cycle management
- Experience in clinical psychology and / or psychopathology (victimology, medical emergency cell, etc.)
- Proven interest & commitment to humanitarian and development principles and a demonstrable understanding of conflict/post conflict development contexts
- Experience in data collection, analysis, and report writing
- Excellent in English (oral and written)
- Experience in designing and conducting training in INEE and Child Protection issues especially in the areas of human rights, gender, capacity building, added advantage, SGBV
- Ability to plan, organize work, communicate and reports effectively (both in writing and verbally)
- Proven ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
- team player, effective communicator, successful negotiator, creative and analytical thinker, active learner, able to work in a multicultural environment
- Excellent communication skills, calm, with a good sense of humour
- Excellent sense of confidentiality
- Excellent listening and empathy
- Proven commitment to accountability practices
- Ability to function effectively under stressful conditions such as heavy workloads, and deadlines.
- Excellent Microsoft Office applications skills (Excel, Word, Power point, Emails, Skype, Web researchers)
- Knowledge of and adherence to COOPI Code of Conduct, understands other international development guidelines
How to Apply
Interested persons should click here to apply
Good Luck!!!
