Staff Care Consultant (Pool)

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian organization that delivers impartial medical care to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care in over 70 countries.

MSF has been working continuously in Lebanon since 2008. Today our operational teams work all over the country delivering quality, free of charge medical care to those who need it.

MSF Lebanon Branch office is part of the MSF international movement. Our team is composed of 20 full time employees based in Beirut and Cairo working together in the areas of international field recruitment, communications and medical operational support.

From Lebanon and Egypt, we work regionally and contribute globally to MSF’s medical humanitarian response.

Main purpose

The staff-care consultant is in charge of providing psychosocial support to MSF field teams in the MENA (Arabic speaking colleagues) region and beyond.

Accountabilities

• Carry out regular field visits (twice per year) to Arabic speaking MSF missions and others to conduct consultations (individual & group session) for MSF staff and trainings according to needs.
• Carry out regular follow up visits
• Carry our field visits in case of critical incidents
• Draft reports with recommendations after field visits & participate in the TORs.
• Increase the understanding of stress management of managers and leaders within the organization (stress definition, reactions, consequences, confidentiality, identification of troubled or at-risk people)
• Prepare statistics and debriefings after each visit.

Requirements

• Licensed clinical psychologists only
• Minimum 5 years of experience with 2 years in the humanitarian field
• Staff care background experience
• Clinical background with strong knowledge of mental health.
• Flexibility and ability to travel with possible short notice in case of critical incident
• 2 possible abroad missions per year, each one around 1 month.
• Able to work in hardship and risky conditions (considering MSF security measures) 
• Fluent in Arabic, English, and French is required