MHPSS Desk Review Officer

Background:

The Arab Resource Collective (ARC) is a non-governmental regional organization. ARC's mission is to work with partners on producing and disseminating knowledge, promoting policies, and developing human resources in order to translate rights into reality. ARC targets children and youth within their environment, and focuses on health, education, and protection.

Nawwara, is a website developed by ARC, which aims to provide and share MHPSS resources, news, content, and support in the Arab world. The MHPSS website was developed to target ECD professionals, experts, frontliners, and caregivers with MHPSS resources. This website is being updated in which new sections will be added to incorporate an online course, multiple Support Groups, and new, valid, updated, and contextualized MHPSS Resources. contextualized MHPSS Resources.

The main objective of the MHPSS resource database is to create a rich and comprehensive library of MHPSS resources that respond to the needs and questions of Arabic-speaking communities.

The  MHPSS resource database will:

• Act as a source of information and resources related to mental health and psychosocial support. 
• Serve as a tool for everyone to access reliable and valid information on MHPSS topics.
• Aim to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration between different actors working in the field of mental health and psychosocial support.
• Promote awareness, understanding, and access to MHPSS resources. 
• Track the impact of MHPSS resources and evaluate the different emerging needs and make necessary improvements

Tasks and Responsibilities:

The MHPSS Desk Review Officer is responsible for searching for MHPSS resources, reviewing it, and evaluating the validity to upload these resources to Nawwara’s website. The MHPSS Desk Review Officer will work directly with the MHPSS coordinator. His/her key tasks and responsibilities will be:

• Develop a desk review plan & timeline in coordination with the MHPSS coordinator, and abide by it.
• Revise the database concept paper and update it if necessary.
• Conduct a Desk Review to find and feature MHPSS resources that are updated, valid, contextualized and could be used by professionals, frontliners, experts, and caregivers in the Arab context.
• Abide by an 80% Arabic to 20% English selection criteria for the MHPSS database.
• Develop a documentation annex for the resources’ library, criteria annex, and database index.
• Develop a selection process for the database resources in coordination with the MHPSS team at ARC.
• Make sure the resources selected for Nawwara’s Website Database are consistent with ARC’s criteria and values.
• Review (read, listen, watch) any resources that will be featured on Nawwara’s Website.
• Upload all approved resources to the Nawwara database.
• Document all uploaded resources on the database index.
• Provide suggestions and feedback on the database design, and coordinate with the Graphic Designer to update any designs accordingly.
• Coordinate with the management team to reach out to partners and relative stakeholders in the MHPSS field and develop partnerships for the MHPSS database.
• Attend regular meetings.

Qualifications:

• BA in Psychology, Social work, or related fields.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in the field of Mental health.
• Have good research skills.
• Fluent in Arabic and English.
• Have strong communication skills.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Attention to details.
• Critical thinking.

Employment Period and Deliverables:

This position is a consultancy position; The consultant is requested, during the employment period, to identify and validate at least (250) resources in MHPSS such as books, booklets, toolkits, research reports, informative reports, scientific articles, brochures, infographics packets, videos, and other relevant, contextualized, valid resources that might provide any interested Arabic-speaking communities, and precisely ECD frontliners, with knowledge, information, tools, techniques  on mental health issues. 

Resources are to be without any political or religious influence or affiliation.

The employment period of this position is June 2024 till the end of November 2024; deliverables will be accustomed upon the timeline developed by the desk review officer and MHPSS coordinator, so by the end of the employment period the officer will deliver 250 resource in mental health, in addition to other organizational deliverables.