Counselor Educator – North Bekaa - 100% ACTIVITY RATE

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, and exclusion from health care or natural disasters.

MSF is committed to achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion within its workforce irrespective of gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds. All job applications will be treated in strictest confidence.

Starting date: ASAP

Type of contract: 100% Intervention Contract, Renewable based on need.

Updated competitive salary package with benefits including allowances, medical coverage, and 5 weeks of paid leave.

Place of work: North Bekaa

Scope of responsibility:

Perform counseling and/or education sessions to patients, following different medical and mental health MSF protocols and procedures, in order to improve their psychosocial condition.

Function responsibilities include:

• Identify the psychosocial, socio-economic, and administrative needs for patients.
• Actively promote the availability of counselling services and carry out, individual or in group counseling, basic psycho educational sessions, to patients, their families (when needed), in order to alleviate their psychosocial difficulties within the project scope.
• Refer patients to other specialists or other institutions for further assistance, when necessary, in order to propose the best support available.
• Participate in the creation of any material needed for counseling activities and look after it,
• Keep files and statistics of daily activities and participate in team meetings to share experiences and discuss special cases with other counselors, preserving confidentiality.
• Inform line manager of any problem of any kind arising during the day-to-day activities.
• Take active part in trainings, supervisions/interventions and support the activities manager, when necessary, in doing sensitization for MSF staff or external partners about mental health /psychosocial issues.
• Discuss difficulties and problems in counselling with supervisor.

Specific activities:

• Provide group counseling and psychoeducational interventions for highly vulnerable populations, including individuals from diverse nationalities, due to the emergency.
• Detect the needs of the population, including men, women, and children, ensuring confidentiality and preventing emotional harm.
• Work in collective shelters and community shelters as part of the role.
• Use single counselling sessions, short interventions, and PFA.
• Perform community/group psychosocial interventions with children and adults.
• To be flexible to work in the Mobile Clinics, or Hermel or Arsal clinic based on the need

Requirement:

Education

Essential: Bachelor’s degree in psychology or related/similar degree.

Experience

Essential: at least 2 years of previous work experience as a counselor educator.

Desirable: Previous experience with MSF or other local and/or international NGOs.

Languages                            

Essential: Full professional proficiency using the Arabic Language.

Desirable: Elementary proficiency in English.

Desirable: limited professional proficiency in French.

Competencies

• Results and Quality Orientation        (L1)
• Teamwork and Cooperation             (L1)
• Behavioral Flexibility                         (L1)
• Commitment to MSF Principles        (L1)
• Service Orientation                           (L1)
• Stress Management.                        (L2)