Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 500,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Owing to the emergency nature of this role, we are recruiting on a rolling basis. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and the position may be closed once a suitable candidate is identified.

Part 1:  Role Purpose:

MHPSS counsellor will be responsible for the provision of psychological counselling to the identified children at child friendly spaces or at home through individual or group counselling sessions, MHPSS counsellor will ensure compliance with adopted SOPs and IASC guidelines to provide beneficial service to the children suffering from PSS distress.

Generic Responsibilities:

• A strong commitment to Street Childs vision, mission and values
• Adhere to all Street Child’s policies and procedures
• Able to represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally
• Carry out all reasonable requests that are within the broad remit of the role

Specific Responsibilities:

• Conduct awareness sessions for the communities, Vulnerable households’ assessment and identification.
• Providing MHPSS counselling sessions for the identified children and adults.
• Conduct a variety of structured and unstructured activities (recreational, psycho-social and informal skills training) for beneficiaries, catering to the various psycho-social needs and interests of different beneficiary groups (adults, adolescents, children).
• Works with beneficiaries to provide recreational and supportive activities including theatre, performance etc. Reports to the Project coordinator on weekly basis.
• Prepare for structured psycho-social support activities by carefully reading the PSS and Curriculum Manuals and preparing all required material and equipment in advance.
• Facilitate the participation of all segments of the target population in the planned activities ensuring the inclusion of the most vulnerable children’s groups.
• Ensure that during all activities proper attention is paid to specific emotional and physical needs.
• Monitor beneficiaries’ progress during psychosocial support activities and identify persons with unusual changes in behaviour or other signs of psychosocial distress for referral to MPSS specialist.
• Carry out all tasks respecting key protection principles including but not limited to do no harm, non-discrimination, confidentiality and accountability.
• Conduct focus group discussions and other related psychosocial activities in person or via mobile to engage community members and children in protection activities and to better understand their needs and interests.
• Maintain daily filing system for each activity conducted.
• Ensure a safe, friendly and non-discriminatory environment is upheld during all activities.
• Any other relevant tasks given by the line manager

Edudcation and Qualification

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in MHPSS field.
• Fluency in English language and local languages Pashto and Dari
• Ability to work effectively and independently with minimal supervision
• Responsible, reliable, punctual and having ability to fulfil multi-task.
• Knowledge of archiving and filing
• Strong communication skills. 
• Ability to work under pressure circumstances
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at the same time
• Able to conduct individual and group therapy counselling sessions 
• Having problem solving skills
• Good follow up and organizing skills

Skills and Abilities

• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Handling insecure environment

Education / Qualifications

• A minimum of bachelor’s degree preferably in psychology, counselling, clinical social work, social science and/ or any other relevant field.
• Social Science/ law and politics/ Psychology.

Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding

Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.

As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks.  Street Child also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

Submission Guidelines:

If you are interested and meet the qualifications, please complete the Children in Crisis Recruitment Form using the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYNEf_Qy2J8Nr-tA_cjTzylctXxogDiBHqCGv30P39undt1A/viewform?usp=dialog

This form is mandatory and must be completed in full. Please make sure all details are accurate before submitting.

Only short-listed candidates whose education and experiences correspond to the above criteria will be contacted for further consideration and in case you did not hear from us after 3 weeks of deadline, please consider that as a rejection.