MHPSS Counselor (Cries Modifier)

Position Title: MHPSS Counselor (Cries Modifier)

2025-04-30 Paktika Full Time 13

Job Location:	Paktika
Nationality:	National
Category:	Health Care
Employment Type:	Full Time
Salary:	As per IMC Salary Scale
Vacancy Number:	IMC-PKA-48-2025
No. Of Jobs:	2
City:	Paktika province, districts (Dala, Niamat abad, Urgon, Wazikhowa) and any other distrct.

Organization:	International Medical Corps
Years of Experience:	• Minimum 1 years’ experience working in the community with clients, particularly children that are affected by issues including neglect, abuse, violence, exploitation and mental health issues • Experience providing community-based PSS/MHPSS services is
Contract Duration:	Three Months (based on need)
Gender:	Male/Female
Education:	Bachelor’s degree in psychology, Counseling, Social Work, and other Social Science or related field is mandatory.
Close date:	2025-04-30

About International Medical Corps:

Organization Background:

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergencies, International Medical Corps rehabilitate devastated healthcare systems and help bring them back to self-reliance.

To learn more about our mission, visit https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/who-we- are.

Job Descriptions:

Job Purpose:

The MHPSS Counselor (CRISES Modifier) plays a critical role in delivering psychosocial support and basic mental health services in emergency-affected communities. As part of the rapid response team under the CRISES Modifier framework, the counselor provides psychological first aid (PFA), individual and group counseling sessions, and community-based psychosocial interventions. The role aims to reduce distress, strengthen coping mechanisms, and refer cases requiring specialized care, while ensuring the integration of MHPSS into the overall emergency health response.

Additionally, the MHPSS Counselor will offer individual psychosocial support, case identification, referrals, psychological first aid (PFA), and brief counseling within the community. They will link community members with integrated mental health services available at the nearest Health Sub-center established by IMC.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide Mental Health Case Management Services.

• Provide individual and group psychosocial support services.

• Help people to cope better and enhance their resilience in their everyday life.

• Help beneficiaries to resume their normal lives and mental well-being.

• Meet community-identified mental health needs through comprehensive

• Mental Health Case Management.

• Provide psychoeducation sessions.

• Support and follow-up of the referred cases.

• Mental health case recoding and documentation.

Meet community-identified mental health needs through comprehensive Mental Health Case Management.
Provide trainings on referrals to MHPSS services in the supported centers.
Provide awareness sessions on services available and facilitate referrals
Prepare and deliver trainings for the purposes of capacity-building on psychosocial support, including PFA and case management trainings, where appropriate
Liaise with general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other healthcare professionals to support clients in need of MHPSS through the referral, diagnosis and treatment process.

Conduct other MHPSS-related activities as requested.

Organizational Responsibilities:

Policy Adherence:

International Medical Corps is committed to child safeguarding and expects all employees to strictly adhere to the values and principles of the International Medical Corps Child Safeguarding Policy.

Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles and respect international humanitarian law.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.

Compliance & Ethics:

Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, it maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.

Safeguarding

It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect the populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons.

Job Requirements:

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in psychology, Counseling, Social Work, and other Social Science or related field is mandatory.

Experience:

Minimum 1 years’ experience working in the community with clients, particularly children that are affected by issues including neglect, abuse, violence, exploitation and mental health issues
Experience providing community-based PSS/MHPSS services is mandatory.

Desirable: One year of experience working with an INGO.

Competency:

Excellent written and oral communication skills in Dari and Pashto, and English is desirable.
Honest, hardworking and self-motivated.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work within different cultural environments.
Ability to give full attention to what social service clients are saying, understand the points being made, ask questions, and not interrupt inappropriately.
Awareness of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Able to deliver training and orientation session in the community.

Submission Guidelines:

Submission Guideline:

Dear Applicant,

International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document.

Please note that:

IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
IMC will conduct his recruitment on the base of need only.
Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

To apply for this vacancy, please use the following link:

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Make sure that you have Entered All Education, Work Experiences Details Completely, Accurate & at the end of the application you press Submit.

Preference will be given to local residence applicants.

Website for reporting misconduct: www.InternationalMedicalCorps.ethicspoint.com. Please do not submit your CV or application to this website, it will not be considered for review.

Equal Opportunities:

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran.

Misconduct Disclosure Scheme:

All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. The International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s 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. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.