Needed Regional Staff Counsellor

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.For every child, hope

The Middle East and North Africa region covers countries and territories from Morocco to the Islamic Republic of Iran, including Djibouti and Sudan in sub-Saharan Africa.

The region is home to nearly 476 million people, including 173 million, or 36 per cent, who are under the age of 18. The Middle East and North Africa Regional Office is a hub for information, technical expertise, oversight and coordination for UNICEF Country Offices. It also supports these offices in their efforts to raise much-needed resources.Specialist advisers based in Amman help develop programmes in health and nutrition, child protection, adolescent development, HIV and AIDS, education, water and sanitation, social policy and emergency preparedness.How can you make a difference?

Under the supervision of the Regional Director and the Technical Supervision of the HQ Staff Counsellor, the Regional Staff Counsellor is expected to provide expertise to the management and staff of the regional and country offices, to support the overall well-being of UNICEF staff and their families, as well as teams in UNICEF offices in the region and facilitate the development, implementation and coordination of a corporate framework aiming at improved Staff Well-Being globally.

Facilitate the provision of effective psycho-social support to staff leadership, managers and individual staff prioritizing emergency locations with the aim to mitigating stress and boost protective factors.

Provide Critical Incident Stress Management to groups- and/or individual staff following critical incidents.

Training and awareness raising on Staff Well-Being related topics.

Monitoring and oversight by providing on a quarterly basis statistics and trends on issues related to staff well-being.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Advanced University degree in counselling, clinical psychology or related mental health profession. Additional training or certification in staff support and traumatic / critical incident stress as well as a broad range of related fields, such as alcohol/substance abuse, family counselling, training, stress management. A first university degree, professional certification in addition to the appropriate years of relevant experience may be taken in lieu of an advance University degree.

• Minimum eight years of national and especially international professional experience in staff support, mental health, cross cultural communications, counselling, and related areas, preferably gained within the UN system or international development/humanitarian aid sector.
• Fluency in written and spoken English. Knowledge of Arabic and French is highly desirable.
• Other skills:

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The functional competencies required for this post are Leading & Supervising, Formulating Strategies and Concepts, Analyzing, Applying technical expertise, Planning and organizing.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.