Tasks to be performed under this contract:

Category A Consultants: Tasks to be performed under this contract:

1. Collaborate with the MHPSS Team Leader and other team members to integrate mental health and psychosocial support considerations in community-based activities, following the full spectrum of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (the IASC) intervention pyramid.
2. Strengthen existing social networks and promote participatory initiatives aimed at activating protective, restorative, and transformative psychosocial factors at the community level, such as mutual support, interfamily cooperation, public gatherings, and dialogue.
3. Provide individual and group counselling to the affected people.
4. Perform such other duties as may be assigned.
5. Conduct training sessions on Psychological First Aid (PFA), stress management, team building, conflict management, communication skills, and community-based approaches in MHPSS, based on needs, for humanitarian actors, community focal points, volunteers, and IOM Ukraine team members.
6. Design and implement psychoeducation sessions tailored to the identified and emerging needs of communities.
7. Develop and disseminate awareness messages and campaigns related to mental health and psychosocial support, coordinating with team members to ensure effective communication.
8. Organize and facilitate support groups, discussion forums, and other community-based activities to address identified social issues within the community.
9. Assist in conducting MHPSS needs assessments, data collection surveys, focus group discussions, key informant interviews and research in Kyiv Oblast under the supervision of the MHPSS Team Leader to support improved access to community-based psychosocial services and specialized mental health care.
10. Under the direction of program management, support the MHPSS Team Leader in managing partnerships with local implementing partners. This includes liaising with partners to ensure the effective planning and coordination of community-based creative and cultural activities for diverse groups including IDPs and the local communities.
11. Implement MHPSS components of integrated MHPSS-Livelihoods program (MLI) and MHPSS projects supporting Veterans, their families and families of fallen Veterans.
12. Promote and organize cultural initiatives, such as social theatre performances, visual arts and music courses, handcraft workshops, language and culture courses, storytelling and poetry contests, and sports activities, based on community needs.
13. Support the MHPSS Team Leader in coaching and supervising the implementation process of local partners and community-based approaches.
14. Undergo roving duty travel in Ukraine, with readiness to be regularly available for travel with short notice in case of emergency situations.
15. Proper reporting and data entry of activities in tracker sheets and proper documentation of the community-based activities as well as the use of proper donor visibility in coordination with the MHPSS Team Leader.
16. Perform such other duties as may be assigned.

Performance indicator for the evaluation of results:

• The successful implementation of the quarterly plan of action, reaching the target number of individuals and services outlines in the plan with the proper quality of service delivery in line with IOM guidelines.
• The fulfillment of the time on the job required as indicated in the contract, which will be confirmed through a detailed time sheet.

Yes

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements