MHPSS & CP Advisor

War Child is an independent and impartial international non-governmental child rights organization investing in a peaceful future for children and young people affected by armed conflict. With a focus on child protection, mental health, and psychosocial support, we strive to empower children and young people while enabling adults to bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of conflict-affected children and young people. War Child has been working in the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) since 2006 and has offices in Jerusalem, Hebron, Nablus, and Gaza.

Department Programme Quality & Development Department

Reporting to Head of Programme Quality & Development Department

Location West Bank

 Job Summary/ Scope of Work

The Mental Health & Psychosocial Support and Child Protection Advisor (MHPSS & CP Advisor) drives the country's direction, technical support, and quality implementation of the integrated MHPSS & CP Programming in oPt. The role is key in supporting the development, planning, implementation, and quality assurance, as well as measuring the impact and reporting of MHPSS and CP-relevant interventions. The Advisor will provide technical guidance and capacity/competency building to program teams and partners and represent War Child in-country coordination meetings, clusters, and regional/ Global working groups that aim to the development, contextualization, and improve the MHPSS and CP interventions.

Responsibilities and Tasks

Job Responsibility 1: Developing Program, Methodologies, Standards, and technical tools

60% of time

1. Lead the development of CP/MHPSS projects, interventions, and methodologies in consultation with War Child regional and global technical advisors for MHPSS and CP and the R&D team.
2. Contribute to the development, contextualization, and impact assessment of the War Child’s Care System Approach, mainly related to CP and MHPSS.
3. Oversees the implementation of CP and MHPSS interventions and ensures effective implementation of the minimum standards.
4. Contribute to the technical development of country annual plans, country strategy, concept notes, proposals, and needs assessments, specifically those areas related to CP and MHPSS.
5. Lead the development of in-country CP and MHPSS material, contextualized and relevant to our context.
6. In coordination with the Regional Scaling team and the Head of PQD take the lead in scaling of War Child Evidence-Based Interventions (EBIs)

Job Responsibility 2: Team Management and Competency Building

25 % of time

1. Design, plan, and initiate competency development plans for local partners and staff, using reliable data and competency, needs, or priority assessments.
2. Provides ongoing hands-on and coaching support for the program team, ensuring the quality of implementation-relevant projects.
3. Suggest relevant training opportunities to team members and partners as well as sharing of CP and MHPSS technical materials, tools, and resources.
4. Manage the technical team members, including CP, MHPSS, and Case management, and ensure the proper delivery of quality work.
5. Stay up-to-date on evidence-based interventions, approaches and advances in the field of child and adolescent mental health, child protection and child participation, a focus on disaster-affected and vulnerable communities.

Job Responsibility 3: Coordination and Representation

15 % of time

1. Define and strengthen the linkages between War Child MHPSS and CP interventions and other interventions carried out by active organizations, partners, clusters, and working groups.
2. Actively participate and represent War Children in different in-country technical working groups and Task forces related to child protection, case management, and mental health and psychosocial support.

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1. A minimum of 7 years of relevant technical work experience in child protection, MHPSS, social services, child, and adolescent development, and/or other relevant technical work in the oPt humanitarian and development context.
2. A minimum of bachelor's degree in Social Work, Education, Psychology, Development Studies, or a similar field.
3. Excellent technical experience in using key tools, approaches, inter-agency standards, and guidelines for the delivery of high-quality MHPSS and child protection programming.
4. Demonstrated program design, monitoring, and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
5. Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn, and share a reflection on the effectiveness, efficiency, relevancy, and impact of the interventions implemented.
6. Skilled at networking, representation, and partnership development in order to promote learning, strengthen civil society, and mobilize resources.
7. Competent team leader with significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring.
8. Experience in and commitment to capacity building of staff, partners, and communities, with experience in designing and delivering training and in using participatory and consultative approaches.
9. Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic.
10. Ability to motivate and engage diverse and distributed teams.

How to Apply

 To apply please send your one-page letter of motivation and CV to [email protected] by May 23rd, 2024, citing MHPSS and CP Advisor in the subject line.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

“Commitment to the vision and goals of War Child in oPt, including adherence to the Child Safeguarding Policy, is essential”