APF Gaza Psychosocial facilitator\advisor

The ACT Palestine Forum (APF) was established during 2008 by a group of Christian ecumenical organizations representing local and international partners to respond to the humanitarian needs in the Palestinian Territories caused by ongoing emergency situations, as well as to implement long-term development initiatives and to improve advocacy by ACT members.
Since late December 2008, the APF has engaged in a number of interventions supporting the people in Gaza.
Currently APF is implementing a number of projects both in the West Bank and Gaza working with local ecumenical and Palestinian partners.

APF has the following vacancy for its current and on-going Appeal – Gaza Crisis.

 

Objectives: The APF Gaza Psychosocial facilitatoradvisor will help and assist in planning and arranging all psychosocial training, workshops and activities as stipulated in the Appeal. S/he will follow-up and monitor all psychosocial activities implemented by APF members and partners in Gaza, and will work closely with them to ensure the high quality of APF implementation of psychosocial interventions in Gaza.
The purpose of the position of a Psychosocial facilitatoradvisor is to build local capacity who can contribute to securing sustainability of the Psychosocial Support programme of the ACT members. Through being part of the ACT Forum Palestine Psychosocial support team s/he is expected to assist the work and at the same time be enabled to continue the psychosocial work after the international team has left.

Job Location: Gaza.
Duration: January – December 2010. Possibility for extension.

Responsibilities:

-Arrange and participate in all APF psychosocial training with partners and beneficiaries in Gaza.
-Field visits, monitor and coordination of psychosocial activities conducted by APF members and partners.
-Work closely with APF psychosocial consultant and team to help support APF members and partners activities in Gaza.
-Assist and help APF partners in planning and executing their psychosocial activities.
-Provide regular psychosocial activity reports and data.
-Ability to provide instant translation and interpretation of the training sessions and workshops into Arabic.
-Other duties as deemed necessary.

Skills, Competencies and Working Conditions:

-University degree in psychology, mental health and/or social work.
-At least 3 years of psychosocial and mental health work experience.
-Possess a good experience working in mental health and psychosocial programmes in Gaza.
-Demonstrate respect for partners and beneficiaries.
-Ability to work in difficult work conditions.
-Good reporting skills and ability to meet deadlines.
-Good interpersonal skills.
-Strong communicational skills.
-Good knowledge of English and Arabic (written/spoken). Will be requested to provide instant translation into Arabic to training sessions and workshops.
-Good knowledge of MS office packages.

Deadline for Application: 15 January 2010.

Kindly submit your resume to the following email address: [email protected] . Please indicate in the subject the vacancy title.