Psycho-Social Support Facilitator(Youth And Women)

  Secours Islamique France (SIF)is a Non-Governmental Organization of international solidarity based in France. Founded in 1991, SIF is an apolitical neutral organization whose objective is to provide immediate and long-term support to vulnerable population affected by natural disasters, armed conflicts and other types of crisis. SIF has been present in Lebanon since 2012, supporting both the Syrian refugee populations and Lebanese community affected by the conflict. This program allowed SIF contributing to the improvement of the well-being of the children and their families In response to the current crisis in Syria, and the growing numbers of refugees coming to Lebanon, SIF is expending its humanitarian response and will scale-up its emergency support to Syrian refugees and affected population. In view of SIF operation scale up SIF is currently recruiting PSS Facilitator to begin immediately in two different Child Friendly Spaces’ (CFS). The PSS facilitator will be based in Chouf Area, but will support SIF’s main office in Beirut. Furthermore, the he/her will be in contact with other SIF members to harmonize and share tools as well as lessons learnt. The PSS Facilitator is part of the Protection Program team of SIF-Lebanon and will be under the line management of the area supervisor. And reporting all technical aspects directly to technical team (concerning PSS activities to PSS trainer, concerning the tools to Protection technical officer).   MISSION CONTEXT   The SIF project aims at strengthening the identification of vulnerabilities, their assessment and adequate referrals to existing services. The PSS team ensures the identification of most vulnerable beneficiaries in need of psychosocial support. The PSS facilitator work in the child friendly space to implement awareness session for women and life skills session for youth. Strong coordination with other actors in the area of intervention is the pillar of this program and the referral mechanism will guarantee the provision of adequate services from others partners. The action aims at strengthening awareness and advocacy efforts towards increased access of most the vulnerable (mainly youth and vulnerable women) within humanitarian actors’ coverage in the areas of intervention. Furthermore, as part of a longer term strategy aiming at supporting and reinforcing resilience of local stakeholders, the action includes a strong capacity building & strengthening component targeting SDC   and local stakeholders on protection, child protection, referral pathway and mechanism, conflict resolution etc.   MAIN RESPONSABILITIES   • Develop and implement age- appropriate Awareness session/life skills for youth and women in SIF community center and when required implementing mobile activities in the other villages. • Ensure that all beneficiaries participate in the activities that are non-discriminatory as well as age and gender sensitive and appropriate; • Ensure that beneficiaries can participate in FGD in order to understand and better answer to their needs. • Work directly with the PSS/Protection technical team to develop intervention plans and follow up in the CFS; • Be updated on the most popular references for sport Music and theater activities to implement with youth and women • Prepare in advance all logistics issues and notify to the Area Supervisor one week in prior for any needed materials for the various activities well in advance, paying attention to details; • Contribute to create a positive atmosphere interacting constructively with colleagues youth and women • Ensure that the youth and women feel safe, comfortable and respected all the time • Ensure that the activities are done in a clean and hazard free location; • Collaborate in ensuring that the material appropriately used and later stored in a safe way at the end of the day; • Communicating efficiently with technical team and Area Supervisor conveying to them ideas and new proposals according to daily observation in dealing with Youth and women; • Establish a clear calendar/agenda for each intervention for the women/youth concerned; • Being able to identify youth and women at risk of harm or being harmed and being able to refer them as per the SIF procedure to the organization’s Referral focal point; • Report any observed concern of a youth to the Technical team and Area Supervisor for further assistance. • Report and support the constant evaluation process about the impact of activities on women/youth • Verify the beneficiaries list and presence; • Contribute to spread the messages to the community and beneficiaries (be able to orient and support beneficiaries on services available in the mapping of services and establish positive relationships with beneficiaries). • Attend weekly meetings with Technical team in order to be supported and providing feedback on the ongoing activities and attend meeting with Area supervisor • Being able to provide a correct use of guidelines, tools, material and games in the CFS once agreed with technical team.   REPORTING   Reports directly to SIF’s Beirut Office, to the area supervisor andTechnical team (PSS Trainer/Protection technical offier). S/he will submit the following reports at the end of each week:   • Ensure a daily proper recording of data (# of women, eventual children, youth, adults participating, activities delivered, etc); • Centralize all information (appropriate narrative reports, weekly updates etc.)gathered in the field and consolidate a daily report into the proper reporting format to be delivered to the Area supervisor . Weekly report will be written for to follow all technical team all technical aspects. • Provide regular reporting on your activities to the PM and Program Coordinator upon solicitation.   ETHIC AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE   • Abide the SIF child Protection policy and Code of Conduct; • Openness to working with refugees (Syrian, Palestinian, etc.) and deprived children/youth/women. • Always respect of beneficiaries’ confidentiality • Respect and promote SIF’s Policies and report to your line manager any non-respect of SIF’s policies amongst the teams or partners • Address needs and requests in a professional way • Report any incident or act that causes any harm to beneficiary or to others. • Always respect a refusal or resistance in participating to some activities • Always collaborate in a respectful and collaborative way with other colleagues.   PERSON QUALIFICATIONS   Qualifications, experience and competencies • University degree in Psychology, social workers, specialized education or related degree • Min 6 months experiences in such work • Experience in working with children and youth: experience in working with women highly desirable; • Strong Experiences in providing psychosocial and recreational activities to children (play game, painting, drawing, music, sport, drama, handicraft,etc) • Basic understanding of Child protection mainstreaming; • Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills especially with children • Experience within another NGO desired, but not mandatory • Good Command of English and excellent command of Arabic (speaking and writing) • Confident and proficient in the use of MS Office, especially Excel and Word • Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high workload and multiple tasks in environment with tight deadlines; • Experience of proactively identifying and addressing issues, proven problem solving and organizational skills • Rigorous, and polite • Respect of SIF values and mandate   WORK RELATIONSHIPS   Line manager: Area Supervisor (technical team for all technical aspects of the position).   Line manager+1 program manager and program coordinator   In direct cooperation with:area supervisor, Protection technical officer and PSS trainer.