Psychologist

“Youth for Tomorrow” Project, implemented by Akkarouna with support from Mercy Corps (MC), focuses on helping host and refugee community adolescents, in targeted areas in Tripoli to cope with numerous stresses. The decisions they make now will have a profound long-term impact on their lives; thus it is essential to equip adolescents with the tools to make sound judgment in order to have a healthy and productive future. “Youth for tomorrow” aims to achieve the following: -       Adolescents and youth have improved psychosocial and emotional wellbeing. -       Adolescents and youth are better prepared to enter the workforce with enhanced technical skills and improved awareness of labour market realities -       Diverse groups build positive inter-community relationships by working together to promote protection and interests of adolescents and youth. -       Civil Society has increased capacity to serve the needs of youth. Center youth Psychologist provide direct support and interventions to youth, consult with coaches and staff to improve support strategies, work with center coordinator to improve Youth for tomorrow center practices and policies, and collaborate with community members to coordinate needed services. Main Duties & Responsibilities -       Reporting all notes of concerns from the center, staff and coaches to the center coordinator and Mercy Corps -       Delivering awareness sessions training to coaches, parents and other community members -       Following-up on the Youth for tomorrow’s center case tracker -       Applying home visits for youth with severe vulnerability; also to follow with caregivers -       Meeting, advising and liaising with parents, coaches and center staff; -       Ensuring the PSS approach is integrated -       Recommending, developing and administering appropriate therapies and strategies; -       Using psychological procedures to deal with youth cases; -       Establishing a collaborative working relationship with the youth based on trust and respect; -       Providing direct psychosocial support and refer internally and externally as needed, respecting confidentiality and the right of the beneficiary; -       Conducting discussion group, focus group with individuals, families -       Working on daily basis with Mercy Corps Psychologist to handle all notes of concerns -       Act as a focal person for all referrals in the respective centers and follow up on high-level cases -       Provide training under the profound stress/attunement framework on child protection related issues, as well as psychosocial support, and be a part of the training team on this model; -       Provide guidance to youth and center teams in developing plans and issues-related campaigns (such as no violence) to support vulnerable youth; -       Facilitate outreach efforts to provide services to students, parents/guardians and staff;       Skills & Qualifications -       Bachelor degree in Psychology; Masters is an addition; -       At least two years of relevant exprience -       Experience in the field of psychology and vulnerability/disability; -       Interpersonal and psychotherapeutic skills; -       Excellent communication skills; -       An open-minded and sensitive approach when dealing with cases; -       The ability to explore emotional issues with cases; -       A healthy curiosity and research-minded approach; -       Analytical skills; -       The ability to work as part of a team; -       The capacity to look at how and why things are working, or not working, with clients; -       Independence and self-motivation; -       Self-awareness, self-knowledge, security and self-belief; -       Capability to working under pressure.   Mercy Corps is a leading global humanitarian agency saving and improving lives in the world’s toughest places. With a presence in more than 40 countries, we partner with local communities to put bold ideas into action to help people recover, overcome hardship and build better lives—now, and for the future. Mercy Corps is helping vulnerable adolescents between the ages of 12-19 years at a pivotal point in their lives between hope or hopelessness, positive change or negative influence, and possibility or despair. Programming will target Syrian refugees, as well as the host community and Palestinians communities by implementing adolescent projects that improve psychosocial well-being, enhance youth’s ability to identify and develop plans to pursue and achieve short-term goals, and provide life-skill development training to help increase their chances to pursue careers in a specific field and obtain employment. Mercy Corps has joined the No Lost Generation campaign to mitigate the devastating impact of the Syria crisis on children and young people for Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian in host and refugee communities. In order to prevent alarming long-term consequences of an entire generation, Mercy Corps’ programming aims to nurture the intellectual and emotional growth of adolescents during this pivotal time in their life to become resilient to the deteriorating economic and political conditions around them.  Akkarouna is one of the local active organizations that was established in 2010; that fights local poverty and try to raise moral, behavioral and environmental awareness and shedding light on natural and human resources. It also seeks to involve youth in various types of activities. Akkarouna aims at enhancing the role of the youth and adults in public life without discrimination in the community. In fact, it ensures their involvement in various types of activities and programs to keep them away from delinquency and the tendency of violence. The association works on raising the moral, behavioral and environmental awareness; thus, uniting communities together to grow stronger towards the same objectives and erasing ignorance. It also works on fighting local poverty to decrease the gaps and in equalities between all the communal levels. Hence, it works on developing the quality and standards of the society.