Mental Health And Psychosocial Support Coordinator

1.        Through close monitoring, evaluation and active involvement,  ensures the effective management and technical quality of all mental health and psychosocial services to Palestine refugees, including children and survivors of trauma, gender-based violence (GBV) and domestic violence;   2.        Provides technical guidance, support and oversight to all programme and project staff engaged in the implementation of mental health and psychosocial activities, ensuring that international and national standards for provision of MHPSS services to conflict-affected children are implemented within UNRWA programmes and projects;   3.        Prepares and updates Field level planning documents, coordinates and oversees the departmental and project work plans and activities of programme and project staff engaged in MHPSS activities and in the implementation of the referral system to maximize the benefit and achieve programmatic synergies that avoid duplications, including coordinating the full project cycle for all MHPSS-related activities, as well as effective planning, finance and budgeting, implementation, monitoring and reporting;    4.        In collaboration with Protection, Health, Education and Relief and Social Services Programmes establishes and maintains quality and accessible referral mechanisms for refugees suffering suffering from psychosocial trauma, protection issues and other psychological conditions conditions to appropriate services as necessary;   5.        In coordination with the Head of Programmes and Chief Area Officers, establishes and manages partnerships with relevant local authorities and organizations, UN agencies and regional MHPSS networks to optimize psychosocial and protection services to Palestine refugees and UNRWA staff and to achieve long-term sustainability of these services;   6.        Conducts, arranges and facilitates, in coordination with Protection, Education, Health and RSS programmes, regular technical training to staff involved in the referral system, as well as MHPSS mainstreaming workshops for programmes’ management to ensure the long-term capacity of LFO and frontline staff is built to deliver mainstreamed MHPSS services; 7.        Conducts regular field visits to schools, health centres, other facilities of UNRWA and its partners to monitor and evaluate the technical quality and effectiveness of MHPSS services and the functioning of the referral system;   8.        Represents UNRWA at Inter-Agency Sector Working Groups relevant to MHPSS;   9.        Provides regular updates and reports to Front Office and OSO Team Leader/Field Protection Officer on MHPSS implementation and activities;   10.      Performs such other duties as may be assigned.