PSS Facilitators - Casual Workers (Tyre)

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Background and Purpose:

The Psychosocial Support (PSS) Facilitator will be responsible for facilitating and leading structured PSS activities for girls and boys and their caregivers. PSS activities include the delivery of awareness-raising sessions, Psychological First Aid (PFA), emotional support, and structured recreational sessions inside collective shelters throughout South governorate and surrounding areas. The PSS Facilitator will be responsible for implementing and delivering established Child Friendly Spaces that are suitable for the targeted community, age, and gender group, respecting confidentiality, communicating with all participants and community members with  respect and following a survivor centered, trauma-informed care approach, ensuring regular attendance, and prioritizing participants’ personal resilience and psychosocial well-being.

Facilitation of PSS activities:

• Attend all WV trainings and capacity building/coaching sessions including child protection (Core concepts, safe identification and referral, PSS, PFA), Child Safeguarding, gender equality and social inclusion, accountability and information management.
• Coordinate, facilitate, and implement individual or group psychosocial support activities in collective shelters locations.
• Provide CFS/PSS sessions focused on structured activity catalog/curricula about topics such as MHPSS, child protection, and parenting skills. 
• Provide awareness raising, and recreational activities to groups and communities based on needs. 
• Maintain positive, cooperative and mutually supportive relationships with children, caregivers, colleagues and other WV staff
• Respect and commit to WV’s internal policies and procedure including Child Safe Guarding, code of conduct, dressing code…

Reporting, Coordination and Representation:

• Maintain and strengthen existing networks with other service providers at the community level, to ensure that participants receive quality services and support.
• Report to the PSS Team Leader on a daily or weekly basis and share observed trends, challenges, and recommendations as well as positive or negative feedback from participants.
• Compile all data on a weekly basis to ensure all reports are completed in a timely manner and reflect achievements, challenges, and gaps in implementation.  
• Contribute to daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports, progress notes, and treatment plans, if requested. 
• Identify new networks, service providers, and actors to collaborate with to ensure participants’ needs are met.
• Identify and refer child protection cases following World Vision policies and mechanisms
• Report child safeguarding cases and threats following World Vision policies and mechanisms

M&E:

• Ensure adequate reporting of data, including the accurate collection of participants' contact details, number of PSS sessions attended, Support in recording attendance of children using hard and soft tools and new registration requests.
• Collaborate closely with the MEAL team to monitor activities with existing PSS monitoring tools. 
• Collect monitoring and evaluation (M&E) data associated with PSS activities and share regular updates with the PSS Team Leader. 
• Use appropriate data collection tools and submit assessments and updates in a timely and accurate manner.  
• Collect data on the activities organized and ensure that all the relevant forms are, filled.
• Ensure all project means of verifications (MOV) including registration sheets, attendance sheets, evaluation documents…are in place.

Minimum requirement:

• Bachelor degree in social work or social development related field 
• 1-2 years of work experience in providing mental health and or psychosocial support services.
• Previous experience in working with children and vulnerable populations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Advanced knowledge in psychosocial / psychological interventions (Child protection, Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), art therapy etc...)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Fluency in written and spoken Arabic.

As a Christian organisation, World Vision is founded on the biblical principles that women and men, girls and boys are created in the image of God, and of Jesus’ love for all people without discrimination. This means that we recognise and affirm the equal worth, dignity and rights of women, men, girls and boys with and without disability and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.