Counselor Educator – Emergency Response

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, and exclusion from health care or natural disasters.

MSF in Lebanon is currently urgently looking for staff for its Emergency Response with Medical Mobile Units in Beirut, Chouf, Zahle and Bekaa

MSF is committed to achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion within its workforce irrespective of gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds. All job applications will be treated in strictest confidence.

Starting date: ASAP

Type of contract: Intervention Fixed Term Contract, upon needs

Updated competitive salary package with benefits including allowances, medical coverage, and 5 weeks of paid leave per year

Place of work: One of the following areas: Beirut, Chouf, Zahle, Bekaa

Salary: 132,460,000LBP per month (USD 1,480 per month)

Scope of responsibility: MSF

Perform counseling and/or education sessions to patients, following different medical and mental health MSF protocols and procedures, in order to improve their pychosocial condition.

Specific Accountabilities

• Identify the psychosocial, socio-economic and administrative needs for patients
• Actively promote the availability of counselling services and carry out, individual or in group counseling, basic psycho educational sessions, to patients, their families (when needed), in order to alleviate their psychosocial difficulties within the project scope.
• Refer patients to other specialists or other institutions for further assistance, when necessary in order to propose the best support available.
• Participate in the creation of any material needed for counseling activities and look after it,
• Keep files and statistics of daily activities and participate in team meetings to share experiences and discuss special cases with other counselors, preserving confidentiality
• Inform line manager of any problem of any kind arising during the day-to-day activities.
• Take active part in trainings, supervisions/intervisions and support the activities manager when necessary in doing sensitization for MSF staff or external partners about mental health /psychosocial issues.
• Discuss difficulties and problems in counselling with supervisor.

Requirements

Education

• Counseling, social work, psychology or other similar degree/diploma.

Experience

• Essential: At least 1 year of relevant working experience.
• Desirable: Previous experience with MSF or other local and/or international NGOs.

Languages

• Essential: Full professional proficiency using the Arabic and English Language.
• Desirable: Elementary to limited professional proficiency using the French Language.

Knowledge

• Essential: Basic to intermediate computer literacy using MS-office applications (MS-Word, MS-Outlook, MS-Excel).

Competencies  

• Results and Quality Orientation                  L2
• Teamwork and Cooperation                       L2
• Behavioural Flexibility                                  L2
• Commitment to MSF Principles                  L2
• Stress Management                                    L3