Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 500,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Part 1:  Role Purpose:

MHPSS counsellor will be responsible for the provision of psychological counselling to the identified Learners enrolled into Jahan Educational Centres through individual or group counselling sessions. MHPSS counsellor will also ensure compliance with adopted SOPs and IASC guidelines to provide beneficial service to the children suffering from PSS distress.

Generic Responsibilities:

• A strong commitment to Street Childs vision, mission and values
• Adhere to all Street Child’s policies and procedures
• Able to represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally
• Carry out all reasonable requests that are within the broad remit of the role

Specific Responsibilities:

• To be in continues contact with learners and their guardians.
• To seek for distress signs and symptoms in learners and provide required PSS support on a timely manner.
• To ensure weekly and monthly meetings and interactions are in place with learners.
• To ensure learners are kept encouraged and motivated all the time.
• To identify family related/ driven PSS issues of learners are identified and appropriate advice are provided in a timely manner.
• To follow up on absent learners, and ensure proper and effective participation of learners in the virtual classes.
• To provide online support to learners on the times required.
• To ensure availability on online classes, in case of requirement for PSS support.
• To provide in-person PSS support to learners and their guardians in refresher meetings.
• To conduct awareness sessions for learners and their guardians.
• To prepare structured psycho-social support activities by careful consideration of Street Child’s policies on the subject.
• To ensure participation of all learners in planned activities.
• To carry out all tasks respecting key protection principles including but not limited to do no harm, non-discrimination, confidentiality and accountability.
• To ensure record keeping and documents management process is in place for each activity conducted in consultation of the project manager.
• To ensure a safe, friendly and non-discriminatory environment is upheld during all activities.

• Any other relevant tasks given by the street child’s project manager and relevant site supervisor in Jahan education network.

Education and Qualification

• A minimum of 4 years’ experience in MHPSS field.
• Fluency in English language and any of local languages
• Ability to work effectively and independently with minimal supervision
• Responsible, reliable, punctual and having ability to fulfil multi-task.
• Knowledge of archiving and filing
• Strong communication skills. 
• Ability to work under pressure circumstances
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at the same time
• Able to conduct individual and group therapy counselling sessions 
• problem solving skills
• Good follow up and organizing skills

Experience in I/NGO context is a strong plus point.

Skills and Abilities

• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Handling insecure environment

Education / Qualifications

• A minimum of bachelor’s degree preferably in psychology, counselling, clinical social work, social science and/ or any other relevant field.
• Masters or additional certification in the field is a plus point.

Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding

Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.

As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks.  Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

Submission Guideline:

If you are interested and meet the qualifications, please complete the Children in Crisis Recruitment Form using the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfo3YKs19wJ3GkFbXtjyDfb2hkwXLUpCP-NUOMXC9Qy45ulkA/viewform?usp=dialog

This form is mandatory and must be completed in full. Please make sure all details are accurate before submitting.

Only short-listed candidates whose education and experiences correspond to the above criteria will be contacted for further consideration and in case you did not hear from us after 3 weeks of deadline, please consider that as a rejection.