Duty Station: Remote with frequent travels to Ukraine

Supervisor / Reports to: Caritas Switzerland Head of Programs

Expected Start Date: 01 August 2023 or as quickly as attainable

Duration: Approx. 10 months, renewable upon the settlement of each events

Expected Workload: Approx. 50 days

Background

Caritas Switzerland (CACH) is without doubt one of the main Swiss NGOs within the discipline of poverty discount in Switzerland and overseas. International Cooperation programmes give attention to humanitarian help, earnings era, local weather change and migration. The Programme Ukraine Crisis Response is at the moment working in Ukraine in addition to in neighbouring international locations offering emergency help to folks affected by the battle. Caritas Switzerland works by native implementing companions, taking the localization of help strategy in its response, and give attention to bringing technical value-added particularly within the discipline of money and markets, earnings, shelter, MHPSS in addition to safety along with supporting companions in monetary controlling and compliance requirements.

Objectives of the Consultancy

The key goal of this consultancy shall be to offer technical recommendation, assist, and capability constructing in assist of native Caritas Partners’ implementation of MHPSS programmes in Ukraine. The Technical Advisor will play a essential function in making certain that MHPSS applications are designed, applied, and evaluated in accordance with worldwide finest practices and requirements. Additionally, a key function of the Technical Advisor shall be to conduct capability constructing for the native Caritas companions (Caritas Ukraine and Caritas Spes) by the event and provision of technical steering, sources, and coaching.

The MHPSS advisor will present technical help and efficient propositions to:

Scope of Work

Within the given body the guide will undertake:

• Provide technical recommendation, steering, and assist to Caritas Ukraine companions on MHPSS programming, together with program design, implementation, and monitoring and analysis.
• Conduct assessments and supply technical assist for the event of MHPSS applications in response to emergencies and crises.
• Stay up-to-date with the most recent developments in MHPSS programming, analysis, and traits and advise Caritas Ukraine companions on finest practices.
• Support Caritas Ukraine companions in coordinating and collaborating with related stakeholders, together with authorities companies, NGOs, and UN companies.
• Work with Caritas Ukraine companions to develop and implement methods for mainstreaming MHPSS into its general programming and advocacy efforts.
• Ensure compliance with worldwide requirements and finest practices, together with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) pointers on MHPSS.
• Participate in nation humanitarian coordination mechanisms, such because the Ukraine MHPSS Working Group, to make sure that native accomplice MHPSS programming is aligned with the broader Ukraine humanitarian response.
• Contribute to data administration and sharing by documentation of finest practices and classes discovered. The advisor may even take part in conferences, workshops, and different boards to with native Caritas Partners, Caritas Switzerland, different Caritas member organisations and should embody UN and INGOs.
• Partner Capacity Building:
  • In collaboration with our companions MHPSS PMs, conduct a full MHPSS coaching with MHPSS workers, technical coordinators, program managers, on all MHPSS instruments and processes, in addition to on utilizing analyzed knowledge to tell program high quality and doc classes learnt
  • Develop or overview MHPSS sources, instruments and coaching supplies for native Caritas companions (equivalent to customary working procedures) to help the accomplice’s mission implementation and capability constructing targets. The advisor will work carefully with native companions to make sure that these sources are tailor-made to the accomplice’s necessities.
  • Provide ongoing teaching, mentoring, and supervision to native companions to make sure that MHPSS companies are delivered successfully and in keeping with worldwide requirements.
  • Identify further wants for MHPSS capability constructing inside our accomplice organizations

Time body

The period of the project is roughly 10 months.

Location

The location of the project is distant, with frequent travels to our accomplice organizations CUA and CS in addition to the Caritas Switzerland mission in Ukraine.

Deliverables

The anticipated deliverables are listed hereunder:

1. Design and growth of MHPSS customary working procedures, steering supplies, technical notes, sources and instruments in assist of native accomplice programme implementation
2. Support the start-up of MHPSS programming and design with one accomplice organisation, creating a workplan, assist on recruitment and general MHPSS technical supply.
3. Design and growth of MHPSS monitoring and analysis plans, instruments (PDMS), reporting advise, and sources in assist of UCR programmes
4. Conduct assessments of native companions’ MHPSS applications, conduct a spot evaluation and determine areas for enchancment to tell accomplice capability constructing plans
5. Undertake wants assessments or main analysis particularly round MHPSS wants in Ukraine and the way companions can tailor and improve their MHPSS response.
6. Design, implement and monitor native accomplice MHPSS capability constructing plans
7. Deliver MHPSS coaching programs to native Caritas accomplice workers, together with on-line and in-person conferences, workshops and technical trainings.
8. Provide technical supervisory to MHPSS accomplice leads.

Line of Communication

The guide will coordinate immediately with the CACH Head of Programmes, CUA and CS MHPSS and operational groups based mostly in Ukraine and with assist from the Programme Officer / programme workers at Head workplace in Switzerland.

Competencies and Qualifications

Education

• Masters qualification or superior diploma in psychology, social work, or a associated discipline.

Professional Experience

• Essential
  • Minimum of 5 years’ expertise in a MHPSS associated function with robust monitoring and analysis expertise, together with planning/taking part in evaluations
  • Demonstrated expertise in MHPSS program design, implementation, and monitoring and analysis.
  • Ability to work each in an advisory and a hands-on implementation capability
  • Proven capability to oversee, prepare and coach workers in addition to means to facilitate/conduct giant technical trainings for workers
  • Proven work expertise in emergency response and fragile state contexts.
• Desirable
  • Experience in MHPSS programming implementation in Ukraine is very fascinating.
  • Sound understanding of the Ukrainian context is a bonus
  • Experience working with Caritas or different faith-based organizations is a bonus

Skills & Competencies

• Essential
  • Thorough data of MHPSS humanitarian finest practices, worldwide humanitarian requirements and pointers
  • Excellent communication expertise with motivation to work in shut partnership with nationwide companions
  • Experience in capability constructing and coaching on MHPSS-related issues
  • Excellent writing, reporting and analytical expertise
  • Demonstrated interpersonal and cultural communications expertise and expertise working in collaboration with a number of stakeholders
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and different related software program functions
  • Sound understanding of humanitarian requirements
  • Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and to deal with time stress

Language and Other Requirements

• Essential
  • Excellent written and oral English
  • Willingness to regularly journey inside Ukraine
• Desirable
  • Ukrainian language expertise are a bonus