Overview
Project Assistant for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) activities in Dzaipi and Adjumani, Uganda. The role focuses on activity implementation, technical support, capacity building, networking, coordination, and financial management to achieve child protection and MHPSS outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Regular updates and monitoring of MHPSS activities.
- Ensure technical support to community structures and children.
- Support community-based child protection and MHPSS structures, children’s groups and stakeholders in advocating for child protection and participation, and MHPSS interventions.
- Facilitate the integration of child protection, MHPSS and social cohesion activities.
- Provide information for projects design, implementation, monitoring and reporting.
- Mobilize community meetings with children and key stakeholders.
- Build the capacity of community structures and volunteers.
- Facilitate case management, and data collection.
- Collect and compile statistical data and information.
- Mobilise communities to identify children with disabilities, psychological distress and model families.
- Develop project management reports.
- Organize and conduct monthly meetings with community structures and children.
- Mentor and build the capacity of children, community, community structures.
- Support communities, community structures, partners and children in maintaining minimum standards.
- Develop tools to manage data and information collection and analysis.
- Document impact and success stories.
- Participate in coordination meetings.
- Support all referral needs.
- Represent the organization in Zonal sector meetings and cluster coordination meetings.
- Establish and liaise closely with other partners, agencies and local leaders.
- Prepare and submit monthly payment requisitions for community structures, volunteers.
- Prepare and submit all payment requisitions for activities conducted.
- Prepare concepts notes, project activity budgets, expenditure, preparation of activity quarterly financial and narrative reports.
- Preparation of payment advance and purchase requests.
- File all accountability and attendance lists.
Required Experience
- A minimum of (3) three or more years field experience working with communities in child protection and MHPSS programming and program management in an NGO context.
- Past exposure and experience with integrated Child Protection and MHPSS operations in humanitarian context.
- Past experience in working with communities.
Qualifications
• A Bachelors Degree in Psychology, Psychotherapy, Community psychology or other relevant areas.
