Overview
Provide psychological support, crisis intervention, and well-being advocacy for UNDP personnel in the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide psychological support to individual personnel through tele-counselling and/or in person.
- Deliver crisis intervention and organizational psychological support across RBAP.
- Ensure clinical supervision, professional oversight, and ethical accountability in managing critical incidents.
- Lead coordination with Critical Incident Stress Management Section (CISMS) and local/regional staff counsellors/services in emergencies.
- Proactively monitor environmental factors leading to stress/burnout.
- Provide advice and psychosocial support to managers to ensure a psychologically healthy workplace.
- Develop policies, guidelines, and promotional materials on mental health and well-being.
- Design and deliver workshops, trainings, and information sessions on various topics.
- Deliver group sessions for offices and teams on issues of common concern.
- Analyze records, prepare comprehensive reports, and plan counselling activities.
- Identify and pursue opportunities for documentation and communication of best practices.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years (with master’s degree) and 7 years (with bachelor’s degree) of working experience and expertise in individual and group counselling remotely and in person is required.
- Demonstrated experience working independently with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating data and identifying relevant findings.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and executing training.
- Experience in providing counselling in the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP) and/or other field locations is desired.
- Experience and familiarity with the UN system and procedures is desired.
- Additional certification in trauma intervention, substance abuse counselling, cross-cultural communication is an advantage.
- Experience in designing and leading new programming/training is an asset.
- Experience in providing counselling in a crisis context is an advantage.
Qualifications
- Advanced University Degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Clinical Psychology, Counselling, Social Work or Psychiatry required.
- Or, a first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above-mentioned fields of study, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience.
