Job for Jordanians: Project Officer/ Psychosocial Support at Islamic Relief

Islamic Relief in Jordan offers a job opportunity for the position of project officer/ psychosocial support in the programs department. Your position will be in North Jordan, with a chance to frequent travel to other locations in the country. You will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that you understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organization.

You will be responsible for:

• Provide individual & group counseling sessions for the beneficiaries.
• Supervise the children's activities and the ability to prepare the content of PSS sessions for women and children. 
• Participate in the design and implementation of effective activities and projects.
• Assessed psychosocial needs of natural and man-made disaster-affected children of communities.
• Design a post-emergency psychosocial support program for children based on local context, culture, customs, and related considerations.
• Working more on the need-oriented themes like psychosocial and mental health, anger management and conflict resolution, ethic and professional standards, communication with children and interviewing adults and children, child development, and basic counseling skills.
• Ability to communicate and maintain appropriate and productive relations with a range of actors, including children, parents, and local and national authorities.
• Maintain data to ensure that is available for analysis and reporting.
• Ensure that refugees are not mistreated.
• Ensure that all implementation steps in the project are going well and as planned.
• Submit reports and plans upon request.
• Attend sector and referrals meetings.
• Able to refer the cases to competent authorities (another NGOs).
• Manage and deal with the children's cases.
• Perform any other task assigned by the project/line Manager.

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You must have:

• Bachelor's Degree in social science, Psychology, counseling, or related fields of study, preferably a scientific field.
• Knowledge of the political situation and cultural norms in Jordan in general.
• Minimum 2 – 4 years’ experience as psychosocial specialist or social studies preferably in NGO.
• Experience in psychosocial support, staff management, capacity building, and training of workers.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating the psychosocial program.
• Ability to use computer software, especially Word and Excel.
• Communication and Analysis skills of the needs.
• Strong team and leadership skills.
• Very good organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability at being flexible and adapt to changing situations.
• Good spoken and written English.

About Islamic Relief:

Islamic Relief Jordan is a country branch of Islamic Relief Worldwide. Islamic Relief Worldwide is an internationally recognized charity, looking back on nearly 30 years of experience in humanitarian and developmental aid. It was founded in 1984 in Birmingham, UK, in response to the devastating famine in the Horn of Africa. Since then, Islamic Relief has grown into a charity that is active worldwide, putting development projects, emergency aid, and rebuilding projects into action in over 28 countries around the world.

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