ACF Immediate Vacancy - Mental Health and Care Practices Program Manager, base Kupang

IMMEDIATE VACANCY

Founded in 1979, ACF International (Action AgainstHunger) is an international humanitarian organization
that delivers programs in over 40 countries. Recognized worldwide as a leader
in the fight against hunger, our mission
is to save lives through the prevention, detection, and treatment of malnutrition, especially during and after
emergency situations and conflicts.
Currently,  ACF Indonesia Mission is seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Mental Health and Care Practices Program
Manager, to be based in KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara/ NTT.


Initial Contract duration : 6 months with
possibility of extension
Reporting to : Program Coordinator

Starting date : 1 September 2013

Educational
/ Professional Background:
Degree as Psychologist, psychiatrist or psychomotrician

Required Competences & Skills :            
Experience in clinical and psychosocial work is
required
Humanitarian experience is NGOs
Experience in training and technical supervision
Experience in
prevention program and community-based psychosocial work
Required
Experiences :
Attentive – Sense of
confidentiality – Clinical experience – Good communication and adaptation
capacity – Good relations with people – Project management and training
capacities –Experience in team supervision – Maturity – Humanitarian experience
an asset – Good knowledge of English oral and written

Goal :To
implement, to manage and to support MHCP intervention within the context of ACF
Malnutrition Prevention Mission

Objectives of the Position:
1. Implementation & Overall
management of MHCP program
Ø Implements and follows up the psychosocial
activities within the context of malnutrition prevention activities deployed by
ACF;
Ø Ensures monitoring of the program evolution;
Ø Collects and analyses the care practices and
psychosocial data to provide for program capitalization;
Ø Cooperates with Head of Department to propose
strategy and program improvements;
Ø Contributes to the design and update of the country
MHCP strategy.

2. Program
coordination & Technical supervision
Ø Closely cooperates with the Nutrition, WaSH and
FoodSec teams in order to ensure a consistency of proposed and on-going
activities;
Ø Shares information gathered with other ACF activity
areas (food security, water and sanitation);
Ø Coordinates activities with the various actors
present in the field (health facilities, NGOs, UN clusters etc);
Ø Participates in Mental Health  & Psychosocial groups and Protection
& Cluster meeting;
Ø Proposes readjustments of the program on the basis
of the results and taking into consideration the context;
Ø Evaluates existing possibilities for program improvements,
especially concerning monitoring tools;
Ø Supervise field woers of MHCP and strengthen
coordination in between others PM based on communication with Nutrition
coordinator.

3. Recruitment & Management of the MHCP team
Ø Identifies human resources’ needs, following the common ACF mission
framework;
Ø Recruits
psychosocial personnel (psychosocial workers) ;
Ø Ensures initial and on-going training of
psychosocial staff on MHCP activities;
Ø Participates in the development of job descriptions
and organizational charts for the team;
Ø Ensures an integrity of activities within the
program in connection with the other program managers (nutrition, FS, WASH);
Ø Provides psycho-social team cohesion through the
organization of internal communications (work meetings, coordination meetings,
training/dynamics workshops);
Ø Maintains the interaction with the ACF team:
participation in meetings, briefings on the operation of the base and the ACF-F
mission, relations with support services (log/admin), etc.;
Ø Ensure the respect of confidentiality of clinical
interviews apart from dealings with the psychologists in charge.

4. Advocacy, Partnership Development &
Representation
Ø Responsible for the coordination with other psychosocial
and/or MHCP actors at field level ;
Ø Represents the MHCP program and the respective
aspect of ACF intervention if HoD is not there.

5. Improving
/ monitoring
Ø Proposes to the HoD improvements for the program
means and facilities;
Ø Provides aces to M&E officers.

6. Reporting
Ø Consolidates the program data and the monthly reports (APR: Activity
Progress Report);
Ø Participates in the preparation of donor reports;
Ø Participates in the capitalization of the program’s achievements;
Ø Is ready to present and to advocate ACF MHCP program to the various
stakeholders (donors, local authorities etc).

Internal & External relations
ü  Communication and coordination with the different departments at mission
level.
ü  Representation and active participation at relevant clusters and
different sub-groups when required.

Interest applicants to submit their letter of interest and
update CV with references to ActionContre la Faim, by email
: acfrecruitment@yahoo.fr  ; no
later than     August 2nd, 2013 . Only short- listed  candidates
will be contacted.


Sincerely,

ACTION CONTRE LA FAIM  | ACF-Indonesia
KOMPLEKS GOLDEN TRULY FATMAWATI
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Jl.Fatmawati Raya No. 15 JakartaSelatan 12420 Jakarta INDONESIA
Tel      : +62 21 759 15 814

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