Mental Health and Psycho-Social Support (MHPSS) Analyst (HER Roster)

Strengthens mental-health and psychosocial support across UNFPA humanitarian programmes. The analyst builds partner capacity, develops evidence-based guidance, improves supervision and quality systems, coordinates referral pathways and integrates MHPSS into sexual-health, gender-violence and emergency responses.

• Assess MHPSS services, workforce capacity, referral pathways and programme gaps
• Design culturally appropriate MHPSS interventions across sexual-health and gender-violence programmes
• Develop technical guidance, procedures, field manuals, training packages and supervision tools
• Train and mentor government, partner, health, social-work and community responders
• Build quality-assurance, monitoring, feedback and continuous-improvement systems
• Align programmes with IASC, GBV case-management and Sphere standards
• Coordinate inter-agency MHPSS services, referral systems and humanitarian planning
• Document learning, prepare technical and donor reports and support resource mobilisation

• Relevant qualification or equivalent in psychology, mental health or a related field
• At least five years of progressively responsible MHPSS experience, reduced to three years for master's degree holders
• Expertise in recognised MHPSS, GBV case-management and humanitarian standards
• Experience developing technical guidance, procedures, curricula and implementation tools
• Experience training, supervising and mentoring non-professional counselling staff
• English
• Filipino

• Master's degree in psychology, mental health or a related field
• International GBV or MHPSS experience in a humanitarian context
• Experience with United Nations agencies, humanitarian clusters, NGOs or government emergency systems
• Knowledge of local dialects

• Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
• Psychological First Aid
• Clinical Referral
• Supportive Supervision
• Capacity Building
• Programme Quality Assurance
• Humanitarian Coordination
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Survivor-centred Care
• Emergency Preparedness
• Technical Guidance
• Resource Mobilisation

• IASC Guidelines on MHPSS in Emergency Settings
• IASC Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
• Inter-Agency GBV Case Management Guidelines
• Sphere Standards

• The Humanitarian Emergency Response roster may retain candidates for up to six months without guaranteeing recruitment
• Emergency activation may require deployment from Manila to affected regions in the Philippines
• Assignment duration is 181 days