MHPSS Psychosocial Worker

Delivers community-based mental health and psychosocial support through IOM’s mobile team in Ukraine. The worker provides counselling and training, strengthens social networks, runs awareness and psychoeducation activities, supports assessments and partnerships, and documents services for conflict-affected communities.

• Integrate MHPSS considerations into community activities with the mobile team using the IASC intervention pyramid
• Deliver training on psychological first aid, stress management, team building, conflict management, communication and community-based MHPSS
• Strengthen social networks through support groups, discussion forums and participatory cultural, recreational and sports initiatives
• Provide individual and group counselling to conflict-affected people
• Develop awareness campaigns and psychoeducation sessions on mental health and psychosocial support
• Conduct needs assessments, surveys, focus groups, interviews and research to improve access to psychosocial and specialised mental-health care
• Coordinate local implementing partners and integrated MHPSS programmes for displaced people, veterans and their families
• Document services, enter activity data and report against quarterly plans and donor requirements

• Bachelor's degree in psychology, counselling, educational psychology, psychotherapy, social sciences, social work or a related field with at least two years of working experience
• Experience communicating and working with people from culturally diverse backgrounds
• Fluency in Ukrainian
• Readiness for frequent travel across the target oblast and emergency deployment

• Previous experience in MHPSS, community-based work, teamwork and humanitarian interventions
• Previous experience in mental health, social or protection activities
• Track record of innovative work and local initiative

• Community-Based MHPSS
• Psychological First Aid
• Group Counselling
• Community Mobilisation
• Capacity Building
• Needs Assessment
• Social Network Strengthening
• Psychoeducation
• Partnership Management
• Data Collection
• Mental Health Referral
• Awareness Campaigns

• IASC Intervention Pyramid
• Psychological First Aid

• Frequent roving travel in Ukraine and short-notice emergency deployment are required
• Consultant must maintain medical insurance for non-occupational accidents and illness
• Offer is subject to funding confirmation and medical, residency or visa and security clearances