Staff Counsellor

Leads UNICEF Afghanistan's staff mental health and psychosocial support programme, providing confidential counselling, risk assessment and critical-incident response. The role advises leaders, strengthens workforce resilience and coordinates care with security, medical and external specialists.

• Lead the staff mental health and psychosocial support programme
• Provide confidential individual and group counselling to personnel and eligible dependants
• Assess psychosocial risks and design organisational wellbeing interventions
• Advise senior leaders on psychological safety, resilience and organisational change
• Coordinate emergency psychosocial response during incidents, evacuations and transitions
• Build staff resilience through training, prevention and early-intervention programmes
• Coordinate care with security, medical services, peer supporters and external specialists

• Advanced university degree in psychology, occupational health psychology, counselling, social work, organisational behaviour, behavioural science or another mental health profession
• At least eight years of national and international professional experience in staff support, mental health, counselling, organisational development, emergency response or psychosocial risk management
• Experience providing psychological support and critical incident stress management in emergency, conflict, fragile or high-stress environments
• Experience advising senior leaders on workforce wellbeing, psychological safety and organisational resilience
• Ability to design and facilitate resilience, stress-management, mental-health and psychological-safety training
• Fluency in English

• Training or certification in staff support and traumatic or critical-incident stress
• Experience with stress management, trauma counselling, substance-abuse counselling or coaching
• Experience within the United Nations or international humanitarian sector
• Developing-country or emergency experience
• Knowledge of another official United Nations or local language

• Staff Counselling
• Psychosocial Support
• Crisis Intervention
• Critical Incident Management
• Psychosocial Risk Assessment
• Leadership Coaching
• Organisational Wellbeing
• Trauma Counselling
• Clinical Assessment
• Resilience Training
• Psychological Safety
• Emergency Response

• Fixed-term international professional appointment
• Appointment is subject to medical clearance and international mobility
• Reports to the Chief of People and Culture with guidance from the Regional Staff Counsellor