Staff CounselorNew

Deliver IOM Qatar staff-welfare services for personnel and dependants, combining individual and group counselling with crisis response and referral support. The consultant builds prevention capacity through wellbeing training and manager consultation, advances psychosocial-risk action, upholds UN Staff Counsellor ethics, and monitors service delivery through reporting and recommendations.

• Provide confidential individual and group psychological counselling to staff members and dependants
• Deliver psychological support after critical incidents and emergencies
• Liaise with mental-health resources and arrange crisis referrals
• Train staff and managers on stress management, wellbeing and supportive working environments
• Facilitate action on workplace psychosocial-risk assessment findings
• Ensure professional standards, reporting and administrative duties

• Master’s degree in clinical psychology, counselling, psychiatry or a related field with two years of relevant professional experience, or a university degree in those fields with four years
• Active licence, certification or registered membership in a legitimate relevant professional organisation
• Minimum four years of relevant counselling experience after licensure, certification or registration
• Fluency in English

• Experience in an international or humanitarian organisation
• Experience with counselling and psychosocial interventions
• Experience with UN agencies, humanitarian organisations or Employee Assistance Programmes
• Familiarity with the wellbeing impact of humanitarian working conditions

• Psychological Counselling
• Crisis Intervention
• Mental Health Referral
• Wellbeing Training
• Psychosocial Risk Assessment

• Assignment is expected to operate on a schedule of two working days per week