# Child Protection MHPSS Officer

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Mykolaiv
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Child Protection MHPSS Officer will serve as the field-level technical focal point for child and caregiver Mental Health, Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). The role focuses on strengthening the quality, sustainability, and accessibility of community-based psychosocial support.

The Officer will provide technical accompaniment to IRC CP staff, partners, government counterparts, community committees, volunteers, and facilitators to implement and sustain evidence-based PSS and parenting approaches.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing technical MHPSS support, referrals, and program quality assurance

- Supporting community-based PSS activities, volunteers, and field follow-up

- Promoting evidence-based PSS and parenting approaches

- Building partnerships with government and non-governmental actors

- Supporting child-sensitive assessments and data collection

- Strengthening capacity, coordination, monitoring, and reporting

The Officer will work closely with the Child Protection Manager, CP Case Workers, and other stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of MHPSS programs.

## Skills

### Required
- Psychology
- Counselling
- Clinical Psychology
- MHPSS
- PSS
- Child Psychology
- Social Work

### Nice to have
- Experience working with children affected by violence, displacement, conflict, family separation, or other protection risks
- Structured child/adolescent PSS, SEL, caregiver/parenting, or similar evidence-based approaches
- Ukrainian government/municipal institutions, local NGOs, or community structures

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