# MHPSS Response Officer (Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR))

**Company**: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
**Location**: Kigali, Rwanda
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The MHPSS Response Officer (Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR)) will provide context-specific life-saving psychological first aid, basic psychological support interventions, and case management for migrants and returnees.

Responsibilities:

- Provide psychological first aid and basic psychological support interventions

- Conduct individual protection screening, anamnesis, and protocol-based MHPSS assessment

- Offer case management services, including follow-up, monitoring progress, and coordination of referrals

- Conduct individual and group counselling sessions

- Facilitate referrals to licensed medical professionals

- Coordinate with Migration Health Division (MHD) Health Assessment Programme (HAP) psychiatrists and other clinical experts

- Participate in suicide-prevention and suicide watch activities

- Maintain accurate data collection and case notes in IOM's case management systems

Qualifications:

- Master's degree in Clinical Psychology, Clinical Social Work, Psychiatry, Psychological Counselling, or a related field

- Two years of relevant professional experience

- Experience working with migrants, civil society, and governments

- Experience managing programming across multiple countries

- Proven experience working with vulnerable persons and communicating with individuals who have complex needs

Skills:

- Demonstrated writing, editing, and presentation skills

- Excellent computer skills

- Knowledge of UN cooperation frameworks and bilateral donor programming requirements

- Ability to gather, consolidate, and attribute information from multiple sources

- High degree of judgment and initiative

- Demonstrated interpersonal and teamwork skills

Languages:

- Fluency in English is required

- Working knowledge of another official UN language is an advantage

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## Skills

### Required
- Clinical Psychology
- Clinical Social Work
- Psychiatry
- Psychological Counselling
- Case Management
- Counselling
- Data Collection
- MS Office

### Nice to have
- French
- Spanish
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Russian

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