# Project Officer (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)) (P)

**Company**: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
**Location**: Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

IOM is seeking a Project Officer (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)) to manage the overall implementation and budget monitoring of a five-year initiative aimed at improving the living conditions of population groups in security-critical contexts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The successful candidate will provide technical and operational guidance to a multidisciplinary team, develop a capacity-building plan, and lead on the training of IOM's MHPSS and social cohesion programme staff and implementing partners.

Key responsibilities include:

- Managing the overall implementation and budget monitoring of the project

- Providing technical and operational guidance to a multidisciplinary team

- Developing a capacity-building plan and leading on the training of IOM's MHPSS and social cohesion programme staff and implementing partners

- Liaising closely with governmental and non-governmental counterparts

- Representing IOM in relevant MHPSS fora

- Leading on training activities for governmental and non-governmental stakeholders

- Leading on awareness-raising and communication campaigns

- Overseeing the rehabilitation plans for primary health care centres and community spaces

- Producing quality progress financial, narrative, and other reports related to the project activities

The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in Psychology, Social Work, Psychiatry, Social Sciences, Anthropology or a related field, with five years of relevant professional experience.

Required skills include:

- Experience in project development, management and reporting

- Experience in assessing and analysing MHPSS needs in complex emergency and post-conflict contexts

- Experience in coordinating and providing multi-layered, community-based MHPSS

- Proven experience in integrating MHPSS in post-recovery and activities related to livelihood, social cohesion, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR), dialogue and conflict transformation and durable solutions

- Excellent communication and report-writing skills

- Demonstrated leadership skills and proven ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with persons of diverse cultural and national backgrounds

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- MHPSS
- psychology
- social work
- anthropology
- communication
- report writing
- leadership

### Nice to have
- French
- working knowledge of another official UN languages
- previous participation in the IOM corporate programme in 'Psychosocial Interventions in Emergency and Displacement'
- capacity to effectively coordinate actions with other implementing partners

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