Country: Sweden
Closing date: 17 Jun 2018
Humanitarian Unit, International Department, Church of Sweden
The Church of Sweden takes a holistic view on wellbeing, where emotional, social and spiritual needs are addressed alongside those that are physical and biological. The community based psychosocial support (CBPS) approach is founded on the belief in the resources and capacities of emergency-affected individuals and communities to deal with difficulties, illness and distress and to recover. The humanitarian work is well integrated into the Church of Sweden’s international work. Within the Humanitarian Programme, Church of Sweden strives to ensure that quality community based psychosocial support is implemented in sudden onset emergencies, strengthen implementing partners capacity in CBPS in protracted crises, and promote CBPS at global and regional levels through knowledge generation and advocacy.
The Church of Sweden's humanitarian assistance can be implemented through a financial grant, assignment of staff or deployments from the psychosocial roster and/or thematic support. The Church of Sweden works through, and together with partner organisations and does not implement efforts on its own. Deploying psychosocial experts from CoS psychosocial roster is a key method for the CoS to provide technical support on community based psychosocial approach to ACT partner organisations, and in this way contribute to CBPS becoming an integrated part of the humanitarian response of the ACT Alliance.
Deployments are most commonly initiated when CoS Humanitarian Unit or an ACT member organisation have identified a need for technical support in order to ensure quality CBPS implementation in a CoS funded ACT appeal. Deployments can also be part of institutional capacity building programs with selected ACT strategic partners. Roster members are sometimes also deployed to conduct trainings for the global ACT member community i e through global/regional trainings.
Members in the Psychosocial Roster are specialised experts, recruited to provide technical support and build capacity. They are not to substitute the work of the requesting ACT member organization.
The core of the strategy for the CoS Roster is the objective to develop and maintain a roster of highly skilled experts and specialists with relevant humanitarian profiles, and with availability with short notice; who can respond effectively, timely and efficiently.
For this purpose, Church of Sweden is now recruiting members to our Psychosocial Roster Senior Member group.
Duties of Psychosocial Roster Senior Member
- Provide organisational capacity building in mainstreaming CBPS, including training, supporting development of work plans, and follow up at management level
- Coaching and mentoring of local counterpart
- Serve as team-lead if more than one roster member deployed
Necessary Qualifications
- Good knowledge of CoS and ACT global strategies
- Field experience of humanitarian contexts of at least 5 years
- Experience of coordination in humanitarian settings
- Bachelor’s degree in psychosocial related studies
- Extensive knowledge of MHPSS and the CBPS approach
- Mentoring and coaching skills
- PMER experience
- Facilitation skills and experience in training designs
- Fluency in written and spoken English
Desirable
- Prior employment with CoS or ACT
- Experience in organizational capacity building
- Good knowledge of accountability initiatives such as CHS and Sphere
- Experience in leadership positions
- Experience in research
- Master’s degree in psychosocial related studies
- Skills in Spanish, French, Arabic or other languages
CoreCompetencies
- Personal maturity and integrity.
- Cooperation and networking skills.
- Able to work independently.
- Cultural awareness and sensitivity.
- Contextual adaptivity
Other
We assume you share the values of the Church of Sweden. Interviews on Skype will be held with relevant applicants during the first two weeks of August. Senior roster members should be available for at least two deployments over a 2-year period (including staggered deployments). All psychosocial roster members are expected of attend a roster meeting taking place 24-28 September in Sweden. Psychosocial roster members should have a registered firm or be prepared to register a firm.
More detailed information is available from
Head of Humanitarian Unit, Else Berglund, +46 706 100051.
The trade union representatives for the holder of this post are
Thomas Ekelund (Vision), Susanna Henriksén (Jusek) and Anders Göranzon (KyrkA). All can be reached preferably by e-mail.
You will find more information on the Church of Sweden and its work at www.svenskakyrkan.se
How to apply:
Please send your letter of application and CV by using this link the latest 17 June 2018.