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Job Description

ABOUT THE JOB

The Protection Officer (Psychosocial Support), under the direct supervision of Protection Team Leader in Jalalabad, is primarily responsible for providing psychosocial counselling to the project beneficiaries and targeted communities, awareness raising, liaising with government and other key stakeholders and conducting trainings.

Responsibilities:

• Provide individual and group psychosocial counselling to the project beneficiaries in Jalalabad target communities and/or at the urban Hub (community centre);
• Provide counselling and assistance to SGBV survivors in addition to taking lead in the facilitation of group therapy sessions for SGBV survivors and women at risk.
• In collaboration with the Team Leader, Protection Specialist and Protection Coordinator, the PO (PSS) will organise and facilitate the internal and interagency case conferences meetings.
• Provide capacity building to protection officers, assistants, focal points, community leaders, and other partners on guiding principles to SGBV, basic counselling and standard case management practices.
• Ensure that all individual case files are opened and closed according to the international standards and that the storage of the survivors’ data is in line with the data protection protocol.
• Conduct interviews, surveys, psychosocial evaluations, home visits, and referrals reporting of incidents or violations.
• Works closely with the MEAL officers in carrying out the client satisfactory surveys to measure the impact of the response services provided in addition to identifying the underlying gaps in the provision of the response services.
• Organize and facilitate regular community-level discussions to strengthen community-based prevention and response to SGBV.
• Actively engage in the provision of psychosocial support and skill building activities at the Urban Community Centres for the SGBV survivors and women at risk.
• Provide support in needs assessment surveys for future protection programming;
• Submit weekly progress reports of the activities to line manager;
• Perform other relevant duties, as needed or requested.

Skills Required

• COMMUNICATION

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