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Handicap International

Disability-focused humanitarian aid and empowerment

Global Technical Specialist - Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

Mental & Behavioral HealthConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time€2.9k /mo

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least five years of experience in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) within an international nongovernmental organization, including overseas experience in low- or middle-income countries and/or humanitarian contexts.
  • Ability to adapt oral and written communication in French and English for different audiences, both in person and remotely.
  • Ability to plan activities in the specialist area with clear, specific and measurable objectives.
  • Ability to develop new resources or adapt existing resources to evolve them and/or fit the context when necessary.
  • Ability to evaluate the impact and effects of activities in the service sector.
  • Experience providing training and technical supervision in MHPSS for nongovernmental organizations in emergency, protracted-crisis and development contexts; familiarity with training engineering.
  • Experience collaborating with and strengthening public health services and systems, from ministries to decentralized services, is strongly desirable.
  • Experience with community-based MHPSS interventions.
  • Technical understanding of violence protection, physical and functional rehabilitation, inclusive humanitarian action, armed violence reduction, and explanatory models of disability.
  • A university second-cycle degree (master’s level or equivalent) in mental health or psychology from a recognized university or higher education institution, and/or in a closely related field combined with significant relevant experience.
  • Fluency in French and English.
  • Ability to work in a team and value colleagues’ skills toward collective action.
  • Empathy.
  • Ability to give and receive constructive feedback, interact within a multidisciplinary team, build relationships and collaborate.

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and monitoring of the global sector strategy and ensure its implementation in the countries where the organization operates.
  • Lead the sector’s technical contribution to the global technical strategy; contribute to regional or programme operational strategy when no regional or programme sector technical referent is present.
  • Create synergies and promote integrated programming approaches with other sectors based on strategic and operational priorities and project models.
  • Support the organization’s technical assistance strategy for development actors and public and private service providers.
  • Develop and adapt technical guidance and tools for the specialist area, including context analysis, needs assessment, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
  • Integrate and promote cross-cutting approaches, including the Disability-Gender-Age marker, conflict sensitivity and protection mainstreaming.
  • Provide technical advice and support to a portfolio of projects in development, emergency and protracted-crisis contexts.
  • Support programmes in designing strategies aligned with a Nexus approach and preparing emergency interventions.
  • Contribute to programmes’ emergency preparedness actions and adapt working methods during emergencies to support an effective humanitarian response.
  • Provide or support technical assistance where possible.
  • Conduct field technical-monitoring missions.
  • Apply and adapt headquarters-defined quality-control tools and frameworks, such as project evaluations, checklists and dashboards; alert the technical and operational leads to issues or needs to adapt technical quality benchmarks.
  • Recommend programme adaptations in response to contextual changes, including humanitarian crises.
  • Support country teams at key stages of the project cycle, including design, implementation, training and evaluation.
  • Monitor global dynamics and multi-stakeholder initiatives to anticipate collaboration opportunities and track trends in the area of expertise.
  • Analyze internal strengths and weaknesses in the institutional ecosystem and ensure proposals align with strategic frameworks and donor requirements.
  • Contribute to strategic monitoring of relevant regional and country-level calls for proposals.
  • Identify partnership and consortium opportunities with development and humanitarian actors, research institutes and multilateral organizations within the global technical strategy framework.
  • Support teams in developing strategic partnerships with local, national and international organizations based on technical needs and complementary expertise, and support localization of aid.
  • Lead or contribute to drafting concept notes and project proposals.
  • Support or develop technical-assistance offers to strengthen the capacities of partners and development actors.
  • Support country teams in drafting concept notes and proposals, ensuring technical quality of intervention logic, results frameworks and budgets.
  • Represent the organization’s technical expertise in relevant networks to exchange good practices, understand trends and influence sector practices and issues.
  • Conduct advocacy on specific issues in coordination with relevant teams and in line with global advocacy priorities.
  • Increase the organization’s technical visibility through presentations, publications and participation in international events or workshops.
  • Produce capability statements, project sheets and thematic fact sheets to promote the organization’s approaches and positioning to external audiences.
  • Contribute to communication messages in line with global communication priorities and participate in scientific publications.
  • Participate in relevant regional sector groups, including clusters, alliances and inter-agency groups.
  • Monitor, interpret and promote internal adoption of international sector standards.
  • Draft and deploy framework documentation containing organizational standards, including Nexus standards, and ensure its dissemination.
  • Ensure standards are complementary across the organization’s sectors.
  • Design participatory tools and processes to document field experience, case studies, lessons learned and innovations; identify lessons learned from evaluation recommendations.
  • Facilitate transnational learning workshops and actively participate in global communities of practice.
  • Contribute to analytical reports, technical notes and learning documents, and disseminate them internally and externally.
  • Facilitate reflection and development of innovative thematic products, integrating gender, disability, climate-change adaptation and digital transformation meaningfully into programming.
  • Facilitate development of a sector talent pool and community of practice.
  • Participate in recruitment through technical tests and/or interviews and validate technical positions in projects.
  • Map technical skills in the talent pool and define capacity-strengthening priorities with field teams.
  • Onboard new employees so they become familiar with sector priorities and objectives.
  • Contribute to staff capacity-strengthening by implementing and monitoring a capacity-building plan, including training and coaching mechanisms that promote continuous learning in line with the organization’s professional competency frameworks.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience collaborating with and strengthening public health services and systems, from ministries to decentralized services.

About the Company

Handicap International

Disability-focused humanitarian aid and empowerment

Handicap International, also known as Humanity & Inclusion, is an international non-profit organization focused on disability. It works with people with disabilities in diverse settings—from conflict zones to development contexts—to improve their access to essential services, rehabilitation, livelihoods, and inclusion. The organisation delivers aid and support through programmes in about 60 countries and responds to emergencies, helping people become self-reliant. It operates through a network of eight national associations (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA) that provide funding, resources, and project management. Unlike some aid groups, it is non-governmental, non-religious, non-political, and non-profit, centering the needs and rights of people with disabilities. Its goal is to enable people with disabilities to participate fully in society and to strengthen their independence and resilience in all contexts.

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