About this role
Mental Health & Psychosocial Support Officer (MHPSS)
Role Purpose
- The MHPSS Officer is responsible for the day-to-day implementation, monitoring, and quality assurance of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) interventions for children, adolescents, caregivers, and communities.
- The post holder will ensure the effective delivery of HEART (Healing and Education through the Arts) and other psychosocial support activities, strengthen community-based MHPSS services, support capacity building of staff and partners, and contribute to the integration of MHPSS across Child Protection, Education, Health, Nutrition, and Emergency programmes.
Role Dimensions (e.g. complexity, relationships, communication with stakeholders):
- Leads the implementation and quality delivery of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) activities, including psychosocial support services, referrals, capacity strengthening, stakeholder coordination, and programme reporting, to improve the well-being and resilience of vulnerable individuals and communities.
Key Areas of Accountability
- Implement and monitor quality MHPSS activities, including HEART, psychosocial support groups, life skills, and caregiver support sessions.
- Supervise structured psychosocial support activities for children, adolescents, caregivers, and communities.
- Train, mentor, and provide supportive supervision to facilitators, volunteers, teachers, and community workers on HEART, PFA, and basic MHPSS approaches.
- Identify vulnerable children and caregivers and ensure safe and timely referrals to specialized mental health, protection, and social services.
- Support MHPSS assessments, programme planning, implementation, and integration with Child Protection, Education, Health, and Nutrition programmes.
- Conduct regular field monitoring visits to ensure programme quality and adherence to standards.
- Collect, manage, and report programme data, ensuring confidentiality and compliance with data protection requirements.
- Document lessons learned, success stories, and best practices to support pro