National consultant to strengthen capacity of Tajikistan National Team of psychologists in organizing mental health/psychosocial support for vulnerable children, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 60 w/ds

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, all over the place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each little one, a greater future

Psychological well being and psychosocial assist (MHPSS) is important for bettering the well-being of kids affected by humanitarian emergencies. UNICEF works world wide to strengthen the resilience of kids and their households, and to assist them deal with adversity throughout and after a disaster.
UNICEF performs a vital function in offering psychological well being and psychosocial assist to youngsters world wide. Recognizing the numerous affect of emergencies, conflicts, and crises on youngsters’s psychological well-being, UNICEF has prioritized interventions that tackle their psychological wants. Via its packages and partnerships, UNICEF ensures that youngsters have entry to important providers and assist techniques. This contains establishing secure areas the place youngsters can specific themselves, heal, and course of their experiences. UNICEF additionally works to empower dad and mom, caregivers, and communities by offering them with coaching and assets to acknowledge and reply to the psychosocial wants of kids. By prioritizing psychological well being and psychosocial assist, UNICEF goals to mitigate the long-lasting results of trauma and promote youngsters’s total well-being and resilience.
To strengthen and improve psychosocial assist providers, UNICEF has carried out a complete strategy that features a vary of capacity-building actions. These initiatives have been designed to empower and equip training psychologists, college professors, and NGO representatives with the required expertise and information to supply efficient assist to youngsters in want. Via workshops, coaching periods, and seminars, UNICEF has fostered a community of pros who’re well-versed in evidence-based practices and approaches. By investing within the growth of those people, UNICEF is guaranteeing that high-quality psychosocial assist providers can be found to youngsters, permitting them to heal, recuperate, and thrive regardless of adversity.
Moreover, with UNICEF’s assist, a useful resource group consisting of representatives from the psychology colleges of main Tajik universities and training psychology professionals was established. The first function of this useful resource group is to make a considerable contribution to the event of coaching curricula, in addition to the enlargement and institutionalization of coaching programs centered on MHPSS. An preliminary introductory assembly and facilitation session had been performed for the group in November 2023. Recognizing the worth and potential affect of this useful resource group, it’s essential to supply extra ToT periods for the newly fashioned group. This extra coaching will equip the members with the required information and expertise to successfully ship high-quality coaching and disseminate their experience to others.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

The target of this project is to supply assist and coordination for the actions of the national-level Useful resource Group (RG) on MHPSS. As well as, it includes helping a global professional within the growth of a complete Instructional Handbook and Steering for service suppliers, with a particular deal with guaranteeing its cultural appropriateness and relevance to the native context in Tajikistan.
The coordination work of the Useful resource Group, performed in collaboration with the worldwide MHPSS professional, goals to ascertain a complete and efficient strategy to boost the capability of pros and the supply of MHPSS assist to weak youngsters in Tajikistan. This can contain organizing coaching periods and implementing initiatives to coach trainers, guaranteeing that the MHPSS interventions supplied are evidence-based, culturally delicate, and tailor-made to the precise wants of the native inhabitants.
Moreover, this project will contain conducting coaching periods for professionals, service suppliers, and different related stakeholders to advertise a greater understanding of MHPSS ideas, strategies, and greatest practices. The purpose is to equip them with the required expertise and information to successfully present MHPSS assist to weak youngsters and households in Tajikistan.
The event of the Instructional Handbook and Steering will probably be a collaborative effort, involving the experience and enter of the worldwide MHPSS professional, in addition to native stakeholders, to make sure that it addresses the distinctive challenges and
cultural nuances of the Tajik context. This complete useful resource will function a information for service suppliers, enabling them to ship high-quality MHPSS interventions and assist to weak youngsters in Tajikistan. 

DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

• Contribute to the strategic planning of the MHPSS program on the nationwide degree, guaranteeing alignment with the general aims of Tajikistan’s social safety and well being techniques, in addition to core UNICEF ideas and the pursuits of different stakeholders. This entails setting targets and creating actions that promote complete MHPSS protection and integration inside current techniques.
• Present specialised technical experience in MHPSS, drawing on evidence-based, greatest worldwide practices, and modern approaches to make sure the safety and well-being of essentially the most weak populations, together with moms and youngsters. This contains adapting international information and experience to the native context and cultural norms for efficient implementation.
• Contribute to the event of insurance policies, manuals, and operational pointers associated to MHPSS and advocate for the formulation of strategic papers that conform to worldwide requirements whereas addressing the precise wants and challenges confronted in Tajikistan. This includes collaborating with related stakeholders to make sure complete and contextually related coverage frameworks.
• Facilitate capacity-building initiatives for the established useful resource group. This contains organizing coaching packages, workshops, and knowledge-sharing periods to boost the information, expertise, and competencies on MHPSS supply and allow coordinated efforts.
• Set up sturdy mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating the affect of the MHPSS program. This entails creating indicators, measurement instruments, and reporting frameworks to make sure accountability, measure outcomes, and repeatedly enhance program effectiveness.
• Advocate for psychological well being and psychosocial assist on the nationwide degree, elevating consciousness concerning the significance of psychological well being, decreasing stigma, and selling neighborhood understanding. This includes participating with policymakers, media, and the general public to foster higher recognition and prioritization of psychological well being and psychosocial well-being.
• Facilitate coordination amongst varied stakeholders concerned in MHPSS, together with authorities companies, non-governmental organizations, and community-based organizations. This entails fostering collaboration, data sharing, and joint planning to maximise the affect of MHPSS interventions and keep away from duplication of efforts.
• Foster neighborhood engagement and participation, significantly involving dad and mom and caregivers, within the design and implementation of MHPSS packages. This ensures that packages are culturally delicate, inclusive, and tackle the distinctive wants of communities. By involving key stakeholders, packages could be higher tailor-made to fulfill the wants of various inhabitants teams and promote neighborhood possession.

Duties/Milestone/Deliverables/Outputs/Anticipated Timeline/
Del.1
• Attend common (a minimum of month-to-month) conferences with the worldwide MHPSS marketing consultant.
• Help worldwide marketing consultant in creating coaching bundle/ programme for professionals working with repatriated youngsters in Tajikistan based mostly on UNICEF Pointers on Neighborhood-Based mostly Psychological Well being and Psychosocial Help in Humanitarian Settings.
• Help worldwide marketing consultant in growth of a coaching bundle/programme for para-professionals and little one safety social staff on fundamentals on psychological well being and psychosocial assist for kids and their caregivers repatriated from battle zones.
• Help worldwide marketing consultant within the growth of a complete guide and academic course to work with youngsters and caregivers on MHPSS, guaranteeing cultural appropriateness and relevance to the context. Month-to-month conferences with worldwide marketing consultant performed, 10 full w/ds,March – Dec.2024
Del.2
• Improvement of the Useful resource Group’s (RG), Phrases of Reference (ToR), and guarantee strategic alignment of actions and work plans;Phrases of References for the Useful resource Group developed and authorized; 5 full w/ds, March – Could 2024
Del.3
• Conduct month-to-month conferences with the useful resource group.
• Present technical route for the useful resource group on MHPSS exercise coordination in Tajikistan.
• Facilitate the ToT/Coaching on the developed programme. Month-to-month conferences with the useful resource group and coaching (together with ToT) periods performed; 20 full w/ds; March – June 2024
Del.4
• Develop a full curriculum (academic course) for kids and caregivers on psychological well being.
• Develop a Plan for the national-level implementation of the course, contemplating collaboration with related stakeholders. Instructional Course and Plan for course roll-out growth; 25 w/ds, March – Dec 2024

Supervisor: Little one Safety Officer, UNICEF Tajikistan

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have… 

Training:

• College diploma scientific psychology, social psychology, public well being, social welfare, human rights, social analysis, or associated area.

Working expertise:

• At the very least 5 years {of professional} work in MHPSS, psychology, scientific psychology, social psychology and many others.

• Demonstrated information and technical capability in conducting analysis associated to psychological well being and psychosocial assist.

Experience:

Confirmed monitor file in creating and facilitating workshops and trainings. In depth expertise conducting analysis and evaluation within the area of psychological well being, significantly centered on girls and youngsters.

Expertise:

Robust coordination expertise, analytical and conceptual pondering. Potential to work with massive groups and information coverage discussions. Wonderful writing, communication, and presentation expertise with stakeholders. Potential to work beneath stress and dedication to work in a decent timeframe.

Fluency in Russian, Tajik and English is required.

candidates shall submit the next paperwork:
1. Profile (CV)
2. Technical proposal describing strategy/methodology to realize the duties of ToR, workplan with concrete timeframes
3. Monetary proposal in TJS indicating payment per day and value of the journey Annex 3.docx

4. Purposes with out technical and monetary proposals won’t be thought of. 

Purposes have to be obtained within the system by 1 March 2024 on UNICEF web site.

For each Little one, you display… 

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Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 

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