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New Job Opportunity United Nations (UN) IRMCT Arusha, Individual Consultant – Stress Counselor
 

New Job Opportunity United Nations (UN) IRMCT Arusha, Individual Consultant – Stress Counselor

IRMCT

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Individual Consultant – Stress Counselor

DATE OF ISSUANCE : 08 June 2022

OFFICE : Human Resources Section

LOCATION : Arusha

About The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT )

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, also referred to as the IRMCT or the Mechanism, is an international court established by the United Nations Security Council in 2010 to perform the remaining functions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) following the completion of those tribunals' respective mandates. 

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JOB OPENING NUMBER : 2022/IRMCT/HRS/029-IC

Organizational setting and Reporting:

• The Individual Contractor will be working remotely for the Human Resources Section of the International Residual

• Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), Arusha Branch. The incumbent will work under the general supervision of OIC, Human Resources Section.

• Only candidates under consideration will be contacted for an interview. The selected candidate will be offered a contract as an Individual Contractor.

Terms of Reference for Consultant:

A) Objectives and Targets

The overall objective of the job would be to increase the resilience of UN Staff so that they are more efficient in their work and life, thus promoting a most favourable working environment.

Specific goals:

•    Preventing intensity, frequency, duration of stressors within the organization and at individual level for general staff and for the management.
•     Mitigating psychological vulnerability and improving stress monitoring and coping mechanisms by identifying and evaluating the main factors contributing to its development, conducting trainings based on the Psychosocial Needs Assessment Survey such as stress management, resilience, and other stress-related topics.
•     Intervening to prevent long-term effects by providing counselling and refer to external mental health professionals when UN personnel needs additional support.
•     Referral to external mental health professionals (psychologist/psychiatrist) when middle and longterm mental health support is needed. 

Tangible outputs of the work assignment

Prevention/Mitigation:

•     Conduct psychosocial needs assessment (PNA).
•     Conduct trainings based on the findings of the PNA and referral when needed.
•     Provide training and information sessions on a wide range of stress-related issues, such as “stress management”, “resilience” “preventing burnout” or any other as needed,
•     Provide adequate primary and secondary Counselling Services.
•     Perform individual assessments in the case of individual staff members experiencing difficulty coping and/or presenting mental health-related symptoms or syndromes. Managerial Consultations:
•     Advise Chiefs of Section upon request, with the aim at improving the working atmosphere in their Section and resolving problems of a work-related or personal nature that adversely affect job performance and productivity. Response: 

United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

• Provide psychosocial support after a critical incident and refer to external mental health professionals whenever and wherever there is a need for it.

• Monitor environmental factors that could lead to stress, with particular focus on stress related to critical incidents including emergency and crisis situations, with respect to civilian staff members of the mission. 

Recovery:

•     Follow-up of any psychosocial support provided
•     Lessons learnt and best practices.
•     Provide monthly reports of activities. 

C) Delivery

The Stress Counsellor will work remotely, 2 days per week, covering the needs coming from different selected locations.

Should the stress counsellor need to travel to any of the Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) locations, all the travel expenses will be covered by the agency.

D) Performance indicators

OIC Human Resources will evaluate work product on the basis of submission of monthly reports.

E) Fee for Service

    Two working days per week payable on a monthly basis with a daily fee of 350 USD. 

Qualifications/ Special skills:

•     Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Psychology is required.
•     Experience: Minimum of 5 years of responsible experience in clinical psychology.
•     Language: English and French are the working languages of the Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT). For this position, fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of French is an asset. 

How to Apply

Qualified candidates who are able to work on short notice remotely are invited to submit their application and their UN Personal History Form (PHP), to recruitmentR@un.org in-box quoting the Reference No. 2022/IRMCT/HRS/029-IC in the subject line.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS : 14th June, 2022.

APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN MIDNIGHT ON THE DEADLINE DATE APPLICATIONS RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

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