Stress Counselor

Organizational Context

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with 192 member National Societies. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, our work is guided by seven fundamental principles; humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.

Find out more on: www.ifrc.org

The International Federation-Country Cluster Support Team (CCST) for Indonesia and Timor Leste is looking for qualified candidate to fill the following position:

STRESS COUNSELOR- NATIONAL CONSULTANT

Date of issue : 23 – 12 – 2020

Closing date : 15 – 01 – 2021

Duty station : JAKARTA

Country : INDONESIA

Contract Duration : 12 months

Category of Staff : Consultant

A. Job Purpose

Provide individual, group and critical incident counseling sessions to the staff when needed. Plan and facilitate preventative stress management training to IFRC staff in the country and circulate useful reading resources related to stress periodically.

B. Roles and responsibilities

1. Provides individual support upon request to IFRC staff while maintaining full confidentiality (maintain anonymity of staff names).

2. Monitors the determinants of stress in the Federation Office, as well as stress levels among the Federation staff. Provides this information (without any reference to individuals, thus protecting anonymity) to IFRC CCST management.

3. Plan, organize and lead one-hour brown bag talks at the Federation office with wellbeing topics once every two months.

4. Maintain a regular contact with Stress Counsellor in the Asia Pacific Region office.

5. Abides by the IFRC code of conduct in their dealings with all staff.

6. Appointments with the Stress Counsellor are strictly personal and confidential. The Stress Counsellor is not required to divulge information about appointments and their contents, not the names of staff that have accessed the service.

C. Reporting Line:

The stress counsellor reports to the IFRC Human Resources Manager on any relevant issues during her/his professional work.

The stress counsellor will be hired for an initial 12 months on a consultancy contract (for individual) or service contract (for company) which can be renewed thereafter.

D. Required Qualifications:

• Advanced completed university degree in psychology, psychiatry or other relevant related mental health professions (required);
• Trained as psychologists, psychiatrist or psychotherapists (required)
• Experience of counselling (required)
• Trained in psycho- traumatology or critical incident debriefing (preferred)
• Completed a First Aid course (preferred)
• Experience and knowledge of international humanitarian organisations in emergency operations (preferred)

Skills:

• Cultural sensitivity
• Skills in training and developing staff (preferred)

Competencies:

• Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, and in English is preferred
• Demonstrable high level of professional and personal integrity
• Promotes and values team diversity
• Communicates clearly and effectively