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Date Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Job Description
This has limited people’s ability to cooperate in shared, mutually beneficial economic activities. Based on that observations, Rwanda’s 4th Health sector Strategic plan emphasizes the need for holistic innovation programs that simultaneously promote Mental Health service provision, advance social cohesion and support sustainable loverhoods. In order to respond to the above-mentioned issues, since October 2020, Interpeace in partnership with the Local Partners that includes Prison Fellowship Rwanda with the fund from Swedish international development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) is implementing a program entitled “Reinforcing community capacity for social cohesion and reconciliation through Societal Trauma Healing “in Rwanda. It is an initiative that offers a holistic approach to simultaneously address mental health issues, promote social cohesion, and collaborative livelihood.The program is being implemented in six districts,Bugesera,Ngoma,Nyagatare,Musanze,Nyabihu and Nyamagabe.
Currently Prison Fellowship Rwanda is looking for a qualified and highly motivated candidate of high moral character and professional integrity to fulfill the position of psychologist to design and deliver training, professional counselling and supervision sessions on a variety of issues and topics connected to mental health and Psychosocial support for programme participants.

Key Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Project Coordinator the psychologist, will undertake the following specific tasks:
• Assess, diagnose, and provide appropriate therapy to programme participants with the highest professional standards of care and refer cases to different health facilities for further treatment;
• Ensure that the group sessions are taking place in line with the training manual of operations;
• Monitor group sessions on a regular basis;
• Be responsible for the recruitment of community facilitators;
• Coordinate the recruitment of the programme participants;
• Monitor the personal and professional stability of the facilitators and ensure regular trainings and psychological supervision;
• Ensure that narrative field reports are timely provided as required by organization policies and are of high standards;
• Review the reports of facilitators and give observations aiming at the improvement of the quality of implementation;
• Work closely with the researchers and M&E to monitor and evaluate the impact of the programme;
• Conduct any other task requested by line managers in relation to a success of the programme.

Essential qualifications and Skills
• A Bachelor degree in a relevant field (Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Public Health, or Conflict/Peace Studies or another related field);
• At least 5 years of experience of working in the field with direct engagement with community members in need of psychosocial therapeutic support.
• Experience with project implementation, preferably in the field of psychosocial interventions, reconciliation and social cohesion
• Demonstrated experience in community mobilization and attitude for fieldwork at grass-roots level;
• Broad knowledge of care work issues, rural development issues, gendered power relations, and household economics;
• Ability to listen, to collaborate flexible and a strong problem solver;
• Fluent in Kinyarwanda and English, both verbal and written;
• Demonstrated experience in team management and planning;
• Experience in working closely with governmental/local authorities, national or international NGO’s;
• Good ability to write clear and well-argued reports on programme outcomes and impact;


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply, please send the following:
Degree and National ID;
CV (maximum 3 pages);
Recommendation letter from former employer.
Recommendation letter from any church in Rwanda, signed and stamped.
All documents should be sent in one document in PDF format to recruitment.pfrwanda@gmail.com .
Application documents that will not contain the above conditions will not be considered.
The application should be addressed to the Executive Director of Prison Fellowship Rwanda with the subject “Psychologist”.
Deadline 26/09/2022

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