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Mission and objectives
The United Nations Office at Nairobi, the UN headquarters in Africa, was established by the General Assembly in 1996. The office is headed by a Director-General, at the Under-Secretary-General level, serves as the representative office of the Secretary-General in Nairobi and performs representation and liaison functions with permanent missions, the host-country and other Governments, and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in Nairobi, as well as other organizations of the United Nations system in Kenya.
Context
The United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) is the UN headquarters in Africa and the representative office of the Secretary-General. We support programme implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT) globally, as well as other UN offices in Kenya, by Providing administrative, conference and information services (www.unon.org).
This position is located at United Nations Office at Nairobi Joint Medical Services, which is part of the Division of administrative services, Human resource management service (DAS, HRMS), providing services under the common service framework to staff of agencies located in Kenya and in other countries that host outposted offices.
This position is located at United Nations Office at Nairobi Joint Medical Services, which is part of the Division of administrative services, Human resource management service (DAS, HRMS), providing services under the common service framework to staff of agencies located in Kenya and in other countries that host outposted offices.
Task description
Under the direct supervision of Associate Staff Counsellor, UNON JMS, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
• Provide virtual or in-person psychological counseling support to staff members and dependents on appointment or on a walk-in basis.
• Offer psychosocial support to hospitalized staff members or their dependents including making hospital visits where this I deemed necessary.
• Provide mental health counseling and support including making relevant referrals for external expertise intervention when necessary.
• Provide multicultural counseling and including but not limited to, adaptation and adjustment processes. Conduct virtual or in-person psychosocial needs assessments of psychologically affected staff members in various offices on site or outposted and report on the same.
• provide psychoeducation to staff members in virtual or in-person group sessions Provide Psychological First Aid (PFA) to clients faces with acute psychological incidents and provide bereavement and grief supportive counseling when required.
• Provide support and leadership in employee assistance programs where indicated in conjunction with respective supervisors and HR focal points where performance issues are observed and reported including where issues of alcohol and substance use/misuse interventions are needed.
• Provide Mission preparedness and post-missions psychosocial debrief and counseling support. Offer pre-retirement preparedness support and counseling to staff members.
• Prepare Psychosocial information and training materials as guided by UN staff counselor and provide awareness training on emerging mental health issues of both national and international concern to United Nations Organization Support the JMS team of doctors and nurses in managing workplace crises, and other medical consultations as deemed necessary.
• Support the UN Plus Coordinator in providing HIV /AIDS counseling and other supportive services. Participate in JMS in-house training and offer technical contributions on mental health related discussion.
• Prepare materials to respond to post-Pandemic recovery processes and provide psychosocial risk mitigation.
Results/Expected Outputs
• Successful support to staff in managing mental health related issues and delivery of knowledge on ways to build resilience to cope with the ever-changing dynamics of the workplace.
• Successful implementation of the various aspects of the UN Mental Health Strategy within the duty station.
• The development of capacity through coaching, mentoring and formal on-the-job training, when working with the diverse groups of staff at the duty station and beyond. Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed
• Provide virtual or in-person psychological counseling support to staff members and dependents on appointment or on a walk-in basis.
• Offer psychosocial support to hospitalized staff members or their dependents including making hospital visits where this I deemed necessary.
• Provide mental health counseling and support including making relevant referrals for external expertise intervention when necessary.
• Provide multicultural counseling and including but not limited to, adaptation and adjustment processes. Conduct virtual or in-person psychosocial needs assessments of psychologically affected staff members in various offices on site or outposted and report on the same.
• provide psychoeducation to staff members in virtual or in-person group sessions Provide Psychological First Aid (PFA) to clients faces with acute psychological incidents and provide bereavement and grief supportive counseling when required.
• Provide support and leadership in employee assistance programs where indicated in conjunction with respective supervisors and HR focal points where performance issues are observed and reported including where issues of alcohol and substance use/misuse interventions are needed.
• Provide Mission preparedness and post-missions psychosocial debrief and counseling support. Offer pre-retirement preparedness support and counseling to staff members.
• Prepare Psychosocial information and training materials as guided by UN staff counselor and provide awareness training on emerging mental health issues of both national and international concern to United Nations Organization Support the JMS team of doctors and nurses in managing workplace crises, and other medical consultations as deemed necessary.
• Support the UN Plus Coordinator in providing HIV /AIDS counseling and other supportive services. Participate in JMS in-house training and offer technical contributions on mental health related discussion.
• Prepare materials to respond to post-Pandemic recovery processes and provide psychosocial risk mitigation.
Results/Expected Outputs
• Successful support to staff in managing mental health related issues and delivery of knowledge on ways to build resilience to cope with the ever-changing dynamics of the workplace.
• Successful implementation of the various aspects of the UN Mental Health Strategy within the duty station.
• The development of capacity through coaching, mentoring and formal on-the-job training, when working with the diverse groups of staff at the duty station and beyond. Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed
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