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Emergency Staff Counsellor

Slovak Republic

  • Organization: UNV - United Nations Volunteers
  • Location: Slovak Republic
  • Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Human Resources
    • Medical Practitioners
    • Humanitarian Aid and Coordination
    • Emergency Aid and Response
  • Closing Date: Closed

Details

Mission and objectives

The WHO Country Office in Slovakia was established in 1994 in Bratislava to support WHO’s work in the country and provide leadership in advocacy, partnership and representation, policy development and technical cooperation. The Office is the focal point for WHO activities in Slovakia and consists of two staff members. In 2013, Slovakia successfully reduced the tuberculosis rate to 6.4 cases per 100 000 population and is entering the elimination phase.

Context

In the context of the WHO Health Emergencies incident management system, at the country level, the incumbent will provide mental health and psychosocial services through the implementation of contextually and culturally relevant stress management programmes to staff members and consultants in the WHO country offices. The mission of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme (“The Programme”) is to help countries, and to coordinate international action, to prevent, prepare for, detect, rapidly respond to, and recover from outbreaks and emergencies. In the context of the WHO Health Emergencies Incident Management System (IMS), at the country level, the incumbent will provide technical advice for all WHO strategic categories and related public health programmes.

Task description

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Regional Staff Counsellor or his/her designated mandated representative(s), and under the overall guidance of the Incident Manager, the WHO Representative, the UN Volunteer will: • Perform ongoing psychosocial status and needs assessments to identify the major stressors experienced by WHO staff members and consultants during their deployment; • Provide culturally sensitive psychosocial support through individual and group counselling for Staff Members and their immediate family members; • Provide preventative and mitigating stress and crisis management training during the three phases of the mission: pre-deployment, during deployment and post-deployment; • Travel regularly to the field sites of the WCO in order to promote, plan and implement preventative and mitigating stress management activities; • Facilitate teambuilding and cohesion through formal and informal interventions; • Enhance social or peer support networks and assist with training and capacity building activities; • Respond to critical and security incidents by conducting assessment on the impact of the event, developing appropriate interventions, and make recommendations for follow-up or referral purposes; • Advice management on stress mitigating strategies and activities to enhance the welfare of staff members and consultants; • Maintain detailed records of activities and provide comprehensive reports on a monthly basis to the HQ and regional office; • Support the Regional Staff Counsellor and perform any other incident-specific related duties, as required by the functional supervisor; • During deployment, the duty station may change, and duties may be modified, based upon the technical needs of the Programme. Results/expected outputs: • The mission of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme (The Programme) is to help countries, and to coordinate international action, to prevent, prepare for, detect, rapidly respond to, and recover from outbreaks and emergencies; • The development of capacity through coaching, mentoring and formal on-the-job training, when working with (including supervising) national staff or (non-) governmental counterparts, including Implementing Partners (IPs); • 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 development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed.

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