Psychologist - Alex

TITLE: Psychologist TEAM/PROGRAMME: Refugees and Migrants Programme LOCATION: Alexandria GRADE: 5

POST TYPE: Fixed term.

CONTRACT LENGTH: until Dec, 2026

Child Safeguarding

Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e. g. once a week or more) or intensively (e. g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Organisation Profile

Save the Children International is the world’s leading independent organization for children. We work in 120 countries and work, together with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

In Egypt, Save the Children International has been working to ensure that children’s rights are respected, protected and promoted since 1982. We carry out both long-term development work and, more recently emergency humanitarian work.

Project Summary

The project will continue to focus on meeting the mental health and psychological needs of the target group in Alexandria and the North Coast (aged 7-17) through services delivered. These services will be integrated into the case management cycle and include interventions such as healing and education through the arts (HEART) sessions and youth resilience and life skills programs.

SC will also offer individual counselling services, at Level Three (non-specialized support) of the IASC Guidelines Intervention Pyramid.

Role Purpose

Under the supervision of the Child Protection Officer, the psychologist will be responsible for providing individual/group sessions for Unaccompanied, Accompanied and Separated children in need of Psychosocial support identified through the project activities and referrals. S/he will also be responsible for organizing group support and awareness sessions to the chilfren and their families at risk and refer those with acute psychological needs to specialized services.

Scope of Role

Reports Solid Line to: Child Protection Officer

Dotted line to: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Technical Advisor.

Staff directly reporting to this post: None.

Key Areas of Accountability

Project Implementation

Psychological Support Services

In close collaboration with the MHPSS TA, the psychologist will:

• Contribute to the design of intake forms, session plans, and follow-up forms for children and their families when relevant.

• Collaborate with the MEAL team to administer the psychometric assessments upon need and deliver reports accordingly.

• Develop psychological intervention plans for identified cases and follow up on them regularly.

• Conduct one to one and group counselling sessions with children and families referred from the project other activities and from other projects by coordination with Case management.

• Identify, assess, refer severe cases to appropriate psychological/psychiatric service providers

• Prepare and submit individual case reports for all cases on their caseload and document case progress.

• Attend one to one and group supervision meetings (Face to face and online) with the MHPSS TA to ensure quality of MHPSS intervtions.

• Ensure that all psychological interventions offered are informed by current scientific evidence.

• Adhere to the highest standards of practice.

Other Project Activities

• Facilitate and co-facilitate a rolling program of recreational and psychosocial support (PSS) programs.

• Assist the PSS/project team in material development, training deliveries on topics regarding needs identified.

• Collaborate with the MEAL team to administer remote follow up (By phone or online) and surveys to verify the quality of MHPSS activities.

• Ensure accurate monitoring & evaluation and indicator tracking plans for the MHPSS component, in colloberation with line manager, with support of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team.

• Work closely with the MEAL officer to ensure appropriate accountability and feedback mechanisms are established within the project.

• Ensure that MHPSS activities are implemented in a full respect to the child safeguarding polices of SC.

• Support in staff well-being activities that doesn’t affect the professional relationship and confidentiality of staff (For Example: peer to peer support groups, work related stress awareness raising and stress management training).

• Responsible for all the Relevant and logistics work related to MHPSS operations within the project.

Reporting and Documentation

• Draft concise, useful and analytical reports, case studies, and other documents as needed on a monthly and quarterly basis and as requested by SC, donors and other stakeholders.

• Regular reporting to project officer with projects updates.
• Organize and maintain filling system of the sessions

Other Responsibilities

• Work closely with the project officer to develop and implement the project work plan and activities.

• To work closely with the MHPSS technical advisor and other MHPSS team on the contextualization of MHPSSPSS materials to different refugee languages and cultures.

• Organize and maintain project files; maintain electronic and paper records;

In Case of Emergency

• Promote children's rights, contributing to their well-being and protection in times of emergencies, guided by humanitarian principles and code of conduct.

• During emergencies, he/she should act in a way that facilitates SCI’s response to emergencies, giving priority to all assigned.

• Be prepared to support SCI interventions in response to emergencies and show needed flexibility.

General

• Demonstrate leadership in relation to Save the Children policies and practice with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to safeguarding policy, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (Our Values in Practice)

Accountability

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.

• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same.

• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.

• Future orientated, thinks strategically.

Collaboration

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters.

• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency.

Qualifications and Experience

• A university degree in psychology.
• 2-3 years of experience in family and/or child individual and group counselling, experience in working with migrants and refugees is an asset.

• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including team-leading and influencing.

• Extensive experience in delivering trainings.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in Arabic and English are required.

• Comfortable with high levels of ambiguity and able to take decisions independently in a fluid context.

• Experience with refugee/marginalized communities desired.
• Commitment to Save the Children values and Child Safeguarding.

Additional Job Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding Our Staff

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.