Danish Refugee Council Psychosocial Support Project Assistant Job in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organization that promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world. 

DRC has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of African region since 1997. 

The DRC Kenya program is seeking qualified candidates for the following position:

Project Assistant - Psychosocial Support

Kakuma Refugee Camp
 

The Psychosocial Support Assistant will provide Support to the Project officer in conducting counselling with adolescents and youth through both individual and group sessions. 

Use adolescent and youth friendly interventions and/or approaches in sessions to assist them process their emotional conflicts. 

Prepare affected adolescents and youth for other forms of interventions through the referral pathway and follow up on the same

Data collection using agreed upon monitoring and evaluation tools-under the guidance of the Project Officer

Provide direct supervision and day to day management of refugee incentive workers in the Adolescents and Youth Protection Project.

Requirements: 

• Diploma level education in Counselling Psychology, Social Work and/or, Community Development, with a minimum of 1 year experience working in communities, 
• Experience in designing and facilitating training session, 
• Good communication skills with fluency in written and spoken English/Kiswahili. 
• Positive attitude towards community work with emphasis on the ability to learn from communities and 
• support innovative approaches to problem solving.

Submission of Application:
 

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their applications. 

Each application should include a 1 page cover letter clearly stating their motivation and qualifications and a CV. 

Application should include contact of three professional referees. 

One referee must be the applicant’s most recent manager. 

Applications should be sent to drcjobs@drckenya.org and have the subject heading of the position that is being applied for.

Deadline for receiving applications is Friday, 5th September 2014

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.