Mental Health Strategist

6 giorni fa


Roma, Lazio, Italia FAO A tempo pieno
Job Title: Mental Health Strategist

**Job Summary:**

We are seeking a highly skilled Mental Health Strategist to join our team at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive mental health strategy to promote the psychological wellbeing of FAO employees and their dependents.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement a mental health strategy to achieve full coverage of FAO employees and dependents with needed mental health and wellbeing services.
  • Coordinate the design, development, delivery, and evaluation of staff counselling services.
  • Lead a team of counsellors and coordinate all aspects of delivery of psychosocial support to headquarters and decentralized offices.
  • Support and advise regional counsellors in complex cases or critical incidents as needed.
  • Oversee the counselling unit activities, managing the performance of counsellors under supervision.
  • Provide culturally sensitive psychological support to all FAO employees, either in person or via teleconference, and referrals to outside mental health care services as appropriate.
  • Develop a proactive and reactive support programme for FAO Level 3 emergency countries and crisis areas and provide active psychosocial support during emergencies and/or after critical incidents to ensure continued staff wellbeing.
  • Deliver workshops, trainings, and information sessions on a wide range of topics to employees from diverse cultural backgrounds.
  • Design, review, and implement a Peer Support programme for decentralized offices and contribute to the design of corporate policies and guidelines.
  • Advise managers, the Human Resources Division, the Security Services, and other institutional partners on assisting employees with stress health issues that may affect work functioning and performance.
  • Based on identification of risks in the workplace, provide preventative, educational, and information programmes and group presentations on topics including psychosocial health problems, workplace wellbeing, crisis preparedness and response, and other health promotion topics.
  • Contribute to the development of policies and procedural guidelines to improve the psychosocial welfare of staff and managers being deployed to hardship duty stations.
  • Prepare comprehensive reports, plans missions within the allowed budget, and organizes trainings and other staff counselling activities to ensure the provision of cohesive counselling services.
  • Maintain up-to-date, accurate records of client contacts in the Health Services' system.
  • Participate in inter-agency activities, working groups, or conferences of the UN counselling network, as necessary.

Requirements:

  • Advanced university degree in psychology, psychiatry, or counselling or equivalent with a license/registration to practice in home country.
  • Five years of relevant experience in the field of psychology and staff counselling.
  • Working knowledge (proficient - level C) of English and limited knowledge (intermediate - level B) of another FAO official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish).
  • Competencies: Results Focus, Teamwork, Communication, Building Effective Relationships, Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement.

Additional Information:

FAO staff are expected to adhere to FAO Values of Commitment to FAO, Respect for All, and Integrity and Transparency.


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