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• Review
  testimonies for refugees with common mental and psychosocial challenges
• Carry
  out psycho-education in refugee communities to promote knowledge on
  identifying, preventing and managing common and severe mental disorders
• Build
  and establish relationships between the clients’ communities with the RLP
  and engage in building and establishing relationships and partnerships
  between, government, non-government agencies and other stakeholders.
• Conduct
  community outreach to create and enrich linkages with communities and
  agencies within refugee communities and work closely with them to develop
  and deliver information and support services in user-friendly language.
• Participate
  in, lead, and/or coordinate training sessions and workshops to enhance
  psychosocial skills of staff and/or client groups and/or other
  stakeholders (e.g. Police, UPDF, Prisons, Immigration etc.)
• Consult
  with other therapists and related professional and paraprofessional staff,
  as appropriate, in the performance of therapeutic and/or casework; refer
  clients to appropriate service agencies as required.
• Provide
  counselling and psychosocial support to clients, including ensuring that
  those whose needs do not necessarily fall within the RLP mandate are
  nonetheless given appropriate guidance and referral.
• Prepare
  timely intervention reports, including maintaining and updating the data
  base of all managed clients Ensure that counselling sessions with
  organization counsellors are conducted well and devise means of handling
  clients so as to avoid relapse after treatment.
• Oversee
  conduct of home visits held for counselling and home based support to
  refugees with common psychological and psychosocial challenges
• Ensure
  that refugees with common psychological and psychosocial issues are
  accompanied to hospitals and other places of referral
• Oversee
  the development and mentoring of client support groups

• Provide
  leadership and ensure efficient and effective management of staff and
  resources in the Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing Programme
• Provide
  continuous leadership, supervision, training and development of programme
  staff ensuring an effective and motivated team
• Represent
  the MHPWP on the RLP Management Team

• Identify
  issues for advocacy and play a leadership role in policy advocacy
• Write
  research report and proposals on psychosocial challenges faced by refugee
  in refugee settlement
• Coordinate
  and promote awareness of the psychological and psychosocial issues and
  services available to a diverse range of clients.
• Support
  the programme staff in conceptualizing research themes and appropriate
  methodologies
• Provide
  lead researcher support to research teams and individuals
• Mentor
  junior staff in research and policy advocacy
• Represent
  RLP and the MHPWP in external functions including presentations of RLP
  work

• Lead
  the programme staff in preparation of quarterly work plans (Programme and
  Individual)
• Consolidate
  individual reports into monthly and quarterly reports for the programme
• Ensure
  appropriate workload for programme staff
• Work
  closely with the Monitoring Team to ensure that periodic programme reviews
  are executed
• Ensure
  that programme staff account for funds advanced to them for activities.
• Work
  closely with the HR unit in conducting performance appraisals and ensure
  competency and training gaps are addressed.
• Identify
  funding opportunities and develop proposals in collaboration with the
  Grants Unit and Fund-raising Team
• Represent
  the RLP in partner meetings and Fora
• Review
  all Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing related presentations to be
  made by staff representing the organisation.

• The
  ideal candidate for the Refugee Law Project (RLP) Programme Manager –
  Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing job opportunity must hold a Master’s
  Degree in Psychology, counselling or any human services related discipline
• A minimum of five years’ experience working
  with vulnerable groups with psychological and psychosocial challenges
• Membership of Uganda Counselling Association or
  any other related body
• Previous experience in administering donor funded projects
• Demonstrated people management experience
  (especially in managing teams)
• Solidly reliable with strong attention to
  timeliness
• Excellent verbal and written communication
  skills
• Keen attention to detail and be truly organized
• Strong sense of personal initiative and able to
  work independently in a fast-paced office.
• Keen interest in international, refugee, social
  justice and humanitarian issues
• Knowledge of project management and work with a
  not-for-profit and NGO
• Able and willing to travel and work in remote
  areas in challenging circumstance
• Self-motivated, versatile and adaptable to
  different cultures and people
• Knowledge of one or more languages spoken in forced migrant communities (e.g. Swahili,
  French, Lingala, Somali, Juba Arabic, Kirundi etc.)

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