Project Officer - Gender and Safeguarding Kombolcha

Médecins du monde or Doctors of the World, is an international humanitarian organization which provides emergency and long-term medical care to the world's most vulnerable people.

Médecins du Monde (MDM) is operating in Ethiopia since 1986 in different types of health projects.

MDM–France invites qualified candidates to apply for the following position:

Position Title:                               Psychologist (EHF Project-Afar)[ME1] 

Duty station:                                 Afambo/Amibara

Employment Term:                     Until Oct 14, 2027

Reported to:                                 under the direct supervision of the medical supervisor with the technical link with the mission MHPSS Advisor    

Deadline for applying:                 November 3, 2026

Job Summary

The psychologist will be based in Afambo/Amibara, Afar Region. The Psychologist will provide comprehensive MHPSS services, including psychological assessments, counseling, interventions, and follow-up care. The Psychologist will lead and coordinate all community engagement and community-based activities, including outreach, awareness-raising, health education, and psychosocial support. The position will report directly to the medical supervisor while maintaining a technical link with the mission MHPSS Advisor to ensure quality services and alignment with program objectives.

Essential duties and responsibilities.

Under the supervision of the medical supervisor plus a technical link with the MHPSS Advisor, the psychologist has the responsibility to:

• Conduct psychological assessments, individual and group counseling, and follow-up care.
• Lead and coordinate all community-based activities, including community engagement, mobilization, outreach, awareness-raising, and health education.
• Facilitate psychosocial support groups, Psychological First Aid (PFA), and community resilience activities.
• Identify vulnerable individuals and strengthen referral pathways and service linkages.
• Support the development of MHPSS materials and capacity-building activities.
• Ensure confidential case documentation, monitoring, and timely reporting.
• Participate in MHPSS coordination meetings and perform other assigned duties.

Role and responsibilities

The purpose of the Protection from Violence Coordinator position is to implement delegated components of the Protection from Violence project portfolio.

The following is a brief description of the role.

 Generic responsibilities

• Line management of Protection from Violence project field staff.
• Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures and awareness of NRC global and regional strategies.
• Contribute to Protection from Violence and ICLA CC strategy development, project proposals and provide input on needs and gaps, considering where appropriate the role of cash-based interventions and market-based programmes.
• Manage and implement delegated portfolio of Protection from Violence and ICLA projects (activities, budget and project documentation) as delegated from PM in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements, and ensure high technical quality.
• Provide regular progress reports to PM (AM and CCS if no PM).
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection, explore and asses new and better ways to assist.
• Promote and share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in the activities.
• Ensure capacity building of project staff and transfer key skills.
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Promote the rights of Refugees, IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.

 Specific responsibilities

• Responsible for all implementation of Protection from Violence and ICLA  programming in (North-western, Eastern and Southern and other locations) Area Office, with a particular focus on identifying trends and needs which highlight the need for protection monitoring and analysis activities, and advocacy at the local level.
• Ensure timely and technically sound planning, implementation and follow up of civilian self-protection activities/projects, including budgets and procurements, in the assigned area.
• Maintain oversight and management of civilian self-protection services in the assigned area, ensuring minimum programme standards (including Safe and Inclusive Programming) are met.
• Prepare and maintain up to date work plans and expenditure plans, in line with projects and budgets documents.
• Prepare and submit regular qualitative and analytical reports within the given timeframes.
• Under the supervision of the Programme Manager or Protection from Violence Manager and ICLA specialist, recruit, provide supervision and coaching on the job training of the protection project staff, and undertake appraisals when appropriate.
• Organize regular field/onsite visits to ensure technical support to the staff and proper monitoring of the activities’ implementation.
• Contribute to the development of proposals and concepts note to secure follow-up on or expansion funding for the protection programme as per identified needs.
• Contribute to refine data collection, monitoring and reporting tools.
• Prepare regular and timely updates for supervisors and relevant colleagues on key developments which can have an impact on protection environment.
• Ensure that local safety rules and safety SOPs are adhered to by the program team and contribute contextual knowledge on safety matters as required by the Area Manager and Safety Advisor.