JOB DESCRIPTION: COMMUNITY HEALING ASSISTANTS’ SUPERVISOR

June 2020

Location: Kamonyi District

Deadline: July 5^th, 2020

 About Ubuntu Center for Peace

Ubuntu Center for Peace strives to improve the lives of people living with traumas, through community-based social healing (CBSH) approach, which integrates movement-based embodied meditative practices including Tai-Chi, Qigong, and Yoga with storytelling, collective rituals and purposeful use of metaphors. The CBSH model is implemented by the Community Healing Assistants (CHAs) that we recruit, train, and supervise to facilitate trauma healing in the community.

Position Summary

The Community Healing Assistants’ Supervisor will ensure recruitment, training, and supervision of the CHAs, the formation, and accompaniment of the collective healing groups in their healing journeys. S/he will ensure quality implementation of the community-based social healing model.

Essential Job Role and Responsibilities

• With the support of the local authorities, recruit Community Healing Assistants (CHAS)
• Organize and facilitate the training of the CHAs in the community-based social healing model and group facilitation skills
• Support the CHAs in the recruitment and formation of collective healing groups and provide the CHAs with regular supervision and mentorship to ensure a quality program implementation
• Collect baseline and end-line data of the healing groups participants using the trauma screening instruments and social functioning assessment tools and enter them in the database shared with the TCOM and evidence and advocacy manager
• Collect weekly data and enter them in the dashboard for analysis and program quality improvement
• Be the direct contact person and representative of UCP at the community level
• Keep the Training and Community Outreach Manager, the Management Team and the Executive Director informed at all times on the progress and challenges of the operational strategies;
• Work closely with the researchers and facilitate them in their research activities;
• Ensure that the healing group sessions are taking place in line with the community-based social healing model through regular field visits to healing group sessions, supervising the Community Healing assistants performances
• This position reports to the Training and Community Outreach Manager

Essential skills and qualifications

• Bachelor degree in clinical psychology, counseling psychology, masters degree preferred
• At least 3-year experience in the field of project implementation, preferably in the field of psychosocial interventions;
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in psychosocial support interventions;
• Demonstrated experience in community mobilization and attitude for fieldwork at the grassroots level;
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating adult training, supervision, and mentorship
• Previous experience in a representative position and with networking with local authorities;
• Commitment to the goals and principles of the community-based social healing program and an ability to ensure the mandate underpins our support to participants in the program;
• Mastering Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
• An honest, reliable and very accurate person, who is able to work under pressure;
• Very strong motivation and social skills and excellent communication skills both verbal and in writing;
• Ability to listen, flexible and a strong problem solver;
• Fluent Kinyarwanda, English, and French, both verbal and written

This position is a full-time salaried position; occasional weekends and evenings are necessary.

Ubuntu Center for Peace is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all qualified persons to apply.

Position open until filled by July 5^th, 2020 at 6:00 PM.

Please send a cover letter and résumé in one document, along with contact information for three references to [email protected].

Learn more about Ubuntu Center for Peace at www.ubuntucenterforpeace.org