JOB ANNOUNCEMENT:

Position: Psychologist

Duty Station: Kigali

Job type: Full time

Contract Duration. One year

BackGround.

Prison Fellowship Rwanda (PFR) is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with the government of Rwanda and its relevant agencies, local and international organisations as well as UN agencies to foster interventions that support psycho-social healing, peace building and reconciliation, restorative justice, crime prevention, human rights promotion and legal aid, intervening in emergencies as well as nurturing socio-economic empowerment in Rwanda in the wake of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi and its aftermath. Prison Fellowship Rwanda was founded on 01/07/1995, affiliated to the Prison Fellowship International in 1997.

Rwanda has identified mental health and trauma healing as areas of priority. A 2018 Mental Health Survey revealed a high prevalence of mental health disorders, particularly among survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. In addition, the country’s National Unity and Reconciliation Policy recognises “serious levels of trauma” as a major effect of the genocide that still weighs heavily on society today. It identifies the healing of psychological wounds as a guiding principle on which unity and reconciliation are established. High levels of trauma, anxiety and depression make it more difficult for people to trust and forgive each other. Trauma affects the ability to open up, receive and trust others, and it is a major cause of inter-community suspicions, especially between groups of genocide survivors and former genocide prisoners. This has limited people’s ability to cooperate in shared, mutually beneficial economic activities. Based on that observation, Rwanda’s 4th Health Sector Strategic Plan emphasises the need for holistic innovative programmes that simultaneously promote mental health service provision, advance social cohesion and support sustainable livelihood.

This has limited people’s ability to cooperate in shared, mutually beneficial economic activities. Based on that observations, Rwanda’s 4^th Health sector Strategic plan emphasizes the need for holistic innovation programs that simultaneously promote Mental Health service provision, advance social cohesion and support sustainable loverhoods. In order to respond to the above-mentioned issues, since October 2020, Interpeace in partnership with the Local Partners that includes Prison Fellowship Rwanda with the fund from Swedish international development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) is implementing a program entitled “Reinforcing community capacity for social cohesion and reconciliation through Societal Trauma Healing “in Rwanda. It is an initiative that offers a holistic approach to simultaneously address mental health issues, promote social cohesion, and collaborative livelihood.The program is being implemented in six districts,Bugesera,Ngoma,Nyagatare,Musanze,Nyabihu and Nyamagabe.

Currently Prison Fellowship Rwanda is looking for a qualified and highly motivated candidate of high moral character and professional integrity to fulfill the position of psychologist to design and deliver training, professional counselling and supervision sessions on a variety of issues and topics connected to mental health and Psychosocial support for programme participants.

Key Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Project Coordinator the psychologist, will undertake the following specific tasks:

• Assess, diagnose, and provide appropriate therapy to programme participants with the highest professional standards of care and refer cases to different health facilities for further treatment;
• Ensure that the group sessions are taking place in line with the training manual of operations;
• Monitor group sessions on a regular basis;
• Be responsible for the recruitment of community facilitators;
• Coordinate the recruitment of the programme participants;
• Monitor the personal and professional stability of the facilitators and ensure regular trainings and psychological supervision;
• Ensure that narrative field reports are timely provided as required by organization policies and are of high standards;
• Review the reports of facilitators and give observations aiming at the improvement of the quality of implementation;
• Work closely with the researchers and M&E to monitor and evaluate the impact of the programme;
• Conduct any other task requested by line managers in relation to a success of the programme.

Essential qualifications and Skills

• A Bachelor degree in a relevant field (Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Public Health, or Conflict/Peace Studies or another related field);
• At least 5 years of experience of working in the field with direct engagement with community members in need of psychosocial therapeutic support.
• Experience with project implementation, preferably in the field of psychosocial interventions, reconciliation and social cohesion
• Demonstrated experience in community mobilization and attitude for fieldwork at grass-roots level;
• Broad knowledge of care work issues, rural development issues, gendered power relations, and household economics;
• Ability to listen, to collaborate flexible and a strong problem solver;
• Fluent in Kinyarwanda and English, both verbal and written;
• Demonstrated experience in team management and planning;
• Experience in working closely with governmental/local authorities, national or international NGO’s;
• Good ability to write clear and well-argued reports on programme outcomes and impact;

To apply, please send the following:

Degree and National ID;

CV (maximum 3 pages);

Recommendation letter from former employer.

Recommendation letter from any church in Rwanda, signed and stamped.

All documents should be sent in one document in PDF format to [email protected].

Application documents that will not contain the above conditions will not be considered.

The application should be addressed to the Executive Director of Prison Fellowship Rwanda with the subject “Psychologist”.

For more information about Prison Fellowship Rwanda, consult: www.pfrwanda.org Deadline for submission is 26^th/09/2022 at 5:00 pm

Prison Fellowship Rwanda has a zero tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of beneficiaries.  Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct, that enshrines principles of PSEA, at all times (both during work hours and outside work hours).  Familiarization with, and adherence to, the Code of Conduct is an essential requirement of all staff, in addition to related mandatory training. All staff must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause.