Senior Specialist, Cluster MHPSS

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MHPSS Senior Specialist ensuring high-quality delivery of Evidence-Based Methods for War Child in Lebanon and other specified countries. Overseeing thematic support, guiding partners, and facilitating learning cycles.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintain cluster-level oversight of thematic quality assurance for EBM integration, implementation and scaling by partners, ensuring high-quality delivery of EBMs.
  • Coordinate thematic support provided by Specialists within a cluster, ensuring prioritization, and advising on resource allocation.
  • Ensure operationalization of thematic and EBM guidance and standards, to guarantee contextual relevance to tailored support to countries and partners.
  • Lead and/or facilitate adaptive learning cycles for EBMs at cluster level, ensuring learning agendas are developed and executed, lessons learned are documented and findings inform practice and strategic direction.
  • Strengthen organisational and partner capacity in MHPSS EBMs, through training, mentoring and scalable learning approaches.
  • Represent and build up the profile and reputation of War Child's EBM Care System Portfolio and thematic expertise externally in the appropriate fora, strengthening sector engagement, inter agency collaboration and organisational credibility, and contributing to shaping policy and sector discourse.
  • Contribute to the learning agenda for EBMs within your portfolio including gather and sharing learnings on partner experiences and feedback.

Requirements:

  • Relevant academic background or a closely related field.
  • Relevant experience in the thematic area, including in humanitarian or post‑conflict contexts.
  • Experience working with partners on co‑creation and delivery of programmes.
  • Demonstrated experience in programme design, needs assessment, learning cycles and quality assurance.
  • Experience developing methods, tools, guidelines, training and learning materials.
  • Experience facilitating trainings, workshops and virtual learning.
  • Programme or grant management experience is an asset.
  • Fluency in English is required for this role.
  • Additional languages may be useful depending on stakeholder groups and organisational context, for example Arabic, Dari, French, Spanish, or Ukrainian.

Benefits:

  • Eligibility: This vacancy is open to internal candidates only.
  • Location: We operate in a global context, with team members based across multiple countries. War Child currently works in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine (registration in progress), and Yemen. We also have offices in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
  • Preference is given to candidates who reside in one of these locations and hold valid work authorisation. War Child does not provide relocation support.
  • Type of contract: This is a locally contracted position.