Seeking a Senior Psychosocial Support Consultant
Position: Senior Psychosocial Support Consultant
Responsible to: Deputy Head & Head of Team CommUNITY
Compensation: $100 per hour
Location: Remote; occasional international travel may be required
The Role
The Senior Psychosocial Support Consultant will be responsible for delivering mental health support, recommendations, and mental wellness advocacy to the digital rights and internet freedom communities who have engaged Team CommUNITY’s service branch. The consultant will be responsible for the facilitation and organizing of short-term mental health services and activities delivered remotely, with potential for some activities happening in-person.
Digital rights and internet freedom communities often comprise frontline digital rights or human rights activists; community organizers and leaders working under great duress and stress. Ensuring that they are able to learn healthy coping mechanisms to handle stress and trauma, as well as work with a trained mental health expert to process in a safe space is of the utmost importance.
This position will be engaged on an as-needed basis, for a minimum of six months. Options to extend will be determined by service branch demands.
Key responsibilities
Work with key TCU staff members to conduct pre-assessments with interested digital rights organizations on appropriate psychosocial interventions.
Conduct 1-1 check-ins to interested community members through TCU’s service delivery branch that are in distress or a crisis state
Prepare coping techniques to help community members find ways to healthily deal with stressful situations or events, through interactive educational workshops that can be delivered remotely.
Conduct on-demand processing circles for interested digital rights organizations to provide opportunities to process experience and emotions collectively as a group, learn adaptive coping mechanisms, and connect with colleagues in a more humane way over stressors folks may be facing.
What we need (required qualifications):
Diploma or College Degree in Psychology, Social Work or Humanitarian sciences
Minimum 10 years of experience in similar position
Expertise and/or experience in mental health and psychosocial support field, with a speciality in trauma-informed care.
You are flexible. We are a distributed team and strive to accommodate meetings/gatherings across multiple time zones.
You have an appreciation for the role that freedom of expression, human rights, or digital rights plays in our daily lives.
Experience working with multilingual and multicultural communities, especially activists, human rights defenders, or frontline communities.
What we would like (preferred qualifications):
Fluency in another language other than English.
Prior experience using secure communication / digital security technologies.
Prior experience in conflict mitigation is highly preferred.
To apply:
Please send your resume / CV and answers to the following three questions to ops@digitalrights.community by June 23, 2023. You don’t have to write long responses, we are only trying to gauge how you think about these topics.
What is your clinical style when providing care?
How do you handle urgent situations?
What tactics or strategies are useful to stay flexible yet organized?