MHPSS Specialist

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical advice to delegations and field teams to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of MHPSS programmes.
• Support the implementation of global and regional MHPSS priorities, ensuring alignment with ICRC frameworks and quality-of-care principles.
• Contribute to the development and dissemination of technical guidance, tools, and monitoring approaches.
• Promote the integration of MHPSS across various ICRC responses, including Health and Protection activities.
• Provide technical expertise and capacity building on specialized mental health care, referral pathways, and multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Offer coaching, mentoring, and technical support to field teams through training and learning initiatives.
• Represent the MHPSS métier in global discussions, technical forums, and coordination platforms.

Requirements

• Degree in Psychiatry or Clinical Psychology.
• Minimum 2 to 5 years of clinical experience.
• Minimum 5 to 10 years of international humanitarian experience working directly in the field.
• Proven training or experience in MHPSS within a humanitarian context.
• Valid professional license to practice in your country of origin or residence.
• Fluency in verbal and written English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Training in public health.
• Familiarity with results-based management or logical framework tools.
• Proficiency in French or other ICRC languages (Arabic, Spanish, or Russian).
• Experience with psychiatry in detention or prison settings.
• Previous ICRC field experience.
• Understanding of community public health psychiatry with multidisciplinary teams.

About the Company

Since 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has worked to relieve suffering and preserve human dignity during war and armed violence. Alongside our Red Cross and Red Crescent partners, we deliver life-saving aid across front lines and strive to reconnect families and locate missing people.