If you wish to start your humanitarian career on the right footing or be part of our team of consultants in the fields of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in emergencies, the CHP offers opportunities for skilled people to collaborate and learn more. Geneva is one of the major poles of the humanitarian community in the world, which offers a unique combination of academic, expertise and dynamism.
The CHP has different levels of opportunity for collaborators.
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Updated on October 18, 2009
Consultants:
We are looking for specialists in the field of mental health and psychosocial support in emergency contexts (MHPSS), in particular expert trainers in:
- Evaluation and Monitoring of MHPSS Programs in Emergencies
- Stress and Crisis Management for relief staff
- MHPSS capacity building in post-disaster settings
- Community-based interventions in humanitarian crisis
- Humanitarian counselling skills in war contexts
Skills requirement: experience of work and training with international organizations in emergency situations with various aspects of humanitarian mental health and psychosocial support; extensive experience in supporting humanitarian staff, international and national, in insecure environments; good knowledge about mental health and psychosocial support as an emergency response; good knowledge about different cultural attitudes, practices and systems of social support; academic background. Bilingual English and French a plus.
Send us your resume at employment@humanitarian-psy.org
Internships (unpaid)
Our organisation has had dozens of interns, in the last ten years, coming from the regional universities and technical schools around Geneva. We offer interns a rich experience of the humanitarian environment and opportunities to practice in their new professional field. Under certain conditions, the CHP also gives a certificate which may extend into credits.
Job description
- Internet Communications and Marketing Intern (Unpaid)
Help us build relationships on social media networks; conduct research about best practices and report on our web audiences; learn strategies for reaching diverse audiences through a variety of video, online and other new media; and be a part of a fast-moving, creative team. This is an unpaid internship, but may be supervised for course credit.
Possible Range of Duties for Web and Digital Media Intern:
Update story logs – Prepare content inventories of web content – Conduct research and prepare articles for the web – Update video log for our YouTube Channel – Monitor and screen potential new videos for the website or YouTube – Monitor Facebook and Twitter pages for CHP – Research, proofread, and fact-check variety of web content to make updates.
Skill requirements: Applicants must be recent graduates or in a college or graduate program. Must have good writing skills, relevant experience working on websites, social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, video production, or other digital media. Excellent Word, Excel, and Power Point skills a must. Experience uploading YouTube video desirable including other computer applications (Microsoft Office Suite products)
Send us your resume at employment@humanitarian-psy.org
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Volunteer opportunities (unpaid)
Job description
- Join us in our Resource Centre to help expand our Knowledge Management. We need someone with research and librarian skills to help read through and index humanitarian psychosocial health literature (articles, books).
Skill requirements: Applicants must be recent graduates or in a college or graduate program in the librarian and research fields. They must have excellent writing and editing skills. Languages: English and French are a must, German and Spanish a plus.
Job description
- We need volunteers to help us keep our contact database up to date. This job can offer an opportunity to enter and understand the humanitarian community and help the CHP build its communication strategy with the international network.
Skill requirements: we need volunteers who are motivated and wanting to help make a difference out there; have a reasonable experience in handling computers and Internet; and are at least bilingual in English and French, Germand and Spanish being a plus.
Important! All interns and volunteers must be living in or around Geneva, Switzerland. If coming from a foreign country to live in the area, they must take care of their own visas and accommodation before starting at the CHP.
