Position Summary
BRAC Institute of Educational Development (BRAC IED) is seeking qualified and experienced
professionals for the position of Deputy MHPSS Officer / MHPSS Coordinator / Lecturer –
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). The selected candidate will provide
technical leadership in clinical service delivery, teaching, mental health programming,
supervision, and organisational capacity development across Bangladesh.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide advanced individual and group counselling services both physically and online.
- Lead the design and facilitation of training sessions, workshops, and learning activities.
- Evaluate learning outcomes and ensure quality assurance in learning delivery.
- Supervise psychosocial service providers, tele-counsellors, and field-based psychosocial staff.
- Lead the development of modules, manuals, and curricula related to mental health and wellbeing.
- Provide tele-counselling services through the Moner Jotno platform.
- Lead implementation, monitoring, and quality assurance of psychosocial and mental health programmes.
- Support proposal development, donor reporting, strategic planning, and programme coordination.
- Collaborate on research initiatives, evidence-generation activities, and programme documentation.
- For Lecturer applicants: Co-teach three courses per semester in the MSc in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programme.
Educational Requirements
- Master’s degree in any discipline of Psychology from a reputed university.
- Minimum 5–8 years of relevant professional experience in a related field.
- For Lecturer applicants: Minimum 1st Class / A Grade / CGPA 3.5 in at least three academic examinations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both Bangla and English.
- Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary and multicultural environments.
Safeguarding Responsibilities
Ensure the safety and wellbeing of all individuals who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any form of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, exploitation, and sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). Promote and uphold safeguarding principles at all times.
