Posted on: Thu 12-11-2026

The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) is an independent humanitarian medical NGO that was created in 2009 by professionals of humanitarian medicine. ALIMA’s mission is to provide medical care in emergency situations or medical catastrophes.

 

We are  recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Flying Manager - Nigeria

Location: Nigeria

 

Main Mission

• The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Activity Flying Manager (MHPSS) is responsible for the mental health strategy and the implementation of the psycho-social support for patients, their families, the community and the teams. He/she ensures the functioning of the mental health pole on the Nigeria projects.

Responsibilties

Implementation of ALIMA programs:

• Contribute to Implement and evolve the mental health care strategy, care circuit and referral in each intervention site;
• Ensures the implementation and monitoring of psychological support for beneficiaries in the various projects, patients or isolated people and families
• Organize the mental health department in collaboration with the Mental Health project teams, Medical coordination and HQ.
• Ensures and follow the psychological support for the team in the fields and in the mission
• Supervise the organization of the psychological first aid sessions for patients and victims;
• Supervise and sharing time of practices on specific situations
• Ensures the effectiveness of mental health and psychosocial support activities in accordance with the defined action plan and according to the minimum package of mental health activities vs. the complete package, with a focus on psychological first aid, prevention and management of psychotrauma;
• Ensures the development of partnerships for the management, orientation and referral of severe or chronic cases of mental disorders and/or psychosocial problems.
• Collaborate with partners to ensure the continuity of patients care
• Assure the drafting of training modules and be in charge of training of trainers in the mental health department according to identified needs.
• Collected information on vulnerable audiences and ensured the establishment of focus groups and discussion groups.

Monitoring, analysis and reporting:

• Participates in external meetings and reports relevant information to the Medical coordinator
• Conducts a weekly summary of mental health activities and reports to the medical coordinator and feedback on the mental health activities to the Mental Health managers of the projects.
• Follows the issues and recommendations of the cluster
• Produces a mission report and recommendations

Representation, coordination with other teams:

• Ensures networking with the various partners,
• Participates in meetings related to his/her field of intervention on the instructions of the head office mental health referent;

Management of the mental health team:

• Supervise the organization of the duties and schedules of the mental health team.
• Ensures the proper transmission of information, provides clinical supervision of teams
• Ensure regular formative supervision for the teams.
• Analyse and put into action the data collected for the department of mental health monitoring and activity report

Capacity building and team facilitation:

• Support the sets up a mental health team in collaboration with the project coordinator (the  recruitment, training and reinforcement)
• Ensures that the skills of the mental Health staff are updated according to the evolution of the technical platform and the protocols made available to the mission
• Defines and update job profiles and performance objective plans for team members and participate in the same documents for medical coordinator
• Carries out the assessments of its team in an approach of professional course
• Identify the skills that team members need to acquire to master their positions and organize training to reinforce them
• Ensure trainings in accordance with ALIMA's minimum package of mental health activities, and if necessary according to the complete package (psychological first aid, psychosocial activities, psychological support in the practice of medical care, mental health staff, prevention and management of psychotrauma, the relationship between caregivers and patients, and other needs identified upstream).

Team health:

• Supervise the organization of the briefing sessions / He/she supports the teams in case of critical incident
• Ensures the implementation and follow-up of the psychological support of the teams on the different projects
• Evaluates and validates mental health referral structures with the project's medrefs and medco.

Experiences

• Professional Master's Degree in Clinical and/or Health Psychology or equivalent
• Previous experience in humanitarian work
• Experience working with vulnerable people in an intercultural context
• A minimum of 3 years of Proven experience at psychological scope
• Proven experience of conducting of training

Qualities of the candidate:

• An ability to problematize and summarize the main psychological issues and be able to set priorities
• Good teamwork and delegation skills
• A good deal of autonomy and the ability to create one's own position in line with the association's objectives and resources
• Good writing skills
• A good knowledge of psycho-trauma.

Languages:

English fluent

Nigeria local languages could be are an asset.

Application Closing Date

9th December, 2026.

 

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should:

Click here to apply online

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