Clinical Director

ABOUT MAYA FOUNDATION:  Maya Vakfı is a non-profit organization that offers mental health and psycho-social support (MHPSS) to refugee and host community children who have experienced traumatic life events, including challenging socio-economic conditions, domestic abuse, immigration due to war, and/or losing loved ones to violence. Maya Vakfı provides trauma rehabilitation activities for children in the Balat Field Office through creative workshops which give opportunities for these children to express themselves through art, music, dance, and movement activities to help them cope with their trauma and aid with their recovery. In addition, Maya also places great importance on integrating Psychosocial Support techniques into the education system through its TraumaInformed Schools (TIS) Program. Strengthening the knowledge and know-how of civil servants and the civil society sector is enhanced through Capacity Building Initiatives and through its Volunteer Program Maya Vakfı provides training, support, and mentoring to volunteers on Psychosocial Support, trauma rehabilitation, and child protection. Maya Vakfi’s Trauma-Informed Schools (TIS) program aims to provide a holistic approach by providing training, support, and follow-up to school teachers and counselors, psycho-social sessions to children, positive parenting seminars to parents, and activities to prevent bullying in schools. In cooperation with the Ministry of National Education (MoNE), Maya Vakfi has authorization to implement the TIS program in seven provinces across Turkey. Maya Foundation is committed to protect and improve the welfare of the individuals who are worked with and provided service, to create safe spaces for them and it waits from all employees and volunteers to fulfill this commitment. Maya Foundation adopts a zero-tolerance policy on behaviours incompatible with the foundation’s targets and principles especially sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. Additionally, Maya Foundation adopts Child Safe Standards and Principles of Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and mainstreams these principles in foundation studies. All of the selected candidates are expected to adapt these standards and principles, for this reason all candidates will complete stages of reference and background check. Background check will include academic background and employment history verification. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information within the scope of background check.

CLINICAL DIRECTOR

Position Title: Clinical Director

Project Location: İstanbul, Türkiye

Reports to: General Manager

Contract Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities:

1-         Program Management and Leadership:

• Carry out programmatic, technical and administrative management of different MHPSS projects through quality assurance, monitoring and documentation of results.
• Taking an active role in maintaining and managing the clinical coordination tasks, conducting regular checks, producing reports and acting as a focal point for clinical coordination follow-up
• Proactively engage with MHPSS teams to compile up to date information on their activities as well as following current clinical needs related to program activities
• Supporting the revision of clinical content used by program teams to assess the impact of activities and providing up-to-date reports on goals and achievements.
• Ensuring disaggregated and cumulative tracking of clinical teams and documentation of all activities and outcomes
• Suggesting innovative preventive mental health interventions and activities for the implementation of program in collaboration with MHPSS team
• Maintaining and monitoring weekly/monthly MHPSS plans, project schedules
• Taking a supporting role in clinical guideline preparation & content development processes
• Working in collaboration with the clinical teams on innovative preventive mental health interventions and activities to implement programs.
• Oversee program planning and implementation to ensure program goals, objectives and targets are met and best practice is ensured in all MHPSS services.
• Support clinical team members by helping develop work plans, overseeing implementation and tracking progress.
• Ensure that all reporting requirements are met on time, and that reports are of a high quality.
• Maintain a close relationship with the General Director and ensure timely and accurate delivery of all MHPSS program updates.

2-         Organizational Development and Representation:

• Represent the Maya Vakfı in communication with program partners and other key stakeholders including donors, government actors, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, and other relevant actors.
• Represent Maya Vakfı and ensure good relations with all stakeholders
• Participate in identifying mental health and psychosocial support needs and contribute to new programs.
• Participate in the strategy development of the project and of Maya Vakfı.
• Develop and contribute to MHPSS related guidance documents and Standard Operation Procedures

Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in clinical psychology,
• Experience in expressive art therapy methods,
• Experience working with vulnerable populations, particularly refugees and children, in crisis settings.
• Strong understanding of early childhood development principles and trauma-informed care.
• Proven experience in team management,
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
• Fluency in Turkish and English is required
• Strong organizational skills

Willingness to travel and work in field locations in affected areas as needed

Interested candidates can send their CVs and cover letters to [email protected] by writing "MV0125-CD" Job Application to the e-mail subject.