Internal : Cluster MHPSS Senior Specialist; Stronger Together + Cluster

Your mission

MAIN PURPOSE The MHPSS Senior Specialist ensures the effective coordination, coherence, and consistent implementation of a specific portfolio of War Child’s Evidence-Based Methods (EBMs) in a thematic area across an assigned cluster of partners and countries. The role is responsible for translating strategies, standards, and methodologies into contextually relevant thematic/EBM support to partners, ensuring that EBM implementation within a cluster is feasible and achieves high quality and impact.

The MHPSS Senior Specialist oversees EBM quality assurance, partner onboarding, thematic guidance, and adaptive learning within a cluster, connecting thematic and EBM strategy to practice by guiding, aligning, and line‑managing the MHPSS Senior Specialist supporting countries and partners in that cluster.
Where relevant, the MHPSS Senior Specialist might also be assigned to directly support a country and/or partner.

• Lebanon, Yemen, Afghanistan, Ukraine
• Syria, Jordan, oPt, Colombia, Global
• DRC, Uganda, CAR, South Sudan, Sudan, Chad

POSITION IN WAR CHILD ALLIANCE
Reports to (Solid/Management): MHPSS Lead
Reports to (Dotted/Functional):

• Country Cluster Lead
• One or more dotted lines with partnership, project management and/or engagement functions

• Maintain cluster‑level oversight of thematic quality assurance for EBM integration, implementation and scaling by partners, ensuring high‑quality delivery of EBMs.
• Coordinate thematic support provided by Specialists within a cluster, ensuring prioritization, and advising on resource allocation.
• Ensure operationalisation of thematic and EBM guidance and standards, to guarantee contextual relevance to tailored support to countries and partners.
• Lead and/or facilitate adaptive learning cycles for EBMs at cluster level, ensuring learning agendas are developed and executed, lessons learned are documented and findings inform practice and strategic direction.
• Strengthen organisational and partner capacity in MHPSS EBMs, through training, mentoring and scalable learning approaches.
• Represent and build up the profile and reputation of War Child’s EBM Care System Portfolio and thematic expertise externally in the appropriate forum, strengthening sector engagement, inter‑agency collaboration and organisational credibility, and contributing to shaping policy and sector discourse.
• Contribute to the learning agenda for EBMs within your portfolio including gathering and sharing learnings on partner experiences and feedback.

• Acts as primary internal and external thematic focal point for an assigned cluster.
• Oversee thematic components of partnership engagement within a cluster, liaising with partnership colleagues and with other cluster Coordinators where relevant.
• Collaborate effectively with the Partnership Department, ensuring appropriate matrix management of Specialists and complementary responsibilities.
• Contribute to development of EBM Partnership Packages and other relevant resources.
• Contribute to the strengthening and evolution of the MHPSS EBM Care System portfolio, including through compiling knowledge and lessons learned from countries and partners in the cluster.
• Coordinate and contribute to learning activities, task teams, working groups and Communities of Practice related to their thematic area and EBMs.
• Support scalable learning approaches (e.g. blended learning, training pools, ToT/ToF models), including by compiling cluster‑level inputs to training content and learning materials.
• Coordinate support to MEAL processes within a cluster, including compliance with Quality of Care indicators.
• Provide thematic/EBM surge support in emergencies or priority contexts where needed.
• Contribute with thematic inputs into organisational processes such as development and delivery of strategies, annual plans, etc. at the team, departmental and organisational levels, leading on cluster‑level inputs where relevant.
• Lead cluster‑level…