Director, Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Technical Lead- AEMEA Region

• Provide strategic technical guidance to regional MHPSS programs, promoting cohesion, quality, and evidence-based approaches
• Develop and operationalize outcomes frameworks and monitoring systems to support adaptive management and continuous quality improvement
• Build out and implement standardized suite of training, mentoring, and peer-learning initiatives adapted to local contexts
• Provide technical leadership for proposals, donor engagement, and pipeline development, identifying and shaping new MHPSS funding opportunities

This role creates positive change by strengthening mental health psychosocial support programs across Asia, Eurasia, Middle East, and Africa, ensuring evidence-based approaches and building local capacity to improve mental health outcomes in vulnerable communities.

• Extensive strategic and technical MHPSS leadership in global organizations across relevant regions, with prior experience living or extensively working in Asia, Eurasia, Middle East and/or Africa
• Advanced degree in psychology, public health, international development, social work, or related field
• Deep expertise in both developing and translating global strategies into actionable regional and country-level plans, integrating multisectoral approaches
• Demonstrated ability to support MHPSS preparedness, emergency response, and recovery efforts in emergency/humanitarian contexts

Salary range: $127,000 to $139,600 USD gross annually. Benefits summary available on Careers page. Transparent and equitable pay bands with salary offers based on qualifications evaluated during recruitment process (non-negotiable to ensure fair pay).

Americares is a global health and disaster relief organization that helps people and communities around the world access health in times of disaster and every day, providing life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies and emergency aid to approximately 80 countries annually.