Trainer on Art Therapy

Required Qualifications

• University degree in psychology, counselling, social work, psychotherapy, expressive arts therapy, fine arts with psychosocial training, or another relevant field.
• Proven experience in designing and facilitating art therapy, expressive arts, or creative psychosocial support trainings.
• Demonstrated experience working with trauma-affected, vulnerable, or conflict-affected populations.
• Strong understanding of psychosocial support, trauma-informed practice, and safe group facilitation.
• Experience using creative and non-verbal methods to support emotional expression, coping, and healing.
• Understanding of confidentiality, safeguarding, consent, and do-no-harm principles.
• Experience developing user-friendly training materials for community-level participants.
• Fluency in Arabic is required and Assyrian (also known as Syriac and Chaldean) is an added advantage.
• Familiarity with Nineveh context, faith-linked actors, and Christian communities in Baghdeda (also known as Hamdaniyya/Qaraqosh is highly desirable. The proposal also indicates that focal points may include women and youth with relevant educational grounding, so the trainer should be able to work effectively with such participant profiles.

Preferred Skills

• Strong facilitation and adult-learning skills.
• Ability to adapt art-based methods to conservative, faith-sensitive, and community-based contexts.
• Ability to explain therapeutic concepts in simple and practical language.
• Experience facilitating group healing sessions or community wellbeing activities.
• Strong interpersonal and mentoring skills.
• Sensitivity to trauma, grief, loss, and collective shock.
• Ability to create psychologically safe learning spaces.
• Good reporting and documentation skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with programme and technical teams.
• Experience in integrating art-based methods into broader protection or MHPSS programming.

Interested candidates should submit their CV and a cover letter outlining their relevant experience and motivation for the role to [email protected]. Please include “Trainer Art Therapy – Baghdeda” in the subject line of your email. Please note applications without cover letters will not be considered and female candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Furthermore, please note this position is subject to signing the contract with the donor.

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