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Project Coordinator: Mental Health Information Centre of Southern Africa

Bellville
Salary: Market Related
Job Type: Part-Time
Sectors: Medical
Reference: TGB09/319/1124

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Employer: Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Department of Psychiatry

Project Coordinator: Mental Health Information Centre of Southern Africa

(Job Level 10)

(Part-time 5/8ths fixed-term contract)

(Tygerberg Campus)

Ref. TGB09/319/1124

Duties:

Service delivery:

• Call / contact centre management: providing internet, telephone, email information to callers and referrals for mental health or other care with a 24 hour turn-around period.

• Maintaining the MHIC website, service provider database, Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter); regularly updating the content, and verifying and registering new mental health professionals on the service provider database.

• Media liaising: compiling and distributing press releases, assisting journalists in writing mental health (MH) related articles, arranging interviews with MH professionals for radio / TV.

• Liaising with local, national and international mental health role-players, such as SAFMH, Cape Mental Health, CPMH, SADAG, the DANA Alliance for Brain Initiatives, WFMH, NIMH and IBRO.

• Liaising with Health24 and sahealthinfo to review, update or write new information for their websites.

• Collaborating with research, academic, governmental, non-governmental, and consumer bodies.

• Strong emphasis on comsumer advocacy; marketing and promoting MHIC services and products (liaising with different stake holders such as the media, corporate partners, pharmaceutical companies, MH advocacy groups, other Stellenbosch University (SU) departments and international organisations such as the Dana Alliance to increase awareness of MHIC activities).

Community interaction:

• Hosting, coordinating and participating in local mental health awareness campaigns.

Administration and funding:

• Writing funding proposals and sponsorship letters to possible donors / funders / sponsors.

• Daily logging of call centre enquiries, website and service provider database activities.

• Archiving MHIC orders and payments.

• Updating MHIC information brochures (in Afrikaans, English, and isiXhosa) and compiling new ones as the need arises.

• Supervising volunteers at the MHIC.

Research / academic involvement:

• Academic year day participation at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SU.

• Attending and presenting MHIC data at relevant workshops.

• Attending and presenting data at local and international conferences.

• Undertaking research studies and surveys.

• Assisting with recruitment of participants for research studies of the MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in mental disorders.

• Assisting with drawing blood / collecting samples for different research trials.

Ongoing collaborations:

• Varsity Sports SpeakUp campaign: Prof Lizette Rabe, SU, at lrabe@sun.ac.za

• Crazysocks4docs campaign: Prof Lizette Rabe, SU, at lrabe@sun.ac.za

• Hope Hike and Bike: Prof Lizette Rabe, SU, at lrabe@sun.ac.za

• Caring Universities Project (International Study on Student Health and Wellness): Prof Jason Bantjes, SU, at jbantjes@sun.ac.za

• Frederik van Zijl Slabbert Institute (facilitating and presenting the short course, Wellness in the World of Work, annually): Mr Spurgeon-Haddon Wilson, the Programme Manager for the FVZS Institute for Student Leadership Development, at spurgeon@sun.ac.za

• Assisting with coordinating, updating, and grammatical editing of the SU’s Textbook of Psychiatry.

Required Skills

A Recognised Postgraduate Degree In Psychology, Social Work, Psychiatry, Or Psychiatric Nursing.
At Least Two Years’ Experience Of Working In The Mental Health Field.: 2 to 3 years
Clinical Trials Experience.

Candidate Requirements

Requirements:

• A recognised postgraduate degree in psychology, social work, psychiatry, or psychiatric nursing.

• At least two years’ experience of working in the mental health field.

• Clinical trials experience.

• The ability to use social media as a marketing tool with confidence.

• Excellent interpersonal, as well as verbal and written communication skills.

• Computer literacy.

Recommendations:

• Previous exposure to project management practices.

• Research experience in a relevant area (e.g. stigmatisation).

• A qualification to do clinical work for research trials such as drawing blood, collecting saliva samples, or any other clinical work needed by the Unit.

• Good working knowledge of Publisher, as well as SPSS statistics software.

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About Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University is recognised as one of the four top research universities in South Africa. It takes pride in the fact that it has one of the country’s highest proportions of postgraduate students of which almost ten percent are international students.

The University lies in the picturesque Jonkershoek Valley in the heart of the Western Cape Winelands. The University has ten faculties, of which eight – AgriSciences, Arts and Social Sciences, Education, Engineering, Law, Science, Theology and the larger part of Economic and Management Sciences - are located on the main campus in Stellenbosch with the Faculty of Health Sciences situated on the Tygerberg campus and the Faculty of Military Science in Saldanha. The University's Business School is situated at the Bellville Park campus.