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Overview of the organisation

It All Starts Hear (IASH).SG is a social enterprise (member of raiSE.sg) that believes in a community-based preventative approach to mental wellness in Singapore.

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We provide 3 core services in our mental health ecosystem – 1) a volunteer-based and absolutely free peer support service, 2) community mental health events and workshops, and 3) highly affordable professional counselling and therapy services.

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Read more about us at www.iash.sg if you’re keen :)

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Job Description

 

Join us in our mission to make mental health support more approachable and accessible in Singapore!

 

As our Mental Health Programs Lead, you’ll be the key person keeping our ongoing initiatives and services running. The person we are looking for is a self-starter, someone who’s keen to learn the ropes about what it’s like to lead and run a mental health startup in Singapore.

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In this role, you’ll not just be keeping an overview of our current services, but play a foundational part in paving the way forward for us in the future too. This role will be a dynamic one, you’ll be helping us with things like streamlining our volunteer onboarding and engagement, ideating and building our community events and workshops, as well as working together with us to build up our corporate, community and government partnerships. 

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You won’t be alone in this though - you’ll be working closely with our founder and counselling professionals who will be co-leading these programs with you. Not only that, but you’ll be getting the support from interns through our government partnerships program (YCCI) as well!

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This is a part-time role - and we are looking for someone who’s able to help 3-4 days per week, mostly at our centre and occasionally from home; and someone who’s open to a flexible work arrangement as we might need your help with evening events at times (timings always negotiable and you’ll get 1.5 x off-in-lieu if you’re needed evenings or weekends)

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So, are you someone who’s keen to join a fast-paced startup environment? Are you someone who’s passionate about mental health, psychology or counselling? Someone who’s passionate about building something meaningful together?
 

Then we’d love to hear from you :)

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Roles and Responsibilities

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1. Community Programs and Partnerships Lead (40%)

   • Undergo on-the-job training in terms of counselling skills and group facilitation / workshop skills.

   • Ideate and build events and workshops for the general public and schools - working alongside our counselling team in creating workshops on topics like finding meaning, purpose, trauma-informed care, mental health wellbeing for youths etc; or otherwise more casual events like art, mental health discussions together with our volunteer community.

   • We’d need you to take an active interest in researching and building up the actual materials for such workshops - including psycho-educational research, creating nifty presentation slides and facilitation points etc.

   • You’ll also be helping us manage and expand our partnerships - with these including corporate partners and sponsors, as well as various community and government partners such as PAP Marymount, youth networks that we’ve started to work with this year. 

2. Volunteer Programs Lead (40%): 

   • We need someone who can help us streamline and build up our current volunteer program - this will mean helping us to create some structure to assessing and onboarding new volunteers, be it as our peer supporters (which we call hear buds), event facilitators, as well as volunteers for our social media teams too.

   • You’ll be trained in interviewing and assessment skills in a mental health support landscape. We'd need you to build up our capabilities as a volunteer-focused social enterprise.

   • You’ll also be playing an essential part in keeping our volunteers engaged - building program pipelines they can join, or planning one of our every other monthly volunteer gatherings like picnics and bbqs. 

3. Counselling Program Lead (20%):

   1. Working alongside our founder, counsellors and intern admin team - you’ll be responsible for the higher-level management of our professional counselling program. 

   2. You’ll also be looking at expanding the reach of our counselling services, such as working with government agencies for referrals, building up our employee programs for corporates, as well as keep boosting our various counselling sponsorship programs for vulnerable individuals and youths (amazingly, these are crowdfunded!)

 

Do note that we will have interns with us through the year through our government YCCI partnership - you’ll be helping to manage these interns too!

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Duration of work commitment, salary and daily working hours

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• Minimum SIX months: to start anytime from December 2024. 

• 7 hours / per day between 11 and 6pm (1 hour easy lunch), to work three to four days per week.

• Base part-time salary starting at $1,800 with a max of $2.400 - depending on whether you’re choosing to work 3 or 4 days in this role. Room for this to grow into a full time role since we hope to hire someone to grow with us too! 

• Working days are flexible and can always be negotiated; we are also super flexible in terms of off days and leave. 

• Our probation period is three months - where after confirmation, it's a two weeks notice period - again flexible based on negotiation :) 

• 15 days of annual leave per year (yes we believe in work life balance)!

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Qualifying educational requirements/ criteria (competencies/skills required)

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Requirements:

• Prior education in psychology, counselling or social work (minimum a current student or recently graduated with university bachelors). 

• You have a keen sense of empathy and can demonstrate familiarity / interest working with people with mental health conditions.

• Interest in working in a start-up environment that is focused on social impact and leading a intimate and friendly volunteer community

• Good command of English, both written and spoken is needed.

• Comfortable delivering presentations and keen to learn facilitation / group counselling skills.

• This part time role is especially suitable for someone interested in moving into a counselling profession / studying post-grad part-time (we can explore you joining us as a freelance counsellor) OR a university student or fresh grad looking to gain hands-on experience in psychology, counselling and mental health support. 

 

Lastly, we hope to find someone aligned with our Values at iash.sg, these being:

 

1. Humility - we stay open to different experiences.

2. Empathy - the change we want to see in the world starts with us.

3. Authenticity - showing up as our ourselves and as fellow human beings.

4. Responsibility - we have alot of people counting on us!

5. Teamwork - we've only gotten so far because of our people too. 

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