Save the Children Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist Jobs Vacancy
Save the Children Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist Jobs Vacancy
Background and Role PurposeReaching every last child in Somalia means all children, regardless of their ability, enjoy equal opportunities and participation without discrimination to reach their full potential
The role supports national advocacy and influencing, while driving strategic partnerships for new business development.
It supports the design and implementation of disability inclusive monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
Key Areas of Accountability
Technical Leadership
Provide technical leadership for Disability for the Country Office, and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy
Build capacity of national staff and partners in key technical approaches related to Disability Rights and Disability Inclusive Programming.
Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):
Work closely with Business Development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children
Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality Disability Inclusive programmes for children, building on global best practice. Ensure that gender, intersectionality and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.
Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of Disability Inclusive programmes at the community level.
Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement
Foster partnership with organisations of persons with different and specific types of disabilities across programmes.
Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centres of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back.
People Management and Coordination
Work closely with programme quality and operations team in a matrix management environment for development and implementation of high quality projects
Provide coaching, mentoring and constructive feedback for learning and development and capacity building of relevant staff
Behaviours (Values in Practice)
Accountability
Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition
Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
Widely shares their personal vision for save the children, engages and motivates others
Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration
Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Disability Studies or related degree in International Development, Education, Psychology, Sociology or related area.
Experience and Skills
Essential
At least 5 years’ experience of leading the design and implementation of humanitarian and development Disability Inclusive programmes
Experience of working with organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) and good relationship and wide network with disability experts and OPDs in Somalia/Somaliland and beyond.
Experience of working directly with children with different types of disabilities and their families.
Experience of designing and facilitating capacity building trainings on disability rights and inclusive programming
Strong understanding of the Disability Rights sector, policy priorities and the situation for adults and children with disabilities in Somalia/Somaliland and internationally in both humanitarian and development contexts
Demonstrated understanding of the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Disability Inclusive Programming, The IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action, Disability Disaggregated data and MEAL, Universal Accessible Construction standards
Track record in successful business development/fundraising for inclusive development and humanitarian programmes and for projects targeting children and adults with disabilities
Demonstrated disability inclusive program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
Experience of strategy development and planning to promote and enhance Disability Inclusion
Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order to promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
Proven engagement and partnership with organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) and other disability stakeholders.
Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children with disabilities, especially disability disaggregated data
Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery to ensure disability inclusion across sectors and phases.
Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring communities and organisations on Disability Inclusion Across different thematic areas such as health and nutrition, child protection, education, social protection, early intervention etc.
Fluent in English and high level of English writing skills.
Desirable
Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies
Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international and matrix management environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
Key Competencies
Technical Competencies
Raising Awareness and builds capacity on disability inclusion and the rights of adults and children with disabilities across organisation, programmes and themes
Drives the uptake in use of Disability Inclusive Programme Principles across programmes and thematic areas
Advocates for the rights of adults and children with disabilities and actively promotes and supports the voices and agency of children with disabilities to participate in decision making processes
Provides technical and practical support and guidance to colleagues within different thematic areas so they can deliver better disability inclusive programmes and activities in their day-to-day work
Is a strategic big picture thinker, with the ability to engage at detailed project level
Ability to synthesize and develop high-quality knowledge products from diverse data sources including programmatic materials and tools
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to develop strong working relationships across cultural and organizational boundaries with internal and external stakeholders, and managing through influence
Strong and demonstrated capacity strengthening skills
Comfortable working independently with little supervision, as well as with receiving and accounting for direction and engaging as part of a dynamic team.
Generic Competencies
Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities
Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalised children
Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to delivery.
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Save the Children Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist Jobs Vacancy
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