Save the Children Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist Vacancy
Save the Children Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist Vacancy
Role Dimensions: The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, the Country Office Programme Development & Quality team, advocacy colleagues, Regional Advisors, technical counterparts in other organisation, donors etc.
The role is also expected to engage with internal technical working groups and communities of practice.
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
Provide oversight and guidance to the programme implementation teams to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.
Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of Disability Inclusive programmes at the community level.
Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of disability disaggregated data, evidence and analysis and understands its link to quality and accountable programming; Contribute to strengthening the use of inclusive programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.
Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
Contribute to organisational learning on Disability Inclusion, ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and with our partners, especially the disability movement as well as with the Disability Inclusion Technical Working Group.
Networking & External Engagement:
In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in Disability Inclusive Programming.
Foster partnership with organisations of persons with different and specific types of disabilities across programmes.
Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as clusters and working groups, specifically national and international networks for Disability Inclusion, International Disability and Development Consortia and the broader disability movement.
Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, especially those who focus on disability rights and inclusion etc. as required.
Ensure disability is included in and the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.
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.
Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Integrity:
Honest,
encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
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
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
Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights and rights of adults and children with disabilities. Familiarity with Disability Situation Analysis, Barrier Analysis, CRPD monitoring and Disability Data.
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.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Save the Children Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist Vacancy
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