Save the Children Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist Jobs 2024 – Uganda NGO Jobs

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Save the Children Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist Jobs 2024 – Uganda NGO Jobs.

Save the Children Uganda looking for “Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist”.

Applicants with a University Degree may apply on or before April 01, 2024.

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts.

The Save the Children has published a job vacancy announcement on March 19, 2024 for qualified Uganda’s to fill in the vacant post of Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist to be based in Kampala, Uganda.

Save the Children Job Vacancy 2024

Ensuring Programme Quality (Design and 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 practices. Ensure that gender, intersectionality and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.
  • 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.
  • Provide coaching, mentoring, and constructive feedback for learning development and capacity building of relevant staff, including humanitarian staff.
  • Promote and monitor integrated programming to increase the overall impact of Disability Inclusive programmes at the community level.
  • Work with the Research Evaluation, Accountability, Learning, and Monitoring (REALM) team to conduct quality Disability Inclusive monitoring and Disability Data Disaggregation against international standards through participatory methodologies (including child-friendly and disability-inclusive methodologies).
  • Contribute towards creating an organizational 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 and work with implementation teams to understand challenges and continuously identify learning to improve impact.
  • Contribute to organizational learning on Disability Inclusion, ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and with our partners, especially the disability movement and the Disability Inclusion Technical Working Group.
  • Support Operation/Humanitarian colleagues to develop Disability Inclusive emergency preparedness plans, conduct sectoral Disability Situation and Needs assessments (including gender analysis, using SC assessment processes and tools), and design and deliver emergency response and recovery programs.
  • Monitor trends to ensure early action and lead technical design implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses.

Position in Organization:

  • Job Identification: 6581
  • Job Category: Programme, Development and Quality
  • Posting Date: 03/14/2024, 01:57 PM
  • Apply Before: 04/01/2024, 02:29 AM
  • Job Schedule: Full time
  • Locations: Kampala

Qualification:

  • At least a Master’s degree in Disability Studies or related degree in international development, education, psychology, sociology, etc.
  • At least five years’ experience in leading the design and implementation of humanitarian and development Disability Inclusive programmes.
  • Experience working with organization’s of persons with disabilities (OPDs), good relationships, and a wide network of disability experts and OPDs in Uganda and beyond.
  • Experience working directly with children with different types of disabilities and their families.
  • Experience of designing and facilitating capacity-building training on disability rights and inclusive programming across thematic areas
  • Strong understanding of the Disability Rights sector, policy priorities, and the situation for adults and children with disabilities in Uganda 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 projects targeting children and adults with disabilities.
  • Demonstrated disability-inclusive programme design, monitoring, and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
  • Experience in strategy development and planning to promote and enhance Disability Inclusion
  • Experience in context, capacity, policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at the regional/international level to hold duty bearers accountable for achieving children’s rights and the rights of adults and children with disabilities. Familiarity with Disability Situation Analysis, Barrier Analysis, CRPD monitoring, and Disability Data.
  • Skilled at networking, representation, and partnership development 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 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 in 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 have a high level of English writing skills.

How to Apply Save the Children Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist Jobs 2024

Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.

Then to apply, go to https://hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/6581/

The Closing Date: April 01, 2024.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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