Field Specialist - Inclusive Education - National Position at Handicap International (HI)

The Position

Under the responsibility of the Country Manager He /she contributes to the implementation of the mandate and the 10-year strategy of Humanity & Inclusion. He/she ensures optimal quality and impact of the project implemented in the country, through a delegation system with appropriate control mechanisms. He/she shares with the managers the responsibility of a sound management and successful functioning of the organization, through paradigm changes.

He/she will be responsible for:-

1. Contributes to the country strategy in line with the global strategies
2. Provides sectorial technical input to the StratOp within the Inclusive Education sector, in line with the global StraTech and ensures relevant follow up
3. Ensures technical support to the project in line with the global technical frameworks and standards in the Inclusive Education sectorial scope
4. Provides adequate technical guidance and support to Project Managers when relevant (adapt standards to PM’s tools, contribute to proposal writing and reporting) in line with strategies, standards and mandatory transversal approaches
5. Ensures adequate support to multi-sector responses within projects, in collaboration with the other specialists
6. Ensures technical learning from projects
7. Contribute to the projects’ capitalization and ensure technical learning from projects within his/her sectorial scope

Influence

1. Contribute to the local external prestige and influence of HI’s expertise in his sectorial scope
2. Represent the technical expertise of HI throughout the local relevant networks
3. Contribute to advocacy on specific themes in line with the global advocacy priorities
4. Contribute to communication messages locally in line with the global communication priorities

Business development

1. Ensure the development of major opportunities or new projects in the country under his/her sectorial scope
2. Contributes to the context analysis in his/her sectorial scope
3. Contributes to the design and writing of new projects in the country and when asked in other countries within the Geographic Division

Qualifications and skills required:

Essential.

Education :

1. Master Degree in Inclusive Education, Special Needs Education or Education sciences if relevant experience working with children with disabilities, or Allied Master Degree (OT, Psychology, Child development) if relevant Education

Experiences.

1. Five years’ experience in education in low income countries: project design and management, policy/strategy guidance
2. Two years’ experience in NGOs with particular focus on Education in Emergencies
3. Two years’ experience working with persons with disabilities

Technical Competencies

1. The different schools of thought and explanatory models of disability and the application of certain tools
2. International human rights frameworks
3. Frameworks and mechanisms of international development cooperation and humanitarian assistance
4. Strategies for fighting exclusion and discrimination
5. The technical issues concerning his/her service sector, and the stakeholders and professionals in his/her service sector
6. Full knowledge of at least one profession in his/her sector

Know-How (practices)

1. Producing written and oral institutional communication in French and English
2. Producing clear, concise and responsible communication suited to the interlocutor (adult or child); adapting communication and messages to an intercultural environment, and remotely
3. Negotiating and managing problems and conflicts
4. Establishing clear frameworks, rules and limits
5. Supporting and motivating a person or group
6. Adapting leadership to the group to lead it towards a shared objective;
7. Planning activities by setting clear, specific and measurable objectives
8. Developing new resources or adapting existing resources in order to improve them and/or adapt them to the context, if necessary (able to identify and respond to Nexus Emergency/Development issues)
9. Assessing the impact/effects of the activities implemented in his/her service sector
10. Promoting participation and cooperation in the activities in his/her service sector and in multidisciplinary/sector-based work
11. Using capacity-building techniques with adults (training of adults)
12. Using different pedagogical models
13. Some knowledge of training engineering

Experience of project management

1. At least 5 years of experience 

Interpersonal skills (attitudes)

1. Audacious (shows initiative/entrepreneurial)
2. Good reaction capacity
3. Working as part of a team/network, cooperating
4. Respect for the opinion and enhancement of the skills of others with a view to shared action
5. Ability to give and receive constructive feedback; discussing with multi-disciplinary teams, working as part of a network and collaborating

Empathy

1. Showing interest in what each person is experiencing and feeling, putting oneself in the other person’s shoes, listening to his/her needs, being accepting rather than judgmental
2. Resilience to stress and uncertainty

Computer skills:

1. Proficiency in MS Office suite

Languages:

1. English and Kiswahili