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

Facilitate a local talent pool in his sectorial scope (carry out technical interviews of candidates and produce recommendations, identify needs regarding trainings)

Influence

Contribute to the local external prestige and influence of HI’s expertise in his sectorial scope

1. Represent the technical expertise of HI throughout the local relevant networks
2. Contribute to advocacy on specific themes in line with the global advocacy priorities
3. Contribute to communication messages locally in line with the global communication priorities

Business development

Ensure the development of major opportunities or new projects in the country under his/her sectorial scope

1. Contributes to the context analysis in his/her sectorial scope
2. Contributes to the design and writing of new projects in the country and when asked in other countries within the Geographic Division
3. Contributes to the conception of major projects or of new projects in the country
4. Identifies and develops local partnerships and/or consortium with NGOs, Institutions, Companies on technical priorities or important topics in the country under his education sectorial scope.

Qualifications and skills required:

Essential

Education:

• At least a Bachelor degree in Education (inclusive education a plus) or related degree.
• Master Degree in Inclusive Education, Teaching and Learning, Curriculum Development, Education Policy Analysis, Child Development or any other related field an added advantage.
• Five years’ experience in education in Kenya (both development and/ or in emergency) in designing technical tools and materials and providing capacity building in education projects.
• Experience working with an NGO is a plus
• Experience working with persons with disabilities, especially children is an added advantage

Technical Competencies:

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

Know-How (practices)

• Producing written and oral technical tools and materials in English
• Producing clear, concise and responsible ( written and oral) communication suited to the interlocutor (adult or child); adapting communication and messages to an intercultural environment, and remotely
• Negotiating and managing problems and conflicts
• Establishing clear frameworks, rules and limits
• Supporting and motivating a person or group
• Adapting leadership to the group to lead it towards a shared objective;
• Planning activities by setting clear, specific and measurable objectives
• 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)
• Assessing the impact/effects of the activities implemented in his/her service sector
• Promoting participation and cooperation in the activities in his/her service sector and in multidisciplinary/sector-based work
• Using capacity-building techniques with adults (e.g training of teachers, project staff)
• Using different pedagogical models
• Some knowledge of training engineering
• Experience of project management a plus

Interpersonal skills (attitudes)

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