Interim Global Lead – Disability Inclusion at Save the Children

The Global Lead for Disability Inclusion leads on the implementation of Disability Inclusion policy and sets the technical direction across the global organisation in alignment with our organisational strategy. This includes leading the global Disability Inclusion Technical Working Group, managing a small team of Disability Inclusion technical advisors and collaborating with technical staff in Disability Inclusion across country, regional, centre and member offices. Additionally, this position collaborates closely with teams across thematic/cross-cutting areas in humanitarian and development contexts, as well as across different functional teams, to ensure Disability Inclusion is effectively mainstreamed and truly cross-cutting in what we know and do.

The post holder stays abreast of and engages in industry developments and identifies, develops and maintains relationships and coalitions with key players in the Disability Inclusion space, including with representative organisations of persons with disabilities, other expert disability organisations, donors and the global disability movement. They represent Save the Children at global, regional and country level fora as relevant, showcasing Save the Children’s Disability Inclusion work. This will involve working across a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, including children and young people with disabilities themselves, as well as external stakeholders including INGOs, UNICEF, global partnerships and other agencies.

This is a leadership position which requires superior technical knowledge, management expertise, and programme development. It sits within the Child Rights, Equality and Social Justice team which includes Global Leads in other equality seeking areas.

In order to be successful you will bring/have:

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential:

• Significant prior experience within development and/or humanitarian work, with a rights based approach, including experience within a country programme or equivalent.
• Demonstrable experience of a focus on people/children with disabilities in development and/or humanitarian context, including across multiple thematic areas (health and nutrition, education, child protection, child poverty and/or child rights governance).
• Conceptual and theoretical understanding of the UNCRPD, the UNCRC and the application of the Washington Group Questions and UNICEF Child functioning Modules, accompanied by the ability to inspire, motivate, and build capacity and confidence in this in others.
• Demonstrable ability to co-ordinate and work across an organisation to change behaviours and deliver results.
• Experience of training and capacity building with a track record of building in-country understanding and skills for Disability Inclusive programming
• Proven senior level experience leading diverse, complex initiatives and virtual teams to achieve agreed objectives.
• Good theoretical understanding and practical experience with planning, monitoring and evaluation tools commonly used in the development and humanitarian sector and disability inclusive programming (e.g. the logical framework approach and results based management)
• Excellent writing, communication, and networking skills in English
• Strong ability to build internal and external partnerships, guide and motivate people towards the achievement of agreed goals
• An ability to provide high-level external representation.
• Ability to prioritize when working under pressure, along with strong problem-solving skills.
• Self- motivated, collaborative, can share capacity, innovative, adaptable to complex situations and able to work with high degree of autonomy.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 15% of time.

Desirable

• Additional languages, particularly French, Spanish and/or Arabic.
• Experience with project and/or process management
• Robust analytic skills and demonstrated knowledge in MEAL, including indicator development, preferably related to children with disabilities and disability disaggregated data.
• Experience in fundraising, new business development (NBD), finance management and IT.
• Experience working within a complex and matrix organisation structure.
• Lived disability experience