Disability Specialist

The Disability Specialist provides technical support for the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of disability inclusion programming and advocacy in Ethiopia. The role supports integration of disability issues across UNICEF's country programme and promotes transformative impact for children and adolescents with disabilities through multisectoral collaboration and partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and integrate disability issues across UNICEF's programme, supporting dissemination and implementation of UNICEF disability inclusion policy and strategy (DIPAS).
• Lead the Disability Inclusion Task Force as Secretary and participate in inter-agency mechanisms and capacity-building activities on disability inclusion.
• Provide technical backstopping to sectoral programmes on disability programming with an intersectional lens and coordinate capacity-building activities for staff and partners.
• Support development of policies, legislation and programmes to increase transformative impact of social services on children and adolescents with disabilities.
• Promote integrated disability inclusive and transformative systems and provide technical support to partners to improve assistive technology provisioning, anti-stigmatisation programmes and community based integration/rehabilitation platforms across sectors.
• Support use of data and evidence on children and adolescents with disabilities to strengthen advocacy and partnerships.
• Develop effective partnerships with government, donors, NGOs, civil society, private sector and UN agencies to support commitment to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Persons with Disabilities and Sustainable Development Goals.
• Assure quality of child rights-based programmes through effective planning, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation using a results-based management approach.
• Provide recommendations on project implementation, alternative approaches, resource utilization and new programme initiatives to ensure achievement of objectives.

Requirements

• Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in International Development, Public Administration, Social Science, Public Policy, Social Development, Community Development, international relations or related fields.
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience in Social Policy, International Development, Disability Inclusion, or related fields.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is desirable.
• Experience working with Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) is desirable.
• Experience with disability identification, certification, registration and referral systems is desirable.
• Experience with disability data collection and analysis is desirable.
• Experience with disability mainstreaming is desirable.
• Experience with disability inclusion advocacy is desirable.
• Experience with policy and legal frameworks is desirable.
• Experience with community based inclusive development, rehabilitation services and occupational therapy is desirable.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts is desirable.

Skills

• Disability Inclusion
• Social Policy
• International Development
• Disability Data Analysis
• Disability Identification
• Disability Certification
• Disability Registration
• Disability Referral Systems
• Disability Mainstreaming
• Disability Inclusion Advocacy
• Policy Frameworks
• Legal Frameworks Knowledge
• Community Based Inclusive Development
• Rehabilitation Services
• Occupational Therapy
• Multisectoral Collaboration
• Programme Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technical Support
• Advocacy
• Partnership Development

Languages

English