Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 08 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Responsibilities
Mission 1: Expertise.
• Ensures technical support to U-EC led projects in line with the global technical frameworks and standards in inclusive education
• Provides adequate technical guidance and support to U-EC (including CMU) and HI Project Manager (adapt approaches, materials and tools, contribute to reporting, provide training) in line with strategies, standards and mandatory transversal approaches. This will include but not limited for U-EC to;
• Identify, analyse and respond to school-based barriers for vulnerable children and children with disabilities and identify existing services and resources
• understand teachers, head teachers’ and education authorities’ knowledge and use of inclusive practices
• review and adapt teachers’ continuous professional development, remedial and catch- up program for learners including Accelerated Education Program, classroom observation tools, coaching and mentoring activities, social behavioural change activities, and any other relevant approaches and tools, to ensure they are inclusive, accessible, and relevant
• mainstream disability inclusion into the construction of classrooms and latrines, and procurement (e.g. teaching and learning materials and menstrual hygiene management materials)
• coordinate and align with national policies and local initiatives focused on disability inclusion and inclusive education.
• ensure disability inclusive MEAL.

The position will also;
• identify learning needs and build capacity of HI project team (PM, IEOs, PTs, OTs and CBFs on inclusive education and multi-sectoral comprehensive support for children with disabilities)
• Ensures adequate support to multi-sector responses within projects, in line with the U- EC partners and other HI specialists i.e. Integrated Rehabilitation and MHPSS
• Approach (IRMA)
• Ensures a local sectorial watch, best practices to adopt
• Contributes to recruitment and briefing when relevant

Ensures technical learning from projects
• Contribute to projects’ capitalization and ensure technical learning from projects
• Ensures the control and monitoring of the technical quality and the relevance of HI’s activities within U-EC
• Ensure regular technical quality control of projects and issue warnings and recommendations
• Monitor the implementation of audit recommendations, if applicable 1.4 Ensures compliance of the technical proposition with nexus stakes

Mission 2: Influence.
• Contribute to the local external prestige and influence of HI’s expertise
• Represent the technical expertise of HI in U-EC throughout the local relevant networks
• Contribute to advocacy on specific themes in line with the global advocacy priorities
• Contribute to communication messages locally in line with the global communication priorities

Mission 3: Networking.
• Contributes to the context analysis
• Contributes to the design and writing of new projects in Uganda
• Identify and develop local partnerships and/or consortium with NGOs, Institutions, companies on technical priorities or important topics

Mission 4: Project planning, coordination, review, and MEAL activities.
• Participates and contributes to project inception, implementation, review, and reporting.
• Participates in technical meetings, case reviews, and regular project reviews (ISPR, BSS, Lessons Learned, etc.)
• Coordinate and plan activities with the Project Manager/Head of Programme, the Technical Unit, and the project team, ensuring coordinated activity implementation within the project’s scope and HI procedures and standards.
• Review and ensure technical quality of "human interest" stories and other testimonies and submit them to Project Manager/Head of Programme for approval and submission to Hinside, and the social media platform.
• Participates in capacity building and mandatory HI training allocated to staff in-country.

Mission 4: Respect for HI identity, rules and policies; In coordination with the Human Resources Manager and the Project Manager:
• Know, understand, apply and respect the HI code of conduct and ethics, HI mandate and values, HI rules and operating procedure, HI policies (child protection policy, policy and mechanism for the prevention of and fight against bribery, the protection of beneficiaries from sexual exploitation and abuse policy) and make sure they are known, understood, applied and respected by its team
• Know, understand, apply and respect HI security rules and make sure they are known, understood and used by their team

Mission 5: Emergency preparedness and response
• Contributes to the program's emergency preparedness actions and, during an emergency, adapts his/her work modality to contribute to HI’s effective humanitarian response.

Education & Experience Mandatory
• A Bachelor degree in Education (inclusive education a plus) Desirable
• Master Degree in Inclusive Education or Adult Teaching and Learning, or Curriculum Development or Education Policy Analysis or Child Development.
• Knowledge in different schools of thought and explanatory models of disability and the application of certain tools
• Knowledge in international human rights frameworks
• Knowledge frameworks and mechanisms of international development cooperation and humanitarian assistance
• Knowledge in strategies for fighting exclusion and discrimination. Mandatory
• Five years’ proven experience in education in Uganda (both development and/ or in emergency) in designing technical tools and materials and providing capacity building in education projects.
• Experience in working with persons with disabilities, especially children with disabilities for their education, and Organizations of Persons with Disabilities Desirable
• Working with an NGO (local/international)
• Disability inclusion technical support for other organizations
• Working in public or private schools, and in the community
• Working with education authorities (e.g. MOES, DEO)
• Experienced working in humanitarian and emergency settings

Personal Skills & Technical Competencies required
• Producing clear, concise and responsible communication suited to the audience (adult or child, internal or external); 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 • Meeting deadlines
• 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)
• Critically assessing the impact/effects of the activities implemented
• Promoting participation and cooperation in the activities in inclusive education and in multi- disciplinary/sector-based work
• Using capacity-building techniques with adults (training of adults)
• Using different pedagogical models
• Professionalism by respecting professional and organizational ethics in working with children, families, colleagues and partners
• Good communication skills in spoken and written English. Knowledge of Sign Language is an advantage.
• Taking initiatives and being autonomous
• Working as part of a team/network, cooperating
• Analytical and problem-solving
• Respect for the opinion and enhancement of the skills of others with a view to shared action
• 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 judgemental
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Resilience to stress and uncertainty
• Computer literate – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Internet Browsing


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

If you feel you meet the requirements, please send an updated CV (3 pages max, including three professional referees current and/or past line managers) with a cover letter to HR department at recruitment@uganda.hi.org  indicating the position applied for in the subject line not later than 11:59pm on Friday 18th August 2023.

Any efforts to influence the recruitment process will lead to automatic disqualification.

Disclaimer: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. All candidates that had previously submitted their applications are requested not to re-apply.


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