Disability Inclusion Specialist
Full time @AGENCY FOR ACCELERATED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT posted 3 days ago in non-government organisation Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 26871
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Career Level Specialist
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Experience 3 Years
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Gender Both
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Industry Social Work
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
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Job Type Full time
Job Description
AFARD is seeking competent and qualified persons to fill the various positions shown below. Signed Application and a 2-pager
motivation letter plus relevant academic & experience credentials, CV with names and daytime contacts of three referees,
and your daytime phone contact numbers in 1-file PDF format should be addressed to “The Human Resources Office” and emailed to procurement@afard.net latest on May 23, 2025 at 5:00PM. In the subject area of your email, indicate the position
you are applying for.
Polite Notice.
• Qualified females and refugees are highly encouraged to apply.
• Only complete applications will be accepted and considered for review.
• Only those who are ready to start immediately will be shortlisted.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Successful applicants will be required to start immediately after appropriate screening checks including criminal records,
child and sexual abuse, exploitation and/or harassment. By applying, job applicants consent to these screening checks
Job
Summary
Working closely with the disability inclusion partner, s/he is responsible for the mainstreaming of
disability inclusion in SIYEP program and serves as the link person with the Mastercard Foundation
Disability Inclusion Lead.
Roles &
Responsibilities
Management functions
• Ensure the disability inclusion partner develops an acceptable annual gender and safeguarding
TA workplan and budget and put in place adequate competent human resources for the
execution of the gender and safeguarding TA services.
• Ensure effective coordination between the disability inclusion partner and consortium partner
organizations.
• Participate in program planning, implementation, monitoring and learning.
• In collaboration with the Foundation’s Disability inclusion Lead assure quality of the TA services.
• Ensure a functional disability inclusive reporting and feedback mechanism.
• Ensure program disability inclusion best practices are documented and shared with partners and
stakeholders for learning and adaptation.
• Submit timely acceptable reports for delivered work packages.
Disability inclusion mainstreaming
• Conduct a comprehensive programmatic disability inclusion assessment with tailor-made
recommendations.
• Develop and disseminate disability inclusion Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the
program.
• Develop a disability inclusion Plan for the program and oversee its implementation.
• Ensure disability inclusion is integrated into all training manuals, IEC materials, and MERL system.
• Collaborate with the Foundation and consortium to develop the appropriate tools to consistently
track and report on the extent to which all program activities are mainstreaming disability
inclusion.
• Conduct annual participatory program disability inclusion audit and disseminate the results to
partners for action.
• Support consortium partner boards, staff, disability inclusion focal persons to mainstream
disability inclusion in their institutional policies, programs, and practices.
Person specifications:
• A bachelor’s degree in social policy, Special Needs Education, Development studies, Education, Management Highly
required.
• Additionaltraining in project planning, disability inclusion, protection and legal matters will be an added advantage.
• Aminimumof 5 years’ experience facilitating disability inclusion in programs in a consortium setting.
• Good understanding oftransformative disability inclusion approaches as well as protection and advocacy
processes.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity development of local implementing partners.
• Demonstrated experience in developing operational tool (curricula, policies, guidelines) and documenting
lessons learned.
• Strong facilitationandcommunicationskills(inEnglish), including the ability towork effectivelywithdiverse groups of
youth.
• Familiarity with participatory and youth-centered methodologies.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and partners.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
• Experience working in refugee-host community settings.
• Exceptional skills in report writing and tracking results
• Exceptional interpersonal, teamwork and networking skills
• Willingness to travel to remote districts of Uganda to support partners as and when required
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