Summary
Date Posted: Monday, February 27, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

How can you make a difference?
Key activities & duties
• Support the Programme Specialist on Children with Disabilities and the disability inclusion focal person in Humanitarian Action Resilience and Peace Building Section (HARP) in their overall work to make the work of UNICEF ESAR disability inclusive.
• Map the current inclusion of children with disabilities (or lack thereof) in the emergency preparedness, response, and recovery/resilience in the region
• Provide technical guidance and assistance on how humanitarian interventions and the triple nexus, including climate adaptations/disaster risk reduction/resilience building, can be more inclusive by identifying and sharing good practices and assisting with planning, implementation and monitoring of disability inclusive preparedness, response and recovery/resilience
• Engage in regional and sub-regional emergency meetings, including L2/L3 meetings
• Input to annual work plans of both the ESARO disability inclusion team and HARP for them to become more humanitarian action focused and disability inclusive respectively
• Monitor humanitarian responses for their disability inclusiveness
• Support the empowerment, skills-building and meaningful participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in decision making regarding humanitarian actions in the region.
• Ensure Country Offices in the region consult with, collaborate and/or partner with Organizations of Person with Disabilities (OPDs), including ensuring consultations with OPDs in humanitarian interventions
• Identify capacity gaps and provide capacity development to OPDs to engage in humanitarian interventions
• Support the inclusion of young persons with disabilities in accountability to affected populations and ensure the meaningful engagement of refugees and displaced persons with disabilities
• Build capacity, participate in trainings, develop tools for inclusive humanitarian action, and ensure mainstream trainings have components on disability.

Identify capacity gaps
• Support development of training opportunities for increased knowledge and understanding on disability inclusive humanitarian action at the regional and country level
• Identify promising practices/good examples of disability inclusion in humanitarian action in the region
• Support the familiarization and implementation of the three new Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) on children with disabilities.

Build capacity of UNICEF emergency staff on the CCCs
• Create knowledge products
• Measure implementation of the CCCs
• Develop any tools to better incorporate the CCCs in humanitarian interventions
• Review and input to Humanitarian Action Group (HAGs) and other relevant humanitarian tools become inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities in the region.

• Support Country Offices to develop language to be used in emergency related documents
• Review draft humanitarian needs assessments, humanitarian appeals, humanitarian response plans and other documents
• Develop tools for monitoring implementation of humanitarian appeals and response plans with regard to children with disabilities
• Engage and contribute to inter-agency partnerships for refugees and displaced persons, including UNICEF/UNHCR Blueprint and the Prospects partnership.
• Work with selected Country Offices to make their work more disability inclusive
• Position UNICEF in the lead to make partnerships for refugees and displaced persons more disability inclusive
• Support UNICEF Country Offices in the region to ensure disability inclusive access to humanitarian aid.
• Identify barriers/bottlenecks for children and young persons to access humanitarian aid
• Sharing good practices to overcome barriers/bottlenecks
• Work with Country Offices and partners to identify support needs of children and young persons with disabilities, and mechanisms to address them

Education:
• A university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field.

Work Experience-
• A minimum of two years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: programme planning, management, and/or research in child rights, social inclusion.
• Experience in working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
• Experience in or with emergency context is an asset.
• Experience in disability inclusion, particularly in emergency context, is an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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