Several Inclusive Education Project Officer NGO Jobs – Handicap International (Humanity & Inclusion)
Job Title: Inclusive Education Project Officers (Several Job Vacancies)
Organisation: Handicap International (Humanity & Inclusion)
Duty Station: Arua, Yumbe and Moyo, Uganda
Reports to: Inclusive Education Project Manager
About US:
Handicap International (HI) is an independent and impartial international aid organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other most vulnerable groups, our action and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs, improving their living conditions and promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights.
About AIMS Project:
The Inclusive Education Project called “AIMS (Access to Inclusive and Meaningful Services in Education) Education for learners with disabilities”, funded by Education Cannot Wait through the Education Consortium Management Unit to be launched in January is targeting the West Nile refugee settlements areas in the districts of Arua (Rhino camp, Omugo and Imvepi settlements), Yumbe (Bidibidi settlement) and Moyo (Palorinya settlement). Those 3 districts welcome 492,841 refugees (42.6% of the total refugees in Uganda). The project will support mainstream education actors to improve inclusion of children with disabilities within their Education Response in line with the Education Response Plan implying the need for strong coordination and cooperation.
Job Summary: The Inclusive Education Project Officer will implement project activities in close collaboration with the Mental Health and Psycho Social Support and Rehabilitation teams with support from the PM and Technical Advisors
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Ensure planning and field coordination of project activities with internal and external stakeholders
- Participate in the monthly HI activity planning meetings
- Develop monthly and weekly field activity plans
- Participate in the development of project activity tools
- Coordinate field activities with HI logistics department, other HI technical teams, implementing partners and school community stakeholders
- Ensure regular coordination meeting with implementing partners field staff and school community stakeholders and represent HI
Implement, facilitate and follow-up, on a daily basis, the project activities in accordance with the project implementation plans
- Facilitate inclusive education barrier and facilitators assessments
- Provide technical support for the development and implementation of each School’s inclusive education action plans
- Participate in the identification of class inclusive learning materials to be provided to each school
- Facilitate capacity strengthening activities through provision of training for education staff and mentoring of teachers
- Facilitate inclusive education awareness raising sessions for Parent Teacher Associations and school communities:
- Facilitate disability assessments of school children with disabilities
- Support schools in the process of including identified out of school children with disabilities, in supporting their retention and the improvement of their learning outcomes;
- Participate in facilitating psycho social support activities at school community level
Participate in the data collection and MEAL activities of the project
- Produce weekly activity reports and contribute in the development of project reports using HI Uganda MEAL templates
- Maintain complete documentation for each activity following the recommendations and template of the project manager
- Contribute to the development of the Program Managers activity reports
- Participate in project review workshops
- Participate in assessments and facilitate project evaluations at field level
- Facilitate participation of stakeholders and beneficiaries in monitoring and evaluation of activities
- Ensure that field data collection is charged with the MEAL team
Manage and support the Community-Based Volunteer
- Participate in the recruitment of CBV
- Coordinate the daily activities of the CBV with other technical team members
- Plan and develop weekly activity plans for the CBV
- Provide technical support and on the job mentoring of the CBV
Other Responsibilities:
- Ensure the strict application of the rules including the code of conduct;
- Report any incident in which s/he’s involved/witnessed immediately;
- Perform any other tasks deemed necessary by the line manager
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Handicap International Inclusive Education Project Officer job must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Inclusive Education, Special Needs Education or Education combined with relevant experience working with children with disabilities OR Bachelor’s Degree in (OT, SLT, Psychology, Child development) if applicant has relevant education
- Two years of professional experience in Education
- One year of professional experience in an NGO at officer level
Desirable
- Experience in consortia lead projects
- Experience in the fields of inclusion / accessibility of services / services to persons with disabilities
- Experience in training of adults
- Experience working in refugee context
- Fluently spoken local languages
- Knowledge of project cycle and related tools and methodologies
- Personal Qualities
- Proven project activity implementation skills in collaboration with stakeholders
- Knowledge of the Education and Disability Sectors in Uganda
- Capacity building, training and coaching skills
- Perfect fluency in written and oral English and strong report writing skills;
- Familiar with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and internet
How to Apply:
All candidates should send their updated CVs (3 pages max, including three professional references.) with cover letter clearly indicating preferred area of work addressed to: The HR department at recruitment@uganda.hi.org
NB: Do not attach certificates. Only Short-listed Candidates will be contacted. Any efforts to influence the recruitment process will lead to automatic disqualification.
Deadline: Friday, 15th March 2019 by 5:00 pm
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