Job Description

Title: Technical Specialist - Inclusive Humanitarian Action

Company Name: Handicap International (humanity & Inclusion) in Bangladesh

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree in humanitarian/development work or human rights, disability-related studies, international humanitarian law, cooperation, or international development or related field (qualification may be flexible for the person with the living experience of disability)
∎ A background in disability inclusion is a must.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Disability and Inclusion, Disability Inclusion, Gender and Disability
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): Development Agency, NGO

Job Context:
∎ HI has been working in Bangladesh since 1997, with a focus on creating sustainable changes in terms of ensuring the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in society. HI is an independent and impartial aid organization working in poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster situations throughout Bangladesh. With projects in different districts of the country, HI works not only with people with disabilities and other vulnerable populations, but also with their families, their communities, and local humanitarian actors to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions, promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights, and provide sustainability in its action. As one of the key organizations in the disability sector, HI has a wide range of projects which assist to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities and their issues in emergency and development contexts, build capacities of local stakeholders, and reduce the impact of natural and human-made disasters. Particularly in Cox`s Bazar district, HI is providing services in rehabilitation, MH/PSS, SRH, protection and inclusive education with an inclusion mainstreaming approach to refugees and host population affected by the forcibly displaced undocumented Myanmar nationals. HI`s multi-sectoral mobile units (MU) and static approach are currently working in 15 camps located in both Teknaf and Ukhiya Upazilas and surrounding host areas providing comprehensive services in physical rehabilitation, primary health care, protection, and MH/PSS.
∎ HI is currently implementing development and humanitarian response project in Kurigram, Sitakindu, and Cox`s Bazar district through 4 project offices (Kurigram, Sitakundu, Ukhiya, and Teknaf) and 2 coordination offices( Dhaka and Cox Bazar).
∎ Operational Thematic: Livelihood, Health and Rehabilitation, Protection, Inclusion, Education and Atlas Logistic
∎ Number of staffs: Around 283 National staff and 9 international staff
∎ HI is currently looking for a Technical Specialist - Inclusive Humanitarian Action for its Technical Unit. The Technical Specialist - Inclusive Humanitarian Action is responsible to ensure the technical quality of disability inclusion action and promoting inclusion of men, women, boys, and girls with disabilities within HI’s humanitarian action projects and in partnership with other actors within their humanitarian response, especially in the consortium-led project. This will include mainstreaming technical support in various sectors, including WASH, health, protection, shelter, education, etc.
∎ Job Location: Dhaka
∎ Line Manager: Technical Unit Manager
∎ Type of Contract: Fixed-term
∎ Duration of the Contract: From as early as possible to 30 September 2023 with the possibility of extension.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Main responsibilities
∎ Contributing to the overall planning for HI’s mission and lead the design and implementation of strategy and interventions on disability, age, and gender-inclusive services in close link with other relevant technical expertise and sectors of intervention based on identified opportunities, needs, and interests.
∎ Providing regular guidance on disability mainstreaming specific to strategies, programming, service provision, support, and skills development to HI staff, consortium partners, humanitarian actors, and sectors and promoting a coherent and evidence-based approach.
∎ Ensuring a coherent and adapted approach for service providers and the wider humanitarian body where appropriate, promoting disability, age, and gender inclusion within emergency and development activities in Cox’s Bazar and other districts. Alongside ensuring the transfer of skills, tools, good practices inside the HI interventions.
∎ Helping to define strategies, processes, and action between emergency preparedness, acute emergency response, and early recovery and reconstruction phases to facilitate transition and complementarity of action efforts and priorities for disability, age, and gender-inclusive services.
∎ Providing skills development, guidance, and support for the development of the project teams and inclusion officers.
∎ Developing tools and resources in line with global and national frameworks (contextualized), guidelines to ensure that services are inclusive of men, women, boys, and girls with disabilities, including older people, supporting the widespread roll-out of tools and guidelines internally (HI mission) and externally.
∎ 1. Expertise
∎ Provide inclusion technical input to the StratOp & StraTech of the Programme.
∎ Contribute to the overall strategic planning for HI’s mission and participate in strategic workshops and exercises
∎ Contribute to the program’s inclusion strategy in line with the global strategies and HI’s global and country strategies.
∎ Provide support and guidance to HI teams, consortium partners, and wider humanitarian actors to ensure disability, age, and gender-inclusive strategies, responses, and data systems
∎ Develop the technical competencies of HI Teams and Partners:
∎ Assess the capacity building needs of HI teams and partners and define relevant action plans to improve knowledge, awareness, and skills
∎ Design information sessions, awareness sessions and training, strategy for the disability support group, and developing manuals/tools.
∎ Train and coach HI teams, other humanitarian agencies, Government officials on disability, various legal and human rights instruments related to disability, inclusion and mainstreaming, rights of persons with disabilities, the inclusion of disabilities in humanitarian action, meaningful participation of people with disabilities, and disability and development, etc.
∎ Carry out a training needs assessment of various target groups, develop a training curriculum and material, develop a coaching plan and ensure quality implementation of the same
∎ Ensure quality implementation through technical guidance and support
∎ Assess the level of disability inclusion in HI as well as partner humanitarian actions, in relevant phases of the Project Cycle Management, and the definition of an action plan to improve disability inclusion
∎ As part of the support plans, build the partner capacity to implement and monitor the actions identified
∎ Design and create tools and materials required to implement the support plans
∎ Provide consortium partners and other humanitarian agencies with existing sectoral guidelines on disability inclusion and support revision of partners’ guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures, service delivery pathways, and toolkits, MEAL procedures, and toolkits to mainstream disability inclusion in their actions
∎ Ensures technical learning from projects through contributing in the capitalization; ensures the formalization and evidence-based learning of all activities/learning experiences and good practices including but not limited to strategy, approach, partnerships, reporting on assessments/training/workshop documents.
∎ Contributes to the development of research and innovation projects when relevant.
∎ Contributes to the Technical Divisions professional channel, COP facilitation
∎ 2. Influence
∎ Promote, advocate and build capacity for an inclusive humanitarian response within coordination mechanisms, working groups, and towards partners (Government meetings, clusters, consortium members, working groups).
∎ Participate and contribute technical expertise to the Age and Disability Working Group and ensure its representation as per the HI’s engagement strategy.
∎ Promote HI work in inclusive humanitarian action and represent the technical expertise of HI throughout the relevant networks and coordination mechanisms (e.g. humanitarian sectors), including towards donors.
∎ Contribute to advocacy on inclusive humanitarian action in line with program & global advocacy priorities
∎ Mobilize and strengthen persons with disabilities, support groups, and other representative organizations to ensure meaningful participation when influencing.
∎ Collaborate and coordinate with the other technical, operational, and support departments of HI’s mission, according to the needs;
∎ Contribute to the communication messages in line with the program communication priorities.
∎ 3. Business Development
∎ Collect, analyze, and report any relevant information related to the protection and inclusion of people with disabilities and other groups facing discrimination.
∎ Deepen planned assessments, data systems, and monitoring tools to better understand the needs of people with disabilities and other groups at risk of exclusion, and the barriers and facilitators for access together with people with disabilities.
∎ Collect technical documentation concerning inclusion in the sectors supported to contribute to the definition of country methodological standards and technical support framework
∎ Maintain detailed documentation of all aspects of the work processes and results for purposes of contributing to donor reports
∎ Contributes to the design and writing of new projects
∎ Identify & transform major opportunities in the country and identify, develop local partnerships with NGOs
∎ Any other service/task as delegated by the line manager

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 25 to 60 years
∎ 5 years of experience promoting the inclusion in humanitarian &/or development sector.
∎ A background in disability inclusion is a must.
∎ Background in age/gender inclusion is preferred.
∎ Experience promoting non-discrimination, disability inclusion in humanitarian action through intersectional lenses.
∎ Experience in designing and providing capacity development (training, coaching, learning, etc.)
∎ Experience in advocacy and proposal development.
∎ Experience in protection response, and project management experience would be an asset.
∎ Technical experience in cross-cutting themes, such as gender or protection mainstreaming Experience in the region is an asset.
∎ Knowledge of concepts, principles, and key considerations related to disability inclusion in humanitarian standards.
∎ Knowledge of International human rights frameworks related to inclusive humanitarian action.
∎ Frameworks and mechanisms of international development cooperation and humanitarian assistance.
∎ Strategies for enhancing meaningful participation and fighting exclusion and discrimination within humanitarian and development efforts.
∎ Fluent in English (oral and written).
∎ Possess pedagogical and methodological skills.
∎ Excellent communication skills and a commitment to teamwork.
∎ Solve the problem and have a goal-orientated approach to work.
∎ Humble, flexible, and hold a coaching posture.
∎ Quick, self-learner.
∎ Person with disability are encouraged to apply

Salary: Tk. 154536 - 163890 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Tour allowance, Medical allowance, Provident fund, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance, Gratuity
∎ Festival Bonus: 2

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 31 Aug 2021

Company Information:
∎ 13 Aug 2021
∎ Handicap International (humanity & Inclusion) in Bangladesh
∎ Address : House 3/A, Road 36, Gulshan-2, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
∎ Web : https://hi.org/en/index
∎ Business : Business: Handicap International (HI) is an international aid organization specialized in the field of disability. Non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and non-profit making, it works alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, whatever the context, offering them assistance and supporting them in their efforts to become self-reliant. Since its creation, the organisation has set up programmes in approximately 60 countries and intervened in many emergency situations. It operates as a federation made up of a network of eight associations (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA) which provide human and financial resources, manage projects and raise awareness of Handicap International`s actions and campaigns.

HI has been working in Bangladesh since 1997, with a focus on creating sustainable changes in terms of ensuring rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities in society. HI promotes an inclusive approach by focusing on access to services for all whenever possible rather than developing specific actions for persons with disabilities. HI works not only with persons with disabilities but also with their families, their communities, and the society. The main office is based in Dhaka, and presently there are 3 site offices in Sitakundo, Kurigram and in Cox’sbazar.

Presently HI Bangladesh is implementing projects on integrating disability in community based disaster risk reduction and response; economic empowerment of extreme poor persons with disabilities; mainstreaming disability in livelihood interventions; support to refugees and surrounding communities;, capacity building of professional associations; and support to Disabled People`s Organizations; among others.”

Category: NGO/Development

: Interested candidates meeting the above requirements should apply with the latest CV with 3 References (Current & Previous Supervisor only) including Head of HR of the current employer to BDjobs.com by Tuesday, 31 August 2021. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply and they will be preferred in case of equal qualifications with other candidates.HI promotes and upholds the principles of equal opportunities and policies (PSEAH, Child Protection, etc.). HI has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or a child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners. Recruitment to all jobs in HI includes, in particular, criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references. Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.HI is committed to a workplace that is safe for all people to grow professionally regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, or race. HI extends this commitment to equality and Do No Harm to all staff, volunteers, partners, and beneficiaries. A strong commitment to these values, the humanitarian principles with a focus on equity and inclusion. A competitive candidate will uphold and implement these values in their personal and professional lives.Any sort of persuasion by the person, phone, email, or other means in this regard will automatically disqualify the candidate. The selected employee should clearly understand that all final offers of employment are contingent upon the successful reference check, the pre-employment screening will be performed for all selected applicants.