Disability Inclusion Assistant

General objectives and tasks:

General Objectives:

• Empower Job Seekers with Disability to build their careers, engage in economic development and contribute to the recovery of affected businesses.
• Strengthen youth with disability in overcoming physical and educational barriers, limiting them to compete in job markets.
• Change mindsets of businesses in Lebanon through embedding a diverse and disability inclusive culture.

Tasks:

1-Contribute to the effective inclusion of People with Disabilities in the workplace and community:

• Conduct individual assessment for job seekers with disabilities approaching the Employment Office to determine their capabilities, reasonable accommodations and/or assistive technologies needed, to ensure their full inclusion and ability to fully perform in the designated job.
• Prepare detailed individual assessment reports, and report it to the Disability Inclusion Officer.
• Advise technically, in coordination with Disability Inclusion Officer, the Employment Office Team on best practices for the job matching of job seekers with disability.
• Coordinate closely and follow up with the Employability Lead and Employment Office Team on operational work to ensure the inclusion in the workplace.
• Coordinate with the career coach within the Employment Office to assess the development of the job seekers with disability.
• Conduct the Disability Inclusion Gap Analysis for each of the SME and identify the needs in terms of accessibility, culture, policies and procedures, etc.

2- Assist in the program’s research and development:

• Draft application forms, assessment checklists, and training content following the guidelines of the Employment Program.
• Participate in seminars, webinars, round tables, workshops on disability issues in Lebanon.
• Suggest innovative ideas/activities related to disability inclusion and decent work for people with disability.

3- Promote disability diversity and inclusion through a variety of strategies:

• Prepare and conduct specialized assessment of accessibility for both public and private spaces, in coordination with the Disability Inclusion Officer.
• Propose the adaptations and reconstructions needed to adjust the workspaces to become accessible.
• Identify individual reasonable accommodations and prescribe assistive devices and technologies for each job seeker with disability.
• Prepare reports on assistive technologies prescriptions, in addition to accessibility assessment reports and recommendations reports.

Position requirements:

Professional Skills:

• Proficiency in types of disability, models, approaches and best practices.
• Proficiency in accessibility practices, and Universal Design standards.
• Previous experience in the inclusive employment of people with disabilities.
• Proficiency in writing skills mainly in English language.
• Keeping up with technological advancement, especially with assistive technologies for people with disabilities.
• Passion to work towards disability inclusion.

Personal competencies:

• High level of creativity and innovation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Influential personality.
• Negotiation skills.
• Empathy.
• Patience.
• Ambitious.
• Initiative taker.
• Responsible.
• Agile.
• Human and service oriented.
• Flexible.

Working schedule: Monday till Friday from 09:00 am till 05:00 pm.

Contract type: 11 Months, with possibility of extension.