Main duties : Promote an inclusive policies in working places, and provide PWD with all needed tools to ensure their inclusion in all life aspects.
Technical Responsibilities
Ensure that project and local coordinators are constantly updated on project activities and progress
Ensure that forms are filled out correctly.
Ensure the data archiving using LPHU system and keep an appropriate record of progress reports on job seekers.
Suggest any necessary modification need to improve the system
Provide the main data base regularly with the collected data
Networking and Cooperation
Introduce and explain the project for the employers ( emphasising on the importance of inclusion and the economical profit and the law 220)
Explain to employers different disabilities, such as visual and hearing impairments, wheelchairs users, dyslexia, mental health problems, learning/speaking/writing difficulties
Advise employers on drawing a job description that does not needlessly exclude a disabled candidate and that concentrates on what is to be achieved in the job rather than how it is to be achieved
Provide companies with information on reasonable adjustment (including a draft design) and the approximate costs .
Provide information on how to advertise for a job and the importance of using positive words, stating that the application will be accepted in alternative formats and advertising it in more than one medium
Ensure that people with disabilities are not treated less favourably than others in the process of the interview, suggesting to employers the possibility of providing auxiliary aids or services and offering information about the interview on different formats and in a fully accessible location
Ensure that the employers provide the job centre with any job vacancies
Advise employers on how to manage health-related absences
Identify job seekers
Implement the pre test prepared in collaboration with the field assistant
Improve in collaboration with the other job advisers all forms when necessary
Prepare an assessment for job seekers to identify their knowledge , skills and capacity
Conduct the assessment .
Assist the job seekers while filling forms
Provide the job trainers with all necessary information and assist in the preparation of a tailor-made training
Prepare the job seekers for the job interview
Suggest needed training for job seekers
Based on the filled forms and in collaboration of the job seekers do a job matching
Home visits to the individuals and work with their families when needed
Assist in enhancing leadership and independent living skills where applicable in cooperation with the local coordinator
Conduct regular meeting with individuals
Reporting
Regularly report to the local coordinator on all tasks completed and in process.
Provide a weekly summary report of all activities conducted in the field.
Provide the local coordinator with all information necessary to the database.
Provide the project coordinators with any information when requested
Application Deadline
Organisation
Salary Range
Unpaid Position
Contract Type
Full Time
Requires a Cover Letter?
No
Education Degree
Bachelor Degree
Education Degree Details
Bachelor degree in Occupational therapy,
Knowledge of law 220,
Working Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
Ability to communicate in English and Arabic (French is a plus )
Knowledge of law 220,
Working Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
Ability to communicate in English and Arabic (French is a plus )
Arabic
Fluent
English
Good
French
Good
Hide guidelines for wrong answers
No