Inclusion Officer (Upon Funds’ Approval)

Position’s mission:

Since 2012, Humanity and Inclusion (HI) has been operating in Lebanon, aiming to increase the inclusion of persons with disabilities and vulnerable persons in community life, both physically and in terms of professional, cultural and social inclusion.

The Inclusion Officer will contribute to the implementation of HI mandate and ten-year strategy (expressed in StratOp) in his/her home country. He/she contributes to the implementation of projects by accompanying partners, providing technical expertise ensuring that the quality and impact of the project(s) concerned are optimized.

Under the supervision of the Project Manager and in close collaboration with the National Field technical referent and the Regional Technical Unit (RTU), the Inclusion Technical officer (Level 1) accompany project’s staff, partners and relevant actors and stakeholders in the implementation of the project and other initiatives, and contributes to the project’s MEAL                      

Line managed by: Project Manager

Interacts with:

- Internally: Country manager, Deputy country manager, project team, RTU, MEAL, support services staff, Regional Inclusion Technical Specialist.

- Externally: The project partners, the authorities in the project area of implementation, other stakeholders including local organizations, INGOs and UN agencies in the area of implementation, relevant Clusters/Sector working groups

Responsibility 1: Contribute to the development of tools for the project implementation and to the capacity building of the project’s team and partners.

Tasks:

• Participate to the selection and contextualization of the modalities of intervention in compliance with HI technical framework.
• Contribute to the development and/or adaptation of methodologies and to the development of high complexity technical tools, including full training packages (training needs assessment tools, training manuals and materials, pre-post training tests), users’ guidelines, etc.;
• Develop or adapt low/medium complexity technical tools.
• Organize and/or participate to the tool’s testing when appropriate and adjust them according to the results of the test.
• Provide ad-hoc support to the team during the activity’s implementation including field coaching.
• Contribute to assessing HI project team and/or project partner capacity building needs, to define suitable training plan and training package.
• Train project’s partners and relevant actors and stakeholders on the methodologies and tools.
• Produce training and coaching reports and coordinate feedbacks with the service providers for strengthening continuous staff development.

Responsibility 2: Under the supervision of the PM and in coordination with the technical referent, support the implementation of project activities.

Tasks:

• Provide ad-hoc and sector related support, coaching and follow up to the project’s partners, actors and stakeholders during the implementation of the following activities:

• Provide capacity building (awareness raising sessions, training, coaching and ToT) to partners and stakeholders on disability inclusion under the guidance of the technical referent.
• Identify with the project team most appropriate modalities of intervention and related tool and based on monitoring outputs and teams’ feedback, adjust/adapt the tools.
• With the MEAL TO and the Technical referent support, contribute to the development of projects learning papers/research/ survey terms of reference, protocol and related tools in close collaboration with the project team.
• Contribute with the team to the data collection as per the protocol defined, proceed with data analysis and the production of report 
•               Directly carry out the following activities:
• Conduct inclusion assessments using different data collection modalities, tools and techniques (KAP surveys, key informant interviews, focus group discussions…) and cross-analyze the findings to develop a report showing gaps, challenges and good practices towards disability inclusion.
• Conduct the accessibility assessment for partner’s centers in participatory with them, develop reports accordingly, and follow-up on accessibility actions with HI technical and logistics’ team and partners
• Follow up, coach and support other Local and International partners implementing their Inclusive Action Plan.
• Desk review for the partners’ project tools and documents to support the adaptation support to the partners team during tools use (including field coaching).

• Participate in sector working groups and provide them with support on disability inclusion in collaboration with the inclusion NFTS. 

Responsibility 3: Contribute to project’s monitoring, lessons learning and reporting 

Tasks:

• Contribute to the development of high complexity data collection tools for documenting indicators, under the lead of the RTU and MEAL; and in collaboration with the RTU and MEAL, develop low/medium complexity data collection tools.
• Collect data in relation with core tasks and contribute to the measurement of the progress made.
• Support the PM in analyzing the data collected and in identifying necessary adjustments in the project implementation framework to improve the quality and impact of the intervention.
• Contribute to the identification of good practices under the project.
• Develop case studies and success stories to illustrate changes induced by the project and for communication use.
• Contribute to planning and produce activity reports and donor report.
• Contribute to the preparation and implementation of project quarterly reviews.
• Participate to the organization of technical reviews and technical missions.
• Contribute to the development of lessons learning exercise, data collection and analysis and the production of dissemination document.
• Facilitate the field implementation of project’s evaluations and of researches

Note that this job description must remain flexible; the list of tasks set out above is not exhaustive and is subject to changes resulting from the diversity of Handicap international activities to respond to additional tasks or changes as identified by the line manager.

Education:

• Essential: University degree in social work, physiotherapy, occupational therapy or any other related field.

Experience:

• Essential: Minimum 2 years of professional experience in the field of disability inclusion in emergency and/or development context
• Essential: Experience in providing professional capacity building and coaching to teams and partners
• Essential: Ability to develop information material

-     Essential: knowledge of referral mechanisms

Other skills:

-     Experience to translate written technical documents from English into Arabic;

-     Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PP, Outlook…)

-     Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team

-     Excellent reporting capacity skills (written and oral communication)

-     Ability to work with partners

-     Ability to develop accessible information materials

-     Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS:

HI workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in HI Code of conduct. In accordance with these values, HI operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child. Safeguarding, Anti-fraud, bribery, and corruption.

Handicap International is an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from woman and persons with disabilities.

Basic salary ranges for the position: Inclusion Officer is going to be paid according to the experience and to HI salary Grid.

Basic Salary Starting 1,700 USD

Closing date: 26/05/2024

Interested candidates send their CV to recruitment@lebanon.hi.org with the subject “IO-2024”

Application should include CV and motivation letter. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.