Job Specification:
Eligibility criteria
Age: 27 – 80
Nationality: The candidate must be a national or legal resident of the country of assignment.
Requirements
Required experience
- 3 years of experience in having undertaken and led programming and/or research on youth development and disability inclusion.
- Academic credentials in youth development and disability inclusion are a strong asset.
- Experience in designing, implementing, managing, and delivering results-based programmes/projects on disability and youth engagement programming.
- Fluency in English is required; Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, and reporting skills.
- Sound knowledge of community development, education, elections and governance and social work
Area(s) of expertise: Social work, Economics and finance
Driving license: –
Languages
English, Level: Fluent, Required
Nepalese, Level: Fluent, Required
Required education level
Bachelor degree or equivalent in social sciences (i.e., sociology, political science, social policy, or economics), public health, public policy, public administration, international development
Competencies and values
- Accountability
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Creativity
- Judgement and decision-making
- Planning and organising
- Professionalism
- Self-management
Job Responsibilities :
1. Technical and capacity-building support
- Participate in cross-sectoral collaboration and coordination on key programmatic results on disability inclusion, young people’s participation, skills, and inclusive education.
- Provide technical support and guidance on aspects of young people’s participation, skills, disability inclusion and inclusive education-related programming and to ensure incorporation of relevant indicators and measures in programmes/projects, policy initiatives, proposals, and M&E systems.
- Provide technical support and assistance in implementing UNICEF’s Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy (DIPAS) 2022-2030 and the South Asia Regional Action Plan, providing support to COs with capacity development and monitoring.
2. Support to programme development and planning
- Participate and support in evidence-based programme/project planning, including the development of project proposals on disability inclusion, young people’s participation, skills, and inclusive education.
- Provide technical support on the integration of inclusion into programme component strategy notes and institutional strengthening components related to disability and young people’s participation, skills, and inclusive education.
- In collaboration with sectors at the regional and country offices, identify the areas of focus for disability inclusion, skills, and inclusive education-related programming/projects with the greatest potential for impact and scale.
3. Advocacy and partnership building
- Liaise and consult with sections to support convergence and develop and reinforce partnerships in disability inclusion and engagement programming.
- Support building and maintenance of strategic alliances for gender equality and disability inclusion with various partners, including institutional links with UN agencies and other relevant entities.
- Support mapping of potential new partnerships and leverage existing partnerships to accelerate relevant results at the country level in determined priority areas.
- Build the internal capacity of the Adolescent team (ROSA and COs) and partners in promoting the participation of young people with disabilities in their collectives, clubs, and organisations and in promoting their voices and issues.
4. Innovation and knowledge management
- Improved digital accessibility to ensure improved participation and conscious efforts to improve representation of young people with disabilities in the Young People’s Action Team (YPAT), country consultative groups etc.
- Support documentation and sharing of the country-level experience in disability inclusion and engagement programming and lessons learned, which will be shared with internal networks and external partners.
- Bring best practices in disability programming and measurement to the attention of senior management and sectoral colleagues.
- Improved data and evidence e.g., investment cases for disability rights and increased opportunities to document and share the model cases on inclusive skills-building programme.
- Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
- Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking an active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day).
- Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
- Provide annual and end-of-assignment self- reports on UN Volunteer actions, results, and opportunities.
- Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.
- Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers.
- Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.
