CBM is an international Christian disability and inclusive development organization whose primary purpose is to improve quality of life of the world’s poorest persons with disabilities and those at risk of disability, who live in the most disadvantaged societies. We seek to recruit a Program Officer for the Ageing and Disability Capacity Building Program (ADCAP).
Persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.
PROGRAM OFFICER- AGE AND DISABILITY
The Age and Disability Capacity Building (ADCAP) programme is a global initiative implemented by the Age and Disability (A&D) Consortium, led by HelpAge International. Consortium members include Handicap International, CBM, IFRC, Red R UK and Disaster Ready. The programme works with both international and national partners at operational and headquarters levels, to build their knowledge and expertise in inclusive humanitarian programming in support of changes to policy and practice of operational actors.
The ADCAP programme will ensure that older people and persons with disability benefit from improved access to services across different sectors as a result of a) improved recognition by humanitarian actors of the right and needs of these groups, and b) increased inclusion of these groups in programming resulting from improved skills and expertise in the design and delivery of inclusive humanitarian assistance c) contribute to changes in organisational and institutional environments that will ensure greater knowledge of, and confidence in, the need for inclusive programming.
The job holder will play a central role in supporting CBM and other humanitarian partners, to take steps towards gender-sensitive mainstreaming of ageing and disability into organisational policy and practice in Kenya.
The objective of this position is also to establish a sustainable mechanism at country level to build and support the capacity of their parent agency, and external humanitarian partners to deliver gender-sensitive, age and disability inclusive humanitarian programmes.
Main Responsibilities:
Internal
- Conduct an assessment of the extent to which ageing and disability are mainstreamed in policy and practice of the organization (CBM).
- Advocate in coordination with the CO Kenya and CBM IO teams for the implementation of gender-sensitive, age and disability inclusive humanitarian programming and implementation.
- Develop and/or review an organisational inclusion strategy for the Kenya focal partners outlining identified rationale, objectives, and opportunities to contribute to age and disability inclusion in organisational policy and practice in collaboration with the Age and Disability Capacity Building Focal Persons.
- Ensure consultations and dissemination of the age and disability mainstreaming strategy among the agency staff;
- Facilitate the development of a Kenya Organisational Action Plan (K-OAP) to be endorsed by senior management (CBM-RO and ERU, and Kenya Partners), outlining the concrete actions to be taken by the organisation to deliver the strategy.
- Develop an improvement plan every quarter, undertaking ongoing assessments, to ensure there is continuous progress made against the milestones of the Organisational Action Plan,
- Provide technical input into the review and design of organisation policy, tools and operational response activities to reflect the needs of older people and people with disabilities drawing on and working towards, the implementation of the minimum standards developed as part of the Age and Disability Capacity Building project
- Build capacity of CBM and Kenya partners’ staff to contribute to gender-sensitive mainstreaming ageing and disability through training and coaching.
- Form a inclusion working group including other team members from the organisation who will support implementation, monitoring and review of the OAP
External
- Facilitate and/or conduct training on ageing and disability in humanitarian action to staff members of other humanitarian actors, and the use of the minimum standards.
- Work with identified agencies to develop an organisational inclusion strategy outlining identified rationale, objectives, and opportunities to contribute to gender-sensitive age and disability inclusion in organisational policy and practice at country or head office level, and support partners to have the strategy endorsed and signed off by senior management.
- Support partners to develop an overall action plan, to be endorsed by senior management, outlining the concrete actions to be taken by the organisation to deliver the strategy.
- Provide follow up support to humanitarian partners through mentoring, training-of-trainers, webinars, and one-on-one support as required.
- Build strategic alliances with other key actors internally and externally to advocate for gender-sensitive, age and disability inclusive programming.
- Identify opportunities for the development of relevant advocacy and communication/information materials to support age and disability inclusion in national processes
- Develop, maintain and disseminate good practice examples of effective mainstreaming of ageing and disability carried out within and outside of the organisation.
- Maintain a library of materials on ageing and disability mainstreaming and produce user-friendly and operationally-oriented summaries of key documents for broad dissemination within the parent organisation and the sector as required.
Monitoring and reporting
- In line with the project Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Framework, monitor and report on implementation of the internal, parent agency mainstreaming strategy through:
o Monthly informal report to the HelpAge age and disability project team
o Quarterly report in line with the MEAL framework,
- The focal point shall fulfil all reporting requirements as outlined in the project Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Framewo rk, including but not limited to reporting on:
o The implementation of external training activities
o Development and implementation of external agency improvement plans
o Changes at individual, organisational and systemic levels in support of age and disability mainstreaming
Person specification
o Masters or advanced degree in a relevant subject area.
o Knowledge of training tools and methods with proven experience in delivering training in humanitarian settings.
o Previous experience in medium-large scale emergencies (desirable)
o Familiar with humanitarian programming and inter-agency coordination systems
o Experience in protection work, cross-cutting issues in humanitarian response (gender, age, disability etc), working with vulnerable groups or participatory approaches.
HOW TO APPLY:
APPLICATION PROCEDURES:Applicants should email their applications attaching a detailed curriculum vitae (including current and expected salary) and a letter indicating why they are interested in and qualified for the position and the names of three referees who can provide confidential assessment of their capabilities. All communications relating to applications for this position should be addressed to:
The Human Resources Manager - email: recruit.nairobi@cbm.org Applications must be received by 3rd June 2015.Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
