Mozambique: Technical Advisor in Inclusive Education - MOZAMBIQUE

Outraged by the injustice faced by people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we aspire to a world of solidarity and inclusion, enriched by our differences, where everyone can live in dignity.

Handicap International (HI) is an independent and impartial aid and development organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside disabled and vulnerable people to help meet their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

For further information about the association: http://www.handicap-international.org

Present in more than 55 countries, Handicap International is composed of 2 operational directions:

• The Direction of Humanitarian Action

• The Direction of Development Action

JOB CONTEXT :

Under the umbrella of the Development Action, Handicap International has been operating in Mozambique since 1986. More recently, inclusive local development strategies have been designed and implemented to ensure access to services in a context of increasing suburban poverty. The combination of those actions and approaches in time have contributed to the emergence of national civil society actors capable to promote the rights of the most vulnerable groups, in particular those with disabilities. Mainstreaming efforts have led to the recognition of disability as a priority issue in national and local political agendas and concretely opened the doors of basic services and risk mitigation systems to the most deprived.

HI Mozambique has a new operational framework (2016-2020) with 3 strategic pillars:

1) Health; 2) Socio-economic inclusion; 3) Disaster risk reduction and emergency response preparedness.

Current projects are related to local inclusive development: a EU funded project aiming at strengthening social protection (2015-2019) and an inclusive education project funded by la Chaîne du Bonheur through HI Switerland “VISTA: offering future prospects to children with disabilities in Mozambique through inclusive education”. The project started in November 2016 and will end in October 2019. The donor also requested a strong child protection focus in this project.

Specific VISTA project context:

The project was prepared in several phases and is now operational and ready to start in Maputo and Matola periurban areas with 3 main results which can be summarized as:

1) Children with disabilities (CwD) and special learning needs (CwSLN) have access to quality inclusive education (IE) in 12 primary schools,

2) CwD and CwSLN are empowered and their communities sensitized for active support in IE,

3) the effective collaboration of key stakeholders contributes to the application of the IE action plan on the ground.

YOUR MISSION:

Linked to the Operational Coordinator, your main objective is to provide technical support to the ‘VISTA’ project team, in order to deliver a quality inclusive education approach with focus on the training of teachers of the targeted public schools.

In this framework, your main objectives are:

· to provide ongoing training and capacity-building to the VISTA project team in inclusive education (IE),

· to develop complementary IE modules for the training of teachers and school supervisors of the project sites.

This mission consequently aims to provide guidance to the VISTA project team regarding the development of complementary modules on inclusive education, based on the findings from the baseline and the recommendations from the workshop on the gaps assessment in the current teacher training on IE, and provide technical support for the training of teachers and supervisors on these specific modules. The main participants of the training are the Project Manager, other staff members, the Disability Mainstreaming Advisor and partners.

YOUR PROFILE :

· You hold a Master’s degree in Education, with preference for a specialization related to Special Education and/or inclusive education;

· You have minimum 2 years’ experience in teaching children with learning needs and disabilities; preference experience in training of schools’ teachers;

· You have minimum 3 years’ experience in non-governmental organizations including a responsibility in training of trainers;

· You have a comprehensive experience in disability-related interventions and/or local inclusive development;

· You master project cycle management;

· You have very good Portuguese speaking skills with a good working level;

· You have good writing and reporting capacities

· You are adaptable and autonomous

· You have the capacity to take initiatives

CONDITIONS:

· Startingdate : 1^st November, 2017

· Lengthof thecontract: 4 months**

· Employee status, according to experience :

• Salary from 2031€ gross / month regarding the experience of the candidate

• Perdiem : 393€ net

• Insurances : medical hearth coverage, retirement planning, repatriation

• Paid holiday : 25 days per year

• R&R : 1 day per month

• Status : position open to couples

• Housing : collective taken in charge by Handicap International

Only online by joining a CV and cover letter via the following link: https://hi.profilsearch.com/recrute/en/fo_annonce_voir.php?id=2265&idpartenaire=131