Ecuador: Disability Researcher

The SRD Center is committed to quality and excellence in helping national and international agencies in the domains of education, health, and environment, to succeed through providing state-of-the art consultation services, exceptional capacity building opportunities, and sound implementation, monitoring, and post-project evaluation for humanitarian and development projects. The Center’s Head Office is located in Amman.

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SRD Center intends to apply for a global study on youth and disability to ensure social inclusion and gender equality and address discrimination and gender-based violence.
The study may start on March 1st 2016 to December 16th 2016. The study will be home-based but required field visits to four selected countries among the 17 countries that should be covered by the study. The areas that should be covered by the study: (i) Identification of major gaps in information and data with proposals for methodologies, interventions and institutional arrangements to address these gaps; (ii) Identification of: a. A core set of standards for essential services for AYWD who are subjected to, or at risk of gender-based violence and sexual violence b. Technical proposals on the content of these standards; (iii) Policy and legal implications for relevant duty bearers and other actors (government, other state institutions, the private sector and the UN system) to address the human rights of adolescents and youth with disabilities; (iv) Programming and advocacy implications and interventions to be articulated by UNFPA in the design and implementation of a global programme to prevent and address gender-based violence, sexual violence and discrimination against adolescents and youth with disabilities; (v) Programming and advocacy implications to provide attention to AYWD in broader UNFPA work on the demographic dividend. Please note that CVs will be assessed on an ongoing basis and therefore qualified candidates are encouraged to send their applications as early as possible.

Qualifications:

1. Graduate degree in special education, social sciences, preferably related to disability, human rights, youth, or gender.
2. Demonstrated global and regional research experience and knowledge on issues related to persons with disabilities, international human rights law and policy, social inclusion policies, gender equality, gender-based violence and sexual violence prevention, and sexual and reproductive health and rights, and disability and gender stereotyping.
3. Demonstrated global knowledge of the international human rights, including the framework on the rights of persons with disabilities and women’s human rights.
4. At least 5 years of experience in policy and technical writing at UN level and/or international level.
5. Familiarity with disabilities and social inclusion and welfare systems.
6. Strong experience in conducting research in respect of social sciences.
7. Excellent written and spoken English.
8. Excellent written and spoken at least in one of the following languages: French, Spanish, or Russian.

If you believe that your expertise and qualification are good match with the requirements, please send me:

1. Updated CV in Word format.
2. Short bio-data (one or two paragraphs to explain how your qualifications are fit to the study requirements.
3. One sample document related to one of the following topics: Youth and disability; social inclusion; gender equality; gender-based violence.
   Send to: srd@srd.edu.jo:
   In the subject field, please write: GSYD (your name)
   In the body of the email please write the following information:
   Your Name:
   Language(s):
   Nationality:
   Willing to travel: Yes/No