Kefeta – DISABILITY MAINSTREAMING OFFICER (KDMO) – Diredawa 55 views

Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD)

 Internal/External Immediate Vacancy Announcement 

Project: KEFETA

Position: DISABILITY MAINSTREAMING OFFICER (KDMO)

Duty station: Diredawa

Project Summary

The Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) is an Ethiopian civil society development organization that works with other organizations to promote, facilitate and build organizational capacity to make mainstream government and non-governmental service delivery and development programs accessible to, and inclusive of persons with disabilities.

ECDD is one of the consortium members of a project called KEFETA – Integrated Youth Activity which is funded by USAID and led by Amref Health Africa. Kefeta envisions Ethiopian youths who are game-changers empowered to advance their own economic, civic, and social development; resilient in the face of shocks; actively promoting development within their communities and contributing to the country’s peace and prosperity. Kefeta will strengthen the youth ecosystem in Ethiopia with integrated, multi-sectoral, youth-centered programming aligned with the Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach. In the coming five years, the program will reach out to two million Ethiopian youths, out of which 120,000 (6% of total) of them are expected to be youths with disabilities.

ECDD will lead KEFETA’s disability inclusion activities ensuring the above-mentioned number of youths with disabilities are actively involved and benefited from the program. Currently, ECDD is looking for 4 competent and qualified candidates for the position of Kefeta’s Disability Mainstreaming Officers (KDMO).

Description of Tasks

The Project Officer is based at Dire Dawa, and report to the Kefeta’s Project Coordinator. The KDMO will be expected to travel widely within the assigned project cluster cities.  The Project Officer is responsible for the overall implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of activities and results of the project in assigned cluster implementation areas, and ensures disability mainstreaming in every activity of Kefetas’s consortium member CSOs.

Specifically, the KDMO will:

1.    Prepare a Work Plan for the implementation of the activities of the project in the assigned region/city, based upon the ECDD- Kefeta Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) and allocated Budget

2.    Implement activities according to the Work Plan

3.    Monitor and prepare periodic reports on the progress of implementation of activities

4.    Liaise with Regional Medium and Small Enterprise Development Agencies (ReMSEDAs) and Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in the area to provide training, advice, and financial support groups of youths with disabilities to be self-employed

5.    Contact public and private employers to identify employment opportunities and to create internship opportunities for job-seekers with disabilities

6.    Provide overall guidance and support to trainees, employees, businesses, and cooperatives participating in the project

7.    Facilitate leadership, disability rights advocacy, and soft skills training

8.    Organize consultative workshops nationally and at the clusters level on increased participation of youth with disabilities in governance and civic affairs

9.    Build the capacities of the implementing partners on disability mainstreaming skills and provide them continuous technical support on the issue of disability inclusion

10. Participate in the monitoring of disability mainstreaming all program activities of Kefeta consortium member CSOs

11. Facilitate accessibility audit at selected TVETs, University’s career centers, and youth hubs for disability inclusion and accessibility as well as sensitize centers’ staff to include youth with disabilities

12. Facilitate capacity-building training to key staff/trainers from selected TVET’s and cascade down the newly developed TVET disability mainstreaming guideline.

13. Identify and mobilize youth with disabilities to enroll in Kefeta’s youth economic empowerment activities

14. Engage in the strengthening of Ethiopian Business and Disability Network, and facilitate the participation of youth with disabilities in different Job fairs

15. Support establishment of youth enterprises and IGA groups composed of youth with disabilities and link to youth empowerment fund.

16. Undertake such other tasks as may be assigned by the ECDD – Kefeta Project Coordinator.

Qualifications:
1.    Education – minimum BA in Social Work, Sociology, Business Administration or a related field

2.    Professional experience – minimum 2 years of responsibility for the implementation of donor-funded projects related to vocational skills training and youth development work

3.    Good understanding of national TVET policies and strategies, and extensive knowledge of other organizations active in livelihoods-related work in Ethiopia

4.    Good knowledge of the practice and profession of special needs education

5.    Previous professional work in vocational skills training is desirable

6.    Previous business experience is desirable

7.    Previous professional experience working with persons with disabilities is desirable

8.    Previous professional experience on youth empowerment project desirable

9.    Excellent interpersonal relationships and teamwork

10. Excellent communication skills

11. Able and willing to travel frequently to the project intervention areas

12. Competence in the use of computer applications

13. Fluency in English and Amharic or Ethiopian Sign Language, and knowledge of other Ethiopian languages are also advantageous.

Qualified individuals with disabilities, especially women, are encouraged to apply.  ECDD gives priority in employment to qualified candidates with disabilities.  ECDD will meet any and all required disability adjustment costs to enable individuals with disabilities to meet the requirements of the position.