The Opportunity
- Senior Advisor, Disability Inclusion
in Save the Children Country offices preferably in Nigeria, Nicaragua, Albania, Egypt and Bangladesh) The Disability Inclusion Technical Advisor will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to provide a critical link between the Save the Children's global and country level technical work on Disability Inclusion. It is anticipated that 70% of the role will be global in nature and focus on leading the
Disability Accelerator (50% year 1 and 60% year 2), and support the global help desk for disability inclusion through the Disability Inclusion Technical Working Group
(20% year 1 and 10% year 2). The
Disability Accelerator is designed to support a culture of Disability Inclusion in Save the Children country teams and foster meaningful partnerships directly with organisations of persons with disabilities (OPD). Each Accelerator runs for six months in each country and consists of three parts: internal self-assessments and baseline exercise on Disability Inclusion; a week-long interactive training co-facilitated with a prominent national disability rights activist, and subsequently; the development and roll-out of a pilot project implemented together with the local Disability Movement.