The Opportunity
Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as the Interim Global Lead – Disability Inclusion in London, UK or any existing Save the Children International Regional or Country office worldwide.
Role Purpose: This position provides global leadership, coordination, and strategic direction for Save the Children’s Disability Inclusion approach across our programming, partnership, advocacy and evidence generation.
The Global Lead for Disability Inclusion leads on the implementation of Disability Inclusion policy and sets the technical direction across the global organisation in alignment with our organisational strategy. This includes leading the global Disability Inclusion Technical Working Group, managing a small team of Disability Inclusion technical advisors and collaborating with technical staff in Disability Inclusion across country, regional, centre and member offices. Additionally, this position collaborates closely with teams across thematic/cross-cutting areas in humanitarian and development contexts, as well as across different functional teams, to ensure Disability Inclusion is effectively mainstreamed and truly cross-cutting in what we know and do.
The post holder stays abreast of and engages in industry developments and identifies, develops and maintains relationships and coalitions with key players in the Disability Inclusion space, including with representative organisations of persons with disabilities, other expert disability organisations, donors and the global disability movement. They represent Save the Children at global, regional and country level fora as relevant, showcasing Save the Children’s Disability Inclusion work. This will involve working across a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, including children and young people with disabilities themselves, as well as external stakeholders including INGOs, UNICEF, global partnerships and other agencies.
This is a leadership position which requires superior technical knowledge, management expertise, and programme development. It sits within the Child Rights, Equality and Social Justice team which includes Global Leads in other equality seeking areas.
In order to be successful you will bring/have:
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential:
- Significant prior experience within development and/or humanitarian work, with a rights based approach, including experience within a country programme or equivalent.
- Demonstrable experience of a focus on people/children with disabilities in development and/or humanitarian context, including across multiple thematic areas (health and nutrition, education, child protection, child poverty and/or child rights governance).
- Conceptual and theoretical understanding of the UNCRPD, the UNCRC and the application of the Washington Group Questions and UNICEF Child functioning Modules, accompanied by the ability to inspire, motivate, and build capacity and confidence in this in others.
- Demonstrable ability to co-ordinate and work across an organisation to change behaviours and deliver results.
- Experience of training and capacity building with a track record of building in-country understanding and skills for Disability Inclusive programming
- Proven senior level experience leading diverse, complex initiatives and virtual teams to achieve agreed objectives.
- Good theoretical understanding and practical experience with planning, monitoring and evaluation tools commonly used in the development and humanitarian sector and disability inclusive programming (e.g. the logical framework approach and results based management)
- Excellent writing, communication, and networking skills in English
- Strong ability to build internal and external partnerships, guide and motivate people towards the achievement of agreed goals
- An ability to provide high-level external representation.
- Ability to prioritize when working under pressure, along with strong problem-solving skills.
- Self- motivated, collaborative, can share capacity, innovative, adaptable to complex situations and able to work with high degree of autonomy.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 15% of time.
Desirable
- Additional languages, particularly French, Spanish and/or Arabic.
- Experience with project and/or process management
- Robust analytic skills and demonstrated knowledge in MEAL, including indicator development, preferably related to children with disabilities and disability disaggregated data.
- Experience in fundraising, new business development (NBD), finance management and IT.
- Experience working within a complex and matrix organisation structure.
- Lived disability experience
We can offer circa £62,000 per annum (If based in UK) with an option of flexible working hours. If the role is based outside of the UK, National T&C (including pay) will apply.
This role can be based in London or any existing Save the Children International Regional or Country office location on approval, provided the successful candidate has proof of eligibility to work from the preferred location.
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The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your salary expectations.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.