Inclusive Humanitarian Action specialist

Place: UKRAINE – Vinnytsia

Starting date: ASAP

Type of contract: CDD – 6 months (possible extension)

Closing date for applications: 31/05/2022

Handicap International is an independent and impartial international solidarity organization, which intervenes in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflicts and disasters. Working alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, it acts and speaks out to meet their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

HI is committed to an employment policy in favour of workers with disabilities.

In March 2014, anti-government protests in Ukraine led to the removal of a Kremlin-friendly leader from power, and Russia invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula. A month later, pro-Russian separatists backed by Russia began capturing territory from the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts (the Donbass region). In 2015, the peace Minsk agreement was signed, however never fully implemented and the fighting has transformed into a trench war over the past eight years. After having built up significant military forces on Ukraine’s borders in 2021, and after having recognized the independence of Russian-backed self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, Russia launched on the 24 February a large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine by air, land and sea targeting several regions and key cities including Kyiv.

Humanitarian situation :

Heavy fighting and shelling continue across several towns and cities in Ukraine, with increasing human cost and humanitarian consequence. Most of these casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area. Reports of civilians trapped in towns and cities under shelling continue. Inside Ukraine, severe essential health supplies, fuel and cash shortages are reported, with heightened insecurity affecting access to basic services. Population movement remains fluid and according to latest figures by UNHCR, close to 900,000 people have now fled Ukraine to neighboring countries, while over 100,000 have so far been internally displaced. Real figures are considerably higher as corroboration is ongoing, albeit with delays and security challenges.

JOB CONTEXT:

HI response to the conflict and its regional impact.

HI is re-opening a two-country program covering Ukraine and Moldova. In Ukraine, HI aims at intervening in the West and East of the country, adapting modalities of intervention to the various and diverging contexts of implementation.

The main objectives will be to assess more deeply the current context & environment, identify potential operational partners, meet with key relevant stakeholders on the ground and asses the overall needs of the population, and requirement to start operations. HI is therefore preparing to be able to deploy quickly a large-scale multi sectoral humanitarian response. Aligning itself with the priorities of the Ukraine Flash Appeal HI pillars of interventions are the following:

• Health: HI aims to improve access to quality physical rehabilitation and mental health and psychosocial services (MHPSS) for conflict-affected vulnerable population.
• Protection: HI will conduct a multi-pronged approach to Explosive Ordnance (EO) risk education and will foster a disability- inclusive humanitarian response.
• Basic needs
• Humanitarian-to-humanitarian logistics
• Inclusion : According to our mandate and given the serious concerns encountered by persons with disabilities, HI promotes a disability inclusive response and works closely with representative organizations while addressing these concerns.

Persons with disabilities face heightened risks such as abandonment, targeted violence, lack of access to medical care or injury and numerous barriers for accessing humanitarian assistance and protection. HI puts a particular focus on identifying and removing these risks and conducted an in-depth for children and adults with disabilities, as well as their support persons and families and other groups particularly at risk in accommodation and transit centres, residential care settings and institutions specifically in but not limited to the East, while raising awareness and providing technical guidance to humanitarian actors.

1. HI directly responds to needs of persons with disabilities and their support persons, by improving access to quality health and protection services for conflict-affected vulnerable populations, including for persons with disabilities, including to rehabilitation care and psychosocial support services and inclusive basic needs assistance
2. HI promotes disability-inclusive humanitarian coordination and response through evidence-based technical support and capacity building of humanitarian actors, international, national services providers and authorities, also through collaborations and technical support to organizations of persons with disabilities. HI aims to strengthen evidence on the situation of persons with disabilities through enhanced collection of data on persons with disabilities and meaningful engagement of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in the response. Technical guidance is developed to improve the uptake of disability-inclusion in key process such as information sharing, monitoring of risks and service provision.
3. In addition the key HI coordinates with the regional response to promote safety and access to assistance for refugees with disabilities arriving in Moldova.

YOUR MISSION:

Under the responsibility of the Program Manager, as Inclusive Humanitarian Action Specialist, you will strategize, supervise the quality and coordinate the design, implementation and monitoring of HI’s inclusive humanitarian action activities and project results in close collaboration and partnership with networks and organizations of persons with disabilities. You will ensure optimal quality and impact of the projects implemented in the country, through a delegation system with appropriate control mechanisms. You will share with all HI managers the responsibility of a sound management and successful functioning of the global organization, through paradigm changes.

Your main responsibilities will be :

1. Expertise

1. 1. Contributes to the regional strategies in line with the global strategies by providing sectorial technical input
   2. Ensures technical support to projects in line with the global technical frameworks and standards in your sectorial scope (Create context specific guidance on inclusive humanitarian action, ensures adequate support enhancing an inclusive response by sharing guidance, conducting awareness rising, support partner organizations and HI teams in identifying and removing barriers to services/centers)
   3. Ensures technical learning from projects (develop recommendations and tools ensures the control & monitoring of the technical quality set a frame for quality control, using the IASC guidelines, ensure regular technical quality control of projects, monitor the implementation of audit recommendations)
   4. Ensures compliance of the technical proposition with nexus stakes (emergency preparedness, response and recovery)
   5. Contributes to the development of research and innovation projects in the region when relevant, in your sectorial scope
   6. Contributes to the capacity development of the local team (recruitment, animate a local talent pool in your sectorial scope

2. Influence

Contribute to the local external prestige and influence of HI’s expertise in his sectorial scope

a. Actively participate and raise awareness in the Disability Working Group; the AAP working group and the protection working group on inclusive humanitarian action

b. Contribute to advocacy on specific themes in line with the national advocacy priorities

c. Contribute to communication messages locally in line with the national communication priorities

3. Business development

Ensure the development of major opportunities or new projects in the region under his sectorial scope

a. Contributes to the context analysis in his sectorial scope

b. Contributes to the design and writing of new projects in the region and when asked in other countries within the Geographic Division

c. Identify & transform major opportunities in the region under his scope

d. Contributes to the conception of major projects (multiple countries, one theme) or of new projects in the region

e. Identify & develop local partnerships and/or consortium with NGOs, on technical priorities or important topics in the region under his sectorial scope

YOUR PROFILE:

• You hold an Advanced Degree / diploma in Humanitarian Action studies, Disability Studies, or social fields (anthropology, psychosocial, sociology, protection, public health…)

• You have proven experience in project management in field of inclusion with NGOs

• You have experience in disability mainstreaming projects in humanitarian action in different sectors of intervention and over different phases of humanitarian response including training and technical supervision

• You are patient, able to stand back and to work under high pressure and show a good level of autonomy and initiative

• You show strong communication and interpersonal skill

• You speak and read English fluently (French would be an asset)

CONDITIONS:

At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission. https://hi.org/en/join-the-team

We offer an induction and training path adapted to our staff members and we have a HR policy oriented toward mobility and professional development.

• International contract starting as soon as possible

• The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation:

o Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals

o Pension scheme adapted to the situation of our employees: If you already have a personal pension scheme HI will contribute at the same level of your personal monthly contribution with a maximum of 272.53€/month ; If you do not have a personal pension scheme, we will open a private pension account with your contribution of 272.53€/month and a contribution of HI of the same amount

o Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution

o Repatriation insurance paid by HI

o Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution

o Repatriation insurance paid by HI

• Salary from 2500 € gross/month upon experience

• Perdiem : 637€ net/month paid on the field

• Hardship : 500 € net/month paid with your salary

• Paid leaves : 25 days per year;

• R&R : 5 days every 8 weeks

• Unaccompanied position

• Collective housing taken in charge by HI