Physical and Functional Rehabilitation Field Specialist (Ukraine – 12 months)

Handicap International/Humanity & Inclusion (HI) 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.

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

JOB CONTEXT:
HI is engaged in supporting the Ukrainian population affected by the war: since February 28, two teams left for Ukraine and the neighboring countries to analyze the context, the security, and the needs.
To date, HI continues the implementation of its program in two countries, Ukraine and Moldova, with more than 150 staff (expatriates and employees recruited on the spot).
More than any other, HI ensures that humanitarian actions are inclusive, allowing the most vulnerable populations (people with disabilities, elderly, sick, injured) to have access to the help they need. With a focus on physical rehabilitation, psychosocial support, shelter, access to food, water, and sanitation, explosive remnants of war risk education, and advocacy.
With its Atlas Logistics Unit, HI also ensures the delivery of humanitarian aid in hard-to-reach areas in the East for all NGOs in need thanks to its shared transport and storage activities. For more information, visit our website HERE
We need you to support our field teams in deploying this massive emergency response. Your help can make a difference. Join us!

HI in Ukraine is looking for a Rehabilitation Field Specialist for one year.

Your mission

Under the management of the Programme Manager, the Rehabilitation Field Specialist ensures that the quality and impact of the projects implemented in the country are optimized, through a system of delegation with appropriate control mechanisms. He/she shares with all other HI managers the responsibility for sound management and good functioning of the overall organization through paradigm shifts.

Your primary responsibilities:

1. Expertise

• Contributes to sectorial and regional strategies in line with overall strategies.
• Ensures technical support to projects in accordance with global technical frameworks and standards within rehabilitation scope and in direct line with other sectors’s Specialists and in line with nexus issues.
• Contributes to the capitalisation of projects and ensures technical learning from projects within rehabilitation scope. Controls and monitors the technical quality and relevance of HI’s activities within the programmes within his/her scope.
• Contributes to the development of research and innovation projects in the region, where appropriate, within rehabilitation scope
• Contributes to the animation of the professional channel of the technical divisions.

2. Influence

• Contributes to the local external prestige and influence of HI’s expertise.
• Represents HI rehabilitation expertise in relevant local networks.
• Contributes to advocacy on specific issues in line with global advocacy priorities.
• Contributes to communication messages at local level in line with global communication priorities.

3. Development of the social mission

• Ensures the development of major opportunities or new projects within the region within rehabilitation scope.
• Contributes to the context analysis within rehabilitation scope
• Contributes to the design and drafting of new projects in the region and, if requested, in other countries within the geographical division
• Identifies and develops local partnerships and/or consortia with NGOs, institutions, companies on technical priorities or important themes in the region within rehabilitation/health scope in close liaison with Area-Based Manager, Senior Program Officer and Project Managers
• Liaises closely with the HI HQ Technical Referent on Rehabilitation on the above

Your profile

Education and experience

• You hold a degree in physiotherapy or occupational therapy.
• You have Minimum 3 years clinical experience in your country of origin.
• You have Minimum 5 years of international development/humanitarian experience in low- and middle-income countries as a project manager and/or technical officer.
• Proven experience in providing Rehabilitation services and training in NGO is essential.
• Having worked in a post-crisis or development context is an asset.

Skills and abilities

• You are fluent in English (oral and written)
• You demonstrate a capacity to work independently in a global organization including multisectoral and multicultural actors.
• You’re recognized for your capacities in supervising, accompanying and coaching others.
• You’re reactive and flexible.
• You have strong interpersonal and intercultural skills.
• You are resilient to stress and uncertainty.

Conditions

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

• 12 months International contract starting from june
• The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation:
• Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals
• Pension scheme adapted to the situation of our employees: If you already have a personal pension scheme HI will contribute at the same level as your 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
• Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution; Repatriation insurance paid by HI
• Salary from 2757 € gross/month upon experience
• Perdiem: 559,65 € net/month – paid in the field; The amount of per diem is reviewed twice a year
• Hardship: 500 € net/month paid with your salary. The amount of the hardship is reviewed twice a year
• Paid leaves: 25 days per year;
• R&R: 5 days every 8 weeks => + possible transport/package support.
• Position: unaccompanied; Payment for travel costs (air ticket & visa)
• Housing: Collective took in charge by HI

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