Sightsavers
Title: Social Inclusion Intern
Salary: Local Terms and Conditions apply
Location: Monrovia, Liberia
Contract: 6 Month Fixed Term Contract (with view to extend for another 6 months)
Hours: This is a full-time role
About the role
We are looking for a are looking for an energetic, proactive person to support Country Office program officers and manager ensure that all our programs are inclusive and responsive to the needs of disabled and marginalized groups.
As the Social Inclusion Intern you will represent Sightsavers at meetings, work with Organisations for People with Disabilities (OPDs) and people with disabilities in countries where Sightsavers provide services and provide education to marginalized communities so they can access the services.
Main Responsibilities:
- Support the country office programme team in identifying challenged faced to our services in the counties we work.
- Working with partners to coordinate awareness activities.
- Establish a data base for OPDS in the counties where we operate
- Support advocacy initiatives.
- Establish link with the National Organization of the disabled and NCD and attend all partners meetings
- Service as the country office inclusive focal persons and liaise with Government agencies, partners and NGOs.
About you
As the ideal candidate you will need:
- Possess a Degree (or equivalent) or working experience in social sciences with significant interest in the field social inclusion and advocacy.
- Be a hard-working individual with good organisational skills which are required to meet the workloads and daily and weekly deadlines.
- As a keen learner you will be involved in all aspects of programming from the inception phase right through to evaluation.
- Strong skills in training and coaching.
- Strong passion for working with persons with disabilities and marginalized group.
- Experience writing and communications skills.
- This is a hands-on internship, so passion, enthusiasm, and a desire to learn all things program management, facilitation skills and reporting etc.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
Next steps
To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.
We anticipate that interviews will take place during the week commencing 31 October 2022 and the evaluation process will include an oral interview at our office in Monrovia, Liberia.
Closing date: 23 October 2022