GENERAL
Under the supervision of the Education Cannot Wait (Education in Emergency) Project Manager, the Physical Rehabilitation Officer is responsible for leading, initiate, insure, coordinate and follow up of all activities related to Physical rehabilitation services (capacity building, medical referral, mapping of service provider outside Physical rehabilitation scope and distribution of mobility aids/devices) to pre-primary and primary school children and adolescents with disabilities.
Given the emergency nature of the programme and areas of intervention, the position holder will be expected to work outside the normal work hours. S/he will be based in Warder of Dollo Zone of Somali Region, with frequent (80%) travels to field.
Project Implementation:
Quality M&E and Reporting
Coordination and Representation
· Ensure good level of communication and leasing with partners, CBOs, OPDs as well as stakeholders operational in the project area, zonal and regional level working on Persons with Disabilities and rehabilitation.
· Up on delegation by the PM, represent HI and attend cluster meeting with NGOs in Somali regional states.
In collaboration with the PM, coordinates meetings to share lesson learned, experience and good practices of the project with partner bureaus and relevant NGOs, CBO and advocating for the rights and wellbeing of persons with disabilities
Qualification: BSc in physiotherapy degree from recognized University with at least 5 years of Physical rehabilitation practice.
· Willingness and ability to work in remote locations
· Work experience with children with disabilities are added value.
· Experience on capacity building of partners in identification of children with disabilities and referring children to service providers.
· Remote support to partner community-based organization on identification and enrollment of children with disability in to education system.
· Support service provider to the community-based organization as per signed MoU with the service providers.
· Resilient to stress
· Knowledge and skill of local language (Somali is an advantage).