Position: Disability and Inclusion Manager

Reports To: Deputy Head of Programs

Duty Station: Maiduguri, Borno State

Contract Term: 11 months

Working Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30am - 5:15pm, Friday 8:30am - 1:30pm

Background:

Street Child is a UK charity working to protect vulnerable children and improve access to education in some of the poorest communities in the world. Since November 2016, Street Child has been actively involved in humanitarian response efforts in Nigeria, as well as being a partner of the Education in Emergencies Working Group.

Street Child works in the fields of education, child protection, and livelihoods, delivering sustainable solutions and creating maximum impact. Our work includes counselling, family mediation, business support, school building, teacher training, and child protection. We operate through local partnerships and emphasize sustainable development through community participation.

About the Job

The Advocacy and Disability Inclusion Project Manager will lead disability inclusion and advocacy initiatives across the BAY States, ensuring inclusive, high-quality protection programming for children and persons with disabilities affected by conflict. The role involves stakeholder engagement, partner capacity building, project oversight, reporting, and representation at coordination platforms, while upholding Street Child's safeguarding, inclusion, and accountability standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and support advocacy and quality implementation of disability inclusion program activities across BAY States
• Provide technical support and guidance in the disability Programming which includes:
• Ensure capacity building and supportive supervision of the project team and partners
• Assisting children in acute distress, especially people with disabilities, and alleviating their stress, for instance, ensuring that all staff/partners are trained in disability inclusion, PFA, and feel confident to use it
• Lead the mainstreaming of inter-agency guidelines (e.g., IASC Disability guidelines) and standards (e.g., CPMS) across the different sectors of programme activities delivered by SC and its partners
• The use of structured and manualized disability techniques
• The participation of community-based structures and caregivers in meaningful disability inclusion activities
• Support partners with structured disability program activities for groups of boys and girls of different age groups, with particular attention to survivors of SGBV, unaccompanied children, and other children who present with signs of poor inclusion of support across the project locations
• Identify available service providers and agree referral pathways for children with disabilities across the project locations
• Lead stakeholder engagement on influencing and advocacy on disability inclusion across the BAY States and the national level
• Provide capacity building and system strengthening for CSOs, OPDs, NNGOs, and the relevant cluster
• Support the Protection unit to oversee quality improvements in Street Child's disability and inclusion programming interventions for children and person affected by the conflict in NE Nigeria
• Provide guidance and technical support to the implementing project team, in all phases of the project cycle
• Develop an activity implementation plan with the project team and partners
• Lead/organize regular review and monitor visits and if required project action plans, revisions and modifications
• Responsible for the development of all narrative and financial report (with support from Grants Officer and finance department) in line with donor and Street Child requirements
• Ensure compliance with donor rules and regulations
• Monitor budget and ensure adequate burn rate with support from Protection Program Manager
• Working with M&E Manager, ensure adequate data capturing of project beneficiaries

Reporting:

Keep the Deputy Head of Programs informed on the activities of the project by providing relevant correspondence, reports and meeting minutes as well as making

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