KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Technical Leadership:

Provide technical leadership for Disability for the Country Office and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy.
Build the capacity of national staff and partners in key technical approaches related to Disability Rights and Disability Inclusive Programming across thematic areas.
Ensuring Programme Quality (Design and Implementation)

Work closely with Business Development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities; engage with technical partners, donors, and colleagues across Save the Children.
Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high-quality Disability Inclusive programmes for children, building on global best practices. Ensure that gender, intersectionality and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.

Provide oversight and guidance to the programme implementation teams to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.
Provide coaching, mentoring, and constructive feedback for learning development and capacity building of relevant staff, including humanitarian staff.
Promote and monitor integrated programming to increase the overall impact of Disability Inclusive programmes at the community level.
Work with the Research Evaluation, Accountability, Learning, and Monitoring (REALM) team to conduct quality Disability Inclusive monitoring and Disability Data Disaggregation against international standards through participatory methodologies (including child-friendly and disability-inclusive methodologies).
Contribute towards creating an organizational learning culture that promotes the use of disability disaggregated data, evidence and analysis and understands its link to quality and accountable programming; Contribute to strengthening the use of inclusive programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.
Undertake field visits to project sites and work with implementation teams to understand challenges and continuously identify learning to improve impact.
Contribute to organizational learning on Disability Inclusion, ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and with our partners, especially the disability movement and the Disability Inclusion Technical Working Group.
Support Operation/Humanitarian colleagues to develop Disability Inclusive emergency preparedness plans, conduct sectoral Disability Situation and Needs assessments (including gender analysis, using SC assessment processes and tools), and design and deliver emergency response and recovery programs.
Monitor trends to ensure early action and lead technical design implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses.
Networking and External Engagement:

In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners, and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in Disability Inclusive Programming.
Foster partnerships with organizations of persons with different and specific types of disabilities across programmes and national umbrella organizations.
Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as clusters and working groups, specifically national and international networks for Disability Inclusion, International Disability and Development Consortia and the broader disability movement.
Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes for inclusive education, access to services for persons with disabilities, de-institutionalization, social protection and disability benefits, and monitoring of the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and National Disability Policy through working closely with advocacy and child rights governance colleagues. Ensure that the voices of children with disabilities are represented across thematic advocacy work.
Represent the programme to National and Local government representatives, donors, and partner agencies, especially those focusing on disability rights and inclusion, etc., as required.
Ensure disability is included in the quality, clarity, and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g., programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, programme implementation, and communications colleagues as needed.
Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centers of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back.
To be a strong supporter and advocate for children in this role you will need to have:

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At least a Master’s degree in Disability Studies or related degree in international development, education, psychology, sociology, etc.
At least five years’ experience in leading the design and implementation of humanitarian and development Disability Inclusive programmes.
Experience working with organization's of persons with disabilities (OPDs), good relationships, and a wide network of disability experts and OPDs in Uganda and beyond.
Experience working directly with children with different types of disabilities and their families.
Experience of designing and facilitating capacity-building training on disability rights and inclusive prog