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.

Responsibilities

Project Implementation:

• Train consortium member staff, teachers, PTSA and Health Outreach Workers on basic identification of disabilities, basic rehabilitation practices and referral.
• Together with the consortium member staff and health professionals, ensure to provide access to rehabilitation services for children with disabilities through medical referral, provision of mobility aids/devices.
• Make assessment of impairments for target school age children with regard to impairments and physical functioning situation.
• Based on the assessment, identify the physical functioning need of the child and specify the type of mobility aids with full specification.
• Fill in purchase request with detailed information considering the local physical landscape and train condition and the specific need of child with functional impairment/s.
• Train key partner staff, including consortium member staff, teachers and local health professionals on fitting and use of mobility devices including wheelchairs, crutches and other devices to pre-primary and primary school children and adolescents.
• Ensure good communication with Community Based Organizations (CBOs) local actors working with Person with Disabilities,
• Organization of Person with Disabilities (OPDs) so that these actors support children with disabilities in school enrollments and retentions.
• Conduct assessment for visual, hearing and speech impairments local service providers (private and government owned) and facilitate referral linkage so children with hearing, visual and other sensory impairments access the services.
• Facilitate with sensory service provider to have Memorandum of Understanding for the service they will provide to children with visual, hearing and speech impairments impairment.
• Support CBO and give the required support to them, including on-the-job coaching and quality advice.

Quality M&E and Reporting

• Ensure the high quality of activities implemented as indicated in the project proposal document.
• Participate on regular monitoring, midterm and final evaluation of the project in consultation of the PM and project partners and documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and good practices to relevant bodies.
• Develop and implement supportive supervision plan to CBOs and partners (health facilities, Organization of Person with Disabilities, Education bureau/offices, etc).
• Work in close collaboration with the project PM and documentation and communication Officer to monitor the project outcomes and results are as per indicated performance indicators and contribute to the media material production.
• Implement the formalized tools and methods developed within the project framework.

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

Job Requirements

• 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).