Disability Inclusion Coordinator

Contract

This is a UNV National Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Specialist contracts.

UN Ghana aims to strengthen disability inclusion analysis, programming, internal systems and processes- making the UN more disability friendly and increasing the number of persons with disability working within the UN. Under the UNPRPD programme in Ghana the UN will be working to strengthen legislation, policy and programs; promote equitable access to services; create economic empowerment opportunities; strengthen capacity of OPDs, Government and Civil Society on issues of disability and promotion of rights-based approaches; and strengthen systems for the collection, analysis and dissemination of data to facilitate disability inclusive planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and tracking SDGs results.

In addition, the UNCT is implementation its UN Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS) and accountability scorecard on disability inclusion- covering the four core areas of leadership, strategic planning and management; inclusiveness; programming; and organizational culture. The national UNV will provide vital support in UNDIS implementation.

Under the direct supervision of the RCO Team Leader, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: Support UNPRPD project coordination including networking with key project partners in Government, Civil Society and OPDs for timely implementation and reporting; Support analysis and design of joint and agency-driven work on disability inclusion especially for women, girls and young people; and Coordination of implementation, monitoring and reporting of the UNCT’s disability inclusion strategy and reporting on the accountability scorecard on disability inclusion.

The UNV will support: -Work on disability inclusion analysis and design of joint and agency-driven work on disability inclusion especially for women, girls and young people in line with the emerging new generation Cooperation Framework – focused on increasing economic inclusion, access to services and peace, security and inclusive governance (while ensuring integration of Gender and Youth is-sues); -Work on key cross-cutting issues for disability inclusion including green transformations; digitalization; urbanisation; and the use of data to draw out implications for disability inclusion (for example, from the 2021 Census); -Support the work of the interagency group where disability is represented and implementation, monitoring and reporting of the UNCT’s UNDIS including assisting in monitoring and data gathering on disability within the UN; -Provide support (not implementation) to the UNPRPD project – focusing on disability inclusion legislation, policy and programmes that improve economic inclusion, access to services and the role and agency of Persons With Disability in peace and governance as well as integrating issues of Gender and Youth; -Assist in designing disability-inclusion policy for private sector engagement; and -Assist in increasing integration of Civil Society and civic groups into the work on the UN, includ-ing strengthening links with OPDs networks in Ghana.

Accountability Adaptability and Flexibility Building Trust Client Orientation Commitment and Motivation Communication Empowering Others Ethics and Values Integrity Judgement and Decision-making Knowledge Sharing Planning and Organizing Professionalism Respect for Diversity Technological Awareness Working in Teams

working with persons with disabilities on their rights and inclusion in a range of devel-opment settings with relevant professional experience in supporting planning, pro-gramme implementation, monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management and ca-pacity development. •Strong analytical and communication skills.

The UN system wishes to create an inclusive workplace and commits to taking appropriate measures to enable persons with disabilities to access and benefit equally from employment and other engagement opportunities such as volunteering, by providing reasonable accommodation. In this context, “reasonable accommodation” means necessary and appropriate modifications and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.[Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 2].