Inclusion Officer (x2)

Job Description

The Inclusion Officer with a focus on Dirassa Project in partnership with UNICEF will be responsible for the overall inclusion component implementation and will be directly supervising the schools’ focal points to ensure children with disabilities are identified, assessed, provided with the needed services and devices, and properly followed up on including the availability of Individual Education Plan for each child in coordination with the child’s educators and caregivers. The position will be under the supervision of the Education field Manager.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Implementation of Dirassa:

- Participate in Out of School Mapping Activities targeting children with disabilities (CWD: functional difficulties in different domains including, hearing, vision, communication/comprehension, learning, mobility, and emotions). - Supervise the schools’ focal points to ensure children with disabilities, are identified, assessed, and provided with the needed services.

- Inclusion Officers are expected to assess the needs of the children with disabilities in the assigned schools, and provide, the support needed in the following: Individual assistive devices, center inclusion kits, individual inclusion kits. - Actively attend all the UNICEF provided capacity building opportunities and plan the corresponding cascade to the inclusion focal points and educators in schools. - Inclusion Officers will be responsible for referring children to the needed therapy service. - Proper follow up on including the availability of Individual Education Plan for each child in coordination with the child’s educators and caregivers. - Provide support and capacity building for the schools’ Inclusion focal points to be able to deal with the children with disabilities in a proper way. - Ensure that learning activities in all assigned schools respond to quality education standards for children with disabilities. - In coordination with the Education Officer, monitor regular attendance and drop-out for children with disabilities. - Conduct and facilitate parental engagement and awareness sessions to the community members including topics relevant to the caregivers of children with disabilities in the program. - Coordinate with other staff in the Education program to integrate the parental Inclusion sessions provided by UNICEF within the regular parental engagement planning and implementation. - Coordinate with procurement officer, schools’ focal points to ensure that the Inclusion materials distribution process is implemented on a timely manner. - Support schools to establish a clear referral pathway at the level of each school to cover the needs of the different children. - Assess schools in need, and support with minor accessibility rehabilitation (ramps and toilets) based on reports submitted to UNICEF. - Maintain a gender ratio close to 50:50 for all children in the program, ensuring equal access to opportunities and services. - Record the identification and referral of children using the platform and report challenges. - Participate in mandatory RIMS trainings and commit to initiate, register, and track outgoing referrals as well as accept incoming referrals (as applicable) through RIMS. - Regular contribution to related service mapping platforms and exercises. should be aware of the Secretary-General Bulletin Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and the internal reporting mechanisms for SEA cases, through the mandatory trainings. - Coordination and follow up with caregivers and school personnel to make sure the students’ attendance is sustainable and regular. Awareness sessions, home visits and phone calls follow up will be required to ensure children with disabilities retention in the Dirassa program. - Any other task as assigned by the Education team serving the project overall.

Data collection and reporting

- In coordination with the Education Manager, the Inclusion officer will be responsible for reporting on the inclusion component. Besides the quarterly narrative reports, quantitative data should be reported on Activity Info, Child level monitoring and the Special Needs Tracking Sheet.

- In coordination with M&E team, Inclusion Officer is expected to perform base line and end line surveys for targeted children (Syrians and Lebanese) and communities to identify projects beneficiaries, and prepare name lists of children in accordance with educational level and age group. - Collect data needed for monthly and quarterly reports using dedicated monitoring tools including Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and Children Satisfaction Survey. - Ensure the quality of data collection in the assigned schools and provide feedback on challenges in data collection processes and tools.

Key Working Relationships: N/A Position Reports to: Education Manager Position directly supervises: None External: Other NGOs working in Education in Akkar

Travel and other requirements: The position will be based in Akkar, with some travel required between Beirut and North governorates.

Qualifications

- University degree in education, pedagogy, psychology, or related field. - Minimum of 3 years of working experience in education sector, including inclusion component, and coaching. - Facilitation and capacity building experience and skills. - Experience in working with refugee communities Lebanon. - Working experience in working in partnerships a plus. - Working experience in an NGOs and INGO is a plus. - Fluency in written and spoken French mandatory; English is mandatory. - Autonomy and ability to work with minimal supervision. - Flexibility, commitment, work ethics and team spirit.