National Contractor: Personal Attendant for Person with Visual Disability, Jakarta-Indonesia

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Title: Personal Attendant for Person with Visual Disability

Duty Station: Jakarta

Type of Contract: Individual Contractor

Duration: November 2021 – 31 December 2021 (15 working days)

BACKGROUND:

UNICEF is committed to promote equity and inclusion for all and to comply with the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Article 9 of the CRPD[1] recognizes the importance of accessibility, specifically referring to accessibility of buildings, roads, transportation and other indoor and outdoor facilities, including schools, housing, medical facilities and workplaces.

The Sustainable Development Goals have explicit references to children and adults with disabilities across the SDG framework, in particular to accessibility of the built environment in goals on Education and on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements. UNICEF has also endorsed the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action[2], launched at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, thereby committing to make humanitarian action inclusive to children with disabilities.

Accessibility helps children and adults with disabilities to enjoy their rights as outlined in Human Rights instruments and development frameworks. Accessibility is a precondition for children and adults with disabilities to live independently and participate fully and equally in society.

While committed to promoting equity and inclusion at the global level, UNICEF has also made efforts to build an inclusive organisation and working environment.

In 2011, UNICEF issued an Executive Directive on Disability (CF/EXD/2011-005) which articulated the organisation’s commitment to employment of persons with disabilities and protecting the rights of staff in terms of opportunities, remuneration and safe working environment; ensuring non-discrimination during recruitment and selection, training and career advancement as well as retention; providing reasonable accommodation for employment; ensuring confidentiality of information shared with the Organisation; and training and awareness raising on disability for all staff.

The Division of Human resources created a Reasonable Accommodation Fund, a dedicated budget line which provides staff with reasonable accommodation in terms of access to buildings, flexible working arrangement, special work equipment of travel arrangements and additional time allocations when required.

Employees with various disabilities at UNICEF may need a short-term or on-going personal attendant to support them to work at their full capacity.

Purpose

The personal attendant will work closely with, and directly under the supervision of Disability Inclusion Officer for the delivery of outputs of the work plan of this employee. In particular, the consultant will support in the mobility and orientation aspects of the employee during the first initial period of the assignment.

The scope of work is the following:

1.Support the mobility and orientation of the person to go to and from the office in WTC building; in the new neighborhood and home in Jakarta both during work day and 1-2 hours in the night time for the first few weeks until the staff learns to navigate the route independently, and also to other local services (grocery, laundry etc.) the person will need.

2.Facilitate the employee’s collaboration with other sections and internal partners on accessibility and assistive technology.

3.Support the mobility and orientation during external visits and field visits (including setting up an enabling environment for the UNICEF employee they are supporting).

4.Provide support to review and fill out forms related to agreements and contracts that may not be accessible for the employee.

Expected results:

- Support for mobility and orientation in new environments and neighborhoods, external meetings, and field visits.

- Support in organizing workshops and meetings in external environments.

Deliverable and timeline

The work arrangement is flexible and will include both work on site at UNICEF offices, partner offices, in field location and remotely. At the moment it is expected that the Personal Attendant will

- Support for mobility/orientation in neighborhood home and home area (first full week)

- Support for mobility/orientation to go to/from the workplace (3 days a week for first two weeks)

- Support for meetings and workshops (1 day per month/as needed).

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

- University degree in social sciences

- Patient, focused person, who can anticipate the needs of others and identify barriers in a physical or virtual environment

- Ideally has had experience working with persons with disabilities/person with visual disability

- Good editing, writing and computer skills

- Good knowledge of verbal and written English and Bahasa Indonesia

- Knowledge of disability and accessibility

- Ideally good understanding of issues relating to children’s rights, especially the rights of children with disabilities.

- Ability to work in a team, in an international environment.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies:

- Builds and Maintains Partnerships

- Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

- Drive to achieve results for impact

- Innovates and embraces change

- Manages ambiguity and complexity

- Thinks and acts strategically

- Works collaboratively with others

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Closing date: 5 November 2021

Disclaimer: The screening of your application will be conducted based on the information in your profile. Before applying, we strongly suggest that you review your profile to ensure accuracy and completeness. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

[1] As of November 2017, 175 governments have ratified the CRPD.

[2] http://www.disabilityhumanitariancharter.org