Global Technical Lead

3 weeks ago


Haywards Heath, United Kingdom Sightsavers Full time

Sightsavers is looking for a **Global Technical Lead - Disability Inclusion and Mainstreaming **a new role within the expanding Social Inclusion team to provide technical advisory services across our thematic areas.

**Contract**:Permanent Contract**

**Hours: This is a full-time role with some flexibility around hours worked and some home working**

**About Sightsavers and the role**

Sightsavers is a leading expert in disability inclusive development. We work to achieve greater disability inclusion within government and private sector decision-making. We also generate and disseminate learning and evidence about what works to achieve inclusive programming, taking a twin-track approach, in four priority areas: citizenship and political participation; economic empowerment; health and promoting the rights of women and girls. Gender mainstreaming and addressing stigma and discrimination are intrinsic to our programming approach.

We are looking for a **Global Technical Lead - Disability Inclusion and Mainstreaming**, an expert who will utilise Sightsavers’ methodologies, leadership, and tools, as well as draw upon their own significant professional programming experience to promote a more inclusive development approach.

The role is varied and will provide many opportunities to share learning across the portfolio, to bring added value to consortium partners and support the empowerment of people with disabilities, in all their diversity, in our programme countries. Key duties will include:

- Providing high quality technical advice and guidance to Sightsavers partners as part of consortium programmes in which we have a technical assistance responsibility for disability inclusion
- Developing an efficient process for mapping and managing requests
- Working in close collaboration with other team members, to provide targeted technical advice and guidance on selected Sightsavers social inclusion projects
- Contributing to the growth in the programme portfolio through supporting the design of funding proposals
- Leading the creation and maintenance of an internal centralised repository of resources, technical advice, and capacity building materials
- Playing a key role in facilitating cross-thematic learning

**About you**

We are looking for a practical self-starter with great time-management skills and the ability to deliver. To succeed in this role, you will need:

- Extensive experience in a relevant field e.g. social sciences/ disability inclusion, education, gender, international development
- Considerable experience in providing technical advice on disability mainstreaming or leading and developing programmes in disability inclusive development or humanitarian response
- Experience of working with a variety of stakeholders (national governments, UN agencies and bodies, other international institutions, and International Non-governmental Organisations (INGOs) in several different countries
- Knowledge of human rights (especially UNCRPD, UNCEDAW), the SDGs, current issues and best practice in disability mainstreaming/social inclusion
- Leadership and networking skills
- The ability to build strong working relationships in short timeframes
- French or Portugese language skills would be an advantage

**Benefits**

Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London.

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