Vacancy: 01
Job Category: Technical
Job Level: Mid
Job Type: Full time
Job Location: Dhaka
Area / Headquarters: Country Office
Workplace: Work at office
Role Type: Staff
Job Context:
Type of Contract: Fixed-Term
Duration: As early as possible to tentatively December 2026.
Line Manager: Technical Team Lead/Country Manager
The Senior Technical Officer—Inclusive Education (equivalent to the Technical Specialist position of HI-BGD) contributes to the implementation of HI mandate and ten-year strategy (expressed in StratOp) in his/her home country. The Senior Technical Officer—Inclusive Education guarantees and contributes to the StraTech implementation at the program level. He/she contributes to the implementation of projects by providing advice and delivering complex, specific, and rare technical expertise and training to our teams, partners, ministries, or clients in the case of technical assistance. He/she ensures high-level standard quality and impact of the project(s) and program(s) concerned in his/her perimeter of intervention.
The Senior Technical Officer—Inclusive Education performs concrete project activities and delivers direct training and advice, in close collaboration with the Field Specialist, who is involved on his/her side in the development of their sector, proposal writing, and general technical guidance. The Senior Technical Officer—Inclusive Education can report either to the Technical Team Lead/Country Manager if he/she supports several project(s) and/or program(s).
[NB: This position is not intended to be systematized and should only be deployed in certain contexts such as:
– Multi-sector projects or standalone projects with Project Managers with junior experience or without rare technical skills;
– When the program requires a complex, specific, and rare expertise to train our teams, partners, ministries, or clients for technical assistance.
Responsibilities:
Mission 1: Providing specialized expertise in the form of policy guidance and technical support to projects, partners, and/or programs following the technical frameworks and general standards of Inclusive Education
- Provide technical guidance and support to project leaders, partners, and/or specialists.
- Performs technical activities or ensures that project(s) activities are implemented following internal quality and technical standards and suggests improvements as necessary.
- Ensure adequate support partners to manage activities under the IE sector
- Adapt the project’s technical documentation as required, following global technical standards.
- Coordinate and collaborate with the project’s technical partners, as delegated by the specialist or project manager.
- Ensure adequate support for multi-sector responses within projects, in line with the other specialists.
- Contribute to regional strategies and related documents in alignment with global strategy.
- Propose research and study topics, research if necessary, and supervise data collection.
- Ensure the development of key opportunities or new projects within the country’s inclusive education sector. Contribute to the writing of new proposals and provide necessary support, i.e., conducting context analysis and identifying and developing local partnerships or consortiums.
- Produce policy guidance for the countries to participate in the design
- Contribute to the Technical Divisions’ professional channel facilitation within the program
Mission 2: Providing project-based technical learning with a global impact
- Ensure regional technical specialists get the information they need and collaborate with technical divisions as needed.
- Coordinate with regional specialists or headquarters (if required) to ensure adequate capitalization to improve sectoral methods globally and collect scientific evidence; initiate or test new innovative solutions to address the main challenges of the sector.
- Take the lead in developing technical tools, including quality control measures in consultation with the regional specialist, as needed by the project, to ensure high-quality deliverables from the project team across consortium partners, including local organizations.
- Contribute to technical learning under the responsibility of the specialist or project manager, based on best practices.
- Anticipate and prepare for nexus adjustments in the IE sector.
- Contribute to the terms of reference for evaluations.
Mission 3: Ensuring internal technical training in the Inclusive Education sector or on cross-cutting themes
- Contribute to technical recruitments in cooperation with the field specialist.
- Carry out the necessary technical training in his/her field.
- Contribute to the skills upgrading plan for professionals in its sector and may be a third-party assessor.
- Contribute to the development of a local talent pool within his/her sector (conducts technical interviews of candidates and makes recommendations, identifies training and coaching needs).
- Assist in coordinating technical professional development and facilitating a community of practice in collaboration with the technical division.
Mission 4: Contributing to ensure the external technical influence of HI on his/her perimeter, in close collaboration with the technical program team
- Contribute to the outreach of HI expertise: can represent HI technical expertise by delegation in relevant local, regional, and international networks and with local partners.
- Ensure coordination and collaboration with the project’s technical partners in cooperation with the field specialist.
- Relay and contribute to advocacy messages within its scope of work.
- Support writing for new project content for the continuity or expansion of the project within its technical scope.
- Contribute to advocacy on specific themes in line with global advocacy priorities.
- Contribute to communication messages locally in line with the global and regional communication priorities.
Mission 5: Emergency Preparedness and Response Responsibilities
- Contribute to the support or implementation of emergency preparedness actions of the program(s) and, during an emergency, adapt his/her work modality to contribute to an effective HI humanitarian response.
Educational Requirements:
- Master’s Degree in Education or any relevant areas of Education. “You are cordially requested not to apply if you don’t have the academic qualifications mentioned in the job advertisement.”
Additional Requirements:
- Age Minimum 18 years
- Both males and females are allowed to apply
Experience: At least 05 years of technical experience in providing senior-level technical support in relevant thematic areas, preferably in development and humanitarian contexts.
Skills:
- Experience working with students with disabilities.
- Experience working closely in partnership with ministry counterparts, international development agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other collaborators/stakeholders.
- Experience with developing and implementing tools for screening students for visual and auditory disabilities, preferably in the country.
- Knowledge of the early grade reading assessment and experience adapting assessments for use with students with visual or auditory disabilities.
- Demonstrated problem-solving, communication, and advocacy skills; and good interpersonal, communication, coordination, and networking skills.
- Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English & Bengali.
- Ability to develop tools, including quality control tools, to ensure quality deliverables from a team across consortium partners, including with local organizations.
- MS Office (MS Excel) pack
- Pedagogical skills.
- Ability to coordinate and collaborate with others to maximize results.
- Team player; innovative; autonomous.
- Able to take decisions; multitasking; problem-solving; strong organizational skills.
- Communication skills.
Required Expertise:
- Capacity to maintain close relationships with partners, stakeholders, and beneficiaries
- Contributing to data collection and indicator tracking
- Cox’s Bazar Context
- Disability Inclusion
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Field and Project Supervision
- Inclusion Principles and Practices
- Learning & Development
- Multisector Humanitarian Projects
- On-the-job capacity building of staff and community volunteers
- Participating in training (material development, training facilitation)
- Remote community settings
- Rohingya Camp Settings
- Safeguarding
- Support in Field-Level Coordination
- Understanding of age, gender & disability
Required Skills:
- Achieving Goals
- Active Listening Techniques
- Adaptability
- Adapting Communication and Messages
- Appropriate communication skills
- Assessment
- Assessment, and Interviewing
- Collaborating in a Global Organization
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Communication and Coordination
- Conflict Resolution
- Contextual understanding of the community
- Creativity
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Decision-making
- Delegation
- Documentation
- Effectively Interaction
- Emergency response
- Emotional Intelligence
- Empathy
- Establishing Clear Frameworks, Rules, and Limits
- Frameworks and references
- Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback
- Global programme management
- Interpersonal communication
- Interpersonal Skills
- Intervention strategy
- Interventions adaptation to the community and participant’s needs
- Learning and Development
- Listening
- Management
- Mobilizing and Supporting Different Groups of Stakeholders
- Motivation
- Negotiating and Managing Problems and Conflicts
- Negotiation
- Office and collaborative tools
- Organizational Skills
- Orientation of the context
- Problem Solving
- Producing Clear, Concise, and Responsible Communication
- Producing Institutional Communication
- Public Speaking
- Reporting
- Strategic Planning
- Stress Management
- Technical Capacity
- Training Management
- Understanding of the multi-sectoral approach of intervention
- Understanding study and research
- Work Under frequently Changing Contexts
- Work Under High Pressure
- Work Under Unstable Contexts
Additional Salary Info:
Special Attention: “You are cordially requested not to apply if the salary range, job location, contract duration, and other terms and conditions mentioned in the advertisement do not match your expectations.”
- Salary will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and budget availability.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
- Festival Bonus: 02
- Gratuity/End of Service Benefits
- Leave: Sick leave, Annual leave, Casual leave, Event Leave and Compensatory Leave
- Maternity Coverage for Staff & Dependents
- Medical Coverage for Staff & Dependents including General/Outpatient, Hospitalization, Dental, and Optical
- Mobile Allowances
- Per diem
- Provident Fund
- Staff Group Life Insurance
- Weekly Holiday: 02
- Medical Coverage: Staff and dependents will get general/outpatient, hospitalization, dental, and optical medical insurance facilities as per the HI policy.
- Maternity Coverage: Staff & dependents will get maternity medical coverage facilities per the HI policy.
- Group Life Insurance Coverage: Staff will get the death benefit, accidental benefit, permanent partial disability, permanent total disability benefit, and critical illness benefit as per the HI policy.
- Leave: Staff will get sick leave, annual leave, casual leave, medical leave, and event leave as per HI policy.
- Allowance for Children’s Education: Staff will get an allowance for children’s education as per the HI policy.
- National travel cost of child caretaker: Female staff will get a reimbursement for the cost of national travel of the child caretaker as per the HI policy.
- Additional Responsibility (Interim) Allowance: Staff will get an allowance for additional responsibility (interim) as per the HI policy.
- Relocation Allowance: Staff will get an allowance for relocation allowance as per the HI policy.
- Work From Home: Staff will get work-from-home facilities as per the HI policy.
Published on:
09 January 2025
Deadline on:
25 January 2025
How to apply
Apply Procedure
Apply URL: https://jobs.hi-bd.org/job-details/5021c910-1fdf-4639-b5f7-c820fc3264ba
Read Before Apply:
**Special Attention: “**You are cordially requested not to apply if the salary range, job location, contract duration, and other terms and conditions mentioned in the advertisement do not match your expectations.”
Interested candidates meeting the above requirements should apply with the updated/latest personal resume along with three references (current or last supervisor only), including the Head of HR of the current and last employer, by Saturday, 25 January 2025. Only Bangladeshi national candidates are eligible to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified, potential, matched female candidates and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply, and they will be preferred in cases of similar qualifications to other candidates. HI promotes and upholds the principles of equal opportunities and policies (PSEAH, Child Protection, etc.).
HI has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to or exploitation of a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners. Recruitment for all jobs in HI includes, in particular, criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references. Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.
HI is committed to a safe workplace for everyone to grow professionally regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, or race. HI extends this commitment to equality and Do No Harm to all staff, volunteers, partners, and beneficiaries. The humanitarian principles focus on equity and inclusion, with a solid commitment to these values.
A competitive candidate will uphold and implement these values in their personal and professional lives. Any persuasion by the person by phone, email, or other means in this regard will automatically disqualify the candidate. The selected employee should clearly understand that all final offers of employment are contingent upon a successful reference check. The pre-employment screening will be performed for all selected applicants.