South Sudan: Program Officer Inclusive Education

LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is a confederation of European NGOs with an office in Juba, South Sudan. It focuses on inclusion of persons with disabilities in development and on humanitarian interventions. The organization is currently implementing a national inclusive education project, in partnership with the South Sudan Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and Stromme Foundation. The project entails development of a national inclusive education policy and teacher training in inclusive education. Therefore, LIGHT FOR THE WORLD requires the expertise of a program officer to work on this project as well as on the inclusive education components of other projects.

We are looking for a qualified person for the position of

– based in Juba

Your duties:

· Project implementation: to support the implementation of inclusive education project activities, including organizing training sessions, workshops, meetings and arrangement of required logistics; to contribute to the development of project activities and to assist the programme manager in shaping project direction

· Knowledge management: to prepare and to draft written outputs related to the implementation of projects such as background papers, progress reports, budget requirements, project briefs, presentations, newsletters, lessons learnt and good practices

· Partnership: to liaise and to coordinate regularly with project partners from the government, national and international NGOs, UN agencies, DPOs and other stakeholders on implementation arrangements

· Visibility: to support the development and production of visibility materials

· Monitoring: to follow up regularly on project deliverables, to monitor progress and to identify gaps that need to be addressed for successful project implementation

· Knowledge sharing/dissemination: to collect and to share relevant documents on inclusive education.

You have:

· Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or Education

· Master’s degree is an advantage

· Experience in inclusive education and/or disability inclusive development

· Experience in project management

· Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and internet use

· Good knowledge of disability inclusive development

· Good knowledge of planning

· The ability to identify priority activities and/or assignments; and to adjust as necessary

· The potential to allocate an appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work; and to use time efficiently

· initiative and a pro-active attitude

· Strong interpersonal skills

· The ability of taking ownership of assigned responsibilities and of honouring commitments

· The capacity to deliver outputs according to agreed schedules, budgets and quality

· Proven and sustained communication (oral and written) skills; good presentation skills, including formulating positions on issues; articulates options concisely while conveying maximum necessary information; making and defending recommendations

· Proven team spirit; sensitive to and respects diversity; shares credit for team accomplishments; accepts joint responsibility for team shortcomings

· Good use of English (oral and written)

· Proficiency in, at least, one South Sudanese language is an advantage

We offer:

A twelve-month contract (first three months probationary).

We are a professional organization which develops constantly. All employees bear responsibility for their field of activity and the reaching of the defined aims. Our support to people with disabilities and their communities are at the centre of our motivation.

Please send your application letter and C.V. with salary expectation before 6 March 2015 to j.gitu@lightfortheworld.nl. For further information and a detailed job description please take a look at www.lightfortheworld.nl/en You can also contact Ms Toyin Aderemi, program manager Light for the World South Sudan in Juba, at t.aderemi@lightfortheworld.nl or at

tel. +211 954 990765.

This position is only open for applicants with South Sudanese nationality. Persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply for this position.