Rehabilitation Technical Team Leader

Responsible To: Field Coordinator –NEP

Location: Dadaab

Closing Date: Open

The Organization

Handicap International is an INGO specialising in the field of disability and development.

A strong emphasis is placed on empowering people with disabilities through their integration into mainstream development activities and the provision of appropriate health and rehabilitation services to ensure equal opportunities for all.

The rehabilitation project in Dadaab aims to provide and secure tangible and measurable improvement of independency in activities of daily living and quality of life of refugees living with physical impairment or disability.

The Position

The “Rehabilitation Technical Team Leader” (RTTL) coordinates and monitors daily planning and problem solving of a team of rehabilitation trainers to enhance implementation of appropriate trainings and capacity building to the incentive staff.

The RTTL ensures the good implementation of task cards of the Project Implementation & Monitoring Tool (PIMT) related to community based rehabilitation and rehabilitation.

S/he will be responsible for

• Maintaining a constant and efficient flow of communication
• Ensuring adherence to HI standards and values for access to quality rehabilitation services in the refugee camps of Dadaab and host community.
• Coordinating the overall quality of provision of rehabilitation services and ensuring an appropriate client management system effectively exists.
• Coordinating, supporting and monitoring the team of national trainers to ensure coherency and smooth implementation of the different rehabilitation components according to the task cards captured in the PIMT.
• Supervising and empowering the team of national trainers to develop appropriate tools and procedure to delivering quality rehabilitation services.
• Contributing towards the capitalization of experience, data collection and reporting
• Coordinating resource mobilization efforts at the station level

Qualifications and skills required:

• Bachelor (Masters being preferred) in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy/ Orthopaedics Technology
• 8 years clinical experience and experience in mentoring and leadership of a rehabilitation team
• Should possess the following attributes: Proactive , Creative, adaptability, persuasiveness, leadership, goal oriented, capacity to work under pressure and a team player
• managerial, good written and oral communication, interpersonal, and decision making skills

If you feel you are the right candidate for this position, kindly send your application along with an up-to-date CV(including 3 referees with their current contacts) by email to :- recruit09@handicap-international.or.ke .

The email subject line should be marked: “Application for Rehabilitation Technical Team Leader Position”.

Applications will be processed as they are received and interviews conducted until the appropriate candidate is selected. Please do not send your academic and other testimonials they will be requested at a later stage.

Only short listed candidates with the above qualifications and skills will be contacted.

Any kind of lobbying on behalf of applicants or canvassing will lead to immediate disqualification.

Handicap International is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females and Persons with Disabilities are encouraged to apply