Salary
negotiable depending on skills and experience
Full
Time, 3-month post
Based
in Tanzania with regular travel within the refugee camps
HelpAge
International is a global network of not-for-profit organisations with a vision
of a world where older people fulfil their potential to lead active, dignified,
healthy and secure lives. With over 70 affiliates and 300 partners across more
than 50 countries the HelpAge network brings together hundreds of organisations
worldwide.
Pursuant
to political unrest in Burundi, Tanzania has been welcoming a number of
refugees who include people with special needs (PSNs), including older men and
women, people with disabilities, those living with chronic medical conditions,
single women living on their own, minorities such as Albinos, and other
vulnerable groups. To ensure inclusion of this vulnerable population in
humanitarian interventions, HelpAge International Tanzania is entering into a
programme partnership to implement activities targeting the PSNs. HelpAge
therefore intends to recruit a suitably skilled and experienced Community-Based
Rehabilitation Coordinator. The successful candidate will implement and
supervise a project providing access to care, protection and humanitarian
assistance to these groups.
The ideal
candidate will have a degree in physiotherapy, occupational therapy and/or
public health. S/he will have considerable experience in community
rehabilitation work, specifically working with PSNs and people with
disabilities, and have sound programme management knowledge including
coordinating multi-stakeholder interventions and representation, with focus on
humanitarian programmes in emergencies and displacement contexts. The candidate
should have the ability to operate independently with minimal supervision, with
the ability to influence, communicate and negotiate as well as facilitate
capacity building and training, and monitor budgets. Experience in ageing
issues and awareness of humanitarian core principles are highly desirable.
As this
is an urgent requirement applications will be reviewed on a daily basis and
suitable candidates will be contacted prior to the closing date.
Closing
date: 25 October 2015.
Start
date: ASAP
HelpAge
International is an equal opportunities employer.
Please
click on the link to apply:-
http://www.helpage.org/who-we-are/jobs/communitybased-rehabilitation-coo..
