INTRODUCTION
The position is located in the Gender, Equality and Diversity Branch (GED) within the Conditions of Work and Equality Department (WORKQUALITY). GED is responsible for promoting equality and respect for diversity in the world of work. It strives for the elimination of discrimination, including based on sex, gender, race, ethnicity, indigenous identity, and disability. It provides policy advice, tools, guidance and technical assistance to constituents including with respect to promoting more inclusive workplaces, and addressing multiple discrimination. It also works with constituents to ensure that policies, programmes and institutions are gender-responsive.
The Disability Specialist will undertake work to improve the ILO knowledge base on equality and diversity, provide policy advice and capacity building on disability inclusion and non-discrimination, and oversee ILO technical cooperation projects concerning persons with disabilities, including dedicated projects and projects catering to the general population that include persons with disabilities in their target group.
He or she will contribute to ILO’s capacity to foster the inclusion of disability in all of the ILO means of action, and to develop and promote disability-specific approaches and activities that are necessary to support the inclusion and participation of persons with disability who face additional barriers in the world of work. He or she will promote equal employment opportunities and equal access to social protection floor initiatives, for people with disabilities, through support to the implementation of international standards including the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159), and the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), and other related ILO standards and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The position reports to the Senior Specialist on Disability Inclusion.
Description of Duties
Specific duties
1. Lead in organizing, planning, coordinating implementation of and providing technical support to, where requested, technical cooperation projects that cater to persons with disabilities, including disability specific projects and projects that have a disability component.
2. Coordinate, develop and further strengthen the network of Disability Equality Training Facilitators as a resource to promote awareness of disability rights issues among ILO staff, constituents and project partners.
3. Collaborate in developing the capacity of workers’ and employers’ organizations, governments, and representative organizations of and for disabled persons, mainly in developing countries, to address disability issues, including through policies, legal frameworks, training and employment programmes at country level.
4. Collaborate with other units to expand disability inclusion, for example as it relates to labour and worker rights, entrepreneurship, social protection and other issues, and in exploring the impact of multiple discrimination faced by persons with disabilities, including in combination with gender, indigenous and ethnic identity, HIV/AIDs.
5. Support ILO collaboration with other UN agencies in promoting the rights of persons with disabilities within the ILO’s decent work mandate.
6. Prepare practical guides, fact sheets and other tools relating to the identification of good practices, designed for ILO constituents, ILO staff and project partners in relation to laws, policies, programmes and services for women and men with disabilities and their access to decent work.
7. Collaborate in the planning and implementation of capacity building for ILO constituents and other relevant stakeholders, particularly in developing countries, including with the ILO International Training Centre, Turin.
8. Collaborate in preparing programme and budget proposals on skills development, employability, employment and social protection of persons with disabilities, also taking account of multiple discrimination.
9. Undertake other duties to stimulate interest in and advocate attention to disability issues in WORKQUALITY and overall ILO work.
10. Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Chief of the Branch.
These specific duties are aligned with the relevant ILO generic job description, which includes the following generic duties:
1. Design and promote a wide range of disability-related programmes. This involves analysis of complex or conflicting data, statistics, information or policy guidelines in a manner requiring the advanced application of principles of a recognized technical specialization.
2. Develop and review an institutional framework, in which social partners can best improve, implement and evaluate efficient and equitable ILO action programmes.
3. Provide policy advice to ILO’s constituents on institutional strengthening, the application of ILO standards and the promotion of technical cooperation activities.
4. Formulate and submit project proposals and negotiate funding.
5. Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the project activities.
6. Undertake technical advisory missions independently or in collaboration with other specialists.
7. Conduct seminars, workshops, technical meetings and training courses.
8. Prepare draft recommendations and guidelines for discussion and adoption as ILO Recommendations or Conventions on related technical fields.
9. Write manuals and training guides on related topics.
10. Disseminate information on programmes through publications and press releases as well as ensuring representation at donors’ meetings, international, regional and national fora and advocacy campaigns.
11. Monitor and coordinate research carried out by junior technical officers and external collaborators.
12. Provide technical inputs to office documents (sectoral meetings, technical committees, Governing Body, conference reports, Director General’s report to ILC).
13. Participate in tripartite reviews on technical cooperation activities and international meetings and conferences.
Application Deadline (midnight Geneva time) 6 April 2015
Duty Station: Geneva, Switzerland
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