Inclusive Education Officer- Kakuma at Lutheran World Federation

Job Summary

The job holder is in charge of overseeing the support, participation and advancement of learners with disabilities across pre-primary, early years, middle school and junior secondary levels.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Manage the Inclusive Education Unit and help stakeholders (parents/ caregivers, teachers, school administrators, community leaders, education partners) understand the need for inclusion
• Facilitate collaborative teaching between regular classroom teachers and SNE/IE teachers to ensure inclusion support to learners in the mainstream classrooms
• Promote access, retention and transition of learners with disabilities in the mainstream schools through various channels:
• Provide technical assistance to schools for sensitive placement decisions through school visits.
• Maintain electronic and hard-copy educational records for student with Individual Education Program (I.E.P.).
• Training and mentoring community mobilizers on types of disabilities, identification, referral of learners with disabilities to the EARC, use of disability friendly etiquette to curb stigma during identification and intervention stages and on PFA to support families of learners with disabilities
• Ensure follow-up of learners with disabilities at schools is done in a timely and appropriate manner to ensure attendance and school retention; ensure the provision of accessible and adaptable learning and teaching materials that benefit all educators as well as learners
• Liaising with the County and Sub-County government officials in-charge of Special Education to mainstream curriculum practices for host and refugee learners with disabilities in the regular classrooms; facilitate understanding and acknowledgement of the rights of all children and the improvement of accessibility such as infrastructure, attitudinal, environmental, policies as necessary at the schools.
• Mentoring/Capacity-build SNE, classroom assistants and regular teachers to adapt the inclusive education pedagogy and enable multi-level teaching for the benefit of all learners in the classrooms
• Coordinate EARC outreach and sensitization activities at the community through awareness raising by the community by mobilizers, meeting community leaders’ forums to support disability mainstreaming and inclusion.
• Supporting with development of tools in a multi-disciplinary team for identification of hidden, developmental and severe disabilities
• Coordinating inter-agency EARC referrals, follow-up and ensuring psycho-social support is offered to parents/ caregivers and learners with disabilities through the ‘EARC’ journey in conformity with LWF Disability Inclusion Guideline standards and good practices for technical quality and approaches.
• Prepare timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual reports to aid in management decision-making.

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education but with a specialization Special Needs Education or related field.
• Minimum 5 year of relevant and progressive working experience.
• Professional certifications in inclusion education.
• Effective exposure to/working knowledge of child protection and safeguarding.

COMPETENCIES

• Community mobilization and behavior change communication skills.
• Organizational Skills and Competence
• Knowledge of child protection and safeguarding is desirable.
• Communication and presentation skills
• Report writing and analysis.
• Computer proficiency.

A person of high integrity that will model LWF/WS Kenya Somali Program core values:

• Dignity and justice
• Compassion and commitment
• Respect for diversity
• Inclusion and participation
• Transparency and accountability