Regional Rehabilitation Specialist - East Africa Regional Division

Requirements

• Master's degree in the relevant field;
  
• At least 7 years of relevant professional experience in the sector;
  
• Excellent interpersonal skills and support for technical teams in the field;
  
• Strong written and oral communication skills, suitable for high-level external representation;
  
• Experience in strategy and project management in the sector;
  
• Ability to develop public relations/communication and represent the organisation to various stakeholders (donors, networks, ministries, local authorities, technical services, etc.).
  

Leads sector strategy and contributes to regional and global strategic thinking:

• Provides sector-specific technical input to the regional operational strategy (StratOp) in line with the global technical strategy (StraTech);
  
• Leads the development and monitoring of the regional rehabilitation sector strategy and ensures its implementation in the various countries where it is applied;
  
• Contributes to synergies and promotes integrated programming approaches with other sectors, based on strategic and operational priorities and standard projects;
  

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

2.1. Provides strategic technical monitoring:

• Monitors regional dynamics and multi-stakeholder initiatives to anticipate opportunities for collaboration and tracks trends in the rehabilitation sector in relation to national and regional contextual developments.
  
• Analyses internal strengths and weaknesses, considering the institutional ecosystem, and ensures that proposals are aligned with strategic frameworks and donor requirements.
  
• Contributes to the strategic monitoring of relevant calls for proposals at regional level.
  

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT / LESSONS LEARNED.

3.1. Coordinates a knowledge management system and promotes research and innovation initiatives:

• Designs participatory tools and processes to document field experiences (case studies, lessons learned, innovations) and identifies lessons learned through recommendations from evaluations;
  
• Leads transnational learning workshops and actively participates in global communities of practice (CoP);
  
• Contributes to the drafting of analytical reports, technical notes and capitalisation documents, and ensures their internal and external dissemination;