Senior Disability Advisor

This job offer concerns a seconded position from the GIZ to the AUC. The position includes aworking space at the AUC-DHHS office in Addis Ababa for the complete period of employment.Entitlements are in accordance with the GIZ employment contract.

As a seconded advisor to the AUC, you are:

• Establishing a trustful relationship with the AUC while serving the regional project BRIDGEand being hired under a GIZ line management• Participating in meetings of the steering structure of the BRIDGE project

• Advising and supporting the AUC-DHHS, Division for Social Welfare, Drug Control and Crime Prevention, especially through:
o Policy development and implementation: Driving the implementation of disability-inclusive policies under the African Disability Protocol and other relevant AU policydocuments and frameworks
o Coordination of project activities: Ensuring alignment of the activities under theBRIDGE-Africa project with the African Union’s Disability Strategic Framework and other relevant AU policies and frameworks; align reporting processes with the AUGender Observatory
o Coordinating initiatives with the African Human Rights Organs, such as the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR), the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) and the Pan African Parliament (PAP)
o Stakeholder engagement: coordination and cooperation with Member States (MS),Regional Economic Communities (RECs), international development partners andcivil society organizations; fostering partnerships, networking, information sharingand a platform for pooling experts and capacity building expertise
o Advocacy and capacity development: contribute to the improvement of the Africawide information-sharing, promoting ratification and implementation of the African Disability Protocol, contribute to harmonization of reporting-mechanisms
o Knowledge Management and Dissemination: document and share best practices,success stories, innovative initiatives and challenges from project activities; maintaina repository of data and resources related to disability-inclusion projects
o Monitoring, evaluation and reporting: document progress and participate in the results-based monitoring of BRIDGE-Africa; develop tools to monitor and evaluate theimpact of disability-inclusion in projects; prepare policy briefs, recommendations forthe Head of AU Division

• Cooperating with relevant German Development programs at regional level and in relevantAfrican Member States• Supporting capacity development of continental and regional civil-society stakeholders

• Representing the BRIDGE-Africa project in national, regional and international events