Regional Rehabilitation Specialist

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the development and implementation of regional rehabilitation strategies and action plans in line with the regional and global strategies of HI.

Optimize HI’s visibility, external prestige, and influence in the rehabilitation sector by ensuring sound representation with HI’s technical expertise and experience, and visibility in regional and country-level relevant networks, forums/platforms.

Lead or support the country team to strengthen the rehabilitation sector in the country, including the integration of rehabilitation into the health system (when relevant).

Contribute to advocacy on specific themes in line with the global advocacy priorities for rehabilitation and contribute to communication messages regionally/locally in line with the global communication priorities.

Steer the development of major opportunities or new rehabilitation projects in the region/countries.

Lead or contribute to the conception of major projects (multiple countries, regional level) or of new projects in the rehabilitation sector with context analysis, design, and writing of the project proposals in the region/countries.

Facilitate the development and implementation of sector-specific fundraising or business development plans for rehabilitation in the region.

Identify & transform major opportunities in the region under the rehabilitation sector, and identify & develop local partnerships and/or consortiums with NGOs, institutions, and companies on the technical priorities of the rehabilitation sector in the region.

Ensure optimal quality and impact of the rehabilitation projects in all the countries of the region, through a delegation system to provide quality technical support to the rehabilitation projects in line with the global technical frameworks and standards for rehabilitation; and appropriate mechanisms to control and monitor the technical quality and relevance of HI’s activities under the rehabilitation projects.

Ensure technical learning and capitalization from the rehabilitation projects.

Ensure compliance of the technical proposition with nexus stakes

Contribute to the development of research and innovation rehabilitation projects in the region.

Lead capacity development initiatives and professional channel development of rehabilitation personnel in the region.

Contribute/support the implementation of emergency preparedness actions of the program (countries in the regional programme) and, during an emergency, adapt his/her working modality to contribute to an effective HI humanitarian response.