Personal Attendant

UNICEF is committed to promote equity and inclusion for all and to comply with the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Article 9 of the CRPD recognizes the importance of accessibility, specifically referring to accessibility of buildings, roads, transportation, and other indoor and outdoor facilities, including schools, housing, medical facilities, and workplaces.

The Sustainable Development Goals have explicit references to children and adults with disabilities across the SDG framework, to accessibility of the built environment in goals on Education and on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements. UNICEF has also endorsed the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action , launched at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, thereby committing to make humanitarian action inclusive to children with disabilities.

Accessibility helps children and adults with disabilities to enjoy their rights as outlined in Human Rights instruments and development frameworks. Accessibility is a precondition for children and adults with disabilities to live independently and participate fully and equally in society. While committed to promoting equity and inclusion at the global level, UNICEF has also made efforts to build an inclusive organisation and working environment.

Employees with various disabilities at UNICEF may need a short-term or on-going personal attendant to support them to work at their full capacity.

Scope of Work

The scope of work is the following:

• Support the mobility/orientation of the UNICEF staff on during external visits and field visits including setting up an enabling environment including giving verbal information to a visually impaired person about the environment when indoors and out travelling.
• Assistance with correspondence and any other reading and writing tasks, which may be required to support a visually impaired person at work. e.g., reading information on walls, print outs, including signage etc.
• Converting materials in inaccessible formats to alternative accessible formats.
• Assist in preparation of Power Points Presentations, editing, formatting including inserting graphics & pictures.
• Support with reading documents and describing graphics and illustrations which are not accessible to screen reader software.
• Assist preparation and conduct of activities, including photocopy and distribution of materials, writing on Flip charts, taking pictures, note taking during field missions and workshops
• Copy to computer files/info from Flip Charts of Trainings/Workshops.
• Provide Support to review and fill up forms related to agreements and contracts that may not be accessible for the employee.
• Facilitate the employee’s collaboration with other Sections, Divisions, and internal partners on accessibility and assistive technology.

Expected results:

• Support for mobility and orientation in new environments, external meetings, and field visits
• Documents edited, proof reviewed and finalized.
• Edited text to be delivered to the supervisor in Microsoft Word with tracked changes.
• Power Points
• Support in organizing workshops and meetings in external environments.

Minimum Qualifications Required:

• A minimum of [insert years] of relevant professional experience in
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Knowledge Skills Expertise Required

• Patient, focused person, who can anticipate the needs of others and identify barriers in a physical or virtual environment.
• Ideally has had experience working with persons with disabilities/Visually impaired.
• Good editing, writing and computer skills.
• Eloquent in both English and Kiswahili and local language.
• Knowledge of disability and accessibility.
• Ideally good understanding of issues relating to children’s rights, especially the rights of children with disabilities.
• Knowledge and understanding of Nairobi and Kisumu Counties and their environments.
• Ability to work in a team, in a national environment.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/579824