We are seeking a passionate, professional and experienced candidate to support
the national protection cluster in Sudan, someone who thrives in collaborating with
others and who can work in agile ways and across boundaries.  This position will
be embedded within the Protection Cluster at the national level to provide
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technical support to members and to also assist in coordination efforts. The Sudan
Protection Cluster has been active since 2008 under the leadership of UNHCR, to
coordinate the protection activities of international and national humanitarian and
human rights actors and advocate human rights and international law in
humanitarian action.
Under the umbrella of Protection Cluster, there are three Areas of Responsibilities
(AORs): Child Protection, Gender-based Violence (GBV), and Mine Action.
The Age Inclusion Specialist will support the Protection cluster to monitor, report,
enhance the quality response related to age and disability inclusion and promote
age and disability inclusion to ensure that needs and concerns of older people are
identified and addressed as part of a wider commitment including HNO, HRP to
the delivery of an inclusive humanitarian response.
Key areas for impact/influence and responsibilities
These outline the broad areas of responsibility in the role, but in collaboration with
your humanitarian colleagues you will be able to shape and design specific
activities that are relevant at any point in time. We want you to work creatively
to deliver impact and respond to relevant opportunities.
This role should promote the meaningful participation and involvement of older
persons with and without disabilities including Older People Associations (OPAs)
and Organisations of Persons with Disabilities to make their voices heard. This role
should identify and support opportunities for more meaningful engagement of
humanitarian actors with OPAs and OPDs to ensure their needs are met in
humanitarian responses.
As an Age Inclusion Specialist, you will have a coordination and a technical role as
outlined below:
Specific Responsibilities:
• Assist the Protection Cluster to develop context relevant age inclusive
activities and to implement these activities in accordance with the jointly
defined strategy and workplan.
• Map, coordinate, and actively engage with local organisations specialized in
age inclusion.
• Promote the active engagement of interested humanitarian actors to
include older people and people with disabilities in the response planning
throughout the inter-agency cluster mechanism.
• Create linkages with other relevant clusters and working groups including
WASH, Health and CCCM to provide proactive support and guidance to
operationalize inclusion.
• Support the protection cluster in the implementation of the ‘Emergency
Protection Responder’ approach.
• Participate in relevant coordination and cluster meetings.
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Technical Role
• Monitor and analyse the protection situation of older persons and identify
areas for programme and advocacy response.
• Map and assess the inclusion of older people in the assessment and planning
of humanitarian action.
• Support and monitor the data collection exercises, assessments, and
surveys through promoting the use of age inclusive tools.
Good practices
• Map ongoing activities/good practices and lessons learnt on age inclusion
in the humanitarian response.
• Take proactive responsibility by staying informed about development and
good practices in age inclusion and mainstreaming.
Training
• Develop a capacity building workplan in line with the priorities of the cluster.
• Design and create relevant training and deliver them across the protection
and other clusters and to relevant partners at field level.
• Provide technical inputs to documentation, training modules, tools and
other resources produced by the protection cluster and other actors.
Mainstreaming
• Focus on mainstreaming inclusion into humanitarian coordination
mechanisms, in addition to advocating for the rights of older persons with
and without disabilities.
• Observe the implementation of humanitarian programs to identify gaps and
needs related to the inclusion of older persons with and without disabilities.
• Collaborate with other actors engaged in mainstreaming and accountability
to affected persons.
Skills and experience required
• Field and programmatic experience in humanitarian work in
conflict/peacebuilding environments in a variety of contexts.
• Previous experience working in Sudan.
• Strong understanding of intersectional analysis and age and gender
transformative actions.
• Strong working knowledge of the humanitarian coordination system and
humanitarian architecture and experience working with partners and other
international stakeholders (UN, INGOs).
• Protection and inclusion background including experience in inclusion of atrisk groups ideally in humanitarian context- and older people, and persons
with disabilities.
• Excellent written and spoken Arabic and English
• Strong interpersonal and representation skills and previous experience of
networking with other humanitarian organisations.
• Proven experience in capacity strengthening.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and stressful environment.
• Ability to work legally in Sudan