EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISABILITY PROJECT

The International Center (formerly known as Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation -VVAF) is a humanitarian organization that has addressed the consequences of war through advocacy and service programs in Vietnam for the last three decades. As a cofounder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, IC-VVAF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Now working under The International Center, IC, focuses on disability support, landmine removal, and mental health programs.

Under the financial support of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), IC has been implementing the Disability Support Project named “Moving without Limits” in three provinces of Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam and Binh Dinh from July 2015 until September 2022. This project aims to improve the accessibility of the people with mobility impairments in Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam, and Binh Dinh to quality and affordable assistive devices.

Three specific objectives of the project include: (i) Improved availability of quality assistive technologies/ devices (AT/AD) for people with mobility impairments in Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam and Binh Dinh provinces; (ii) Improved capacity related to AT/AD for the health sector workforce at national and sub-national levels; and (iii) Improved advocacy for policies/regulations and information sharing related to AT/AD.

In order to achieve the above mentioned objectives, a wide range of activities will be implemented in the three project provinces as well as at the central level. AT/AD service provision is implemented following the full range of provision including need assessment and proper prescription, AD procurement, fitting, user training and follow-up, maintenance and repair in order to ensure that people with mobility disabilities receive appropriate and quality AD they need. The integration of health care for people with disabilities (PWDs), including AT/AD service delivery into the existing health care system, mobilizing the non-specialists at the community level to recognize, assess, manage and follow-up of care for PWDs will be promoted in this project.

Being aware of the big gap in human resource for rehabilitation services, especially for AT/AD related services for PWDs, taking into account the practical solution for filling the gap, the project will apply mixed approaches: (i) build capacity for both high skilled health professionals at the national level for providing technical assistance towards complicated cases and support building capacity for lower level service providers when needed; and (ii) task shifting, defined as the delegation of tasks to existing or new cadres with either less training or narrowly tailored training in order to deliver a certain and basic rehabilitation/AT solutions. Thus, IC will support improving the capacity of rehabilitation and AT workforces for both national and provincial levels, for both high and less skilled service providers.

Access to AD/AT provision services cannot be improved without appropriate and available policy and governance, IC will work closely with the line ministries, other involved partners to support the development of the AT/AD service delivery framework as a part of the National Rehabilitation Strategy 2021-2025 as well as advocacy to include more AT/AD covered by the health insurance scheme. In addition to that, IC will also support to improve information sharing, awareness raising on AT/AD related issues.

To support the IC’s project team and the provincial partners in planning, implementing, monitoring and supervision of the above mentioned scope of work, IC is seeking for qualified people to fill in the fulltime position, mostly to facility the capacity building related activities as bellows:

1. PROJECT OFFICER BASED IN HANOI

• Citizenship: Vietnam
• Duty Station: Hanoi and three project provinces of Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam, and Binh Dinh
• Duration of Assignment: Full-time job for one year with the possibility to extension
• Starting date: As soon as possible
• Salary: Competitive

Requirements:

• Academic background: University degree in medical science, public health or other relevant social science. Post university degree is an advantage. University background related to physical therapy/rehabilitation preferred;
• More than three years working experience in projects supporting vulnerable group related work preferably with a disability, NGO experience is a plus;
• Sufficient knowledge, skills and experiences in capacity building related activities
• Strong interpersonal, communication (both written and verbal) and organizational skills;
• Proficient oral and written English;
• Ability to work under a flexible schedule;
• Good understanding of the health system and rehabilitation service provision in Vietnam preferred;
• Strong experience in developing health research preferred;
• Good computer skills and statistic software.

Main responsibilities

To assist Project Director and Deputy Director in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of the project activities, more specifically for capacity building for health workforce in rehabilitation.

Scope of work

• Closely work with Project Director, Deputy Director and other Project staff to prepare annual work plans and detailed implementation plan for the project, with more focus on capacity building component;
• Ensure program implementation according to the annual work plans and targets set by the Project;
• Provide technical support to IC’s partners, experts, sub-contractors in developing their action plans as well as in following-up the progress of their implementation
• Assist in preparing different kinds of reports as required;
• Conduct field visits to monitor, supervise and evaluate activities;
• Take lead in organizing meetings, trainings, and workshops when needed;
• Ensure that all the necessary financial documentation of the project activities are complete and in accordance with financial management systems;
• Support M&E Officer where required;
• Provide translation and interpretation upon request;
• Contribute to the preparation and update of the Operations Manual of the Project;
• Other necessary duties as required.

Supervision and performance evaluation:

The incumbent works under the direct supervision and evaluation of the Project Director at IC’s office with regular travel to provinces.

2. PROJECT ASSISTANT CUM INTERPRETER

• Citizenship: Vietnam
• Duty Station: Hanoi and three project provinces of Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam, and Binh Dinh
• Duration of Assignment: Full-time job for one year with the possibility to extension
• Starting date: As soon as possible
• Salary: Competitive

Requirements:

• Academic background: University degree in medical science, public health, social development, foreign language or social science. University background related to physical therapy/rehabilitation preferred;
• At least two years working experience in projects supporting vulnerable group related work preferably with disability;
• Strong interpersonal, communication (both written and verbal) and organizational skills;
• Proficient oral and written English;
• Ability to work under a flexible schedule;
• Good understanding of the rehabilitation system and procedures in Vietnam preferred;
• Good computer skills.

Main responsibilities

To assist POs in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of the project activities, and to assist foreign expert(s) in internal and external communicating related work.

Scope of work

• Closely work with POs to prepare annual work plan and action plans for the project;
• Support POs to ensure program implementation according to the annual and quarterly work plans and targets;
• Support foreign expert(s) in communicating with Vietnamese counterparts
• Assist POs in preparing different kinds of reports to donor required;
• Conduct field visits to support monitoring, supervision and evaluation of the project activities;
• Support in organizing meetings, trainings, and workshops;
• Support POs to ensure that all the necessary financial documentation of project activities are complete and in accordance with financial management systems;
• Support other staff where required;
• Provide translation and interpretation upon request;
• Other necessary duties as required.

Supervision and performance evaluation:

The incumbent works under the direct supervision and evaluation of the Project Director at IC’s office with regular travel to provinces.

Applications to be sent to IC office at Room 103, B3, Van Phuc Diplomatic Compound, 298 Kim Ma, Ba Dinh, Hanoi or via email [email protected] before 17.00 February 28, 2020.

Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview.

People with disabilities are encouraged to apply!

Organization: IC
Location: Hanoi
Application deadline: 2020-02-28
Send application to: [email protected]