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Handicap International

Disability-focused humanitarian aid and empowerment

Oficial Técnico/a Sénior de Salud Inclusiva

Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryUpdated on Nov 6
Full-timePuerto Ayacucho, Venezuela$1k - $1.2k

About the Job

Requirements

  • University degree in Medicine, Nursing, Anthropology, Sociology, Social Sciences, or a related area.
  • At least 5 years of demonstrated experience implementing and/or coordinating health and interculturality projects.
  • Demonstrated fieldwork experience with NGOs or cooperation agencies.
  • Demonstrated experience working with Indigenous communities and peoples, preferably in Amazonian contexts.
  • Strong knowledge of maternal and child health, particularly care and referral for major obstetric emergencies.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and/or strengthening differentiated and intercultural care models, and mainstreaming inclusion, disability, gender, and age approaches.
  • Strong knowledge of Indigenous worldviews, customs, and traditional health systems.
  • Experience strengthening capacity, training, and providing technical support to teams, partners, authorities, and community actors.
  • Fluent Spanish, with excellent technical and clinical report-writing skills.
  • Knowledge of protection mainstreaming, including risk identification, safe handling of gender-based violence disclosures, and intersectoral referral pathways.
  • Ability to assess conflict dynamics and power relations so service targeting does not exacerbate local tensions.
  • Knowledge of international humanitarian coordination structures and Health and Protection Clusters.
  • Ability to adapt traditional clinical tools to community-based approaches.
  • Ability to synthesize and organize qualitative information and prioritize operational and clinical data.
  • Proficiency with office software and field data-collection platforms.
  • Ability to prioritize own time and the time of personnel under their responsibility.
  • Ability to implement self-care and emotional-support strategies and manage stress when working with survivors of critical events.
  • Strict adherence to IASC intervention levels, avoiding medicalization of distress, and applying ethical judgment and Do No Harm principles.
  • Native or intermediate proficiency in Indigenous languages prevalent in the intervention area is desirable.
  • Postgraduate training in public health, community health, maternal and child health, interculturality, or related areas is desirable.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, update, and guide HI’s technical strategy for inclusive health and interculturality in accordance with HI’s mandate, institutional strategy, and technical standards.
  • Provide technical guidance and advice to project managers, operations and country management, technical officers and agents, project teams, and partners.
  • Ensure technical coherence and compliance with HI technical frameworks, quality standards, and institutional principles across HI and partner interventions.
  • Review cross-sector technical strategies and approaches to ensure appropriate incorporation of intercultural approaches when interventions involve Indigenous peoples.
  • Identify technical needs, quality gaps, and improvement opportunities, and propose corrective measures.
  • Monitor sector trends, standards, good practices, and developments in inclusive health and interculturality, and mobilize regional and global technical resources when needed.
  • Ensure technical agents, field officers, regional and global specialists, and the Latin America and Caribbean Technical Unit have the information needed to collaborate.
  • Coordinate capitalization and evidence-gathering, test innovative solutions, propose research and studies, supervise or contribute to data collection and analysis, and document good practices and innovations.
  • Contribute to project and human-resource evaluation terms of reference, technical notes, case studies, learning documents, and other capitalization products; share evidence and incorporate lessons into HI strategies.
  • Anticipate adjustments that strengthen the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, particularly in health systems and interculturality.
  • Provide technical support for project planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation; review and adapt technical documentation; and accompany partners in applying HI standards.
  • Ensure team and partner activities meet technical and quality standards, identify support needs, participate in coordination meetings, and help define indicators and monitoring mechanisms.
  • Identify capacity-building needs and design and facilitate training on inclusive health, interculturality, Indigenous rights, traditional health systems, traditional midwifery, participation, and prior consultation.
  • Guide technical officers and agents in developing their competencies, participate in recruitment for relevant technical positions through interviews and technical assessments, and help develop a local talent and expert pool.
  • Represent and position HI’s technical experience with authorities, partners, humanitarian actors, Indigenous organizations, professional networks, and other stakeholders; maintain technical relationships and participate in coordination spaces when delegated.
  • Promote recognition of traditional health systems and intercultural approaches in health policies and responses; contribute to advocacy materials and identify strategic collaboration and intervention opportunities.
  • Design and guide HI’s intercultural approach with Indigenous peoples; develop methods to analyze and address cultural, linguistic, institutional, and social barriers to health access and quality.
  • Promote dialogue between formal and Indigenous traditional health systems and develop strategies and tools that link formal health networks, traditional systems, and community actors while respecting Indigenous knowledge, practices, worldviews, and decision-making.
  • Support traditional health actors, including traditional midwives, build their capacities, and ensure meaningful Indigenous participation in strategy-setting and decision-making.
  • Design and adapt care and referral pathways, review care protocols and tools, ensure referrals are culturally appropriate and accessible, and map and periodically review referral pathways to health, mental-health, protection, and other relevant services.
  • Ensure direct interventions and inter-agency referrals follow confidentiality, informed-consent, data-protection, and Do No Harm principles; identify protection and psychosocial risks and advise teams on mitigation.
  • Participate in interdisciplinary case discussions with Health, Protection, WASH, and other sectors as appropriate, respecting confidentiality limits, and promote integrated, person-centered responses.
  • Advise Protection, WASH, Health, Inclusion, and other teams on cultural barriers and Indigenous needs; adapt activities, tools, participation, communication, feedback, accountability, and information materials to be culturally appropriate.
  • Contribute to funding-opportunity identification, proposals, logical frameworks, technical budgets, national and sector strategies, and plans to expand or scale successful interventions.
  • Coordinate with country and operations management, project leads, technical units, field teams, partners, regional and global specialists; facilitate communication and organize or participate in technical meetings and workshops.
  • Keep program leads informed about progress, risks, challenges, and opportunities; maintain professional relationships with partners, authorities, Indigenous organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities, and community groups.
  • Promote humanitarian principles, rights-based approaches, protection standards, and HI policies on security, safeguarding, and confidentiality; identify and report risks and suspected abuse, exploitation, harassment, or other policy violations.
  • Design and guide free, prior, and informed consultation processes; support their planning, implementation, and documentation; ensure they are culturally appropriate and accessible; and use their outcomes in intervention planning and decisions.
  • Support emergency preparedness and response, adapt work priorities and modalities during emergencies, develop tools to incorporate inclusive health and interculturality, and guide culturally appropriate responses that respect traditional systems and community decision-making.
  • Support rapid needs assessments and analysis of health and intercultural barriers when required.

Desired Qualifications

  • Postgraduate training in public health, community health, maternal and child health, interculturality, or related areas.
  • Native or intermediate proficiency in Indigenous languages prevalent in the intervention area.

About the Company

Handicap International

Disability-focused humanitarian aid and empowerment

Handicap International, also known as Humanity & Inclusion, is an international non-profit organization focused on disability. It works with people with disabilities in diverse settings—from conflict zones to development contexts—to improve their access to essential services, rehabilitation, livelihoods, and inclusion. The organisation delivers aid and support through programmes in about 60 countries and responds to emergencies, helping people become self-reliant. It operates through a network of eight national associations (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA) that provide funding, resources, and project management. Unlike some aid groups, it is non-governmental, non-religious, non-political, and non-profit, centering the needs and rights of people with disabilities. Its goal is to enable people with disabilities to participate fully in society and to strengthen their independence and resilience in all contexts.

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