About Sightsavers

Sightsavers implements projects in over 30 countries in Africa and South Asia working to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities.

Title: Global Technical Lead – Decent work and Social Protection

Location: Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana and Senegal

Contract: 1-year fixed term contract

Salary: Local Terms and Conditions apply

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and technical oversight of programmes focused on decent work, labour rights and social protection for people with disabilities
• Provide expert technical guidance to country teams, ensuring programmes reflect best practice and emerging evidence
• Build and strengthen relationships with trade unions, worker organisations and social protection stakeholders
• Support partnerships between organisations of people with disabilities (OPDs) and labour movement actors
• Develop and deliver training and capacity building for staff and partners
• Contribute to the development of inclusive social protection approaches that are accessible, comprehensive and responsive to risk
• Identify and help secure strategic funding opportunities, working closely with fundraising teams
• Develop tools, guidance and learning materials to support programme delivery across countries
• Contribute to research, policy, advocacy and communications to strengthen Sightsavers influence in this area
• Represent Sightsavers externally at global, regional and national forums

This role includes travel of up to 12 weeks per year

This is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.

Jobholder Requirements

Essential

• Significant experience leading programmes in decent work, labour rights or social protection, ideally in the Global South
• Strong understanding of current debates and trends in labour rights, informal economies and social protection systems
• Experience working with, or alongside, trade unions, worker organisations or social protection actors
• Proven ability to build partnerships and influence stakeholders at different levels
• Experience of securing or contributing to funding proposals
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to work with complex information
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex ideas clearly
• Experience working across multiple countries
• A strong commitment to disability inclusion, equality and social justice

Desirable

• Experience working on disability rights and inclusion specifically
• Existing networks within labour movements or social protection systems at national or global level
• Experience working within trade unions, worker organisations or similar bodies
• Experience influencing donor priorities or leading larger funding bids
• French language skills

• Lead the design and technical oversight of programmes focused on decent work, labour rights and social protection for people with disabilities
• Provide expert technical guidance to country teams, ensuring programmes reflect best practice and emerging evidence
• Build and strengthen relationships with trade unions, worker organisations and social protection stakeholders
• Support partnerships between organisations of people with disabilities (OPDs) and labour movement actors
• Develop and deliver training and capacity building for staff and partners
• Contribute to the development of inclusive social protection approaches that are accessible, comprehensive and responsive to risk
• Identify and help secure strategic funding opportunities, working closely with fundraising teams
• Develop tools, guidance and learning materials to support programme delivery across countries
• Contribute to research, policy, advocacy and communications to strengthen Sightsavers influence in this area
• Represent Sightsavers externally at global, regional and national forums

• Strong understanding of current debates and trends in labour rights, informal economies and social protection systems
• Proven ability to build partnerships and influence stakeholders at different levels
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to work with complex information
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex ideas clearly
• French language skills (desirable)

• Significant experience leading programmes in decent work, labour rights or social protection, ideally in the Global South
• Experience working with, or alongside, trade unions, worker organisations or social protection actors
• Experience of securing or contributing to funding proposals
• Experience working across multiple countries
• A strong commitment to disability inclusion, equality and social justice
• Experience working on disability rights and inclusion specifically (desirable)
• Existing networks within labour movements or social protection systems at national or global level (desirable)
• Experience working within trade unions, worker organisations or similar bodies (desirable)
• Experience influencing donor priorities or leading larger funding bids (desirable)