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Position: Universal Design Knowledge Management Associate

Project title: Promoting Mainstream Policies and Services for People with Disabilities in Ukraine 

Type of contract: Service Contract

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Social Sector Reform Officer, the Universal Design Knowledge Management Associate will be responsible for the following key tasks:

• Contribute to raising public awareness of accessibility and universal design principles in Ukraine through conducting public educational and awareness raising activities/events/ products for different audiences;
• Contribute to development training programmes on accessibility and universal design;
• Build partnerships and sponsorship with businesses, service providers, cities’ and rayon’s associations, city councils, and NGOs;
• Contribute to design of the concept and establishment of Universal Design Hub/Centre and ensure its effective coordination based on wider discussions with stakeholders as well as with professionals related to Universal Design;
• Ensure collection, processing and analysing information for Universal Design Hub/Centre;
• Ensure support and regular update of the web-site sighton universal design http://ud.org.ua/ with relevant standards, handbooks, manuals, legislation as well as through identifying and description of relevant practices in mainstreaming services for people with disabilities and implementing principles of universal design and accessibility in different areas/ fields;
• Administer and develop knowledge management and innovations-related activities of the Programme;
• Contribute to design and implementation of communication/information strategy for the Programme, ensuring sound visibility of UNDP through producing promotion and information materials and organizing different public events (roundtables, discussions, press-conferences etc);
• Maintain a system of monitoring, reporting and evaluation of Programme activities;
• Work closely with country office communications and programme personnel to communicate success stories and results;
• Ensure quality control over country office publications, including compliance with UNDP Communication toolkit;
• Prepare ad hoc information materials about the Programme;
• Perform other duties as required.

Measurable outputs of the work assignment:

• UDD Universal Design Hub/Centre established;
• Website on universal design http://ud.org.ua updated regularly;
• Public educational and awareness raising activities/events/ products for different audiences for public awareness on accessibility and universal design principles are conducted/produced;
• Partnership with businesses, service providers, cities’ and rayon’s associations, city councils, and NGOs are established;
• Monthly/quarterly/annual/ad hoc reports are prepared;
• UNDP website, and social media updated regularly;
• All assignments performed in a quality and timely manner.

Minimum qualifications and experience:

• Secondary education. University degree in Business Administration, international relations, social sciences, PR, marketing, journalism and/or communications or other relevant field would be desirable but it is not a requirement;
• Minimum 5 years of practical experience in the field of PR, communication, monitoring and/or reporting, programme support service;
• Minimum 1 year of experience in promotion of rights of people with disabilities, universal design and accessibility areas would be considered as an advantage;
• At least 1 year experience in website content management would be considered as an advantage;
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel). Experience in handling of web-based management systems;
• Fluency in English, Ukrainian and Russian is required.

If you wish to apply for this or other positions with UNDP please visit UNDP website, section jobs and apply online. More information and application details at https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=76078  

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 13 December 2017