Disability Inclusion Advisor – Kenya Full Time NEW

Join us in Creating an Inclusive World!

Position Title: Disability Inclusion Advisor
Location: Kenya, Nairobi
Reports to: Country Director
Application Deadline: 22nd December 2025
Contract Type: Permanent (Full-time)

🌍 About CBM Global

CBM Global works alongside people with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries to fight poverty and exclusion and transform lives. Check out our website and LinkedIn profile to learn more. Drawing on over 100 years of experience and driven by Christian values, we work with the most marginalised in society to:

• Break the cycle of poverty and disability
• Treat and prevent conditions that lead to disability; and
• Build inclusive communities where everyone can enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential.

We work in over 20 countries, investing in long-term, authentic partnerships with the Disability Movement and multiplying our impact by delivering a combination of inclusive community-based programmes, advocacy for national and global policy change and inclusion advice to other organisations. CBM Global is a worldwide federation with the following Members: CBM Australia, CBM Ireland, CBM Kenya, CBM New Zealand, CBM Switzerland, and CBM UK.

📝 About the Role

CBM Global has extensive experience in providing inclusion advice to others through our IAG. The IAG is a global network of Advisory teams who deliver advice in collaboration with the Disability Movement and associate advisors. Inclusive Advisory work is one key means through which CBM Global seeks to achieve its programme objectives.

This Disability Inclusion Advisor will work with the country team, with support from the wider IAG where relevant, to grow Advisory work in Kenya and the larger Eastern and South Africa regions and may contribute to Advisory work and learning across the wider IAG. The Disability Inclusion Advisor will be responsible for setting the direction of our work, developing relationships with Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) and other delivery partners, as well as growing a body of Advisory work, and delivering on it within the framework of the Country Strategy Paper (CSP).

This will be your team:

The Country Team Kenya that you will be joining has 12 employees. You will report to the Country Director – CBM Global Kenya and you will be working closely a team of seven (7) people from the Inclusion Advisory Group. You will have no direct reports.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and/or refine the Kenya Country Team Advisory strategy, adjusting over time as needed.
• Develop and/or maintain excellent relationships with the Disability Movement, with clear understanding of how to ensure that collaboration on Advisory is constructive and complementary;
• Represent the Kenya team within the wider IAG network.
• Scope out Advisory opportunities in Kenya and the larger East and South African region.
• Provide advice to clients, collaborating and coordinating with agreed delivery partners, including representatives from the Disability Movement.
• Engage in continuous learning and upskilling and contribute through sharing and learning as is required for Advisory work.
• Tracking and documenting disability inclusion components of Kenya Country Team field programmes
• Perform any other tasks as may be assigned by the Country Director

Safeguarding Responsibilities

Focuses on self-awareness and behaviour regulation, observing and reporting others’ behaviour, and training.

Knowledge

Understands the incident management framework and their first responder role in recording, responding, and reporting incidents.

Understands the survivor-centered approach and how to apply it when receiving a complaint or responding to an incident. Knows local support services available in the community or region, and how to engage them.

Understands how to incorporate safeguarding into good quality programme design. Understands how power imbalance, gender inequalities, bias, and discrimination influence and impact access to interventions.

Knowledge of donor safeguarding requirements and partner capacity. Contextual knowledge.

Skills

Able to listen and accurately document reported concerns and complaints. Able to respect the confidentiality of safeguarding allegations. Able to appropriately apply the survivor-centered approach.

Analytical and skilled in participatory approaches used for mapping social norms, and patterns of violence and identifying risks and mitigation measures within their interventions. Able to source required technical and professional expertise to design and deliver safe programming.

Able to make sound judgments and timely decisions on safeguarding risk management to ensure the programme is safe. Able to develop and implement innovative solutions to minimize risks to programme participants.

Behaviours

Treats the survivor and others involved in an incident with dignity and respect.

Be assertive in implementing the initial incident response protocols by gaining the trust and cooperation of the parties involved.

Always considers safeguarding risks in all activities and interventions.

Key outcomes expected from this role

• Advisory strategy developed, documented, and adjusted as needed
• Mutually beneficial relationships developed with OPDs in relation to Advisory
• IAG and Kenya country team is well represented within local development and humanitarian networks.
• Kenya is well represented and participates in the global IAG, including accessing support and participating in peer review and other peer learning and quality processes.
• New opportunities for Advisory work generated and delivered on at high quality.

🎯 Who We’re Looking For
We are looking for a candidate who brings:

• A minimum of first degree in social sciences, humanities and at least 7 years relevant experience
  Relevant experience in design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of human rights-based development and/or humanitarian programs and policies.
• Understanding of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its application to country policies and programs.
• Demonstrated training and capacity development skills and experience.
• Excellent communication skills (written and spoken), including the ability to adapt pitch, style, and content of messages for different audiences, and to communicate in an inclusive manner
• Strategic thinking and creativity
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to develop and maintain networks of communication with a range of stakeholders.
• Ability to work as a member of a team, as well as the ability to work in a self-directed manner
• A willingness to contribute to the growth and development of CBM Global, and the IAG.
• Ability to manage shifting workloads and priorities and deliver high quality work on time.
• Experience working in cross-cultural teams and diverse environments.
• Committed, excited, and passionate about disability inclusion and the rights of people with disabilities.
• Open to work collaboratively.
• Alignment to our CBM Global values (Our Vision, Mission and Values | CBM Global) and our Safeguarding Policy (CBM-Global-Policy-Safeguarding.pdf) and Code of Conduct (CBM-Global-Code-of-Conduct.pdf).

Desirables

• A postgraduate degree
• Strong networks with the Disability Movement
• Experience providing advice to other organisations.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability.

We proactively work on achieving a diverse and inclusive work environment for people from all backgrounds and abilities.

💡 Why work with Us?

• A chance to be part of a global movement pursuing an inclusive world for people with disabilities.
• A supportive, flexible, and inclusive work environment.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• A culture that champions Mental Health and Wellbeing.
• Opportunities for learning, growth, and international collaboration.
• Competitive remuneration and benefits.

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