Job OpeningInternational Service Bolivia (UNAIS)www.isbolivia.org

Institutional Capacity Builder with speciality in Visual Impairment

Instituto Boliviano de la Ceguera, Chuquisaca (IBC Ch),

Sucre, Bolivia

Instituto Boliviano de la Ceguera, Chuquisaca (IBC), is one of four organisations supported by Irish Aid through a project

promoting the social inclusion of disabled people into local and national

development processes in Bolivia.

Your role at IBC will be to provide guidance in aspects of institutional strengthening, including developing more effective

tools for planning, implementing and evaluating activities;

awareness raising; training workshops on specific themes (eg Braille, computers, leadership, basic accounting); developing a

virtual library;

strengthening coordination and networking with other institutions; and liaising with the other three partners of the

Irish Aid project.

You should be educated to postgraduate level with qualifications

related to disability and development,

with a minimum of three years' work experience incorporating work with blind/visually impaired individuals, project management

(design, implementation, M & E),

facilitation and training, and, ideally, conflict resolution.

You should have solid spoken/written Spanish skills and a willingness to learn Quechua, together with proven

adaptability/flexibility,

and a demonstrable understanding of/commitment to the

situation of disabled people in Bolivia.

Job reference number: (REF: BOL/52) Position open until filled

Posted November 18, 2008

See www.isbolivia.org/blog or www.internationalservice.org.uk or www.is-

ireland.ie

for more information or to apply for this position.