ROLE PURPOSE
The Inclusive Education Advisor provides senior technical leadership for inclusive education within the KREASI program, with responsibility for designing and operationalizing inclusive education approaches that ensure equitable access, participation, and learning outcomes for children with disabilities and other marginalized groups. The Advisor leads the development of inclusive teacher and principal professional development packages, strengthens partnerships with national stakeholders, including organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), and ensures alignment with national inclusive education frameworks and disability rights principles.
The Advisor sets the strategic technical direction for inclusive education across KREASI and ensures technical quality and coherence in inclusive education across all program components. The role provides senior technical guidance on disability identification and support systems, advances disability-inclusive pedagogy, and supports district-level ecosystem actors such as Unit Layanan Disabilitas (ULD). It also oversees the design and roll-out of inclusive education modules, training materials, coaching tools, and communities of practice for teachers (KKG) and principals (KKKS).
The Advisor works closely with and provides technical support to the KREASI Education Manager and his direct reports (including the Teacher Professional Development and Principal Professional Development Specialists), the MEAL Manager, and the Ecosystem Manager to ensure inclusive education is fully integrated across teaching, leadership, assessment, ecosystem strengthening, and evidence generation. The role coordinates with thematic specialists and consultants, and represents KREASI in inclusive education policy forums, donor coordination platforms, and technical networks. The position requires deep expertise in inclusive and disability-inclusive education, the Indonesian education and disability rights policy environment, and proven experience designing and operationalizing inclusive education systems at scale.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Technical Leadership and Program Quality
- Serve as the senior technical authority for inclusive education within KREASI, providing strategic direction and quality assurance across all inclusive education components.
- Advise the Chief of Party, Head of Programs, and Education Manager on risks, opportunities, and emerging issues for inclusive and disability-inclusive education within the Indonesian context.
- Design and operationalize KREASI's inclusive education approach, including system-level approaches to disability identification, classroom accommodations, inclusive pedagogy and catch-up club offerings, ensuring alignment with national frameworks and disability rights principles.
- Provide technical leadership on the design and implementation of the Profil Belajar Siswa (PBS) tool, including safeguarding and ethical guidance covering data protection, consent, and appropriate use of student-level data.
- Lead development of Inclusive Education teacher professional development package, including coaching tools for classroom support, as planned for Year 3 of the KREASI program.
- Provide technical support in the development of KKG community of practice modules on inclusive education and GEDSI.
- Design a technical assistance package for Unit Layanan Disabilitas (ULD), informed by lessons from INOVASI and other reference programs, including assistive technology options, low-tech classroom accommodations, and training on disability rights-based approaches to inclusive education.
- Support integration of GEDSI and disability-inclusive approaches within School-based Child Protection (SBCP) mechanisms.
- Ensure inclusive education design aligns with national policies and reform agendas and reflects best practices from comparable national and international programs.
Coordination and Cross-Team Support
- Coordinate closely with and provide senior technical support to the Education Manager and his direct reports (TPD Specialist, PPD Specialist, Child Protection Specialist) to ensure inclusive education is fully integrated into KREASI's foundational learning, school leadership, and child protection approaches.
- Support the MEAL Manager to integrate inclusive education indicators, disability-disaggregated data, and learning questions into MEAL frameworks, monitoring plans, and evaluations.
- Support the Ecosystem Manager on inclusive education ecosystem strengthening, including alignment with national inclusive education policies, district-level implementation frameworks, and engagement with ULDs and government counterparts.
- Actively participate in and contribute to the INOVASI-KREASI technical working group on inclusive education.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing technical culture across KREASI grounded in learning, accountability, and shared ownership of inclusive education results.
Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement
- Cultivate and maintain strategic partnerships with national stakeholders, including organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), parent associations, academic institutions, and government actors, to ensure alignment with disability rights standards.
- Engage with donor coordination platforms and technical working groups on inclusive education to align KREASI interventions with broader sector investments.
- Represent Save the Children and KREASI in inclusive education policy forums, donor coordination mechanisms, and technical networks, as delegated.
Partner Capacity Strengthening and Technical Assistance
- Provide strategic oversight of partner capacity development approaches for inclusive education programming.
- Serve as a master trainer on inclusive education, building a cadre of inclusive education specialists and trainers across KREASI staff, implementing partners, civil society, and government counterparts.
- Provide targeted on-site and remote technical support to partners on disability-inclusive classroom practices.
Advocacy and Policy Engagement
- Provide technical leadership and strategic input to KREASI's inclusive education advocacy agenda in close collaboration with the Advocacy Manager and Ecosystem Manager.
- Promote an Education Systems Strengthening approach to inclusive education that links school-level improvements with policy reform, financing, and ULD strengthening.
- Ensure field-level learning and evidence inform district and national policy dialogue on inclusive education and disability rights.
- Support the development of inclusive education research products, policy briefs, and technical position papers to advance KREASI's policy influence.
Research, Learning, and Monitoring
- Provide strategic support to KREASI's research, learning, and evaluation agenda to ensure GEDSI integration, in collaboration with the MEAL Manager and Research/MEAL team.
- Advance the KREASI research agenda on inclusive education, including identifying priority learning questions and supporting evidence generation.
- Promote systematic use of evidence to inform adaptive management and continuous improvement of inclusive education approaches.
- Foster strong learning exchange across KREASI, partners, and external stakeholders, including DFAT INOVASI, OPDs, and academia.
Reporting, Quality Assurance, and Representation
- Contribute to Results Framework reporting, narrative reports, and internal adaptive management processes for inclusive education.
- Collaborate with the KREASI MEAL team to ensure the quality, clarity, and consistency of inclusive education inputs to donor reports, internal updates, and learning products.
- Produce regular technical updates documenting mentoring, technical assistance, module development, and inclusive education progress.
- Uphold Save the Children policies and standards, including safeguarding, risk management, and inclusion.
Other
- Carry out other tasks assigned by the Head of Programs or Chief of Party.
- Ensure adherence to Save the Children policies on child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities, and other relevant standards.
- In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder may be required to work outside normal duties and adjust working hours as needed, including temporary deployment to affected areas.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
- Master's degree in Inclusive Education, Special Education, Education, Disability Studies, International Development, or an equivalent related field; however, an additional two years of professional experience may substitute for the Master's degree requirement.
- A minimum of 7 years' experience designing and implementing inclusive and disability-inclusive education programs in developmental contexts, including teacher and principal professional development at scale.
- Demonstrated technical expertise in disability-inclusive pedagogy, disability identification and support systems (such as PBS or comparable tools), assistive technology, and classroom accommodations.
- Strong knowledge of Indonesia's education system, inclusive education frameworks, and disability rights policy environment at national and sub-national levels, including familiarity with Unit Layanan Disabilitas (ULD).
- Proficiency in tools such as political economy analysis, gender analysis, and child rights situation analysis, with methodologies to advance inclusive education and prevent disability- and gender-based disparities in learning.
- Expertise in incorporating child rights-based and disability rights-based approaches in program design and implementation.
- Experience collaborating with national and local education and disability authorities, organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), NGOs, UN agencies, donors, development partners, and academia on inclusive education and disability rights issues.
- Demonstrated ability in facilitating child participation, including for children with disabilities, and advocating for children's rights in professional settings and collaborations.
- Familiarity with project cycle management and budgeting processes.
- Advanced verbal and written communication skills in Bahasa Indonesia and English, including the development and presentation of concept notes, technical packages, training materials, and policy briefs.
- Proficient in networking, representing, and forging partnerships to foster learning, strengthen civil society, and mobilize resources, focusing on donor and high-level engagement for inclusive education.
- Exceptional analytical, interpersonal, collaborative, problem-solving, presentation, and negotiation abilities.
- Excellent computer proficiency, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
Desirable:
- Competent in using data and evidence to innovate, implement, and share effective solutions for the welfare of children with disabilities and other marginalized groups.
- Proven ability to design innovative, high-impact inclusive education programs with a focus on achieving systemic change.
- Comfortable working autonomously with minimal supervision, as well as collaboratively within a team, and able to integrate feedback constructively.
- Exceptional analytical and strategic thinking skills, with an aptitude for seizing opportunities and cultivating partnerships.
- Highly adaptable, capable of interpreting and acting upon various levels of strategic, transactional, and operational information.
- Resilient when facing a dynamic and challenging work environment, maintaining performance under pressure.
- Skilled in navigating complexity and managing ambiguity effectively.
- Dedicated to Save the Children's mission, values, and principles, including a commitment to rights-based approaches.
