Innovation Project Manager – TeleRehabilitation At Handicap International – Humanity & Inclusion

“Outraged by the injustice experienced by people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we aspire to a world of solidarity and inclusion, where all differences enrich us and everyone can live upright.”

Handicap International / Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is an independent and impartial international solidarity association, which intervenes in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. Working alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable population, it acts and speaks out to meet their basic needs and improve their living conditions. It is committed to promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights. Since its creation in 1982, HI has set up development programs in more than 60 countries and intervenes in many emergency situations. Today, we have a budget of approximately 150 million euros, with 3500 employees worldwide.

HI is committed to an employment policy in favor of workers with disabilities.

Find out more about the association: www.hi.org.

BACKGROUND: **

Within the framework of the Federal Strategy and its recent update and the strategic orientations under development in the Rehabilitation Division, and the pandemic context, the digital transformation of rehabilitation care has already been integrated into our intervention practices in order to ensure the continuity of care and services. Our innovation dynamic in 3D and tele-rehabilitation before the pandemic, which won a European Union prize (https://hi.org/en/news/european-union-awards-hi-two-prizes-for-its-innovative-projects) is in continuous development. As part of the support for our current and future projects on this theme, the Rehabilitation Department needs to strengthen its capacities in terms of technical deployment of “new and digital technologies applied to rehabilitation – tele-rehabilitation & 3D” in unstable contexts.

The more specific mandate of the technical departments is to provide technical support and a framework for HI’s programs around the world, but also to carry out research and innovation projects and to represent HI externally. The Rehabilitation Technical Division has 18 staff members who are responsible for carrying out the various aspects of this mandate on Humanity & Inclusion’s programs on the theme of rehabilitation in humanitarian and development contexts.

JOB OBJECTIVES:

Reporting to the Director of Rehabilitation, and in collaboration with a Clinical Tele-rehabilitation Project Manager and a Business Developer, this position aims to provide skills and perspectives in terms of technological responses and new players in this sector to meet our field reality in the implementation of ICT-Tele-rehabilitation projects. The main challenge is to make the digital transformation of our rehabilitation services possible by proposing technological solutions in telecommunication that correspond to our uses and to the results expected by the tele-rehabilitation and 3D projects. https://hi.org/sn_uploads/document/barrierslevers_telerehabilitation_rs16_brief.pdf

HI needs a solution package (including partnerships) to operationalize tele-rehabilitation and 3D in all contexts and in different modes and devices, including a catalogue of equipment and functionality at costs appropriate to our target groups (users, professionals, service providers, local actors).

Your mission will be to develop technological responses for our projects and to build alliances with key partners to ensure influence, strategy and intelligence within the ICT community.

Main tasks

Responsibility 1 – Technological response to headquarters technical teams

• You identify the “digital technologies” players capable of offering appropriate solutions to our intervention contexts

· You examine and classify the solutions found to respond to the deployment of 3D and tele-rehabilitation projects, taking into account the complexity of the context and the known information transmission disruptions

· You define the specifications for the qualitative deployment of our telecom/IT approaches

· You propose an “educational” glossary

· You make the link with the actors involved, particularly in the context of identifying sources of funding

• You coordinate the ICT solutions implemented in relation to data protection
• You provide technical solutions to help in the decision making process

· You analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen solutions

· You identify the short, medium and long term issues for HI and its local partners

· You enrich the thinking on licensing issues

· You explore the existence of techniques applicable to our field’s constraints (intermittent transmission, miniaturization of digital information packets, power supply)

Responsibility 2 – Influence, Strategy and External Monitoring

• You will participate in an HI-international seminar on “Digital transition Tele-rehabilitation / Integration of ICT” in November 2021
• You develop functional deployment models (technologies and alliances of actors)
• You contribute to the reduction of the environmental impact of rehabilitation care
• You update the benchmark proposed in the research of the use of ICT in rehabilitation
• You are in charge of updating information resources on Internet coverage project leaders in the field of e-health in our countries of intervention and
• You ensure a scientific watch on the digital transformation and the use of ICT within international organizations such as the WHO
• You identify networks of actors and ensure the follow-up of communication and work opportunities for HI around these issues

Responsibility 3 – Internal Monitoring

• You will update the project portfolio of HI in telehealth in the framework of the research on the use of ICT in rehabilitation
• You work on the centralization and capitalization of ICT projects, identifying indicators of digital transformation in order to monitor the evolution of use

PROFILE REQUIRED: **

· You have an engineering degree with a specialization in technological and/or digital sciences

· You have at least 2 years of experience in technical support, coordination and/or project management in international organizations

· You have experience in digital solutions applied to health

· You master the collection, management and monitoring of health data

· You are interested, and if possible experienced, in innovative and frugal approaches developed in low and middle income countries

· You have organizational, analytical and training skills

· You are autonomous, flexible and can work in a multicultural team

· You speak French and English (oral and written)

CONDITIONS OF THE POSITION:

· Type of contract: 6 or 12 month fixed-term contract

· Meal /lucheon vouchers

· Health insurance

· Up to 3 days of telework