Career & Consultancy Opportunities

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I. Full-time Position

The Global Disability Summit Secretariat, the hub of all organizational and planning aspects of the GDS cycle, is looking for an experienced Communication Officer. The Senior Officer for Communications will be responsible for the co-coordination of the Communications Working Group and for coordinating communication activities that fall under the responsibility of the GDS-secretariat, such as relevant strategies for social media engagement, press engagement, publicizing all GDS-related events, and ensuring their communications strategies are aligned to the main GDS2025 campaign. For more information download Job Description here in Word or PDF. The application deadline is 22 April 2024.
The Global Disability Summit Secretariat, the hub of the organizational and planning aspects of the GDS cycle, is looking for an Administrative Assistant to carry out its activities. The Assistant will be responsible for scheduling meetings, ensuring proper recording and filing of documents, note-taking, uploading content on the GDS Website, and any other relevant administrative task. For more information download Job Description here in Word or PDF. The application deadline is 22 April 2024.

II. Consultancies

The Global Disability Summit Secretariat and co-hosts of GDS are looking for a Web Developer to critically assess and further develop the GDS website. The website currently works on Ruby on Rails. To learn more please download Terms of Reference here in Word or PDF. The application deadline is 20 April 2024.

III. Microgrants

IV. Internship

V. Scholarship Opportunities

VI. Tenders

VII. Opportunities outside of the International Disability Alliance (IDA)