The British Council will contract Disability Associate Advisors (AAs) to work alongside our Cultural Engagement Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) team and programme teams to provide specialist input into our work, to help deliver the British Council’s objectives. 

We work towards disability inclusion through projects that address disability-related issues and promote the empowerment of disabled people, as well as through mainstreaming disability inclusion across all our programmes.

We are seeking Associate Advisors to support us across a broad range of areas of activity, including business development, programme design, programme delivery, research, capacity building, design of systems and guidance and monitoring and evaluation. Across the different areas of work, we aim to support disabled people’s leadership and participation, contribution to economic life and education. 

They will be contracted on a ‘call/draw-down’ basis, providing consultancy days as agreed for the British Council, which can be accessed at any point in the calendar year as the need arises. AAs will be expected to engage in knowledge-sharing activities and support colleagues in the wider British Council. 
 

Areas of work required

To meet the needs of the British Council, we are seeking AAs who will provide comprehensive expertise on the sector and can undertake a range of activities. These will include:

• Development of strategies, tools and approaches to support global, regional and country programme development including analysis of disability practice; theory of change for disability inclusion; guidance for teams on strategy development.

• Supporting delivery of disability inclusion strategies and mainstreaming through review and analysis of existing and new programmes from a disability perspective; developing recommendations for ensuring that outcomes are delivered for disabled people and/or that promote disability inclusion.

• Providing knowledge and insight in relation to disability inclusion and the empowerment of disabled people to support internal planning, and technical advice and quality review of British Council projects during implementation.
   

• Gathering market intelligence for potential contract opportunities including intelligence related to potential clients, partners and consultants. This may include undertaking scoping visits to targeted countries and attending meetings or events with clients, partners and other stakeholders.

• Writing and/or quality assuring proposals for technical assistance projects in response to invitations to tender from international donors, governments, charitable foundations and other funding sources. This may include reading and analysis of the project Terms of Reference and background context provided by the British Council; developing full approach and methodology; contributing innovative solutions and ensuring that the implementation strategy and programme results are achievable; contributing to proposals being written by partners or colleagues.

• Supporting activities to raise the profile of the British Council and making a leadership contribution to sharing international approaches to disability inclusion. This may include drawing on lived experience, undertaking research, writing papers and dissemination activities including design of conferences and roundtables.
   

• Supporting the development of disability inclusion monitoring and evaluation strategies and tools for specific projects and programmes.

• Leading formal evaluations and or reviews/audits of projects and programmes focused on disability inclusion and digital accessibility.

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• Carrying out reviews of evidence and learning across programmes on relevant themes e.g. different models of disability, WCAG 2.2, EN 301 549.

• Supporting the capacity building of internal staff as well as partners and participants on disability and accessibility.

   

  How to apply

  Full role details, evaluation criteria and application details can be found in the Invitation to Tender document below.

  Documents to be submitted to form your tender response are listed at Part 2 (Submission Checklist) of Annex 3 (Supplier Response) to the Invitation To Tender. 

  All documents required as part of your tender response should be submitted to British Council’s e-Tendering portal by the Response Deadline, as set out in the Timescales section of the the Invitation To Tender. 

  Alternatively, they can be emailed to Joshua Damsell. 

  Deadline to submit responses: 13 May 2026

  Source: https://opportunities-insight.britishcouncil.org/short-articles/opportunities/consultancy-disability-inclusion-associate-advisors