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Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organization.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Our Work in Ethiopia

Since the early 1970s, we have been working to address the underlying causes of poverty and marginalization by focusing on developing sustainable livelihoods, providing water and sanitation, agriculture, climate research, gender, and humanitarian issues.                                                                  

Job details

DIVISION: Impact

TEAM: Gender and Protection

LOCATION: Gambella, Ethiopia

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term

GRADE: D2 National                                                       

JOB FAMILY: Programme

SALARY: As per the Oxfam benefit package

HOURS: 37.5 per week

FLEXIBLE WORKING

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. This is a full-time role; however, Oxfam offers various flexible arrangements which candidates can discuss with the Recruiting Manager at the interview stage

TEAM PURPOSE:

Oxfam in Ethiopia is working to extend support to people marred by conflict, disasters and living in poverty and facing various shapes of inequality. Our funding team supports the program and other relevant country units to develop, nurture and maintain donor relations. The funding unit is also mandated to lead business development, submit reports by ensuring donor compliance, negotiate with donors on various contracts, and document and share learnings to fill gaps.

Our country programme is implementing humanitarian and development programs in close coordination with partners and other stakeholders through 05 field offices and one national office in Addis Ababa. This role will be an integral part of the Funding Team and work with the Grants and Funding Manager and an Officer to ensure that the country funding team has extended all possible support to the country program in achieving desired goals and objectives enshrined in OCS 2021-2030.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Protection Officer is responsible for Supporting the Senior Gender and Protection Officer in the design, planning, implementation, and management of gender and protection programs across all operational areas of the Oxfam Gambella Response program.

The Protection Officer will work under the technical supervision and Line management of the Senior Gender Program Officer at the field level to implement the protection program within the Gambella Refugee response with regular field visits in all refugee camps and host community sites where Oxfam operates.

POST HOLDER REPORTS TO

Senior Gender and Protection Officer

JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST

None

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

No

 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical

• Actively engage in the implementation of UHHCR, UNICEF, GAC, OSF, and ECHO projects throughout the project cycle.
• In collaboration with the Senior Gender and Protection Officer, support program team in providing technical inputs in the project and strategy design, advocacy strategy development, campaigning, and influencing paper preparation.
• Facilitate training for various community-based groups on relevant protection topics.
• Carry out regular focus group discussions and individual interviews ensuring that issues of women, men, girls, boys, and people with special needs are identified and analysed
• Participate in programmatic assessments including gender and protection analysis to ensure continuous improvement mainstreaming of finding on programme strategy and designing.
• Enhance the capacity of WASH and Promoting Refugee and Local Led Organizations team within the Gambella Refugee Response, and protection partners towards mainstreaming Gender, protection, and safeguarding.
• Ensures gender-sensitive approach is taken to programming and integrated into protection assessments and activities.
• Make sure Oxfam Gambella Refugee response programs ensures the needs, priorities, safety, and dignity of women, men, boys, and girls through periodic tracking and documentation of progress. 
• Ensure Gender and protection integration in humanitarian Programmes of implementing and conducting periodic safety audits in multi-sectoral humanitarian actors' response in the refugee camps.
• Provide ongoing feedback to supervisor on progress, lessons learned, achievements and gaps, issues, and problems.
• Document all activities on the ground compile weekly and monthly reports, training reports, success stories, work with WASH on Gender and Protection on the storytelling of their experiences as women participating in the beneficiary of safe WASH and self-protection.
• Ensure that issues of GBV and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) are explored in sensitive ways and that services and follow-up are provided in keeping with Oxfam guidelines.
• Provide support to other sectors as needed to deliver the program and mainstreaming activities
• Integrate gender and protection into MEAL plans to develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework and gender and protection-specific indicators for the program.
• Oversee the implementation of all Protection and gender integration, including programme quality and budget management across all project activities.
• Undertake regular on-site missions to activity implement protection and GBV related activities and provide technical advice to field staff as necessary.
• Support the Senior Gender and Protection Officer with the donor, stakeholders, and other internal reporting requirements by providing accurate and timely input and report on gender and protection activities.
• Contribute to the preparation of written gender and protection updates for Oxfam situation reports.
• Ensure application of protection standards, guidelines and good practices for all project activities. 

Coordination

• Work closely with the program and MEAL team to ensure gender, protection, and other cross-cutting issues are properly assessed and integrated into Oxfam Gambella programming for a timely response.
• Coordinates activities with WASH and EFSVL teams to ensure integration of protection throughout program activities
• Actively participate in the implementation review, experience sharing, consultation events, prepare case stories, document best practices specific to gender and protection activities for learning and knowledge management
• Represent the organization at camp level gender and protection coordination related meetings, workshops, and events
• Maintain active relationships with Humanitarian Organizations on gender equality and women’s issues to strengthen key stakeholders and partnerships

Capacity building

• Support the new staff onboarding and induction process, capacity building, and performance appraisal Work with the national gender and protection team to identify capacity gaps/needs of beneficiaries and partners and develop appropriate strategies and training tools to address them.
• Facilitate and support training plans across all proposals to improve the capacity of staff, partners, and persons of concern.
• Support the capacity assessment of staff, stakeholders, and beneficiaries plan and assist in capacity building initiatives, training, technical and in-kind 

Networking and Influencing 

• Work closely with Oxfam partners and stakeholders (ARRA, UNHCR, UNICEF, HI, and other partners) to make sure coordinated planning, implementation, and monitoring of projects/programs across Gambella and refugee camps.
• Represent Oxfam within the relevant technical cluster and coordination mechanisms (Protection cluster, Camp and zonal sectoral coordination meetings, review sessions, etc whenever needed.
• Work closely with protection partners in Gambella to ensure proper referral mechanisms are in place and advocate for the inclusion of gender and protection issues into their programming
• Maintain good working relations with UN Agencies, ARRA, NGOs, and INGOs. 

Management

• Work closely with the Senior Gender and Protection Officer, Area Manager, Country Gender Program Manager, and protection focal persons to ensure the successful implementation of the gender and protection activities in line with the objectives laid out in the donor approved proposals
• Assist in program quality and project strengthening activities, e.g. field visits, data collection, project quality meetings, focus group discussions, interviews and observations to obtain information about protection challenges, threats, and needs faced by displacement-affected populations

Oxfam General

• Actively participate in Performance Management including objective setting, performance review, upward feedback, and personal development plans.
• Ensure the implementation of Oxfam’s operational policies, procedures, and guidelines, especially gender equity, in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.
• Be a member of Oxfam’s team; participating in appropriate staff meetings, planning sessions, and ongoing liaising as needed.
• Undertake additional responsibilities related to respective functions 
• Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights
• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety, and staff health and wellbeing principles. 

Job Requirements

person specification

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to:

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, SOLIDARITY, COURAGE AND EQUALITY

Our Values

• Equality: We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities.
• Empowerment: We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them.
• Solidarity: We join hands, support, and collaborate across boundaries in working towards a just and sustainable world.
• Inclusiveness: We embrace diversity and difference and value the perspectives and contributions of all people and communities in their fight against poverty and injustice.
• Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions and inaction and hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with and for.
• Courage: We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes.

Ensure you commit to our THREE ORGANISATIONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Be committed to equal opportunities: demonstrating sensitivity to cultural differences and gender equality.
• Be willing to learn and apply gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity and inclusion across all aspects of your work.
• Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.
• Ensure you actively ADOPT OXFAM’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP APPROACH and apply the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here:

For this role, we have selected two of the most relevant feminist Leadership practices for this role (which you can read more about here.

• Self-Awareness
• Mutual accountability
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment

SKILS, Experience, Knowledge & Competencies

Essential

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree from a recognized university in Gender Studies, Sociology, political science, or any other related areas that can bring added value to the job.
• At least 3- 4 years of relevant experience of managing SGBV/gender and protection in projects/programs related to WASH and Emergency Food Security
• Proven work experience in the Humanitarian context mainly in the region will be an asset and preferably in an international NGO out of which 2 years.
• Experience in GBV and protection analysis and policy engagement
• Experience in dealing with and addressing gender, access to social protection and other social inequalities, promoting women’s empowerment
• Understanding the implementation of gender mainstreaming strategy and experience in integrating gender and social protection perspectives into emergency projects, strategies, and programs.
• Good networking, alliance building, and multi-stakeholder engagement skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in challenging contexts, multidisciplinary and multicultural teams and under pressure, and to initiate, plan and organize own work and meet the deadline
• Competent in the use of computers and Microsoft applications, especially spreadsheets (Excel), word processing (Word), and PowerPoint.
• Competent in the use of email packages
• Proven ability to work independently whilst knowing when to refer for advice
• Demonstrate excellent communication and human relation skill

Desirable:

• Previous work experience with INGO working in a Humanitarian context is considered as an advantage
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to a variety of audience
• Women are highly encouraged to apply  

Behavioral Competencies

• Communication and Inter-personal Skills
• Organizational awareness
• Ability to work under pressure
• Tenacity
• Ability to Achieve Results under tight deadlines
• Effective timekeeping and organizational skills

Safer recruitment: All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records checks).

DBS CHECK REQUIRED No

How to Apply

As part of your online application, please upload your up-to-date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile through CLICK HERE or using Oxfam's internal /External application portal on or before 13 December 2021.

Your application will be shortlisted based on your CV and your responses to the above questions. You need not comment on your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.