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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.

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We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization 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: Programme 

LOCATION: Pugnido and Dimma, Gambella Region, Ethiopia

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term contract for 10 months with possible extension

GRADE: D2 National                        

JOB FAMILY: Programme

SALARY: As per the Oxfam benefit package

HOURS: 37.5 per week

Required number (x2)

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 has been intervening in Gambella Region since 2014 and its main areas of intervention are the WASH program with the integration of gender, protection and safeguarding. In response to the call for expression of interest by UNHCR/RRS Oxfam has been selected to implement and lead the WASH activities in the entire Gambella 7 refugee camps Including the Pagak reception centre, the profession pursues and ensures the delivery of basic WASH services which meets international standards.

JOB PURPOSE:

Public Health Promotion (PHP) Officer is responsible to work with communities at a local level to encourage good hygiene standards amongst communities. He/she will provide training to Public health Promotion assistants, Hygiene promoters, Hygiene Community outreach agents, mobilisers and key community members in the aspects of health promotion and disease prevention methods and lead a team of Public Health Promotion Assistants at the field level, ensuring that activities are suitable in the various cultural contexts according to the location and target population/s both in refugee camps and host communities.

POST HOLDER REPORTS TO

WASH Coordinator

JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST

PHP assistant and Hygiene promoter

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

No

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assess and support the capacity needs of implementing partners, Community mobilizers to ensure the quality of the hygiene promotion programme implementation in conjunction with the Camp Manager.
• To promote integrated approach in all program areas and to promote learning of team members
• Together with other team members monitor the ongoing interventions and make recommendations to OGB regarding any unmet needs.
• Design and implement public health promotion activities in conjunction with the Public Health Engineers ensuring that the links are made with the provision of water and sanitation facilities.
• To support the planned Public Health promotion activities at the field level.
• Ensure identification of WASH beneficiaries in refugee response area targeting feeding centres and schools, high population concentration including communities that are hosting high numbers of refugees and or drought displaced population, communities with malnutrition rates that are significantly higher than average, communities with AWD cases with lack of access to safe water and sanitation facilities and vulnerable community members.
• Co-facilitate community problem identification, planning (formulation of action plans, MOUs, hand over), implementation of community activities, participatory monitoring and evaluation, using community mobilisation, sensitisation techniques
• Identify, build capacity and mobilise WASH Committees or community outreach volunteers to ensure the mechanism is in place for a community-led action to address high-risk public health issues identified.
• Build rapport with all communities in the respective camps and host villages and further ensure all understood Oxfam interventions and priorities of the humanitarian program.
• Work in coordination with the Public Health Engineering team/s and local communities to identify acceptable water supply systems and sanitation facilities designs.
• Take part in distribution activities, including identification of goods and materials, registration of beneficiaries and distribution of items to target communities.
• To ensure that work is carried out in a way that is sensitive to the community needs and gender issues. In particular to promote the full and equal participation of women in all aspects of the work and to ensure that Oxfam’s programme is an opportunity for community cohesion and harmony rather than division.
• Liaise closely with the project PHE and Oxfam protection and gender team throughout the planning, design and implementation stages of public health activities.

Other

• Eager and 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 safety health and wellbeing principles.
• The post holder is expected to be familiar with and abide by the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures and other regulatory codes (e.g. InterAction Field Co-operation Protocol, including safeguarding.
• Depending on the situation, the post holder may be asked to perform other tasks as requested by the Manager.

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.

1 Self-Awareness

2 Mutual accountability

3 Strategic Thinking and Judgment

SKILS, Experience, Knowledge & Competencies

Essential

• Master of Public Health /BSc in Environment Health Science, Public Health, Health Officer, or related fields that can be added value to the post.
• Minimum of 6 years working experience in sanitation and Hygiene promotion, emergency WASH, public health promotion, community mobilization out of which preferable 3 years of experience working in INGO organization.
• Experience in emergency response (Drought, AWD and refugee camps) is essential.
• Experience and understanding of community mobilization in relation to water, sanitation and hygiene activities.
• Build the capacity of local refugee management structures and community by providing public health promotion technical support.
• Provide appropriate advice to ensure adherence with National, regional and OXFAM’s policies and recommended practices, especially regarding the health and safety of construction sites and Water Quality Monitoring Policies.
• Provide technical support in all phases of the program cycle, from appraisal, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation through regular field visits, training-based capacity building, and desk-based feedback.
• Provide advice regarding hygiene and sanitation approaches adoption and innovation of sanitation and hygiene technologies by considering the local context.
• Understanding of international health and development and relief issues
• Experience in implementing community-based approaches like CLTSH, CHAST, Child to Child and PHAST
• Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of disadvantaged populations
• Demonstrated experience of integrating gender and diversity issues into public health promotion
• Assessment, analytical and planning skills.
• Good oral and written reporting skills.
• Diplomacy, tact and negotiating skills.
• Training/counterpart development skills.
• Personnel management skills.
• Good communication skills and ability to work well in a team
• Ability to work well under pressure and in response to changing needs.
• Ability to travel at short notice and to work in difficult circumstances.
• Able to communicate in English and a local dialect would be preferable
• Good written and spoken English essential.
• An applicant with knowledge of the local language is preferable.

Desirable

• Experience of working effectively within a large international agency including Gambella refugee response setting and knowledge of local context would be an added advantage
• Good understanding of WASH programming in refugee response programming 
• Having a training certificate on one of the Hygiene promotion approaches CHAST, C2C, CLTSH or PHAST is advantageous.

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 February 10, 2022.

NB: Applications 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.