Application Deadline: June 12, 2022

About Oxfam

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation Oxfam.   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.   

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: Operations

TEAM: Progamme 

LOCATION: Degahabour – Jarar Zone, Somalia Region Ethiopia

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term contract for 1 Year with possible extension

GRADE: C1, National/International                                                      

JOB FAMILY: Programme

SALARY: As per the Oxfam Salary Scale

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:

The team is responsible for the strategic development and management of the country’s Humanitarian program. Supports Oxfam’s impact locally, regionally, continentally, and globally through ensuring Humanitarian program alignment to the key strategic objectives and program standards. Provides strategic leadership and support to resource mobilization efforts. Ensure that the humanitarian programmes make the proper shift, with the quality needed to ensure a proper achievement of the Ethiopia Oxfam Strategy. Ensures that the promotion of women’s rights is at the heart of all Oxfam in Ethiopia’s program work.

JOB PURPOSE:

Lead the design, implementation, management, and coordination of effective and appropriate large-scale humanitarian interventions. This includes country humanitarian strategic management, representation, coordination, programme management, advocacy, and programme support at senior levels.

POST HOLDER REPORTS TO

Humanitarian and Resilience Program Manager

JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST

Technical Coordinator, Support Function Heads, and Area Managers

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

No

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical

1.    Strategic Management and Leadership

• Coordinate projects implemented by Oxfam and partners as part of the East Africa Food Crisis Response Program
• Lead the Management Team in the overall planning and strategic management of Oxfam – East Africa Food Crisis Response in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
• Within and beyond the Somali region, develop and maintain a network for Humanitarian actors and issues. Represent Oxfam to donors and diplomatic missions and communicate Oxfam public policy and advocacy positions as and when appropriate to institutions, government, international, UN national, and local organizations as required.
• Participate in resource mobilization and negotiation of appropriate resources in collaboration with the Humanitarian Program Manager and Oxfam Grants and Funding Manager.
• Maintain an analysis of the humanitarian context in the Somali region and beyond and use this to inform interventions.
• Liaise closely with Oxfam programmes and other key institutions and allies in the Somali region and beyond and nationally and monitor key indicators.
• Develop mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation of the East Africa Food crisis response programmes.
• Work with team members to link East Africa Food crisis response programmes to another programming, including advocacy and longer-term programmes.
• To contribute to the implementation of Oxfam’s Country Strategy/Humanitarian Strategy with a focus on humanitarian preparedness, response, and protection.
• To be an active participant in the Somali region and beyond planning and analysis; understand the relevant country, regional and global objectives.
• As part of the Oxfam Somali Region Management Team, and Oxfam Somali Security Team, ensure that Oxfam’s organizational policies are met and actively contribute to the overall strategic development of the country programme, taking the lead on humanitarian related issues.

2.    Humanitarian Preparedness, Response, and Programme Management

Preparedness

• Lead East Africa Food Crisis Response Programme design and development of appropriate contingency plans, and related preparedness and mitigation strategies, including capacity building initiatives, to ensure Oxfam’s humanitarian mandate can be met at all times.
• Ensure relevant Oxfam partners have updated humanitarian contingency plans and that key staff is trained on the same.
• Before humanitarian crises, lead the preparedness process in Somali and beyond by ensuring that well-trained human resources are always ready to act, and material resources are pre-positioned in strategic locations.

Programme Management and Response

• Provide strategic and effective leadership in pulling together Oxfam’s humanitarian response and any scale-up of the same: this includes but is not limited to coordination within Oxfam nationally, regionally, and globally on humanitarian issues but also to take or ensure an appropriate leading coordination role in the overall national/local response as can be expected with regards to Oxfam’s size and technical expertise.
• Manage and take the lead on the strategic development of the ongoing East Africa Food crisis response programme in Ethiopia and the Emergency Preparedness and Response Team, serving affected people annually within WASH, Emergency Food Security & Livelihoods; gender and protection.
• Develop and maintain close working relationships with Country Technical Coordinators, Head of Development Programme, Partnership Capacity Building Specialist, Gender Coordinator, and Advocacy/Policy colleagues to encourage and strengthen Oxfam’s one programme approach.
• Develop and manage an appropriate response to humanitarian crises in line with agreed standards (e.g., Core Humanitarian Standards, Code of Conduct; SPHERE, Oxfam Gender Policy, etc.) and Oxfam’s best practices.
• Lead on enhancing Oxfam’s ability to respond in a timely, appropriate, accountable, and cost-effective manner to humanitarian crises in programme areas, with a focus on programme quality beneficiary and partner accountability.
• Ensure that Oxfam meets all contractual obligations and achieves high-quality proposals and that all donor reports are submitted on time to the Funding Department and are of high quality.
• Recruit and line manage East Africa Food crisis response programme staff as required in accordance with Oxfam’s Performance Management process and proactive staff development including objective setting, performance review, and personal development plans. Ensuring all aspects of Oxfam’s work in Ethiopia e.g., programme themes and aims, gender equity, and protection advocacy are reflected in its own and staff objectives.
• Provide required inputs to other departmental strategies, including but not limited to advocacy, gender, protection and development, and support for relevant policy issues.
• Support partner organizations in developing and delivering projects within agreed parameters where appropriate.
• Contribute to regional analysis and programming as appropriate, in particular, seek opportunities for Oxfam and others to learn from the Ethiopia experience.
• Ensure that Oxfam’s programme is cost-effective, efficient, and complies with all organizational standards of management and accountability.
• Ensure that the programme is implemented in a consultative, participative, and gender-sensitive way.
• Ensure that key humanitarian information of the East Africa Food crisis response programme is circulated appropriately, within Oxfam and with external counterparts.
• Report regularly to the SMT and Country Director as appropriate with agreed indicators against the overall objectives.

3.    Representation

• Represent Oxfam’s inappropriate humanitarian and East Africa Food crisis fora in the Somali region, other Neighbouring regions, and at the national level with government authorities, UN organizations, NGOs, private sector, and donor agencies.
• Maintain and further develop Oxfam’s existing network of key humanitarian contacts nationally, regionally, and globally.
• Raise the profile of East Africa Food crisis context and Oxfam’s programmes through participation in the Somali region and other Neighbouring and national humanitarian fora at senior levels.
• Influence and advocate on East Africa Food crisis issues through media, communications, and key meetings, alone and together with others as appropriate.
• Support direct line reports at the senior level in facilitating solutions to any issues with other departments as required in order to enhance programme delivery and contribute to the improvement of programme/technical support functions.

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:

1. Be committed to equal opportunities: demonstrating sensitivity to culture differences and gender equality.

2. Be willing to learn and apply gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity and inclusion across all aspects of your work.

3. 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 applying 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

 Educational Qualifications and Skills Required:

 ·      Degree or higher from a recognized University/college in Public Health Engineering, Civil Engineering, Agricultural Economics, Community Development, or any other related area that can bring added value to the job.

·      Relevant experience of 7 years and more including budgeting, planning, programme cycle management, preferably in an international NGO/operational UN agency/equivalent, out of which at least 5 years should be supervisory/team leader/managerial experience.

·      Extensive experience in large-scale humanitarian programming at the senior level and humanitarian management in complex, insecure environments.

·      At least two years of experience preferably in the emergency response especially in leading, designing, coordination and fundraising.

·      Extensive experience in the management of the WASH program

·      Knowledge and understanding of Oxfam WASH and Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods programming in emergencies, humanitarian response, complex emergencies, conflict resolution, and international humanitarian law.

·      Experience in implementing gendered humanitarian interventions and mainstreaming protection in humanitarian interventions.

·      Excellent communicator with strong written and reporting skills, and an excellent ability to influence verbally to persuade with diplomacy and tact.

·      Ability to work cooperatively in a cross-cultural setting with a number of long-distance working relationships across time zones.

·      Experience in fast-paced and difficult emergency contexts.

·      Adaptable in approach to work with a willingness to work under pressure in a demanding environment.

·      Initiative and motivation to work independently and within a team context and develop solutions to problems. Highly flexible in style with the ability to produce creative and pragmatic solutions to complex problems.

·      Proven ability to work with multi-million budgets mobilized from a diverse range of donors, including monitoring and evaluation, and reporting.

·      A proven record of effective and complex management in a humanitarian response including managing budgets, staff, and funding of the programme. This is to include excellent people management skills, a good understanding of team development, and proven financial management skills.

·      Proven ability to work creatively, innovatively, and effectively with limited direct supervision.

·      Proven experience as a team worker and demonstrably co-operate with members of the teams.

·      To be familiar with and abide by the NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures, and other regulatory codes (e.g., CHS and sphere)

·      Commitment to humanitarian principles and actions.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply using THIS LINK

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

 All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. 

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