Job Description

About us

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 international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour 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 organisation.

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: Program Team

LOCATION: Gambella

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term contract for 1 year with a possibility of a contract extension

GRADE: C1 National                                                    

JOB FAMILY:  Programme

SALARY: As per Oxfam pay scale

HOURS: 37.5 hours per week

FLEXIBILE 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 Gambella Refugee Response is composed of national and international staff with wide experience in developing and implementing WASH, EFSVL, and Protection and Gender programmes. The Deputy Response manager will support the Response manager in managing the teams in Gambella across the 7 camps and oversee the implementation of the programmes assigned by the Response Manager 

JOB PURPOSE:

He/she will support in leading the design, implementation, management, and coordination of effective and appropriate response and resilience interventions in the Gambella Region. This includes representation, coordination, programme management, advocacy, and programme support at senior levels.

POST HOLDER REPORTS TO

Refugee Response Program Manager

JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST

No

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

No

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Under the supervision of the Refugee Response Program Manager, play a significant supporting role in refining the Gambella response strategy and approach.
• Participate in resource mobilization and negotiation of appropriate resources in collaboration with the Oxfam Grants and funding team.
• Support the MEAL Function in correspondence with the MEAL team and program team
• Support in drafting and reviewing grant I project proposals and ensure that Oxfam meets all contractual obligations and achieves high-quality proposals
• Ensure all donor reports are submitted on time to the Funding Department and are of high quality through effective coordination with the response team and funding and grant teams
• Represent Oxfam, as per the delegation through the line management, inappropriate humanitarian fora at a regional and zonal level with government authorities, UN organisations, NGOs, private sector, and donor agencies.
• Facilitating solutions to any issues with other departments as required to enhance programme delivery and contribute to the improvement of programme/technical support functions
• Lead any communication with Refugee Returnees Service (RRS) and the Gambella government in correspondence with the response manager
• Lead the crafting of project LOUs of the response in correspondence with the Country Partnership coordinator
• Lead the signing of any agreement with Refugee Returnees Service, UNHCR, and local administration in Gambella
• Support the response or country program advocacy and influencing efforts in correspondence with the country advocacy campaigns and Media Manager and Response Manager
• Promote gender mainstreaming, safeguarding, safe programming in the programming
• Ensure that gender and protection are integrated into MEAL processes; setting specific indicators for process monitoring and follow-up; advising team in getting gender-specific information through spot monitoring. Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) and other MEAL processes.
• Initiate documentation process to capture learning and changes; support team to collect and analyses sex and gender disaggregating data, utilize gender and protection-sensitive tools and processes of assessments, data collections, and research; initiate regular gender assessments and analysis.
• Line manages the program and/or support function staff
• Undertake any assignment of the response or country program requested by the line manager

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 cultural 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 apply the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here:

Read this guide to find out more about what our values, organizational attributes and feminist leadership approach mean for how we work

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. Systems Thinking

2. Mutual accountability

3. Strategic Thinking and Judgment

Experience, Knowledge & Competencies

Job Requirements

Essential

• Post Graduate Degree or Degree with equivalent work experience from a recognized University/college in WASH – (Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Sanitation Engineering, Irrigation Engineering, etc) Development Studies or any other related area that can bring added value to the job.
• Relevant experience of 5-7 years for Postgraduate holders, or 7 years + for degree holders, including budgeting, planning, program cycle management, preferably in an international NGO/operational UN agency/equivalent, out of which at least 2 years should be supervisory/managerial experience.
• At least two years of experience in the refugee response program and 3 years in people and process management
• Extensive experience in the management of the WASH program
• Extensive experience in building construction and contractor management
• Extensive experience in large-scale humanitarian programming at the senior level and humanitarian management in complex, insecure environments.
• Knowledge and understanding of Oxfam WASH and Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods, Gender programming in emergencies, humanitarian response, complex emergencies, conflict resolution, and international humanitarian law.
• Experience in implementing gendered humanitarian response, resilience building, and mainstreaming protection in humanitarian response.
• 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 several 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.

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 www.ethiojobs.net or using Oxfam's internal /External application portal https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk / or  https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/17106/description 

 or before July 10, 2022.

Note: 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