The Humanitarian and resilience team is responsible for the strategic development, management and intervention of the country Humanitarian and resilience program. Supports Oxfam’s impact locally, regionally, continentally, and globally through ensuring Humanitarian program alignment to the key strategic objectives and program standards.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Sr. Institutional Capacity building Officer will be based in Gambella and responsible for comprehensive capacity need assessment, enhancing competence of LNGOs and RLG/RLOs, civil society organization’s engagement and provide technical support for organizational strengthening including financial viability and fund raising to achieve the project goals, objectives, outcomes and outputs under the overall guidance and management of Project Manager. POST HOLDER REPORTS TOProject Manager     JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST BUDGET RESPONSIBILITYNoKEY RESPONSIBILITIESProject Management support      Conduct comprehensive capacity assessment for LNGOs and RLG/RLOs.Develop comprehensive capacity development plan in consultation with partners.Support LNGOs and RLG/RLOs that all required policies and procedures are in place.Support LNGOs and RLG/RLOs to enhance their organizational governance and management system.Support LNGOs and RLG/RLOs project proposal development through provision of constructive feedbacks on their project proposals.Support the creation and coaching of consultation platforms among LNGOs and RLG/RLOs Provide technical support for compliance issues and coach partners to come up with solution/s for issues related to complianceAdministrative support Provide required administrative support to the projects on workshops and other capacity building meetings.     Support in the development and implementation of the project plans. Ensure proper documentation of training and workshop documents.    Demonstrate strong inter-personal and collaborative skills. Support the project team in developing advocacy and awareness materials. Develop TOR for capacity building training. Contribute to develop tools, manuals and training resources needed for project implementationOther tasks as assigned by the line manager and other project team members.

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 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: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-Awareness2 Mutual accountability3 Strategic Thinking and Judgment

SKILS, Experience, Knowledge & Competencies

Essential: 

BA in Social Science (Project Management, Development Studies, sociology, Management, and other related fields)  Minimum of 3 years of relevant working experience in capacity building, training material development, project management, Partnership engagement, advocacy and influencing work.  Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of team  Ability to work independently Familiar with and abide by the NGO/Red Cross/Crescent Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, CHS and SPHERE principles  Experience working with partners.

Languages Fluency in written and spoken English and Amharic  

How to Apply

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