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OXFAM SOUTH SUDAN

JOB DESCRIPTION

DEPUTY COUNTRY DIRECTOR: PROGRAMMES

Reporting to Country Director

Internal Job Grade B2

Contract type Two-year fixed term contract

Location Juba, South Sudan

Staff reporting to this post Humanitarian Programme Manager, Development Programme Manager, Program Quality Coordinator, Senior Gender Coordinator, Partnership Capacity Development Coordinator, 4 Technical Programme Coordinators (Education, WASH, Protection, Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods).

Total Workforce 300+

Annual Budget 20M GBP+

Job Purpose

Responsible for development, design and management/monitoring of South Sudan programmes and for ensuring the Oxfam South Sudan programme responds to country development trends. Ensures the proper implantation of ‘one programme’ strategies and plans, maintaining the coordination, linkages and synergies within and between the long term and humanitarian programmes as well as contributing to linking these programmes with influencing and ensuring programme quality, protection and gender mainstreaming throughout. The DCD Programmes reports to the CD and is a member of the Country Management Team (CMT). S/he will work closely with other CMT members in the strategic leadership and further development of Oxfam South Sudan Country Strategy.

South Sudan Context

Oxfam has been working in South Sudan since 1983, devoted to empowering people against poverty. In 2015 the organisation consolidated its efforts to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and has reached over 1.2 million people across South Sudan with life-saving sustainable assistance. The Oxfam Humanitarian programme currently operates through 4 field bases in Jonglei State, 2 in Unity State, and 1 in Upper Nile State. The Development team currently operates in Western Bahr El Ghazal State and Lakes State, and, through partners, in the Equatoria States.

The current programme phase will expand the programme in South Sudan capital of Juba, develop a programming base in the Kapoeta’s of Eastern Equatoria State, and develop Education work in both Humanitarian and Development programs. Gender justice programming is being developed in the same areas as the Development and Humanitarian programmes. Oxfam will work through partnerships where possible and aims to increase the number of women’s rights organizations partnered to 40% by 2019.

Dimensions

  • Required to develop long-term vision and strategic planning to achieve significant impact from major programme units.
  • Represents Oxfam corporately and shapes, manages and influences significant and high profile external relationships in specific programme units or teams/regions.
  • Provides leadership and is key decision maker of specific major program units including setting and leading the delivery of specified programme units and/or team objectives.
  • Plans and manages human and financial resources and processes related to specific programme units and/or area of expertise.
  • Manages a broad spectrum of programmes or geographies, requiring a variety of competences and skills of the jobholder. Management tasks and problems are diverse and complex and involve a significant degree of risk (financial, security, brand).
  • Produces, assimilates, analyses and uses programme information from varied and diverse sources to provide in-depth analysis in the specific programme units or policy area.
  • Decision-making is strategic and operational with a high degree of judgement based on specific problem solving experience, drawing on a range of external and internal factors.
  • Works autonomously with significant financial, human resource, security and representational responsibility.
  • Actively contributes with other CMT members in the formulation, organisation and delivery of high-level lobby and advocacy as well as active participation in lobbying and advocacy. Leads the alignment of programmes with Oxfam’s corporate priorities, country strategy and campaigns, and ensures effective harmonisation of planning and management of the overall country programme team.
  • Provides necessary support for the fundraising unit in formulation of fundraising plans and ensures proper reporting and accountability internally and external to multilateral and bi-lateral funders as per guidelines.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

  • As a part of the CMT and senior management team in the country, develop strong matrix links with other country programme teams, relevant regional, HQ and global staff in order to develop and deliver the Oxfam country strategy.
  • Oversight of geographical humanitarian and longer term programmes by:
  • Ensuring programme plans, budgets and resource requirements are developed to meet planned objectives.
  • Budget, funding and contract oversight, including high level donor/partner liaison as required.
  • Ensuring effective advisory support from the country, regional and Oxford technical teams to the country programme teams.
  • Ensuring strong coordination and learning within and between geographical teams and technical teams, in South Sudan and the Horn and East Africa Region.
  • Ensure synergies between and harmonisation of humanitarian, longer term and advocacy programme strategies according to the “one programme approach”, and enabling a smooth transition from emergency humanitarian interventions towards resilience and longer-term development programming where possible.
  • Ensure that the effectiveness, impact and direction of the programme is regularly monitored, reviewed, evaluated and can be learned from and report any findings regularly to the CD and others as appropriate.
  • Ensure mainstreaming of activities between assigned teams and programme and business support teams, maximising overall performances and effective use of resources through coordination and strategic guidance.
  • Ensure that programme operations are of high quality, comply with established policies and procedures and contribute directly to Oxfam strategies and operational plans. This includes, but is not limited to gender mainstreaming, protection mainstreaming, programme accountability frameworks and humanitarian preparedness and response.
  • Work closely with other CMT members to secure internal and external funding to deliver programme activities through support to development of appropriate strategies and funding proposals.
  • In close collaboration with HR Team, Programme Managers and Technical Coordinators, identify staffing needs, support recruitment of staff and manage the performance and development of all direct reports, ensuring performance objectives are produced and worked to, including identification and effective delivery of training and development needs.
  • Represent Oxfam at senior levels and liaise with Authority Officials, Donors, UN agencies, NGO and private sector community as appropriate.
  • Deputise for the CD in his/her absence or whenever necessary.
  • Produce regular programme and context updates that can be shared with other Oxfam stakeholders.
  • To ensure all Oxfam staff and programmes are familiar with and abide by the Oxfam’s Code of Conduct, Oxfam International standards and procedures and other regulatory codes (e.g. Sphere Minimum Standards, Beneficiary Accountability standards etc).
  • Regular in country travel and occasional regional/international travel in support of the South Sudan programme as required.

Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge

Essential

  • Masters / Post-Graduate from a recognized university/ college in International Development, Sustainable Livelihoods, Humanitarian / Programme Management or any other area that can bring an added value to the job.
  • Relevant experience of at least 7 – 10 years, preferably in an international NGO/operational UN agency/equivalent, out of which at least 5 years should be senior supervisory/managerial experience, including senior management experience in complex and insecure environments.
  • Excellent understanding of development issues in general with significant knowledge and experience in project and programme management in one of the fields of: (a) sustainable livelihoods and resilience, b) gender and development.
  • Proven ability to work with multi-million budgets from a variety of institutional donors, including monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
  • Excellent personal management and communication skills, in written and verbal English, able to use different approaches to achieve followership.
  • Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills; able to understand complex issues and translate them into simple, workable actions and plans.
  • Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting women’s rights and those of marginalised people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work in South Sudan.
  • Comprehensive knowledge and experience of development programmes, humanitarian response and advocacy and campaigning.
  • Knowledge of capacity building, learning and development activities and how to create a learning and sharing environment with a strong knowledge management basis.
  • Commitment to and knowledge of creating a partner-led operational environment, with an ability to create an internal Oxfam approach that is focussed on developing and supporting partner organisations to achieve direct impact and results relating to Oxfam’s objectives.
  • Politically astute, with demonstrated experience of high impact influencing, persuasive skills and personal gravitas to gain respect and build and maintain strong, credible relationships, with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
  • Committed to a rights based approach including an active commitment to putting women’s rights at the heart of all we do as well as the rights of other marginalized people in all aspects of an organization’s work.
  • Ability to travel as per need, often to remote programmatic sites within the country and periodic travel abroad for regional/global meetings.
  • Varied international experience.

Desirable

  • Working experience in South Sudan.
  • Behavioural competencies (based on Oxfam’s Leadership Model)

Practice Category

Leadership Practice

Description

Self

Self-Awareness

We are able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviours to control and channel our impulses for good purposes. We self-moderate appropriately to different context thereby optimizing our ability to achieve goals.

Humility

We put ‘we’ before ‘me’ and place an emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team and play to the strengths of each individual. We are not concerned with hierarchical power, and we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of others across all levels of the organisation. We work to achieve goals together not just individually.

Seeing the ‘big picture’

Vision Setting

We have the ability to identify and lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organisation and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organisation and diverse external stakeholders. Clarity in our communication of vision allows others to focus on delivery and their contribution to the wider changes we seek.

Systems Thinking

We view problems as parts of an overall system and our contributions to change in relation to the whole system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome or event in isolation. We focus on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing systems thinking we are aware of and manage intended and unintended consequences of organisational decisions and actions.

Strategic Thinking and Judgment

We use judgment, weighing risk against the imperative to act. We make decisions consistent with organisational strategies and values

Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity

We scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways. We develop strategies to maximise adaptability and agility, encourage forward thinking, new ideas and learning from experience.

Relationship Skills

Listening

We are good active listeners who can see where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions differ. Our messages to others are clear, and consider different preferences.

Influencing

We have the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organisation We spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities we have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner.

Relationship Building

We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organisation. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organisation.

Enabling

We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organisations goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job. We give more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support.

Ability to Deliver results

Mutual Accountability

We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organisational values. We are ready to be held to account for our actions and how we behave, as we are also holding others to account in a consistent manner.

Decisiveness

We are comfortable to make transparent decisions and to adapt decision-making modes to the context and needs. We recognize that decisions may not always lead to the results we seek but enable us to continually learn and improve.

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OXFAM SOUTH SUDAN

JOB DESCRIPTION

DEPUTY COUNTRY DIRECTOR: PROGRAMMES

Reporting to Country Director

Internal Job Grade B2

Contract type Two-year fixed term contract

Location Juba, South Sudan

Staff reporting to this post Humanitarian Programme Manager, Development Programme Manager, Program Quality Coordinator, Senior Gender Coordinator, Partnership Capacity Development Coordinator, 4 Technical Programme Coordinators (Education, WASH, Protection, Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods).

Total Workforce 300+

Annual Budget 20M GBP+

Job Purpose

Responsible for development, design and management/monitoring of South Sudan programmes and for ensuring the Oxfam South Sudan programme responds to country development trends. Ensures the proper implantation of ‘one programme’ strategies and plans, maintaining the coordination, linkages and synergies within and between the long term and humanitarian programmes as well as contributing to linking these programmes with influencing and ensuring programme quality, protection and gender mainstreaming throughout. The DCD Programmes reports to the CD and is a member of the Country Management Team (CMT). S/he will work closely with other CMT members in the strategic leadership and further development of Oxfam South Sudan Country Strategy.

South Sudan Context

Oxfam has been working in South Sudan since 1983, devoted to empowering people against poverty. In 2015 the organisation consolidated its efforts to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and has reached over 1.2 million people across South Sudan with life-saving sustainable assistance. The Oxfam Humanitarian programme currently operates through 4 field bases in Jonglei State, 2 in Unity State, and 1 in Upper Nile State. The Development team currently operates in Western Bahr El Ghazal State and Lakes State, and, through partners, in the Equatoria States.

The current programme phase will expand the programme in South Sudan capital of Juba, develop a programming base in the Kapoeta’s of Eastern Equatoria State, and develop Education work in both Humanitarian and Development programs. Gender justice programming is being developed in the same areas as the Development and Humanitarian programmes. Oxfam will work through partnerships where possible and aims to increase the number of women’s rights organizations partnered to 40% by 2019.

Dimensions

  • Required to develop long-term vision and strategic planning to achieve significant impact from major programme units.
  • Represents Oxfam corporately and shapes, manages and influences significant and high profile external relationships in specific programme units or teams/regions.
  • Provides leadership and is key decision maker of specific major program units including setting and leading the delivery of specified programme units and/or team objectives.
  • Plans and manages human and financial resources and processes related to specific programme units and/or area of expertise.
  • Manages a broad spectrum of programmes or geographies, requiring a variety of competences and skills of the jobholder. Management tasks and problems are diverse and complex and involve a significant degree of risk (financial, security, brand).
  • Produces, assimilates, analyses and uses programme information from varied and diverse sources to provide in-depth analysis in the specific programme units or policy area.
  • Decision-making is strategic and operational with a high degree of judgement based on specific problem solving experience, drawing on a range of external and internal factors.
  • Works autonomously with significant financial, human resource, security and representational responsibility.
  • Actively contributes with other CMT members in the formulation, organisation and delivery of high-level lobby and advocacy as well as active participation in lobbying and advocacy. Leads the alignment of programmes with Oxfam’s corporate priorities, country strategy and campaigns, and ensures effective harmonisation of planning and management of the overall country programme team.
  • Provides necessary support for the fundraising unit in formulation of fundraising plans and ensures proper reporting and accountability internally and external to multilateral and bi-lateral funders as per guidelines.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

  • As a part of the CMT and senior management team in the country, develop strong matrix links with other country programme teams, relevant regional, HQ and global staff in order to develop and deliver the Oxfam country strategy.
  • Oversight of geographical humanitarian and longer term programmes by:
  • Ensuring programme plans, budgets and resource requirements are developed to meet planned objectives.
  • Budget, funding and contract oversight, including high level donor/partner liaison as required.
  • Ensuring effective advisory support from the country, regional and Oxford technical teams to the country programme teams.
  • Ensuring strong coordination and learning within and between geographical teams and technical teams, in South Sudan and the Horn and East Africa Region.
  • Ensure synergies between and harmonisation of humanitarian, longer term and advocacy programme strategies according to the “one programme approach”, and enabling a smooth transition from emergency humanitarian interventions towards resilience and longer-term development programming where possible.
  • Ensure that the effectiveness, impact and direction of the programme is regularly monitored, reviewed, evaluated and can be learned from and report any findings regularly to the CD and others as appropriate.
  • Ensure mainstreaming of activities between assigned teams and programme and business support teams, maximising overall performances and effective use of resources through coordination and strategic guidance.
  • Ensure that programme operations are of high quality, comply with established policies and procedures and contribute directly to Oxfam strategies and operational plans. This includes, but is not limited to gender mainstreaming, protection mainstreaming, programme accountability frameworks and humanitarian preparedness and response.
  • Work closely with other CMT members to secure internal and external funding to deliver programme activities through support to development of appropriate strategies and funding proposals.
  • In close collaboration with HR Team, Programme Managers and Technical Coordinators, identify staffing needs, support recruitment of staff and manage the performance and development of all direct reports, ensuring performance objectives are produced and worked to, including identification and effective delivery of training and development needs.
  • Represent Oxfam at senior levels and liaise with Authority Officials, Donors, UN agencies, NGO and private sector community as appropriate.
  • Deputise for the CD in his/her absence or whenever necessary.
  • Produce regular programme and context updates that can be shared with other Oxfam stakeholders.
  • To ensure all Oxfam staff and programmes are familiar with and abide by the Oxfam’s Code of Conduct, Oxfam International standards and procedures and other regulatory codes (e.g. Sphere Minimum Standards, Beneficiary Accountability standards etc).
  • Regular in country travel and occasional regional/international travel in support of the South Sudan programme as required.

Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge

Essential

  • Masters / Post-Graduate from a recognized university/ college in International Development, Sustainable Livelihoods, Humanitarian / Programme Management or any other area that can bring an added value to the job.
  • Relevant experience of at least 7 – 10 years, preferably in an international NGO/operational UN agency/equivalent, out of which at least 5 years should be senior supervisory/managerial experience, including senior management experience in complex and insecure environments.
  • Excellent understanding of development issues in general with significant knowledge and experience in project and programme management in one of the fields of: (a) sustainable livelihoods and resilience, b) gender and development.
  • Proven ability to work with multi-million budgets from a variety of institutional donors, including monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
  • Excellent personal management and communication skills, in written and verbal English, able to use different approaches to achieve followership.
  • Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills; able to understand complex issues and translate them into simple, workable actions and plans.
  • Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting women’s rights and those of marginalised people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work in South Sudan.
  • Comprehensive knowledge and experience of development programmes, humanitarian response and advocacy and campaigning.
  • Knowledge of capacity building, learning and development activities and how to create a learning and sharing environment with a strong knowledge management basis.
  • Commitment to and knowledge of creating a partner-led operational environment, with an ability to create an internal Oxfam approach that is focussed on developing and supporting partner organisations to achieve direct impact and results relating to Oxfam’s objectives.
  • Politically astute, with demonstrated experience of high impact influencing, persuasive skills and personal gravitas to gain respect and build and maintain strong, credible relationships, with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
  • Committed to a rights based approach including an active commitment to putting women’s rights at the heart of all we do as well as the rights of other marginalized people in all aspects of an organization’s work.
  • Ability to travel as per need, often to remote programmatic sites within the country and periodic travel abroad for regional/global meetings.
  • Varied international experience.

Desirable

  • Working experience in South Sudan.
  • Behavioural competencies (based on Oxfam’s Leadership Model)

Practice Category

Leadership Practice

Description

Self

Self-Awareness

We are able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviours to control and channel our impulses for good purposes. We self-moderate appropriately to different context thereby optimizing our ability to achieve goals.

Humility

We put ‘we’ before ‘me’ and place an emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team and play to the strengths of each individual. We are not concerned with hierarchical power, and we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of others across all levels of the organisation. We work to achieve goals together not just individually.

Seeing the ‘big picture’

Vision Setting

We have the ability to identify and lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organisation and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organisation and diverse external stakeholders. Clarity in our communication of vision allows others to focus on delivery and their contribution to the wider changes we seek.

Systems Thinking

We view problems as parts of an overall system and our contributions to change in relation to the whole system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome or event in isolation. We focus on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing systems thinking we are aware of and manage intended and unintended consequences of organisational decisions and actions.

Strategic Thinking and Judgment

We use judgment, weighing risk against the imperative to act. We make decisions consistent with organisational strategies and values

Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity

We scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways. We develop strategies to maximise adaptability and agility, encourage forward thinking, new ideas and learning from experience.

Relationship Skills

Listening

We are good active listeners who can see where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions differ. Our messages to others are clear, and consider different preferences.

Influencing

We have the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organisation We spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities we have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner.

Relationship Building

We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organisation. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organisation.

Enabling

We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organisations goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job. We give more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support.

Ability to Deliver results

Mutual Accountability

We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organisational values. We are ready to be held to account for our actions and how we behave, as we are also holding others to account in a consistent manner.

Decisiveness

We are comfortable to make transparent decisions and to adapt decision-making modes to the context and needs. We recognize that decisions may not always lead to the results we seek but enable us to continually learn and improve.

2017-05-24

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