Humanitarian Program Manager 96 views1 applications

Core Details

Location:	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Our package: Internal Grade:	As per Oxfam scale C1
Contract type:	Fixed Term, 2 years contract
Hours of work:	37.5 per week. This is a full-time role; however, Oxfam offers various flexible arrangements which candidates can discuss with the Recruiting Manager at interview stage
This role reports to:	Country Director
Staff reporting to this post:	Drought Response Manager – Somali, Refugee Response Manager – Gambella, EFSVL Coordinator, WASH Coordinator
Annual budget for the post:	Please mention the annual budget for this post
Key relationships/interactions:
Screening checks:	All successful candidates will be screened through Refinitiv World-Check One to comply with counter terrorism and financial sanctions regulations.

 

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

 

Do you have Post-Graduate Degree or Degree in International Development or any other related area that can bring added value to the job from any recognized University/college?

Do you have relevant international experience of 7 – 10 years for Post graduate holders or 10 years + for degree holders, including budgeting, planning, programme cycle management?

Do you have extensive experience in large scale humanitarian programming at senior level and humanitarian management in complex, insecure environments.? 

 

If the answer is yes, then would like to hear from you.

 

Our Team

The Country Humanitarian Program Team is responsible for the strategic development and management of the country humanitarian program. It supports Oxfam’s impact locally, regionally, continentally and globally through ensuring Humanitarian program alignment to the key strategic objectives and program standards.

The team is responsible to provides strategic leadership and support to resource mobilisation efforts. It also ensures that the humanitarian programmes make the proper shift, with the quality needed to ensure a proper achievement of the Ethiopia Oxfam Strategy. It 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.

 

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 promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. 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.

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

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

 

Key Responsibilities

Technical

1. Strategic Management and Leadership

• Participate as a member of the Country Management Team (CMT) in the overall planning and strategic management of Oxfam – Ethiopia;
• Within and beyond Ethiopia, 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 organisations as required;
• Participate in resource mobilization and negotiation of appropriate resources in collaboration with the Oxfam Grants Manager;
• Maintain an analysis of the humanitarian context and use this to inform interventions;
• Liaise closely with Oxfam programmes and other key institutions and allies nationally and regionally and monitor key indicators;
• Develop mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes;
• Work with team members to link humanitarian programmes to other programming, including advocacy and longer term programmes;
• To contribute to implementation of Oxfam’s Country Strategy with a focus on humanitarian preparedness, response and protection;
• To be an active participant in regional planning and analysis; understand relevant regional and global objectives;
• As part of the Country Management Team (CMT), and Country Security Team, ensure that Oxfam’s organisational 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 the 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 are trained on the same;
• Before humanitarian crises, lead the preparedness process 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 strategic development of the on-going humanitarian programme in Ethiopia and the Emergency Preparedness and Response (EP&R) Roving Team, serving 770,000+ 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 humanitarian 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, protection advocacy is reflected in own and staff objectives;
• Provide required inputs to other departmental strategies, including but not limited to advocacy, gender, protection and development and support relevant policy issues;
• Support partner organisations 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 organisational standards of management and accountability;
• Ensure that the programme is implemented in a consultative, participative and gender sensitive way;
• Ensure that key humanitarian information 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 in appropriate humanitarian fora at a local and national level with government authorities, UN organisations, NGO’s, 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 Ethiopia humanitarian context and Oxfam’s programmes through participation in regional and global humanitarian fora at senior levels;
• Influence and advocate on humanitarian issues through media, communications and key meetings, alone and together with others as appropriate.
• Support direct line reports at 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.

Other

• Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and valuesas 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 health and wellbeing principles

Job Requirements

Skills, Experience and Knowledge

• Post Graduate Degree or Degree in International Development or any other related area that can bring added value to the job from any recognized University/college.
• Relevant international experience of 7 – 10 years for Post graduate holders, or 10 years + for degree holders, 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/managerial experience.
• Extensive experience in large scale humanitarian programming at senior level and humanitarian management in complex, insecure environments.
• 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 of 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 diverse range of donors, including monitoring and evaluation and reporting.

 

Key Attributes

• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities
• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible

Organisational Values

• Accountability – Our purpose-driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable. We believe that others should also be held accountable for their actions
• Empowerment – Our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen
• Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences

Note to candidates: Shortlisted candidates will be assessed on our organisational values and attributes at the interview stage. The successful candidate(s) will be expected to adhere to our code of conduct. We encourage candidates to read and understand our code of conduct here.

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 using Oxfam internal application portal (for external applicants: (https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/) and for internal applicants: (https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/internal or [email protected]) on or before 3^rdJuly 2019. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

 

About us

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on issues like land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 19 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.