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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.

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 Schwmw .  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 Detail:

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 Humanitarian team is responsible for the strategic development, management, and intervention 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.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Technical Support

• Lead the implementation of gender and protection activities of GFFO project and actively engage throughout the project cycle in collaboration with APDA staff
• Support program team in providing technical inputs in the project and strategy design, advocacy strategy development, campaigning and influencing paper preparation
• Actively participate in concept note preparation, proposals development from gender lenses and make sure protection and gender-specific indicators, tools and methodologies are in place during the onset of the project
• Lead programmatic assessments including gender and protection analysis, and protection monitoring to ensure continuous improvement mainstreaming of finding on program strategy, design and advocacy.
• Enhance the capacity of partner Organization in Afar Region towards mainstreaming Gender, Protection and Safeguarding.Carry out regular focus group discussions and individual interviews ensuring that issues of women, men, girls, boys, and people with different needs are identified and addressed.
• Work closely with program and MEAL team to ensure gender, protection and other cross-cutting issues are properly assessed and integrated into Oxfam Afar Region programming for a timely response.
• Ensures a gender-sensitive approach is taken to programming and integrated into protection assessments and activities
• Make sure Oxfam Afar Region response programs ensure the needs, priorities, safety and dignity of women, men, boys and girls through periodic tracking, documentation of progress and learnings.
• Ensure Gender and protection integration in humanitarian Programmes by implementing and conducting periodic safety audits in multi-sectoral humanitarian actors’ response in the Afar intervention area.
• Provide ongoing feedback to supervisor on progress, lessons learned, achievements and gaps, issues and problems.
• Document success stories, work with integrated emergency team on Gender and Protection on the storytelling of their experiences as women participating in the beneficiary of the program.
• Ensure that issues of SGBV and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) are explored in sensitive ways and that services and follow-up are provided in keeping with Oxfam guidelines.
• Represent work being done in gender transformation and women’s social and political empowerment under the Program in relevant internal and external forums.
• Establish and maintain active relationships with Humanitarian organizations on gender equality and women’s issues to strengthen key alliances and partnerships, enhance collaboration, and share and influence agenda and priority setting.
• Provide support to other sectors as needed to deliver the program and mainstreaming activities
• Represent the organization at Regional, Zonal and Woreda gender and protection coordination-related meetings, workshops, and events
• Integrate gender and protection into MEAL plans to develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework and gender and protection-specific indicators for the program.
• Oversee the implementation of all Protection and gender integration, including program quality and budget management
• Undertake regular on-site visits to monitor the quality of activity implementation and provide technical advice to partner staff as necessary.
• Support donors, stakeholders, and other internal reporting requirements by providing accurate and timely input on gender and protection activities.
• Develop protocols and guidelines for gender and protection activities and mainstreaming and train/coach partner staff to understand and implement, including strong integration and cooperation with emergency response team.
• Carry out implementation review, experience sharing, consultation events, prepare case stories, and document best practices specific to gender and protection activities for learning and knowledge management.
• 2.Capacity Building
• Participate in the staff recruitment process, new staff onboarding and induction process, capacity building, and performance appraisal Work with the national gender and protection team to identify capacity gaps/needs of beneficiaries and partners and develop appropriate strategies and training tools to address them.
• Organize training plans across all proposals to improve the capacity of partner staff, partners, and persons of concern.
• Conduct capacity assessment of partner staff, stakeholders, and beneficiaries, plan and lead capacity-building initiatives, training, technical and in-kind
• Networking and Influencing
  • Work closely with Oxfam Partner-APDA and stakeholders (other partners and UN agencies) to make sure coordinated planning, implementation, and monitoring of projects/programs across the Afar region implementation areas.
  • Represent Oxfam within the relevant technical cluster and coordination mechanisms (Protection cluster, Regional, zonal & woreda sectoral coordination meetings/GO/NGO Forums, review sessions, and with donor etc.
  • Work closely with partners in Afar Region to ensure proper referral mechanisms are in place and advocate for the inclusion of gender and protection issues into their programming
  • Become a member of Regional, Zonal, and woreda level gender and protection working groups and provide technical and coordination support to implement joint activities and events.
  • Establish and maintain good working relations with UN Agencies, We action, NGOs, and INGOs.

  4. Oxfam General

  • Actively participate in Performance Management including objective setting, performance review, upward feedback, and personal development plans.
  • Ensure the implementation of Oxfam’s operational policies, procedures, and guidelines, especially gender equity, in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.
  • Participating in appropriate staff meetings, planning sessions, and ongoing liaising as needed.
  • Undertake additional responsibilities related to respective functions
  • Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as 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.

  5. Management

  • Work closely with the Northern Ethiopia Response Area Manager, Country Gender Program Manager, and other teams to ensure the successful implementation of the gender and protection activities in line with the objectives laid out in the donor-approved proposals
  • Assist in program quality and project strengthening activities, e.g. field visits, data collection, project quality meetings, focus group discussions, interviews and observations to obtain information about protection challenges, threats, and needs faced by displacement-affected populations
  • Prepares written gender and protection updates for Oxfam situation reports.
  • Coordinates activities with emergency response teams to ensure integration of protection throughout program activities.

• Job Requirement :

Person Specification

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to:

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:

·       Ensure you actively ADOPT OXFAM’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP APPROACH and applying the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here:

Essential

• Bachelor (BA) or MA Degree from a recognized university in Gender Studies, Sociology, political science, or any other related areas that can bring added value to the job.
• Relevant experience of 5-7 years for BA holders (having work experience in Humanitarian context mainly in the region will be an asset) preferably in an international NGO out of which 2 years should be at the level of senior or middle project management.
• Experience in gender and protection analysis, research, policy engagement and developing policy briefs
• Good networking, alliance building, and multi-stakeholder engagement skills
• Proven ability to work independently whilst knowing when to refer for advice.
• Proven skill in collecting and analyzing information using participatory research and assessment methodologies with gender lens
• Strong communication skills with good levels of spoken and written, Afargna, Amharic &English.
• Good understanding of advocacy, gender, protection, safeguarding and IDP issues including some basic human rights, IDP rights and land and housing rights and related issues. Committed to a rights-based approach
• Good understanding on existing gender biases during emergency responses both at workplace and program/project interventions and willingness to act accordingly for reducing them in collaboration with gender and humanitarian team
• With High level of adaptability and initiative demonstrated by having the (a) ability to work in multi-cultural team across different geographical locations; (b) willingness to travel to remote field areas for regular support to programme teams/partners/ communities, (c) willingness to work in insecure environments as needed; and (c) provide remote support to field teams/partners when required.
•  Proven experience of using a wide array of capacity-building. methodology                                                                                                   Desirable
• Field experience working on gender issues in WASH, EFSVL, protection, and GBV prevention and response.
• Field experience in implementing gender-targeted actions/ stand-alone projects in a humanitarian setting
• Experience in responding to conflict and other climate-induced disasters and understanding IDP settings
• Experience in organizing women’s groups and engaging with men at the community level
•  Knowledge of the local context including the culture, and tradition of the Region is helpful.                                                                                           Oxfam Behaviour Competencies and Commitments:
• Decisiveness – We are comfortable to make transparent decisions and to adapt decision making modes to the context and needs.
• 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 organization.
• Relationship Building – We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organization. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organization.
• Mutual Accountability – We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organizational values.  We are ready to be held to account for what we do and how we behave, as we are also holding others to account in a consistent manner.
• 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.
• Systems Thinking – We view problems as parts of an overall system and in their 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 well unintended consequences of organizational decisions and actions.
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment – We use judgment, weighing risk against the imperative to act. We make decisions consistent with organizational strategies and values.
• Vision Setting – We have the ability to identify and lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organization, and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organization and diverse external stakeholders.
• 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.Key Attributes:

Strict adherence to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women’s rights

• Understanding of and commitment to equity; diversity; gender; child safety; and staff health and wellbeing principles.
• 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.