Oxfam GB Deputy Humanitarian and Resilience Programme Manager Jobs in Ethiopia

Oxfam GB Deputy Humanitarian and Resilience Programme Manager Jobs in Ethiopia

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

Job Purpose:

The Deputy Humanitarian and Resilience Programme Manager is responsible to lead the design, implementation, management, and coordination of effective and appropriate large-scale humanitarian Response and Resilience Building interventions. This includes country strategic management, representation, coordination, programme management, advocacy and programme support at senior levels.

Dimensions:

The following responsibilities are not exhaustive. They aim to provide a clear sense of the nature and scope of jobs at this grade:

Coordinates and delivers agreed plans or strategies over which the job holder has some strategic input.

Represents the affiliate in coordination meetings and some external relationships.

Impact and influence of the job are mostly within the job holder’s programme unit (i.e., country/region) but occasionally also in other parts of the affiliate and/or with an external audience.

Usually plans and manages the resources of one or more sub-units though, not normally over a broad spectrum of programs or geographies.

Specific competencies and skills are required to achieve the job’s objectives e.g., geographical, thematic, and managerial.

Helps shape local-level objectives within a specific team. In larger programmes, these jobs are often part of a management team.

Provides specialist advice or specific skills to their team or programme unit.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Management and Leadership

Under the supervision of the Humanitarian and Resilience Program Manager, play a significant supporting role in refining Oxfam Ethiopia’s humanitarian strategy and approach to humanitarian response and resilience-building programming

Participate in resource mobilization and negotiation of appropriate resources in collaboration with the Oxfam Grants and funding team.

Develop mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian and resilience programs.

Support countries in developing and reviewing emergency preparedness plans, criteria, and checklists.

Work with team members to link Humanitarian and Resilience programs to other programming, including advocacy and longer-term programs.

Contribute to the implementation of Oxfam’s Country Strategy with a focus on humanitarian preparedness, response, and resilience-building initiatives.

Humanitarian Preparedness, Response, and Programme Management

Frequently deploy to Oxfam Ethiopia field offices to lead, support, or temporarily cover emergency preparedness and response programming efforts

Support country offices or take the lead in developing preliminary response plans and strategies and situation reports for new or emerging crises

Work in 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.

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.

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 program approach.

Enhancing Oxfam’s ability to respond in a timely, appropriate, accountable, and cost-effective manner

to humanitarian crises in program areas, with a focus on program quality beneficiary and partner accountability.

Manage and coordinate the program in line with agreed standards (e.g., Core Humanitarian Standards, Code of Conduct; SPHERE, Oxfam Gender Policy, etc.) and Oxfam’s best practices.

Involve drafting and reviewing grant I project proposals and ensure that Oxfam meets all contractual obligations and achieves high-quality proposals and

Ensure all donor reports are submitted on time to the Funding Department and are of high quality through effective coordination with the response/resilience team and funding and grant teams.

Provide required inputs to other departmental strategies, including but not limited to advocacy, gender, protection, and development and support relevant policy issues.

Support partner organizations in developing and delivering projects within agreed parameters where appropriate.

Ensure that the program is implemented in a consultative, participative, and gender-sensitive way.

Support partner organisations directly or through the response and resilience managers in developing and delivering projects within agreed parameters where appropriate.

Representation

Represent Oxfam in cluster or working group meetings both at the national and regional state levels and share a summary of the meetings timely

Raise the profile of Ethiopia’s humanitarian context and Oxfam’s programmes through participation in national humanitarian and resilience fora.

Take part in influencing and advocating on humanitarian issues through media, communications, and key meetings, alone and together with others as appropriate.

Facilitating solutions to any issues with other departments as required to enhance programme delivery and contribute to the improvement of programme/technical support functions.

Person specification

Skills, Experience, Knowledge & Competencies

Essential

Post Graduate Degree or Degree from a recognized University/college in Development Studies, WASH, Food Security, and Livelihoods, or any other related area that can bring added value to the job.

Relevant experience of 7 - 10 years for Postgraduate holders, or 10 years + for degree holders in humanitarian or/and resilience including budgeting, planning, and program 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 the 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, resilience building, 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.

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 a diverse range of donors, including monitoring and evaluation, and reporting.

Desirable

Experience in the MEAL process

Knowledge of gender issues

Able to work with minimum supervision and provide solutions to problems as they arise.

Knowledge of other Ethiopian languages would be an asset

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Oxfam GB Deputy Humanitarian and Resilience Programme Manager Jobs in Ethiopia

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