Oxfam Vacancies in South Sudan

Oxfam Deputy CD ( Programmes) Jobs Openings in South South Sudan

Dimensions

· Required to develop long-term vision and strategic planning to achieve significant impact from major programme units.
· 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.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

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.
· 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.

· 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.

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.



How to Apply:

For more information and job application details, see; Oxfam Deputy CD ( Programmes) Jobs Openings in South Soth Africa


Closing date: 24 May 2017