About Oxfam |
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 the international confederation Oxfam.Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior 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 organization.
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
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person specification |
Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to:
· Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, SOLIDARITY, COURAGE, AND EQUALITY
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:
1. Be committed to equal opportunities: demonstrating sensitivity to culture differences and gender equality. | 2. Be willing to learn and apply gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity and inclusion across all aspects of your work.
| 3. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible. |
· Ensure you actively ADOPT OXFAM’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP APPROACH and applying the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here:
For this role, we have selected two of the most relevant feminist Leadership practices for this role (which you can read more about here. 1 Self-Awareness 2 Mutual accountability 3 Strategic Thinking and Judgment |
SKILS, Experience, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential Educational Qualifications and Skills Required: · Degree or higher from a recognized University/college in Public Health Engineering, Civil Engineering, Agricultural Economics, Community Development, or any other related area that can bring added value to the job. · Relevant experience of 7 years and more 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/team leader/managerial experience. · Extensive experience in large-scale humanitarian programming at the senior level and humanitarian management in complex, insecure environments. · At least two years of experience preferably in the emergency response especially in leading, designing, coordination and fundraising. · Extensive experience in the management of the WASH program · 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 in 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 a diverse range of donors, including monitoring and evaluation, and reporting. · A proven record of effective and complex management in a humanitarian response including managing budgets, staff, and funding of the programme. This is to include excellent people management skills, a good understanding of team development, and proven financial management skills. · Proven ability to work creatively, innovatively, and effectively with limited direct supervision. · Proven experience as a team worker and demonstrably co-operate with members of the teams. · To be familiar with and abide by the NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures, and other regulatory codes (e.g., CHS and sphere) · Commitment to humanitarian principles and actions.
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