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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 details
DIVISION: Impact
TEAM: Humanitarian
LOCATION: Addis Ababa with 50% travel to the field
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term
GRADE: C1 International/National
JOB FAMILY: Programme
SALARY: As per the Oxfam benefit package
HOURS: 37.5 per week
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 team is responsible for the strategic development and management of the country Humanitarian program. Supports Oxfam’s impact locally, regionally, continentally and globally through ensuring Humanitarian program alignment to the key strategic objectives and program standards. Provides strategic leadership and support to resource mobilisation efforts. Ensure that the humanitarian programmes make the proper shift, with the quality needed to ensure a proper achievement of the Ethiopia Oxfam Strategy. Ensures that the promotion of women’s rights is at the heart of all Oxfam in Ethiopia’s program work.
JOB PURPOSE:
Work in partnership with the national and field teams and partners to better integrate protection into the different programmes, especially in the humanitarian action programme in the implementation of sustainable solutions.
Develop a Protection Strategy for Oxfam in Ethiopia, in line with the OCS and Oxfam Global Protection Strategy
Build strong technical capacity within the Oxfam Protection Team and local partner
Ensure quality Protection Analysis are carried out, shared with and used by Oxfam humanitarian teams, Oxfam advocacy team, Oxfam Protection teams, external Stakeholders and affected communities as needed
Ensure quality and coherence within Oxfam Protection Programmes in Ethiopia
Ensure that Oxfam’s protection approach is included in all emergency responses as appropriate in line with Oxfam’s vision and standards
Ensure Oxfam active participation and leadership in all technical coordination fora at National and local Level
Contribute to the Centrality of Protection in Oxfam Humanitarian Operations
POST HOLDER REPORTS TO
Humanitarian and Resilience Program Manager
JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST
Roving Protection Coordinator
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY
Yes
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical
Strategic Management and Programme Quality Improvement
Establish close communication, collaboration, and support relationships with the technical protection referents at headquarters level and the GHT resource persons.
Develop OXFAM’s protection strategy for the country.
Work closely with other technical managers and programme managers in providing technical support for better integration of protection into interventions.
Ensure that protection is considered in interventions as appropriate.
Collaborate with the Roving Protection Coordinator in supervising the quality of protection interventions in the different projects.
Strengthen the capitalisation of data and lessons learned from protection-related interventions
Identify potential allies to achieve the objectives and work on the protection of civilians (women’s rights organisations, civil society organisations, youth organisations, traditional/customary authorities, etc.) and establish strategic partnerships to promote actions on the protection of civilians especially in humanitarian interventions.) and establish strategic partnerships for the promotion of actions on the protection of civilians especially in humanitarian interventions
Work with the advocacy/influence team to develop advocacy briefs and gather evidence on the protection needs of people in emergencies.
Promote OXFAM’s Community Based Protection approach to stakeholders.
Support the humanitarian team on humanitarian programmed design ensuring that protection is included as a sector as well as integrated in the other sectors, depending on needs, opportunities, and strategic goals.
Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of the protection strategy and program at country level, providing technical inputs, suggestions for improvements and recommendations for future actions.
Conduct assessment of protection partner capacity and leading on building a potential equal partnership for Protection Program
Support the design, planning and implementation of new emergency projects to the Tigray response and beyond ensuring that protection is always included as a sector as well as integrated in the other sectors, depending on opportunities and specific needs
Promote the participation of the Ethiopian Protection team to all exchange and experience sharing opportunities within the Global protection Team in Oxfam
Strengthen the capitalization of data and lessons learned from protection-related interventions
Build the capacity of the programme teams in protection
Ensure that Oxfam’s protection framework and approaches are well known, understood, and supported by all Oxfam staff, especially by Senior Management team and other technical teams.
Ensuring technical induction for new protection teams
Identify potential areas for capacity building of staff, partners, and stakeholders in relation to innovations in the protection sector.
Ensure that the four pillars of the Humanitarian approach (Safe Programming, Community Engagement, Feminist principles and Local Humanitarian Leadership) are embedded within the Protection Strategy and applied by all protection teams.
Ensure that all humanitarian team and partners, are trained on humanitarian principles and basic principles of general protection, first psychological aid, data protection
Contributing to build the capacity on Safe Programming in coordination with the Senior Management, who is responsible for SP
Together with the Roving Protection Coordinator, design coherent and pertinent protection programs in all locations (Northern Ethiopia, Somali Region, and Gambelia)
Together with the Roving Protection Coordinator, ensure that Protection is included and appropriately resourced in all proposals, in line with Oxfam integrated approach (one Oxfam).
Together with the Roving Protection Coordinator Develop appropriate tools for data collection for analysis and/or protection assessments.
Together with the Roving Protection Coordinator, coordinate and give technical support to the various protection studies and analyses of the different programmes together with the project and MEAL managers
Together with the Roving Protection Coordinator, ensure the dissemination of analysis/study or protection research reports to the relevant institutions as well as feedback to the affected communities (best practice).
Ensure quality and timely protection analysis (threats, vulnerabilities, capacities) in current and prospective areas of operations, to inform program and strategies design as well as context analysis
Together with the Roving Protection Coordinator, ensure that Protection Analysis and studies are used for Advocacy actions for protection as well as to design protection interventions, at Oxfam, partner and community level
Together with the Roving Protection Coordinator, ensure that the Oxfam Community Based Protection Approach is well understood and applied
Together with the Roving Protection Coordinator, ensure that Advocacy for protection is key within the Humanitarian Strategy in Ethiopia
Humanitarian Preparedness, Response and Programme Management
Preparedness
Work with HRPM and the Response Leads 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.
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 roving protection coordinator as required in accordance with Oxfam’s Performance Management process and proactive staff development including objective setting, performance review and performance evaluation 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 of the Tigray conflict crisis response programme is circulated appropriately, within Oxfam and with external counterparts;
Report regularly to the HRPM with agreed indicators against the overall objectives;
Representation
Represent Oxfam externally in appropriate protection-related UN/ I()NGO for a ( such as protection cluster, GBV sub cluster) , with a view to enhancing coordination, and adopting complementary approaches including active participation in relevant coordination and planning mechanisms and supporting field staff in field-level protection coordination
Establish and maintain collaborative relations with relevant donor officers, partners, key stakeholders, and other humanitarian actors.
Support the policy team in advocacy and campaigning on protection issues including analysis, surveys, assessments, and support to development of policy products as required.
Support the Humanitarian Coordinator and the policy team in integrating programmes and policy, to ensure that programmes are working towards achieving same aims and leveraging impact in line with Oxfam’s country strategy Ethiopia.
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
Master’s degree (MA or LLM) in Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, or related subjects (desirable) and Minimum BA in relevant field (Social Science, Psychology, Social Work, human rights, international humanitarian law or other related fields related to social development and humanitarian work or any other related areas that can bring added value to the job
Minimum of 7+ years of relevant working experience in protection-related sectors, preferably within an INGO or UN out of which 5 years should be supervisory/managerial experience.
Strong theoretical, technical, and practical background on protection and Strong skills in networking with partners and donor liaison
Able to gather and critically analyse data, gaps and trends related to Protection issues
Solid time-management skills, resourcefulness, and attention to details
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage efficiently multiple priorities, deadlines and tasks and proven training skills and capacities in developing trainings
Demonstrable understanding of the gender dynamics of protection works and ability to implement protection activities with a strong emphasis on the gendered aspects of conflict, violence and abuse.
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.
Familiar with and abide by the NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, CHS and sphere principles
Experience working with partners.
Understanding of advocacy and campaigning work.
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
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