Job Description
About us
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.
Our values and commitment to safeguarding
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 Scheme. 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 issue
Job Details |
DIVISION: Operations | TEAM: MEAL Team | |
LOCATION: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term contract for two years with possible extension | |
GRADE: National C2 | JOB FAMILY: Programme | |
SALARY: As per Oxfam pay scale | HOURS: 37.5 hours per week | |
FLEXIBILE 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 |
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TEAM PURPOSE:
The Programme Quality Team (PQT) will be accountable for ensuring that programme design, management, monitoring, review, evaluation and reporting processes meet Oxfam Minimum Standards for Programming and CAMSA guidelines. The team will include monitoring and evaluation and ensure compliance with all external and internal (to Oxfam) quality and contractual obligations of Oxfam in Ethiopia may have. PQT will occasionally constitute an Internal Audit Team to assess and rate country compliance with internal standards, systems, and procedures JOB PURPOSE: The Knowledge Management & Learning Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of OiE’s PIPs knowledge management plan with particular emphasis on thematic areas. He/she will closely work with various stakeholders in documenting program successes and processes to guide implementation of the interventions at scale. The Knowledge Management and Learning (KML) Coordinator together the Program Quality and Learning (PQL) and communication teams of Oxfam activity will have a key role in leading and promoting reflective practices within the PIPs/projects/ of OiE; timely documenting of lessons, and best practices; and proper dissemination of acquired institutional knowledge among Implementing Partners, strategic partners, OiE staff, donors and other stakeholders. |
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POST HOLDER REPORTS TO | Program Quality and Learning Manager | |
JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST | None | |
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY | No | |
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Job Requirements
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 cultural differences and gender equality.
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2. Be willing to learn and apply gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity and inclusion across all aspects of your work.
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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. |
Read this guide to find out more about what our values, organisational attributes, and feminist leadership approach mean for how we work
For this role, we have selected three 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 |
Experience, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential
Desirable
Your commitment to Oxfam
Key Attributes:
Organisational Values:
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Key Behavioural Competencies
Competencies |
Description |
Influencing | He/She can engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organization can spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities, we can create them in a respectful and impactful manner. |
Relationship Building | He/She understands the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organization. He/She can engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organisation. |
Listening | He/She is a good listener who can see where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions differ; messages to others are clear and considers different preferences. |
Mutual Accountability | He/She can explain decisions and how these have taken them based on our organizational values. He/She is ready to be held to account for what they do and how they behave, as he/she is also holding others to account in a consistent manner. |
Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity | He/She scan the environment, anticipate changes, is comfortable with lack of clarity and can deal with many elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways. |
Systems Thinking | He/She views 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. Can focus on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing systems thinking is aware of and manage well unintended consequences of organisational decisions and actions. |
Enabling
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Works to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organizations goals through creating conditions of success. Passionately invests in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job. Provides freedom; demonstrates belief and trust to provide appropriate support. Gives more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support. |
How to Apply
As part of your online application, please upload your up-to-date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile through Oxfam’s internal /External application portal https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk / or https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/17621/description on or before July 28, 2022.
Your application will be shortlisted based on your CV and your responses to the above questions. You need not comment on your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.