Job details

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

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

Technical

Strategic Management and Programme Quality Improvement

• Represent OXFAM in technical protection (including GBV) forums, working groups or coordination with external actors (state, INGO, UN agencies, partners)
• 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

•  Develop and implement a capacity building plan for all Protection staff within Oxfam and partners
• 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

Programme design and management

• Together with the Roving Protection Coordinator, develop technical tools needed.
• 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.

Project Management and Response

• Lead together with the HRPM and the Response Leads the annual strategic review of the on-going responses in Ethiopia serving affected people within WASH, Emergency Food Security & Livelihoods; gender and protection;
• 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.

Other

• Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women’s rights
• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principle

person specification

1 Self-Awareness

2 Mutual accountability

3 Strategic Thinking and Judgment

• 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