FOOD SECURITY (FS) & PEACE BUILDING (PB) COORDINATOR

Location: Jigjiga, Ethiopia

Organization: Oxfam

Deadline: 11 January 2026

Job Description

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 organization.

About Oxfam

Oxfam is a global community that believes poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s rights 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.

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: Program Team
LOCATION: Jigjiga, Somali Region, Ethiopia	CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term
GRADE: C2 National	JOB FAMILY: Programme
SALARY: As per the Oxfam benefit package	HOURS: 37.5 hours 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.
DEPARTMENT PURPOSE: Our programme drives systemic change by focusing on empowerment, transferring control and power to people so they can claim their rights and build agency. This ensures that livelihoods are not just secure, but also resilient to future shocks like conflict and climate change. Our vision is for people living in poverty and injustices to enjoy a life of dignity, equality, and just entitlements TEAM PURPOSE: As a nexus catalyst, the Food Security, Livelihood, and Peace Building (FS/L&PB) team mandates the integrated execution of programs, directly linking livelihood recovery to durable peace outcomes. We leverage expertise across Economic, Climate, Humanitarian, and Gender Justice pillars to transform conflict-affected populations. JOB PURPOSE: Based in Jigjiga, the FS/L&PB Coordinator provides technical and strategic leadership for an integrated project in Ethiopia’s Somali Region. The coordinator will support the effective implementation of the project, “Enhancing Communities’ Resilience to Drought (ECRD),” in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. The role focuses on coordinating field-level activities, supporting community engagement, ensuring the timely delivery of project outputs, and contributing to monitoring, reporting, and learning processes to strengthen drought resilience among targeted communities. The role aims to seamlessly integrate food security and livelihoods programming with conflict-sensitive approaches, specifically linking pastoralist resilience, water management, and social cohesion, using women’s economic empowerment as a key driver of peace in the target districts.
POST HOLDER REPORTS TO	Country Program Director with a matrix relationship with the Development Programmes Manager
JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST	None
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY	None
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management) A. Program Strategy and Technical Leadership (40%). The coordinator will lead the design and conflict-sensitive implementation of integrated Food Security and Livelihood (FSL) strategies for pastoral communities, focusing on climate-smart practices and market linkages. Driving women’s economic empowerment (e.g., VSLAs) to foster their leadership in peacebuilding. Ensuring FSL activities explicitly link to inclusive peace outcomes and the equitable, sustainable management of community WASH systems and rangelands to reduce resource conflict. The role oversees resilience building (e.g., fodder production), provides technical guidance, conducts market assessments, and ensures all programming promotes full and equal participation of women while addressing specific vulnerabilities. Ensure that programmes analyse and address specific vulnerabilities in FS, peace and conflict. Identify implementation challenges and risks, particularly those related to drought, security, and access, and propose mitigation measures. Promote accountability, protection, and safeguarding principles throughout project implementation. B. Strategic Coordination, Partnership, and Representation (10%) This classification involves connecting the program externally with key stakeholders and ensuring the organization’s approach is represented and influences the wider humanitarian/development context. External Coordination: Coordination and collaboration with UN-Agencies, (I)NGOs, Government offices, community leaders/structures, and other stakeholders at regional and local levels. Cluster/Forum Representation: Represent Oxfam on FSL & Peace issues at the Cluster meetings, and promote market-based programming, through cluster or working group participation or leadership and influencing other relevant external fora when context allows. Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with Oxfam and partners’ field level stakeholders on FSL issues as well as external stakeholders at regional level, and community structures to ensure smooth project implementation. Support community mobilization and participation, ensuring inclusion of women, youth, and vulnerable groups. C. Peacebuilding Integration (20%) The coordinator will serve as the lead technical liaison with the Somali Regional government and cluster groups (FSLC, Peacebuilding) and relevant cluster working groups (FSLC and Peacebuilding) at regional and zonal levels to broker strategic alliances and secure funding for relief and recovery. The role involves ensuring technical quality and standard compliance (SPHERE, LEGS) and managing partners to guarantee project objectives are met. Crucially, the coordinator must integrate FSL activities with community peace and WASH governance structures, while building the capacity of local CSOs (VSLAs, WUCs) for sustainability and local ownership. D. Monitoring, Accountability, and Learning (30%) Contribute to the project’s monitoring framework by developing and tracking process and outcome indicators that specifically measure the impact of livelihood interventions on social cohesion and the equitable distribution of resources (e.g., perception of fairness, reduction in resource disputes). Ensure that data is rigorously collected and disaggregated by gender, age, and clan/location to monitor progress on inclusion and power dynamics, particularly concerning the empowerment of women, youth, and elders in conflict resolution. Lead the analysis of monitoring data to inform adaptive programming, ensuring the project adjusts its livelihood strategies in response to evolving conflict dynamics and water access challenges. Lead the drafting of high-quality, evidence-based sections for donor reports, highlighting how livelihood interventions contribute to the achievement of peace and sustainable resource management. Any other assignment given by the line manager.

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

Master’s degree in food security, Rural Development, Agricultural Economics, Conflict Studies, or a closely related field.
Minimum five (5) years of progressive professional experience managing integrated Food Security and Livelihood programs in fragile, complex, and/or pastoralist environments.
Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing projects that explicitly link economic recovery to peacebuilding and conflict mitigation.
In-depth technical knowledge of pastoral livelihood systems and experience working on resource-based conflicts, especially related to water and rangeland in the Somali Region of Ethiopia or a similar Horn of Africa context.
Proven experience in gender-transformative programming, specifically empowering women economically and supporting their participation in governance and peace structures.
Prior experience managing large-scale, donor-funded projects and working in coordination with government and civil society partners.
Analytical skills for conducting and integrating conflict analysis (e.g., Do No Harm, Connectors and Dividers) into project implementation.
Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential.
Proven ability in partnership management, mentor, and provide technical supervision to partner’s field teams in remote locations.
Strong report writing, presentation, and financial management skills.
Commitment to humanitarian principles and organizational values.
Computer literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)

Desirable

Knowledge of Somali culture
Proficiency in Somali and/or Amharic is a strong advantage.

Required Skills

Analytical skills
Communication
Financial management
Report writing skill

How to Apply

As part of your online application, please upload: >> HERE your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.