OXFAM KEDV in Turkiye
Contract type: National fixed term for 6 months contract with possibility of extension (for Turkish nationality or those who have work permit)
Reporting to: Public Health Promotion Team Leader
Staff reporting to this post: PHP Assistants
Budget Responsibility: N/A
Locations: Gaziantep /Hatay / Kahramanmaraş
*This is a Rapid Recruitment - we would undertake shortlisting and interviews as applications come in and may appoint before a closing date.
Shaping a stronger Oxfam KEDV for people living in poverty.
Oxfam KEDV Purpose
To work with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering.
Oxfam is a global community who believes 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.
Team Purpose
To work with Programme team and Oxfam KEDV’s partners to design and oversee Oxfam KEDV WaSH program in Gaziantep, Hatay or Maras provinces.
Job Purpose
The PHP-CE Officer will lead the PHP-CE Assistants at field level in planning and managing the day-to-day quality, gender-sensitive community-centred public health, hygiene and water, sanitation activities in the field and ensuring the activities are implemented as per plans and guidelines for the programme in Hatay or Maras provinces. They will monitor progress and ensure quality of PHP activities as well as integration with Public Health Engineering (PHE) and other teams.
Dimensions
- Managing / supervising resources within PHP staff activities including PHE assistants and assets
- Assist in developing community-based hygiene promotion interventions
- To ensure that all facility design take gender and disability issues fully into account
- Diverse and complex problem-solving, requiring professional knowledge, field experience and an understanding of emergency and humanitarian work.
- Able to make decisions often with limited information and in a dynamic context
- Collect technical data (such as epidemic data, quantitative and qualitative reports) and contribute to quality project reports enabling progress and indicator tracking in terms of both quality and quantity
- Work patterns are not routine and often high pressure
- Makes complex technical information accessible and usable by non-specialist
- Creates opportunities to develop work within a framework plan
- Knowledge required includes broad understanding of and their relevance to own specialism
- Communication with internal staff, also with some external contacts / target audiences to support operational work.
- Involve communities into planned activities. Influence staff, partner and volunteers in Oxfam and develop effective networks with external bodies
Key Responsibilities
- Manage PHP Assistants for the implementation of community based public health promotion work.
- Support logistics and finance team to ensure timely delivery of supplies planned under all the projects
- Coordinate and engage with target stakeholders at a community level
- Support on the Monitoring & Evaluation to assess and evaluate the impact of the project on beneficiaries and surrounding environs.
- Coordinate and engage with other stakeholders such as local leadership, district authorities, etc.
- Work closely with members of other teams especially PHE and EFSVL, Protection, Gender, etc and other relevant agencies on the ground.
Assessment and programme/activity design:
- Lead and or participate in rapid needs assessment in Oxfam KEDV’s targeted and potential new areas of emergency intervention as directed by the line manager
- Participate and where appropriate join in multi-sectoral assessment team and specific technical assessment/survey on hygiene practices
- Implement PHP activities in WASH emergencies e.g. baseline data collection, formation and training of WASH committees and volunteers, working with logistics on targeting, delivery and monitoring of NFI distributions, design, implementation and monitoring of IEC material
- Ensure community engagement throughout project implementation
- Use assessment data to design participatory PHP interventions appropriate for the local context and culture.
- Manage a team of community outreach workers (including Oxfam PHP Assistants and community volunteers)
- To liaise closely with the Public Health Engineering Team throughout the planning, design and implementation stages of the Public Health Promotion Programme.
- To promote the inclusion of cross-cutting issues within programming, including gender & protection and community engagement.
Coordination and representation:
- Provide technical coordination of field teams to ensure coherent and consistent programming.
- Convene regular coordination meetings with WASH actors at community level to discuss key issues, record key progress and report upwards
- Support TL on coordinating with MEAL team to ensure key information management documents – including 4Ws, gap analyses, trackers and contingency stock lists are kept up to date by Oxfam KEDV and other WASH agencies on a regular basis
Implementation:
- Implement PHP activities using the most appropriate community engagement approaches
- Use PHP materials in Oxfam KEDV warehouse and in pipeline wisely and appropriately.
- To assist in the selection, design and implementation of the most appropriate form of sanitation approach, in consultation with the beneficiaries, which includes excreta and refuse disposal, vector control and drainage. Methods may apply materials support in conjunction with social mobilisation and community participation
- To liaise closely with the Public Health Engineering Team throughout the planning, design and implementation stages of the Public Health Promotion Programme.
- To promote the inclusion of cross cutting issues within programming, including gender & protection and community engagement.
Staff management and Capacity building:
- Recruit and supervise public health promotion assistants and volunteers (CHPs) needed. This may involve the writing of job profiles, work schedules, objective setting and appraisals.
- Manage staff reporting to the position and objectively manage performance and conduct appraisal and capacity building both partners and Oxfam KEDV staff.
- Build the capacity of Oxfam staff, volunteers (CHPs) and partners through practical mentoring, on the job coaching and hands on.
- Ensure that all designated reporting teams (PHP Assistants) are aware of and abide with key internal and external protocols and principles (e.g. Red Cross Code of Conduct, People in Aid, Oxfam KEDV’s Code of Conduct) and refugees key principals
Reporting and communication:
- Contribute to donor reporting, budgeting and new proposals when required
- Supervise others to monitor and report against key WASH and health indicators
- Support on the regular program reporting adhering to Oxfam KEDV reporting formats at intervals to be decided by the line manager
- Document meeting minutes for any community meetings or partner meetings
- Document and disseminate good practice examples from programme deployment.
Skills and Competence:
- University Degree in a relevant field (sociology, anthropology, public health science, nutrition or other relevant)
- At least 3 years of hand on experience of working in humanitarian WaSH programme
- Experience in leading the implementation of community-based PHP interventions in emergencies
- Knowledge of Sphere standards and indicators pertaining to WaSH
- Ability to engage proactively with project communities to ensure their full participation, with an emphasis on ensuring the participation of women in the design, implementation, and management of WaSH activities
- Quality in programme reporting
- Demonstrated experience of managing a team
- Experience in supporting partner-based projects
- Demonstrated experience of integrating gender and protection into emergency WaSH response programs and longer-term strategies.
- Ability to work well under pressure and in responding to changing needs
- Diplomacy, tact and negotiation skills
- Excellent communication and cross-cultural management skills
- Excellent command of Turkish
- Good written and spoken English
How to apply
Please send your CV and a cover letter to ik@kedv.org.tr and indicate the name of the position in the subject line.