Organization: Oxfam
Closing date: 24 Jan 2017
How to apply:
Closing date: 24 Jan 2017
Location: Various Locations
Contract type: 3 - 6 months on average
Hours: Full-time
Salary: Dependent on the specific post
Due to the rapid scale up in certain countries, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. We will only contact those short-listed for the position and may appoint prior to the closing date.
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ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH.**
- Please ensure that you provide the following information in your application:
- How soon can you be available for deployment?
- Which emergency responses are you most interested in - please indicate your first and second preferences?
- How long are you available for (length of deployment)?
- Are you proficient in communicating in French (normally, a requirement for deployments to Central African Republic)?
OXFAM PURPOSE: To work with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering.
TEAM PURPOSE: To enable Oxfam to respond effectively in preparing for and responding to the needs of emergency affected communities in vulnerable countries world wide.
JOB PURPOSE: To work with national and international staff and partners providing leadership for the Public Health Promotion teams to ensure that women , men and children are involved in managing WaSH resources in safe, equitable and culturally appropriate ways to maximise the benefits for their communities.
Key Responsibilities
Support for Public Health initiatives in Oxfam’s Humanitarian response programmes
- As part of a multi disciplinary team, carry out rapid and ongoing assessments of the public health risks faced by communities affected by emergencies. Make recommendations for response interventions which are consistent with Oxfam’s policies and guidelines.
- Identify and assess the current resources and capacity of national counterparts, humanitarian agencies and government authorities to respond to the public health needs arising from the emergency. Identify any unmet needs likely to present risks to the health of the affected population.
- Lead and task manage a team of national and international public health promoters to implement and monitor appropriate health promotion interventions in emergency contexts. Budget design and tracking for sectoral activities is part of the remit of the team leader.
- Implement health promotion initiatives appropriate to the context. This will involve working in close collaboration with engineering colleagues to ensure that technical and social aspects of water and sanitation and malaria control programming are closely integrated and with food security and livelihoods colleagues to maximise the potential for cohesive programming.
- Involve women and men in the affected populations in the assessment, planning, implementation and monitoring of public health activities and play a key role in ensuring that communities are informed and consulted about Oxfam’s work and have opportunities to give their views on, and influence programme activities.
- Work with others to ensure that gender, protection issues are addressed in public health initiatives.
- Contribute towards planning and proposal writing in order to provide clear objectives, and establish indicators for monitoring and evaluating the programme including indicators relating to participation and gender.
Coordination and representation (For PHP co-ordinators)
- Act, on occasion, as the local project manager coordinating public health promotion activities within Oxfam and with external agencies. Share good practice examples from Oxfam PH programmes at inter-agency coordination meetings.
- Represent OGB to other agencies and authorities, including the WASH cluster where this is operating, and if appropriate provide briefings to Oxfam staff and supporters and to the media in agreement with the local manager, the Oxfam Humanitarian Department and Media Office.
Capacity building
- Recruit and supervise public health promotion staff when on deployment. This may involve the writing of job profiles, work schedules, objective setting and appraisals.
- Build the capacity of Oxfam staff and partners through mentoring and coaching , on the job supervision and informal and formal training. Contribute to the joint facilitation of inter-agency training initiatives where appropriate.
Programme learning and reporting
- Write regular reports adhering to OGB reporting formats at intervals to be decided by the programme co-ordinator. A short final report is required at the end of each deployment.
- Document and disseminate good practice examples from programme deployments.
Contributing to programme quality standards
- Ensure that work aims to meet Sphere Standards and adheres to Oxfam’s emergency guidelines and protocols.
- Ensure that all work is carried out in a way that is sensitive to community needs and promotes the full and equal participation of women.
- Be familiar with and abide by Oxfam's Code of Conduct and other regulatory codes such as the Red Cross Code of Conduct, Partners in Aid Code, Oxfam International protocols and the Inter- agency Field Co-operation Protocol.
- Contribute to programme reviews and evaluations where appropriate
Skills and Competence
- Graduate qualification or equivalent in one of the following, or a related discipline: social sciences, environmental or public health, anthropology or community development.
- Substantial overseas experience of which a considerable part should involve recent emergency experience
- Ability to work effectively under stress in emergency situations, in a leadership role. Experience of having led or coordinated inter-agency initiatives would be an advantage.
- Ability to work in a participative way with communities; strong counterpart/ training skills
- Strong assessment, analytical and planning skills.
- Experience of task managing and performance management of small teams and of budget tracking
- Experience of varied approaches to capacity building.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills. Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work in a variety of cultural contexts and communicate with a diverse range of people .
- Sound understanding of the importance of gender and participation in programme implementation; sensitive to the needs of displaced and disadvantaged populations.
- Committed to humanitarian principles and minimum standards for Humanitarian response
- Good spoken and written English. Additional languages are desirable. For deployments to French Speaking Countries such as Niger, Central African Republic and Haiti, French will also be essential.
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