Area Manager

DIVISION: Operations

TEAM: Program Team

LOCATION: Jarar

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term (1 year)

GRADE C2  National                                                    

JOB FAMILY:  Programme

SALARY: As per Oxfam pay scale

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

TEAM PURPOSE:

The East Africa Food Crisis response is composed of national and international staff with wide experience in developing and implementing WASH, EFSVL, Protection, and Gender programmes. The Area Manager will manage the team at the field level (based in Jarar) and oversee the implementation of the programmes in other areas assigned by the Response Manager. The Area Manager will also work directly with Oxfam beneficiaries, partners, and other stakeholders to ensure people affected by the crisis get timely, sufficient, and appropriate humanitarian assistance.

JOB PURPOSE:

To ensure effective and efficient delivery of programme and operational functions of Jijiga Response programme at the field level, ensuring risk management and compliance with Oxfam’s policies and procedures.

POST HOLDER REPORTS TO

Response Program Manager

JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST

All Jarar based staff (WASH, EFSVL, Protection, Gender, MEAL, Finance, Logistics, HR, Admin, IT, etc.)

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

Yes

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Management and Leadership

·       Lead and ensure the effective, high-quality, and timely programme delivery at the field level in accordance with humanitarian standards, Oxfam guidelines and procedures, and donor and government regulations

·        Ensure that the programme is implemented in a consultative, participative, safe, and gender-sensitive manner

·       In coordination with the MEAL Coordinator and MEAL Officer, implement clear and effective monitoring and evaluation plan against qualitative and quantitative indicators ensuring that accountability and learning take place

·        Ensure accountable narrative and financial reporting within agreed deadlines in compliance with Oxfam as well as donor guidelines and regulations.

·       Together with the Finance Coordinator, ensure the implementation of appropriate financial controls for the programme, including regularly budget preparation and monitoring following Oxfam financial policies and procedures

·        Together with the Logistics Manager, support the Logistics Officer to embed and implement organizational systems, standards, and structures into logistics functions including procurement, warehousing, and management/maintenance of Oxfam assets

·        Ensure a supportive working environment, which encourages staff to perform and develop, interact positively with each other, and reflect Oxfam’s values in their daily work

·        Together with the roving HR Coordinator and HR Officer, ensure Oxfam staff performance system and other HR procedures are implemented

·       Ensure well-being and safety of staff and provide a conducive working environment following Oxfam guidelines and SOPs on health and security management.

·        Promote teamwork and good working relationships among field team members, and between programme and support staff.

·        Represent Oxfam at various relevant coordination meetings in Jijiga and develop effective working relationships at the field level with the UN, other NGOs, local government, and host communities in support of our work and mandate

·        Ensure timely and effective communication and coordination among field teams and roving programme/technical and business support coordinators.

·       Provide regular updates on overall Oxfam Jijiga response operations including safety and security situations updates, to Emergency Response Manager and Humanitarian Program Manager.

·       Perform any other assignment given by the line manager.

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.

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:

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 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

Experience, Knowledge & Competencies

EDUCATION:

·       Master’s (MA) degree in Humanitarian, Management, International Development, Public Health, etc or any other related areas that can bring added value to the job

·        Minimum of 7+ years of relevant working experience in humanitarian work with 5 years in a management position, preferably within an INGO or UN.

·        Experience in humanitarian action and knowledge of principles and practices of program management and emergency response.

·       Experience in WASH, EFSL, and Protection programming is highly preferable.

·       Substantial experience in operational programmes in complex humanitarian situations (preferably in isolated and conflict contexts).

·        Experience leading strategy development, implementation, and monitoring in collaboration with staff

·       Demonstrated ability to lead, give guidance to teams and ensure the effective running of a field office

·        Proven sound judgment in complex situations especially in insecure areas.

·       Broad set of management skills (programme, financial, HR and logistics). This includes excellent people management skills with a good understanding of team development.

·       Understanding of key crosscutting issues in humanitarian work including one or more of the following issues: gender, protection, conflict sensitivity, humanitarian access negotiation, safe programming, local humanitarian leadership.

·        Demonstrated ability to work under limited direct supervision in a high-paced, stressful and unpredictable environment.

·        Proven to experience in security management, particularly in monitoring and assessing situations

·        A high level of interpersonal, communications, and representational skills

·        Fluency in spoken and written English

Desirable

·       Familiarity with the NGO Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, and SPHERE minimum standards.

·       Experience of working effectively within a large international agency including previous experience with SIDA, ECHO, OFDA, UNICEF projects would be an added advantage

·       Experience of living/working in a field setting with limited opportunities for leisure and extended working hours.

·        Applicant with knowledge of the local language is preferable.

Safer recruitment: All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records 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.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. 

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds 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 www.ethiojobs.net or using Oxfam's internal /External application portal https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk / or https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/16888/description on or before May 28, 2022.