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Iraq Context
Oxfam’s program has been established in 2014 in response to the ISIS conflict in Iraq. Oxfam implemented activities during the past few years were built around the delivery of 3 main areas: A) Lifesaving humanitarian assistance b) Recovery assistance, and C) Promotion of Women Rights.
- Lifesaving humanitarian assistance: to newly displaced populations residing in camps or host communities. The bulk of this work was done around the Mosul Operation with activities implemented in the governorates of Erbil, Salah Al-Din and Ninewa. Activities included: Establishment/rehabilitation of safe water (boreholes, repair of infrastructure); Emergency water supply (distribution of water through trucking and bottled water); Setting up water tanks and networks in camps; Distribution of hygiene items; construction of latrines; Cash for Work opportunities inside the camps to allow construction work and solid waste management; and Distribution of emergency winterization kits.
- Recovery assistance: to returnees, local host communities and IDPs to recover from the post-conflict and to cope with protracted displacement. The main activities implemented under these areas of work include Rehabilitation of water infrastructure; Supporting local authorities to rehabilitate essential public services (schools and hospitals); Grants to returnees to recover damaged businesses; Provision of livestock to support farmers; Cash for Work opportunities contributing to income for vulnerable families and supporting the rehabilitation of infrastructure of public interest (irrigation canals, main roads).
- Promotion of Women's Rights: through contributing to the implementation of the National Plan for 1325 UN Resolution, and economic empowerment of women through the provision of training and grants to establish/rehabilitate businesses.
In order to serve these three objectives, Oxfam work aimed to integrate the following key sectors together for every intervention in a given location:
- Water Sanitation and Hygiene
- Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods
- Non-food-Items and Shelter
- Protection of lives and rights of civilians
- Gender Justice
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning
- Advocacy and Media work
Team Purpose
To support conflict-affected populations access appropriate and equitable assistance that meets humanitarian needs and reduces underlying drivers of conflict at all levels.
Job Purpose
To support and strengthen the delivery of a quality program and accountability mechanisms both at partners and Oxfam levels.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
MEAL System development and implementation:
- Supports the development and updating of relevant MEAL frameworks, working closely with project teams, the MEAL Coordinator, MEAL officer, and Technical Coordinators (EFSVL, WASH, and protection).
- Working closely with the Project Manager and Country MEAL Officer, review/update MEAL plans on a regular basis, in close coordination with project teams and Oxfam’s partners.
- With support from Country MEAL Officer and Project Manager, ensure implementation of MEAL frameworks and adherence to Oxfam quality standards. Program monitoring, Information management, and Reporting:
- Field data collection and data management:
- Overseeing recruitment and training of data collectors
- Carrying out and supervising data collection (Focus group discussions, post-distribution monitoring, surveys, observations, etc.) and data entry.
- Making initial data processing and coordinate with Project Team and partners in finalizing quantitative and qualitative data analyses and drafting of reports.
- Reports to / alert the project team on regular basis on any anticipated project issues, risks, and any emerging opportunities and threats to the project implementation, related to this role.
- Supports in the establishment and management of a beneficiary database system
- Supports the Project Management in producing clear and quality reports that demonstrate accountability and learning.
- Ensures all MEAL-related data and files are properly organized and stored
Accountability:
- strengthens and manages complaint and feedback mechanism in the area of operation
- Shares feedback and complaints with field teams and tracks follow-up.
Evaluation, Review, and Learning:
- Support the management of evaluations, including the coordination of field-based data collection activities, review of evaluation reports, sharing of evaluation findings and recommendations with intended audiences.
- Monitor the implementation of evaluation recommendations at the field level
- Assist the project team and partners in documenting lessons learned, collecting best practices, case studies that demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes over the period.
- Organize/support field-based reviews and learning events
Coordination and Networking:
- Attend relevant field-level sectoral coordination meetings to identify opportunities for integration of data collection activities, harmonization, secondary information sources, etc.
- Delivering any other responsibility related to MEAL assigned by the line manager.
Iraq Context
Oxfam’s program has been established in 2014 in response to the ISIS conflict in Iraq. Oxfam implemented activities during the past few years were built around the delivery of 3 main areas: A) Lifesaving humanitarian assistance b) Recovery assistance, and C) Promotion of Women Rights.
- Lifesaving humanitarian assistance: to newly displaced populations residing in camps or host communities. The bulk of this work was done around the Mosul Operation with activities implemented in the governorates of Erbil, Salah Al-Din, and Ninewa. Activities included: Establishment/rehabilitation of safe water (boreholes, repair of infrastructure); Emergency water supply (distribution of water through trucking and bottled water); Setting up water tanks and networks in camps; Distribution of hygiene items; construction of latrines; Cash for Work opportunities inside the camps to allow construction work and solid waste management; and Distribution of emergency winterization kits.
- Recovery assistance: to returnees, local host communities, and IDPs to recover from the post-conflict and to cope with protracted displacement. The main activities implemented under these areas of work include Rehabilitation of water infrastructure; Supporting local authorities to rehabilitate essential public services (schools and hospitals); Grants to returnees to recover damaged businesses; Provision of livestock to support farmers; Cash for Work opportunities contributing to income for vulnerable families and supporting the rehabilitation of infrastructure of public interest (irrigation canals, main roads).
- Promotion of Women's Rights: through contributing to the implementation of the National Plan for 1325 UN Resolution, and economic empowerment of women through the provision of training and grants to establish/rehabilitate businesses.
In order to serve these three objectives, Oxfam work aimed to integrate the following key sectors together for every intervention in a given location:
- Water Sanitation and Hygiene
- Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods
- Non-food-Items and Shelter
- Protection of lives and rights of civilians
- Gender Justice
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning
- Advocacy and Media work
Team Purpose
To support conflict-affected populations access appropriate and equitable assistance that meets humanitarian needs and reduces underlying drivers of conflict at all levels.
Job Purpose
To support and strengthen the delivery of a quality program and accountability mechanisms both at partners and Oxfam levels.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
MEAL System development and implementation:
- Supports the development and updating of relevant MEAL frameworks, working closely with project teams, the MEAL Coordinator, MEAL officer, and Technical Coordinators (EFSVL, WASH and protection).
- Working closely with the Project Manager and Country MEAL Officer, review/update MEAL plans on regular basis, in close coordination with project teams and Oxfam’s partners.
- With support from Country MEAL Officer and Project Manager, ensure implementation of MEAL frameworks and adherence to Oxfam quality standards. Program monitoring, Information management, and Reporting:
- Field data collection and data management:
- Overseeing recruitment and training of data collectors
- Carrying out and supervising data collection (Focus group discussions, post-distribution monitoring, surveys, observations, etc.) and data entry.
- Making initial data processing and coordinate with Project Team and partners in finalizing quantitative and qualitative data analyses and drafting of reports.
- Reports to / alert the project team on regular basis on any anticipated project issues, risks, and any emerging opportunities and threats to the project implementation, related to this role.
- Supports in the establishment and management of a beneficiary database system
- Supports the Project Management in producing clear and quality reports that demonstrate accountability and learning.
- Ensures all MEAL-related data and files are properly organized and stored
Accountability:
- strengthens and manages complaint and feedback mechanism in the area of operation
- Shares feedback and complaints with field teams and tracks follow-up.
Evaluation, Review, and Learning:
- Support the management of evaluations, including the coordination of field-based data collection activities, review of evaluation reports, sharing of evaluation findings and recommendations with intended audiences.
- Monitor the implementation of evaluation recommendations at the field level
- Assist the project team and partners in documenting lessons learned, collecting best practices, case studies that demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes over the period.
- Organize/support field-based reviews and learning events
Coordination and Networking:
- Attend relevant field-level sectoral coordination meetings to identify opportunities for integration of data collection activities, harmonization, secondary information sources, etc.
- Delivering any other responsibility related to MEAL assigned by the line manager.
Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge
- At least 2 years working experience
- Experience in gathering, analyzing, and presenting quantitative and qualitative data
- Good communication skills in written and spoken English and Arabic.
- Proven ability to work effectively with others - including in multicultural team – and strong interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate ability to take initiative and work with minimum supervision
- Proven knowledge of computerized systems; high degree of computer literacy and word processing and spreadsheet/Excel skills.
Behavioral competencies (based on Oxfam’s Leadership Model)
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Leadership Practice |
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Self |
Self-Awareness |
We are able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviors to control and channel our impulses for good purposes. We self-moderate appropriately to different contexts thereby optimizing our ability to achieve goals. |
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Humility |
We put ‘we’ before ‘me’ and place an emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team and play to the strengths of each individual. We are not concerned with hierarchical power, and we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of others across all levels of the organization. We work to achieve goals together not just individually. |
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Seeing the ‘big picture’ |
Vision Setting |
We have the ability to identify and lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organization and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organization and diverse external stakeholders. The clarity in our communication of vision allows others to focus on delivery and their contribution to the wider changes we seek. |
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Systems Thinking |
We view problems as parts of an overall system and our contributions to change in relation to the whole system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome, or event in isolation. We focus on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing systems thinking we are aware of and manage intended and unintended consequences of organizational decisions and actions. |
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Strategic Thinking and Judgment |
We use judgment, weighing risk against the imperative to act. We make decisions consistent with organizational strategies and values |
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Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity |
We scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity, and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways. We develop strategies to maximize adaptability and agility, encourage forward-thinking, new ideas, and learning from experience. |
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Relationship Skills
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Listening |
We are good active listeners who can see where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions differ. Our messages to others are clear and consider different preferences. |
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Influencing |
We have the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organization We spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities we have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner. |
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Relationship Building |
We understand the importance of building relationships, within and outside the organization. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organization. |
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Enabling
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We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organization's goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job. We give more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support. |
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Ability to Deliver results |
Mutual Accountability |
We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organizational values. We are ready to be held to account for our actions and how we behave, as we are also holding others to account in a consistent manner. |
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Decisiveness |
We are comfortable making transparent decisions and adapting decision-making modes to the context and needs. We recognize that decisions may not always lead to the results we seek but enable us to continually learn and improve. |
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 organisation.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance 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.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.
How 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.
https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/13669/description
About us
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 international confederation of 19 organizations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.
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