JOB PURPOSE
The Senior Officer is responsible for implementing, coordinating, and reporting on the GIZ-funded project in Salah ad Din and Nineveh governorates, focusing on increasing financial literacy and promoting renewable energy adoption among vulnerable populations. Under the supervision of the Area Manager, the Senior Officer will lead project activities, engage with stakeholders, and ensure the achievement of project objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the implementation of tailored financial literacy sessions and training on renewable energy adoption for various target groups, including people affected by poverty, youth, and MSME owners.
- Coordinate with local government authorities, financial institutions, and other stakeholders to ensure project alignment and sustainability.
- Develop and implement capacity-building programs for community committees, government actors, and other stakeholders.
- Facilitate exchange learning networking among climate change actors and identify opportunities for national and regional engagement.
- Oversee the implementation of selected mitigation measures and pilot initiatives in collaboration with government, private sector, and civil society partners.
- Draft weekly and monthly implementation plans/reports, ensuring accuracy and alignment with project objectives.
- Supervise beneficiary registration and selection processes, ensuring adherence to agreed criteria and methodologies.
- Promote gender mainstreaming in all project activities and facilitate the inclusion of women and youth in decision-making processes.
- Maintain strong working relationships with government departments, academia, and other key stakeholders.
- Monitor project progress against approved plans, identify challenges, and propose solutions as needed.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to measure progress and impact.
- Develop project progress reports for the donor in collaboration with project staff and technical leads.
Reporting
- Develop project progress reports for the donor in collaboration with project staff, technical Leads, funding coordinator and support teams. Ensure narrative reporting and financial accounting meet Oxfam and donor’s requirements;
- Ensure that budgets are drawn up for all activities, and that activities costs are kept within budgets.
- Prepare monthly situation reports (financial and narrative) to update management on program progress achieved, program plans, changes in direction and challenges encountered.
- Ensure that program staff provide an appropriate level of accurate progress reports and conduct detailed revision to ensure accuracy before sending it for sign-off of management.
- Support and assist project staff and technical leads in development and implementation of appropriate monitoring systems and procedures for measuring both progress and impact.
Other
- Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights
- Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles
SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- A minimum bachelor’s university degree in business management, sustainable
- development, economics, development studies, renewable energy, peace and conflict studies or related field;
- 2-3 years of experience in project management, including experience working with implementing partners in the field of climate change and sustainable development.
- Good Knowledge of the issues, challenges and opportunities around financial literacy, financial inclusion, and renewable energy.
- Experience and skills in playing a supportive role, demonstrating ability to support field teams’ members to deliver results for operational work.
- A good understanding of the Iraqi context and local cultures.
- Strong ability to be flexible and adaptable in times of unexpected challenges and provide creative solutions, whilst maintaining the ethos and objectives of the work at all times.
- Strong ability to work with diverse groups/individuals –ranging from local partners, local authorities, local community groups, the humanitarian community and the Academia.
- Proficiency in English and Arabic language (written and spoken) is required.
- Ability to travel and to work in difficult circumstances.
- MS Office operating skills (Word, Excel, Power point).
Technical Skills:
- Youth engagement: Promotion of youth-led initiatives and facilitation of intergenerational discussions.
- Awareness campaigns: Planning and implementation of awareness campaigns, including audience research and content creation.
- Stakeholder engagement: Capacity-building for effective state-citizen dialogue and stakeholder engagement in awareness activities.
- Networking: Facilitation of learning networking among climate change actors and identification of engagement opportunities at national and regional levels.
Desirable
- Experience in building the capacity of the team internally and of external stakeholders;
- Experience in working and jointly implementing projects involving local authorities and/or organizations as implementing partners.
Key Attributes
- Good interpersonal, influencing and communication skills;
- Sensitivity to cultural differences, and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts.
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and action.
Organizational Values
- Accountability – Our purpose-driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable. We believe that others should also be held accountable for their actions.
- Empowerment – Our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen.
- Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences.
At Oxfam, our job descriptions provide a guide to what might be expected in the role. Along with our strategy, the job profile is used to help to shape specific objectives for employees. Employees are supported to deliver these objectives and they are annually assessed against them as part of the Oxfam performance review process. This job profile is not incorporated into the employment contract.
Behavioral competencies (based on Oxfam’s Leadership Model)
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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 behaviours to control and channel our impulses for good purposes. We self-moderate appropriately to different context 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 organisation. 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 organisation and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organisation and diverse external stakeholders. 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 organisational 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 organisational 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 maximise 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 organisation 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 relationship, within and outside the organisation. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organisation. |
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Enabling
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We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organisations 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 organisational 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 to make transparent decisions and to adapt 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. |
How to Apply:
As part of your online application, please upload your up-to-date CV and a cover letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile
https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/internal/vacancy/20672/description
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
