Organization: Oxfam Intermón
Country: Spain
Closing date: 27 Apr 2017
Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering. As an Oxfam employee, you will join a team of professionals that is part of the international confederation of 18 organizations networked together in 94 countries.
Oxfam is looking to fill the position of Humanitarian Capacity Development Advisor to be part of Oxfam Global Humanitarian Team (GHT). The GHT works across Oxfam and supports countries and regions in their response to crises and supports them in emergency preparedness to become more resilient to future shocks and stresses.
The Humanitarian Capacity Development team has three objectives:
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Local humanitarian leadership is increased at country level by ensuring that local humanitarian actors are able to implement a Local Humanitarian Leadership (LHL) strategy which ensures high quality humanitarian response and local leadership in humanitarian action.
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Oxfam staff and partners (particularly in focus countries) deliver and benefit from more effective humanitarian capacity development approaches
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Support to countries based on unforeseen priority needs particularly for countries responding to category 1 and 2 crises
JOB PURPOSE
This position contributes to strengthen Oxfam's global humanitarian capacity by providing advice and support to country teams in developing programmes and resources for humanitarian capacity development of staff and partners organisations, and providing guidance and support to Oxfam staff and partners on appropriate capacity development approaches, Learning and Development methodologies and strategies.
Key Responsibilities
To support lead countries and regions to develop capacity of staff and partners to respond to category 1 and 2 humanitarian responses
· Support country teams on a strictly demand led basis with varied innovative and context specific approaches to fill capacity gaps before, during or after the flow of the programme and partnerships
· Work closely with the Humanitarian Coordinators (Focus Countries) to respond adequately to the demands and needs on capacity development from those countries
To support country teams to build their humanitarian capacity
· Assist Oxfam staff (in country offices, regions or global) to design effective approaches which build capacity for contingency and preparedness planning, strategy development and programme implementation
· Support Oxfam staff (in country, region, global) to undertake capacity assessments – of humanitarian staff, partners and allies – and the development and implementation of capacity development plans in-country
· Develop and maintain a humanitarian learning and development framework for Oxfam staff and partners
· Support distinct capacity building events at country or regional level as required e.g. the designing and facilitation of training events
To lead and coordinate the representation of Oxfam in global humanitarian bodies, processes and debates, including global partnerships related to capacity development
· Participate in relevant external networks for the purpose of exchanging learning on key capacity development themes and approaches
· Contribute to development of funding proposals dedicated to capacity development
To ensure collaborative practices and ways of working across Oxfam
Collaborate with specialist teams in the Global Humanitarian Team, Regional Platforms and country offices on the development of resources and the implementation of capacity development and partnership approaches, learning and development methodologies and initiatives
To contribute to the implementation of Oxfam's strategy for Local Humanitarian Leadership at country level.
· Support countries to implement the programme approach to shift leadership from international to national actors based on facilitating local capacity, ensuring space for local actors to take on leadership in decision making spaces such as clusters or working groups and improving Oxfam's internal ways of working as a partner organisation.
· Provide methodological guidance and support to country offices in developing capacity for response and leadership of local humanitarian actors including innovative ways of assessing capacity and facilitating capacity development from a system-perspective (beyond staff and partners)
· Support country programmes to develop appropriate, equitable partnership modalities with local organisations and to build on them during humanitarian responses. Examples include engaging in joint preparedness with local civil society and government actors and supporting the participation and leadership of local actors in decision-making spaces such as clusters or working groups
· Work closely with key actors within the organisation such as the Charter for Change Manager and the Local Humanitarian Leadership campaigns and policy lead.
QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
· At least 5 years field experience with international and/or national civil society actors in humanitarian preparedness and response planning and implementation;
· Knowledge and ability to apply key humanitarian principles and codes of practice;
· Experience of and commitment to working in partnerships;
· Significant demonstrable experience of designing and delivering training and learning programmes;
· Proven influencing and negotiating skills with internal and external audiences;
· Sensitivity to cultural differences, and the ability to work and communicate in a wide variety of cultural contexts;
· Excellent teamwork skills and the ability to build good relations both internally and externally;
· Enhanced collaboration and networking skills;
· Demonstrable understanding and experience of gender equity issues;
· Excellent written and spoken English and Spanish;
· Ability to undertake unaccompanied travel, potentially to insecure environments
Desirable
· Partnership brokering experience
· Experience of developing multi-stakeholder processes
· Understanding of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
· Working knowledge of French, Portuguese or any other languages
What can we offer you?
Contract: Contract for 12 month renewable. Spanish labour contract.
Annual gross salary: Salary according to Oxfam Intermon scale
Social benefits: Medical insurance and Accident and life insurance when travelling in the field missions.
Holidays: 28 working days / year (in 2017)
Working place: Barcelona Head Quarters (Oxfam Intermon) with 30% travel worldwide.
Starting date: As soon as possible
Applicants must – due to legal reasons – hold EU citizenship or valid EU residence permit and a valid Spanish work permit. Applications not meeting these conditions can unfortunately not be considered.
How to apply:
Send your CV and motivation letter to seleccion@oxfamintermon.org.
Please put the reference that corresponds in the subject box of the email: ref. 05-17/18
The deadline for applications is fixed on April 27th, 2017. Oxfam reserves the right to modify this date. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Oxfam is committed to the principle of equity, diversity and inclusiveness.
