Job Details:
Organisation: Oxfam GB - UK
Deadline Sun, 21 Sep 2014
Job type: Permanent
Location:
RRT (Regional Response Team) Salary Range £29,161 - £34,617 net pa (net = take home pay and on top of that Oxfam pays tax liabilities of the post holder).
Contracts are Non-accompanied.
Closing date: 21 September 2014
Background:
OXFAM is working in more than 90 countries around the world responding to emergencies, working on preparedness and contingency plans for longer term programmes. We have a Response and Resilience Team comprising people with various skills sets who are deployed from their home base to countries where Oxfam is delivering humanitarian programmes. We are looking to recruit a Community Mobiliser to work in our Water , Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion programmes as a member of the RRT. Using anthropological skills the post holder will enable our programmes to be underpinned by a good understanding of communities’ beliefs, behaviours and perceptions, enabling the WASH teams to adapt and/or revise their approaches and interventions and develop appropriate tools and ways of working with communities to enhance community participation and gender equality.
A better understanding of affected communities will play a crucial role in the quality of the response.
About the Role
Oxfam’s RRT Community Mobilisers work closely with engineering colleagues to assess, design , implement and monitor our humanitarian WASH programmes ensuring that communities are encouraged to engage with the WASH hardware provided. Your applied anthropological skills will support field teams to develop community profiles and to better understand cultural norms and community dynamics maximising opportunities for meaningful community participation .
About you
Your experience in anthropology and understanding of public health will ideally encompass emergency and development contexts in different countries. Exposure to a variety of research methodologies and participatory approaches will be helpful. As a result you’ll have a good practical understanding of how to analyse and understand the local socio-cultural determinants and behaviours of different communities. In addition, you’ll have good analytical, needs assessment, capacity planning and report-writing skills and excellent communication skills. Add a relevant post-graduate qualification plus a working level of spoken and written English, and you could soon be making a difference at a country level. One other language such as French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic is desirable..
About Oxfam
With the right support, we can help to stop poverty and suffering. Thousands of people already commit their time and talents to our humanitarian and long-term development projects. Now we’re looking for yours.
How to apply: To find out more about this role and apply, visit www.oxfam.org.uk/jobs searching for ref: INT0824 or click on the link below:
https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/1482/description.
RRT Anthropologist / Community Mobiliser
Job posted by: Oxfam GB - UK - Thu, 4 Sep 2014Job Details:
Organisation: Oxfam GB - UK
Deadline Sun, 21 Sep 2014
Job type: Permanent
Location:
RRT (Regional Response Team) Salary Range £29,161 - £34,617 net pa (net = take home pay and on top of that Oxfam pays tax liabilities of the post holder).
Contracts are Non-accompanied.
Closing date: 21 September 2014
Background:
OXFAM is working in more than 90 countries around the world responding to emergencies, working on preparedness and contingency plans for longer term programmes. We have a Response and Resilience Team comprising people with various skills sets who are deployed from their home base to countries where Oxfam is delivering humanitarian programmes. We are looking to recruit a Community Mobiliser to work in our Water , Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion programmes as a member of the RRT. Using anthropological skills the post holder will enable our programmes to be underpinned by a good understanding of communities’ beliefs, behaviours and perceptions, enabling the WASH teams to adapt and/or revise their approaches and interventions and develop appropriate tools and ways of working with communities to enhance community participation and gender equality.
A better understanding of affected communities will play a crucial role in the quality of the response.
About the Role
Oxfam’s RRT Community Mobilisers work closely with engineering colleagues to assess, design , implement and monitor our humanitarian WASH programmes ensuring that communities are encouraged to engage with the WASH hardware provided. Your applied anthropological skills will support field teams to develop community profiles and to better understand cultural norms and community dynamics maximising opportunities for meaningful community participation .
About you
Your experience in anthropology and understanding of public health will ideally encompass emergency and development contexts in different countries. Exposure to a variety of research methodologies and participatory approaches will be helpful. As a result you’ll have a good practical understanding of how to analyse and understand the local socio-cultural determinants and behaviours of different communities. In addition, you’ll have good analytical, needs assessment, capacity planning and report-writing skills and excellent communication skills. Add a relevant post-graduate qualification plus a working level of spoken and written English, and you could soon be making a difference at a country level. One other language such as French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic is desirable..
About Oxfam
With the right support, we can help to stop poverty and suffering. Thousands of people already commit their time and talents to our humanitarian and long-term development projects. Now we’re looking for yours.
How to apply: To find out more about this role and apply, visit www.oxfam.org.uk/jobs searching for ref: INT0824 or click on the link below:
https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/1482/description.