Partnership and local Humanitarian Leadership humanitarian support personnel.

Job posted by: Oxfam GB - UK - Tue, 26 Mar 2019

Job Details:

Organisation: Oxfam GB - UK

Deadline Mon, 15 Apr 2019

Job type: Contract

Location:

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Do you have experience in humanitarian programmes?

 Do you have experience in supporting programme strategy, operational design, humanitarian preparedness and response? 

Can you work away from your home base between a few weeks to 6 months at a time? 

If the answer is yes, then would like to hear from you

The Role

Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team is looking for a Partnership and Local Humanitarian Leadership Humanitarian Support Personnel (HSP) to be accountable for ensuring that equitable partnering and community participation shapes humanitarian programme decisions. By actively enabling and supporting partneship led approaches, following feminist principles, and including strong awareness of power dynamics this role will contribute to transforming and improving the quality of Oxfam’s and partners humanitarian responses.

What we are looking for

We are looking for someone to join our team, to respond effectively and rapidly to major emergencies anywhere in the world, and enable communities to become more resilient to future shocks and stresses. As a Humanitarian Support Personnel (HSP) you will be a member of a large, dynamic, experienced, multi-sector team of first-class specialists. The team spans a variety of technical humanitarian fields including emergency food security and vulnerable livelihoods (EFSVL), WASH, Protection, Gender, Policy, MEAL (monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning) and support roles including ICT, logistics, and finance. HSPs are deployed from their home base to a variety of roles in regional and country programmes from a few weeks to up to approximately 6 months.

We offer

This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference in humanitarian disaster management, to act as key contributor to the Global Humanitarian team's purpose, and to work with a group of passionate people that are specialists in their fields. Oxfam offers regular training and development, fair pay and a competitive benefits package.

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 promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. 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.

 

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

 

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

 

How to apply:

Please use the link below: 

https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/10387/description

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. 

About us

 

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on issues like land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.

 

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 19 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 



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