Global Emergency Food Security & Vulnerable Livelihoods Advisor (Market – Key Countries)

Job posted by: Oxfam GB - UK - Mon, 18 Aug 2014

Job Details:

Organisation: Oxfam GB - UK

Deadline Mon, 1 Sep 2014

Job type: Contract

Location: United Kingdom

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This position is providing maternity leave cover from 27th October through to 30 April

 

There are many solutions to food crises. So it’s vital that our work is based on a good understanding of the causes of each crisis. Around the world, we have dedicated teams focused on meeting the immediate food needs of local people and helping them to protect, recover and diversify their livelihoods. And coordinating their efforts, offering strategic direction and technical advice on how to boost their emergency preparedness is the Emergency Food Security & Vulnerable Livelihoods (EFSVL) team based in Oxford.

 

About the role

As a key member of this team, you’ll have a big part to play in implementing and further developing our EFSVL strategy. The key focus of this role is to support key countries and lead Oxfam’s work in market analysis and markets based programmes in emergencies.

You’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting 4-5 countries that face either protracted crises and/or are prone to shocks such as floods and disasters. You will help with country programme strategy and contingency plans along with providing technical advice on EFSVL to the key country teams. Critically this role will focus on strategy development, programme policy and advocacy on emergency markets based work, ensuring there is a strategy and work plan for EFSVL markets based work embedded in confederation, global, regional and national EFSVL plans.

You will also be required to support rapid scale-up of key country emergency responses (staying up to 6 weeks in the field) and there will be an element of identifying funding opportunities for the EFSVL team.

 

 

About you

Your wide-ranging knowledge and practical experience of EFSVL work should extend to everything from initial assessment to targeting and response analysis. You will have excellent analytical and critical thinking abilities with a postgraduate qualification in a field related to work on markets in emergencies.

Just as important as your specific EFSVL knowledge, however, will be the personal and professional capabilities you bring to the role. Excellent strategic planning and organisational skills are a must, as are influential leadership skills and a diplomatic approach. From a practical standpoint, you must be prepared for to travel to the field for up to a maximum of 12 weeks per year (pro rata) and have the ability to travel with 48 hours notice. In addition this might include a block of up to 6 weeks (pro rata), continuous, in extremis, not more than once a year.  And if you’re proficient in either Spanish, French or Arabic, so much the better. 

 

About Oxfam

A simple, inescapable truth underlines everything we do at Oxfam. There’s enough wealth in this world to go around. It’s not unfortunate that people live in poverty. It’s unjustifiable. It’s not their problem. It’s ours too. And with the right support, we can beat poverty and injustice. Thousands of people already commit their time and talents to our campaigning, humanitarian and long-term development projects. Now we’re looking for yours.

 

For more information and to apply, visit jobs.oxfam.org.uk quoting reference INT0788



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