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JOB TITLE: Livelihoods and Food Security Advisor
DIVISION / DEPARTMENT / LOCATION: International/ MECIS/ Yemen
JOB FAMILY: Programme Advisory
LEVEL: C1
Closing date: February 19 , 2015
OXFAM PURPOSE: To work with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering
JOB PURPOSE:
To facilitate quality, gender-sensitive, accountable, and impact-focus interventions on livelihoods and food security in Yemen. This includes provision of technical advice, capacity building of staff and partners, as well as influencing policy and practice through research, analysis and advocacy and building resilience by linking to longer term programming
REPORTING LINES: Post holder reports to: Head of Program Advisory Team (HoPAT).
Staff reporting to this post: EFSL Manager [as well as technically matrix managing EFSL staff in Hodeidah and Haradh field offices]
Technical support is provided from Oxfam House EFSVL Global Adviser
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: Budget monitoring as requested by HoPAT
DIMENSIONS:
• Contribute to the development of long-term vision and strategic planning to achieve significant impact, especially for vulnerable women and men
• Capacity building for staff and partners
• Support assessments of food security situation, designing, implementing and scaling up of Food Security and Livelihoods programmes, as well as market-based economic development initiatives.
• Link short to long term programming and planning, including contribution of contingency planning and ensuring participation of development colleagues.
• Monitor the food security outlook in Yemen and provide clear periodic analysis on the impact and the implications for Oxfam programming
• Develop/adapt technical guidelines and tools for programme use and roll out amongst staff
• Contribute to contingency planning, and support Yemen office in monitoring forecasts and capable for responding to emergencies/crisis
• Ensure programme quality throughout the programme cycle by providing technical support to teams and ensure proper reporting and accountability to beneficiaries and donors
• Facilitate integration of emergency food security and livelihoods interventions with other sectoral and cross-cutting teams under the resilience/risk reduction framework
• Work with other teams in lobbing, advocacy, campaigning and fundraising efforts on related issues, so as to impact on external policy and practice of concerned stakeholders
• Represent Oxfam in concerned technical fora and manage external relationships as appropriate
• Provide specialist advice to HoPAT, Head of Programmes, and other teams to ensure that development & humanitarian programmes/projects are adequately informed from varied and diverse relevant sources to provide in-depth analysis
• Continuously liaise with key management staff to ensure the realisation of the one programme approach.
• Matrix manage related field staff
BACKGROUND:
Yemen is a fragile state and one of the poorest countries in the Middle East; with more than half of the population living below the poverty line – where majority are female-headed households and/or families with a large number of female members. For prolonged period, Yemen has suffered from severe food crisis, repeated internal violent conflicts resulting in disruption of services, lack of security and a large number of IDPs as well as political/economic turmoil.
In 2014, Yemen was ranked as the one of the most food-insecure country globally. 37% of Yemeni are living under poverty (less than USD2 per day), 41% of the population cannot meet their needs for food, together with a national general acute malnutrition (GAM) rate of 12.7%. For details, please refer to 2015 Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview (OCHA) .
With the above external context in mind, Oxfam GB's work in Yemen is along a spectrum that includes humanitarian intervention, longer-term resilience/development work, as well as local and national advocacy for the vulnerable groups. To maximise benefits for poor and marginalised people in Yemen, we seek to integrate these components into a 'one programme approach', with women’s rights and justice for women being at the heart of Oxfam’s work in Yemen. Across all programmes, Oxfam seeks to ensure that women and men are involved in decision-making processes, are able to voice their issues and advocate for their rights.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The responsibilities of the job holder include:
1. Strategic planning and coordination
• Responsible for designing strategies on livelihoods and emergency food security for immediate response and recovery, integrated with other country themes for enhancing community resilience - WASH, livelihoods, DRR, social protection (focus on capacity building and advocacy to Social Welfare Fund, in collaboration with other teams and gender/protection)
• Ensure that the strategy is informed by sound analysis, with consultations with teams and concerned stakeholders
• Ensure programmes strategies are devised in promotion of Oxfam's values, culture and beliefs
• Provide strategic advisory support, linking up with CALP, Humanitarian Dept, and other country programmes undertaking cash/nutrition/social protection programming,
• Explore and develop strategic partners contributing to quality and scaling up of programmes
• Represent Oxfam GB in technical fora in Yemen, such as nutrition cluster, food security cluster as well as the Cash Voucher Working Group.
• Co-facilitate the Cash Voucher Working Group with FAO, and to promote sharing of best practices.
• With the coordination platform in Yemen, contribute to enhanced knowledge/practice to cash transfer programming and market based interventions across humanitarian community as well as local government in Yemen
2. Support project design and implementation
• Ensure alignment with the ‘one programme approach' and linkages with humanitarian programmes, communications, policy, and advocacy.
• Work with Oxfam’s partners and other stakeholders in monitoring needs and identifying opportunities for effective programme actions.
• Provide technical support in designing appropriate livelihoods and emergency food security projects for the emergency and recovery, ensuring gender mainstreaming and linkages with other interventions.
• Support the preparation/ inception of projects, including recruitment of key EFSL staff and activity planning as required
• Guide the teams in developing systematic tools for day-to-day implementation, and also to ensure compliance with established guidelines and standards,
• Develop/share guidelines on cash and voucher, EMMA, as well as other modalities set up by the Cash Working Group.
• Share best practices such as integrating gender in cash programming
• Together with the WASH team to develop specific nutrition messaging which can be incorporated into public health promotion
• Endeavour to ensure a good working relationship with support functions.
3. Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, reporting
• Provide technical support on developing new MEAL tools to be used by the team to ensure that relevant information is being collected to inform strategy and implementation, and to ensure accountability and learning
• Guide field staff in effective monitoring on project outcomes/impacts, and render advice for fine-tuning plans where required
• Guide on technical standards in operation reports (internal/ for donors)
• Guide the team in planning and analysis in the baseline, mid-term review and final evaluations
• Ensure project learning is captured, consolidated and disseminated
• When required facilitate learning across humanitarian agencies working on cash/nutrition programming
• Consolidate learning from market mapping exercises conducted recently
• Contribute to knowledge building and sharing good practices within Yemen, Headquarters and other offices, and globally
• Ensure that “lessons learned” from the emergency/recovery interventions in Yemen are conveyed to wider team to influence future policies and planning
4. Staff management, Capacity building & coaching
• Together with the EFSL Team Leaders (TL) and Humanitarian Officer, carry out capacity assessment on staff and partners. Based on findings, develop a capacity building plan
• Facilitate capacity building and training for team members and our partners (including Social Welfare Fund) on topics like cash, market assessments, etc
• Coach and support field staff on quality and gender-sensitive programming
• Technically matrix management of EFSL Team leaders in field offices
• In line with Oxfam’s performance management processes, line manage EFSL manager, ensuring that the post holder has clear workplan, objectives as well as learning and development objectives
• Disseminating Oxfam SOPs in cash, market assessments, etc.
5. Contribute to advocacy
• To advocate, together with Resilience Advisor and other teams, for pro-poor and gender-sensitive policy and practice in areas of food security and vulnerable livelihoods in Yemen, through research, case studies, lobbying, capacity building, etc
• To contribute to quality and accountable practice in emergency response, recovery and development interventions among the humanitarian community in Yemen
6. Emergency preparedness and response
• In coordination with other TLs and Roving PM, design and develop assessment formats and tools for rapid response
• Design and develop training package for cash programming to partners during emergency response – taking into consideration the entire project cycle as well as standards (SPHERE, HAP etc)
7. Take on other duties related to Oxfam's programme as required by the HoPAT/CMT
SKILLS AND COMPETENCE:
Essential
• University degree in relevant areas: social sciences, nutrition, rural development, agriculture, etc; master’s qualification in related area an advantage
• At least 5 years experience on emergency food security/vulnerable livelihoods in complex emergencies and/or fragile states
• Solid experience in cash/voucher-transfer, nutrition and social protection programming.
• Experience in community based and participatory programme planning approaches, such as GALS and GEM, with particular emphasis on women economic leadership and community collective action
• Familiar with conducting EMMA with some basic understanding of Value Chain Analysis
• Experience of applying analytical principles that structure household economic analysis and livelihoods approach
• Demonstrable experience of integrating gender and diversity into programme strategies
• Experience of right-based approaches to development and understanding of and commitment to Oxfam's “one programme approach”
• Good understanding of key technical standards (SPHERE, HAP, gender mainstreaming, etc)
• Demonstrate ability in thinking creatively and practically to improve the quality of projects
• Demonstrate ability in conceptual, analytical and critical thinking with the ability to develop strategies
• Strong commitment to accountability, social justice, promoting gender awareness and equality
• Strong project management and planning skills: assessments (PRA/PCVA), design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation; with good skills in managing related data analysis Strong capacity building, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Strong capacity in influencing and liaison with a range of stakeholders and represent in high profile environments
• Strong coordination and communication abilities in a diversity of cultural contexts
• Conversant in proposal writing with effective communication skills including fluency (speaking and writing) in English
• Readiness for field travelling up to 50% of the time
Desirable
• Working experience in Yemen/Middle East context
• Experience in market-based programming
Application Process
If you believe that you have the qualifications and skills to excel in this position, please send a copy of your CV and a cover letter, clearly stating the job you are applying for and the location of the job in the email subject, to yemenjobs@oxfam.org.uk
آخر موعد للتقديم : 19 فبراير 2015م.
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