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Do you have a qualification in any discipline relating to Public Health Engineering?

Do you have minimum of 5 years’ international experience in emergency WASH in leadership positions with reputed WASH agencies/UN in large scale humanitarian response?

Do you have ability to lead technical working groups and facilitating training/workshop and technical presentations?

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

Job Purpose:

Provide strategic vision, guidance, and technical leadership to Oxfam’s country WASH programme and sector in Yemen. The incumbent will be responsible for strengthening lifesaving rapid response in areas of WASH through strong preparedness & contingency plan for conflict / epidemics while scaling up urban and rural WASH services, including promoting resilience and sustainability in relatively stable context. S/he will lead on the process of regular assessment, program design and fund-raising efforts. The job holder will take the prime responsibility of the technical quality of donor reports and accountability. S/he will work with the WASH Lead in the field to strengthen the capacity of national staff. S/he will ensure that WASH programme mainstreams gender, protection, and promotes safe programming and safeguarding.

Dimensions of the Role:

• Coordinates and delivers agreed plans or strategies over which the job holder has some strategic input.
• Impact and influence of the job is mostly within the job holder’s own programme unit (ie country/region).
• Helps shape local level objectives within in a specific team
• Provides specialist advice or specific skills to their team or programme unit
• Their plans and objectives are developed to contribute to country, region and broader programme strategy and can involve collaboration with other programme units (e.g. other affiliates in-country or colleagues in different country programmes) or departments (e.g. head office).
• Management tasks are complex and non-routine within their specialist unit or function.
• Requires the ability to analyse and communicate complex information to a wide audience.

Key Responsibility: 

Strategic and technical leadership

• Provide strategic and operational management of WASH programs, technical people and funds
• Influences the development/update of Country WASH strategy including contingency planning and ensures and supports operational implementation. Ensure that the strategy is informed by sound analysis, with consultations with teams and concerned stakeholders and are devised in promotion of Oxfam's values, culture and beliefs.
• Lead the actualization/development and endorsement at mission level of the OXFAM WASH sector strategy document.
• Contribute to knowledge building and sharing within Yemen and other Oxfam offices, sectors.
• Ensure that “lessons learned” from the emergency interventions in Yemen is conveyed to the departments to influence future policies and planning.
• Explore and develop strategic partnership with ministries, technical departments and local govt/councils including development of MoUs contributing to quality and scaling up of program
• Liaise with donors and dev partners on WASH technical issues of the program (as required)
• Advocate on programmatic options and link in with policy/advocacy team as required.
• Contribute to HRP/HNOs and WASH cluster strategy, SoPs for cholerae/IDPs/Famine, SAG where appropriate lead TWGs and developing guideline and agreed standards.
• Represent Oxfam at national Coordination and relevant sub-cluster meetings
• Developing innovative wash approaches around recycling, bio-initiatives..etc

Project design and implementation:

• To continuously assess the context, and design/adapt the program and team composition as required by the context, ensuring that operational plans take into consideration risks
• Provide guidance on technical assessment of large water supply schemes, design and implementation in collaboration with water authorities at capital(s) and governorate level.
• Develop guidelines and tools with teams for implementation, ensure compliance with established country policies, guidelines and agreed standards.
• Ensure a high quality, multi-sectoral approach, aiming at reaching minimum SPHERE, CHS, AAP and internal technical standards, with a focus on quality and accountability.
• Promote active participation of Local Partners in the development and implementation of new projects in a process of transferring of responsibilities. Build their capacity in WASH.
• Support the preparation/ inception of projects, including recruitment of key WASH staff and activity planning as required.
• Work closely with Oxfam’s technical team, Civil Society Program, implementing partners and other stakeholders in monitoring needs and identifying opportunities for effective program actions.
• Endeavour to ensure a good working relationship with support functions, preparing supply requisitions, distribution plans, staffing requests, budgets etc in a timely manner
• Proactively ensure that gender equity issues are taken into account in all aspects of Oxfam’s work and encourage mainstreaming of gender into all program aspects by increasing knowledge of the staff, community structures and beneficiary communities through trainings/ awareness raising activities and incorporating gender data in program monitoring and design.
• Ensure that the program is accountable to beneficiaries through promoting their participation, providing them with information about program activities and ensuring that beneficiary feedback is used effectively to adapt the program.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning:

• 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 and support field staff in effective on-going monitoring on project outcomes/impacts, and render technical advice for fine-tuning plans/modalities where required.
• Guide the team in planning and analysis in the baseline, mid-term review and final evaluations.
• Ensure project learning is captured, consolidated and disseminated.
• Incorporate best practices in projects, and guide program staff on sharing strategies, procedures, successes and lessons learnt at national level and if appropriate regional level with appropriate partners and within Oxfam.

Leadership

• Responsible for WASH contribution to Oxfam’s work, representing and developing good relationships with clusters, UN and other agencies, authorities, be proactive in ensuring that Oxfam develops and maintains a positive profile.
• Keep informed of relevant program issues and context and to contribute to wider program learning.
• Work together with the Technical Leads advocating on issues raised by program team
• As and when requested lead on reporting writing and provide updates to WASH cluster
• Actively contribute to disseminate Yemen experience and best practices with the regional office and other MENA countries.

Management

• Be an example of Oxfam style of management and values. Empowering and developing WASH staff, being inclusive while taking decisions and accountable to the team, partners and beneficiaries.
• Update and advice on WASH staffing architecture with transition and succession plan according to program needs and scenario context
• In line with Oxfam performance management procedures, matrix line management of PHE TLs and PHP TLs ensuring that overall performance management is in place and used effectively by the team in Yemen scale program.
• Build a strong team spirit and vision, ensuring that discussions on Oxfam country strategy, project implementation strategies and detailed implementation planning are shared with the team, understood and implemented
• Ensure internal coordination mechanism is in place (regular staff meeting and reporting) and feedback is provided to program managers, HPC and DCD in a timely way.

Risk Management

• Support the team in detailed activity planning, procurement and distribution planning.
• Provide regular, consistently high-quality reports on program and projects by ensuring that proper monitoring is included in all work. This includes donor as well as internal narrative and financial reports
• Maintain contact with authorities, UN and other agencies and ensure that Oxfam complies with relevant legislation and that its activity is understood and publicized.
• Proactively participate in WASH cluster meeting, ensuring issues of concern are advocated for.

Please see more details in the attached Job Profile

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also have:

Essential

• A suitable qualification in any discipline relating to Public Health Engineering is the necessary educational background. Experience could substitute for a formal qualification, but not vice versa.
• A minimum 5 years’ experience in emergency WASH in leadership positions with reputed WASH agencies/UN in large scale humanitarian response.
• Ability to lead technical working groups and facilitating training/workshop and technical presentations.
• Strategic development skills, with the ability to translate concepts easily into practical actions

Desirable

• Good understanding of programmatic application of humanitarian mandate and principles.
• Prior experience in working in a fragile state and leading positions
• Balanced Urban/Rural WASH resilience and experience of CASH/Market base intervention
• Excellent understanding and ability of applying SPHERE, CHS. AAP and Oxfam’s internal min standards/tools.
• Able to influence/negotiate and advocate technical options and strategy to govt, UN, donors and team

We offer:

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.  

Note:

 Oxfam doesn't charge any fees for recruitment and doesn't have any relationship with recruitment agencies in or out Yemen

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منظمة أوكسفام لا تفرض أي رسوم على التوظيف وليس لها اي علاقة مع وكالات التوظيف داخل او خارج اليمن

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 committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. 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.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.