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 saving lives, governance and peace building, education, land rights and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.

We are an international confederation of 19 organizations (affiliates) working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

All our work is led by three core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness. To read more about our values please click here

The Role:

The PHP Officer is responsible for managing, Hygiene focal point teachers, community mobilizers, partner staff and contribute to the promotion of Public Health. The Officer will support WASH (PHE) TL in ensuring successful and smooth running of the interventions. He/She will support implementation of the Public Health Promotion interventions and closely relate with the WASH (PHE) TL, PHP in the location, Programme Manager and Technical Coordinators when instructed

Oxfam South Sudan is looking for 

• Support in the implementation of soft WASH interventions under the project _ Public Health Promotion, Community Engagement and mobilization, awareness raising on Key Public Health risks and behavior change.
• Carry out assessments on the status of existing WASH School and community structure, water utilities to inform and ensure evidence-based interventions.
• Conduct project evaluation and case studies in close consultation with MEA.
• To gather all the available information on targeted population, institutions, offices, and service points that require water for the proposed intervention.
• Undertake WASH-Nutrition sensitization and communication and community engagement interventions
• Contribute to proposal and budget development for specific technical elements.
• Work in close collaboration with other members of the team to ensure an integrated approach to meet the needs of a population (Education, WASH, Protection…).
• Coordinate with other WASH sector actors in designing, implementing, and reporting Public Health Promotion activities
• Work closely with the Public Health Promotion Team throughout the planning, design and implementation stages of the WASH Programme.
• Actively contribute towards planning and proposal writing to provide clear objectives and establish indicators for monitoring and evaluating the programme.
• Ensure that work aims to meet Minimum Standards and adheres to Oxfam’s emergency guidelines and protocols and, enhance the WASH capacity of local partners to increase the resilience of the target communities.
• Support WASH technical coordination and relations with the local authorities, WASH Cluster and other partners.

Programme Implementation

• Prepare PHP activities implementation plans, training and awareness, IEC material templates in close consultation with the technical leads.
• Prepare estimates, cost reports, forecasts, schedules, and monitoring project budget.
• Design, develop plans, supervise, and monitor implementation of the project activities closely with the local partners, local authorities and selected contractors/suppliers.
• Produce realistic work plans, as well as procurement plans for all PHP activities ensuring that deadlines are in line with donor timeframes.
• Ensure that target Communities, water utilities, local authorities and partners are engaged and consulted during the entire project.
• Establish timely and clear logistic requirements for the hygiene and sanitation programme. This may require local purchasing in liaison with the logistics team.
• Ensure that all programme take gender, disabilities, and HIV issues fully into account. This includes the introduction of mechanisms to enable women and less abled people to participate in decision making around sanitation work.
• Ensure that all programme activities are in line with minimum requirement laid out in OGB Minimum requirements for PHP in emergencies and Sphere standards

Reporting, Communications & Coordination:

• Provide regular verbal and written reports to the WASH Team Leader, frequency of such reports to be agreed directly depending upon the nature and scale of emergency.
• Liaise closely with all other officers within the other departments (including PHP and EFSL) to ensure a cohesive and integrated approach is achieved.
• Represent Oxfam in meetings, community consultations and other forum as directed by line manager.

Staff Management

• Provide day to day management of the PHP, casuals where necessary including performance management, recruitment, spacing team leave, and any other HR function involved in team management.
• Assess PHP team capacity level and suggest areas of improvement to the WASH Team Leader who will support in devising clear and concise capacity training schedules accordingly.
• To provide additional support to other humanitarian programme as directed by Programme Manager and Technical Coordinator. This may include capacity building and training in other programme offices and possible field visits on specific technical support and training to local partners.

Other

• Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights

Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles

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 be / have:

• RELEVANT Undergraduate degree qualification in any of the following WASH disciplines: Public/Environmental/Community Health, Community Development.
• At least 3 years of RELEVANT experience as a Public Health Officer working at field level in South Sudan.
• Good assessment, monitoring and evaluating and planning skills to enable programme design and delivery.
• Experience of monitoring budgets.
• Experience of training staff and developing staff and partner capacity
• Good knowledge of Sphere standards, Humanitarian Accountability Principles, and Humanitarian needs assessment.
• Ability to understand complex security situations and adjust operations accordingly.
• Ability and willingness to live and work in conflict and remote field locations under basic conditions.
• Strong attention to detail. The ability to present concise reports, sometimes at short notice, reflecting the problems and possible solutions for situations.
• Proven experience as a team player and demonstrably cooperative with members of other teams, responding flexibly, with speed and accurately to queries and issues
• Diplomacy, good interpersonal and organizational skills, together with the capacity to remain calm under pressure and not lose sight of strategic priorities.
• Self-aware and able to assess own, team and other stakeholders’ abilities and limitations.
• High level of computer literacy especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Commitment to Oxfam’s principles and values of accountability, inclusiveness, and empowerment. This includes demonstrated experience of integrating gender and diversity issues into programme.

Desirable

• Good knowledge of written and spoken English.
• Experience of management/supervisory responsibilities
• Familiar with and abide by the NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures, and other regulatory codes (e.g. Interaction Field Co-operation Protocol).
• Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts.
• Knowledge of local languages is an added value.

Key Attributes

• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities.
• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work.
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who encounter Oxfam are as safe as possible.

Organizational Values

• Accountability – Our purpose-driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable. We believe that others should also be held accountable for their actions
• Empowerment – Our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen
• Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences

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.

Flexfam:

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. 

How to apply:

NB: Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidate will be contacted.

Deadline for submission of applications is 25 April 2025. Interested Applicants should send soft copies of their CVs and Cover letters and copies of academic certificates responding to the Required Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge  to our External Oxfam Link on  https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/jobs/vacancy/php-officer-int11008/23302/description/  And to our Internal Oxfam Link on https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/internal/vacancy/php-officer-int11008/23302/description/ 

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.

Oxfam is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those that are suitable to work within our values are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of screening checks.

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.