DIMENSIONS:

-Provide overall strategic vision, technical guidance, and operational oversight for the country’s Resilience and Climate Strategy & portfolio/programme management, ensuring alignment with Oxfam’s humanitarian and development goals. Lead the development and implementation of preparedness and contingency plans to respond to conflict, epidemics, other humanitarian crises and transition to development/triple nexus.

-Lead design and technical backstopping of regular needs assessments, program design, and proposal development in coordination with internal and external stakeholders.

-Oversee the technical quality and relevance of Resilience and Climate programmes, including responsibility for ensuring timely, high-quality donor reporting and strong accountability mechanisms to beneficiaries and partners.

-Ensure that gender, protection, safeguarding, and safe programming principles are mainstreamed across Resilience and Climate interventions, contributing to inclusive and ethical humanitarian action.

-Represent Oxfam’s Resilience and Climate programme with national authorities, UN agencies, donors, and coordination platforms. Influence key stakeholders to advance Oxfam’s humanitarian, climate resilient and maintain a strong presence in sectoral discussions and planning.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Due to the extremely fluid context in South Sudan, the responsibilities and working locations for this role are subject to change based on evolving needs. The post-holder must, therefore, maintain flexibility and be prepared to travel widely across South Sudan, as security and access permit.

1.To carry out food security assessments and surveys amongst emergency affected populations to advise on appropriate EFSVL programming. (Proposed interventions should aim to both save lives and protect livelihoods as part of a practical integrated programme).

2.To Lead, develop and provide technical input to the implementation of the Emergency Food security and vulnerable livelihoods programme.

3.Provide regular updates on the overall food security and livelihoods situation, including areas of food access & availability, food aid, market access, coping strategies, livestock and agriculture.

4.Provide on-going food security and livelihood updates to link into any South Sudan programme advocacy strategy and messages on chronic food insecurity and long-term programming.

5.Ensure support to help kick start the intervention through support in developing new proposals(including the budget and log frame) and setting up of implementation and activity plans.

6.Monitor the changing external environment within the programme area as it relates to the extent of cash programme. This can include interventions such as General Food Distribution (targeting, distributions systems ration planning, monitoring) food security monitoring and surveillance, markets and price monitoring, cash-based activities (cash transfers, CFW, vouchers), market-based interventions, agriculture or livestock support.

7.Establish a framework for documenting learning from all the livelihood activities, so as to contribute towards organisational learning within Oxfam GB in a chronically food insecure environment.

8.Produce regular reports and contribute donor final report to the Distribution Manager on food security and livelihoods activities.

9.Ensure effective communication systems are maintained between the food security/livelihoods team and other units’ logistics, finance, WASH within the programme. · Represent Oxfam GB at certain meetings involving local government and sector ministries at state level

10.  Identify and assess the capacity needs of EFSL staff and counterparts involved in the programme, plan and implement capacity building activities. · To carry out training and build the capacity of Oxfam staff and partners in emergency food security and vulnerable livelihoods programming (monitoring, targeting, response analysis, implication of cash-based programming, market analysis, etc.), as an integral part of assignments.

Experience, Knowledge & Competencies

Essential Competencies

-Maximum qualification Bachelor’s degree and minimum Diploma in the following disciplines in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, economics, agribusiness, Horticulture.

- At least 3-years’ experience of working in South Sudan, of which a substantial part should involve recent emergency EFSVL work. This includes proven practical experience in two or more of the following - food security assessments and surveys, agriculture and livestock interventions, cash/vouchers based interventions, general food distribution and targeting as well as an understanding of relief and development issues relating to risks to livelihoods and livelihoods support, food security in natural and conflict related disasters

-Experience of implementing new programmes including planning and execution of plans Experience of training staff and developing staff and partner capacity

-Have good knowledge of Sphere standards, Humanitarian Accountability Principles, and Humanitarian needs assessment

-Strong attention to detail. The ability to present concise reports, sometimes at short notice, reflecting the problems and possible solutions for particular 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 organisational 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 programmes.

-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. Demonstrates commitment and drive and ability to work in stressful and difficult conditions.