Zimbabwe Jobs: Oxfam, El Nino Emergency Water Sanitation and Health (WASH) Coordinator

El Nino Emergency Water Sanitation and Health (WASH) Coordinator (Southern Africa Region)

Annual Salary and Benefits – According to Oxfam in Zimbabwe terms

Internal Job Grade – C1

Contract type – Fixed term to April 2017 with possible extension

Reporting to – Regional Humanitarian Manager

Staff reporting to this post – None

Locations – Harare Zimbabwe and to cover Southern Africa (SAF) countries

Annual Budget – 17,5 M Drought response

 

Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty.

Team Purpose

To support the Regional Humanitarian Strategy and the El Nino Emergency Programme.

Job Purpose – Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Support countries and the region respond to category crisis 2- WASH issues
  1. Support the delivery of effective, high quality humanitarian programmes in WASH in line with Oxfam’s vision for humanitarian preparedness and response.
  2. Ensure that programme design and implementation is consistent with Oxfam’s WASH quality and accountability standards, emergency guidelines and protocols, the Core Humanitarian Standard and that work meets Sphere Standards and other external quality commitments;
  3. Finalise the regional humanitarian WASH strategy and support country level WASH strategy development
  4. To carry out Water and Sanitation assessments and identification of actions to cover WASH needs in order to provide an efficient and rapid humanitarian response.
  5. Provide technical guidance and oversight of the WASH component during proposal development and during the operations by countries ensuring Oxfam standards and quality.
  6. To evaluate Public Health risks related to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene practices and assess emergency needs, as requested, especially taking in the broader perspective of WASH.
  7. To where possible, ensure designs incorporate sustainability and cost effectiveness
  8. To write country WASH Strategies, programme proposals and concise reports.

 

• To support country teams to build their humanitarian capacity
  1. Identify capacity needs of partners and/or country programme staff and develop training, capacity building activities to meet their needs develop (or adapt existing) guidelines and training materials;
  2. Establish clear objectives with teams and individuals and monitor progress and performance;
  3. Establish agreed ways of working at a distance with partners and staff;
  4. Foster collaborative, transparent, and accountable relationships with partners and country programme staff;
  5. Use negotiation and conflict resolution skills to support positive outcomes;
  6. Build the capacity of local staff, partners and local authorities e.g. Public Health promotion, Water point management and maintenance.;
  7. Bring longer term staff and different teams together at country level to ensure integration of development and humanitarian approaches.

 

• To be the focal person and coordinate the representation of Oxfam in WASH processes at Regional level through;
  1. Participating in WASH processes at regional level platforms that include but are not limited to the Regional Inter Agency Standing Committee (RIASCO), and regional level vulnerability assessment
  2. Leading Joint Cholera Initiative Southern Africa (JCISA) as Oxfam’s focal person and working with UNICEF and other partners. Ensuring Oxfam WASH teams in SAF participate and contribute to the initiative where appropriate.
  3. To track WASH humanitarian information, learning and knowledge developed in responses and ensure these are actively shared at country and regional level reaffirming Oxfam’s position as a humanitarian WASH player.
  4. Promote collaborative working relationships with key WASH and humanitarian stakeholders in region and countries.
  5. Influence and inform Oxfam media, communications, fundraising, advocacy, policy and campaigning work;
  6. Support country and regional level advocacy work that is coherent with, and informs, Oxfam’s global advocacy work on hunger and food crises to promote good policy and practice;
  7. Raise understanding within Oxfam of WaSH work, especially with regard to innovative practices;

 

• To track humanitarian information, learning and knowledge developed in responses and ensure these are actively shared internally and externally.
  1. Identify learning from country programmes by conducting reviews, monitoring and evaluation, capture the programme learning;
  2. Ensure that learning from programmes is integrated into global programme policy and guidance;
  3. In collaboration with the MEAL Coordinator, develop MEAL systems for WaSH; assess and report on Oxfam’s progress against achieving standards.

 

• To lead the delivery of Oxfam’s humanitarian strategy
  1. Support the delivery of effective, high quality humanitarian programmes in WasH in line with Oxfam’s vision for humanitarian preparedness and response.
  2. Ensure that programme design and implementation is consistent with Oxfam’s WaSH quality and accountability standards, emergency guidelines and protocols, the Core Humanitarian Standard and that work meets Sphere Standards and other external quality commitments;
  3. Promote collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders in region and countries.
  4. Promote integrated, gender and protection aware humanitarian responses which demonstrate accountability to beneficiaries and are consistent with Oxfam policies and international quality standards;
  5. Support the development and implementation of country and/or regional WaSH programme strategy.

Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge

• Master’s Degree or higher, or equivalent technical experience and training in Water Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion (WASH)
• At least 5 – 7 years’ experience of leading WASH programmes in both emergency and development contexts
• Experience of assessing and responding to emergencies, particularly slow onset emergencies.
• The ability to support the development of high quality proposals, and represent the organisation to external donors
• Experience of supporting and advising teams from a distance
• Fluent written and spoken English; other languages of the region are highly desirable, in particular Portuguese

Key Behavioural Competencies

(based on Oxfam’s Leadership Model)

Competencies and Description

Decisiveness: We are comfortable to make transparent decisions and to adapt decision making modes to the context and needs.

Influencing: We have the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organisation We spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities we have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner.

Humility: We put ‘we’ before ‘me’ and place an emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team and play to the strengths of each individual. We are not concerned with hierarchical power, and we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of others across all levels of the organization.

Relationship Building: We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organization. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organisation.

Listening: We are good listeners who can see where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions differ. Our messages to others are clear, and consider different preferences.

Mutual Accountability: We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organizational values. We are ready to be held to account for what we do and how we behave, as we are also holding others to account in a consistent manner.

Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity: We scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways.

Systems Thinking: We view problems as parts of an overall system and in their relation to the whole system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome or event in isolation. We focus on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing systems thinking we are aware of and manage well unintended consequences of organisational decisions and actions.

Strategic Thinking and Judgment: We use judgment, weighing risk against the imperative to act. We make decisions consistent with organizational strategies and values.

Vision Setting: We have the ability to identify and lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organization and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organization anddiverse external stakeholders.

Self-Awareness: We are able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviors to control and channel our impulses for good purposes.

Enabling: We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organizations goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job. We provide freedom; demonstrate belief and trust provide appropriate support. We give more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support.

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