Job at Oxfam for a Humanitarian Program Manager in Nigeria
Oxfam is a confederation of 17 Affiliates committed to creating a just
world without poverty. In Nigeria Oxfam works in the areas of Economic
Justice/Sustainable Livelihoods, Humanitarian programming to save lives,
Advancing Gender Justice and Good governance, adopting a right based
approach.
Oxfam is recruiting to fill the vacant position below:
Job Title: Humanitarian Program Manager
Location: Nigeria
Job Purpose
- The Humanitarian Program Manager will provide overall management
and leadership of the Nigeria Humanitarian response, in accordance with
Oxfam standards and in coordination with the technical leads.
- You will be responsible for ensuring the elaboration and
implementation of the response strategy, operational plans and global
budget.
- You will provide a coherent integrated response; financial and
human resources security; an appropriate campaign/advocacy dimension.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Supports the implementation of country humanitarian strategy and
the coordination of periodic operational plans and budgets of the
country and its programs, monitoring progress towards achieving program
objectives - also measures outcome and impact against recognised
indicators.
- Ensures that the response strategy (speed, scale, contextually
appropriated, integrated) is in line with Oxfam's overall strategic
ambitions, external commitments and Oxfam's brand as a lead humanitarian
actor.
- Represents Oxfam to government officials, Consortium, international organisations and NGOS and others stakeholders.
- Ensures staff safety and security procedures are monitored,
updated and implemented. This will include an analysis of the risks and
the threats to staff working on Oxfam programmes.
- Recruits and manages staff in line with Oxfam policies, ensuring
that they have the necessary induction, training and support as
required.
- Contributes and provides leadership to the overall One Oxfam
response, by reinforcing strategies with communication and advocacy.
- Supports and maintains oversight of financial and people resourcing for the Nigeria response
- Participates in regional level response coordination where
necessary, ensuring follow Maintains effective partner grants and
reports monitoring system, ensures adherence to Oxfam policies and
procedures on partner management up of agreed actions and necessary
support from others for Nigeria (e.g. HR, Funding, MEAL, others).
Skills, Experience and Knowledge
Essential:
- First degree in a relevant field
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in similar roles
specifically in managing humanitarian and development programs funded by
different donors.
- Significant leadership and management experience in the
development and delivery of high quality program, influencing and
humanitarian strategy, with and through partners or directly, in one or
more challenging locations. (humanitarian WASH, protection and/or EFSL
programs).
- Experience in leading and motivating multi disciplinary and
partially geographically remote teams; a high degree of self awareness
and an understanding of how to drive and support excellent team
performance and individual development; experience with people
management;
- Experience of managing complex change processes and
relationships involving a wide range of both internal and external
multi-cultural stakeholders;
- Good interpersonal, influencing, diplomacy negotiating skills.
- Commitment to equal opportunity and gender policies; sensitivity
to cultural differences, and the ability to work in a wide variety of
cultural contexts.
- Commitment to Oxfam's overall aims and policies and experience
of promoting women’s rights and the interests of marginalized people in
all aspects of Oxfam’s work.
- Knowledge or appreciation of Nigeria in terms of its political,
economic and social trends plus a good understanding of the key
development and humanitarian issues in the region.
- Ability to travel to remote programmatic sites within the country.
- A high degree of self awareness and an understanding of how to
drive and support excellent team performance and individual development
in line with Oxfam's values and policies.
- Proven track record of leading and motivating multi
disciplinary, geographically remote teams and operations across a number
of locations.
- Good knowledge of developing and implementing monitoring systems
to track the effectiveness of programs and an ability to build
cooperative, professional relationships with donors, partners and peer
organisations.
- Excellent personal communication skills, in written and verbal English.
Desirable:
- Experience in managing funded projects and proven ability to
write proposals and reports to main humanitarian donors (ECHO, DFID,
OFDA, etc.)
Competencies:
- Self Awareness
- Relationship building
- Decisiveness
- Vision Setting
- Agility, complexity and ambiguity
Salary
A competitive and fair pay and benefits package that is justifiable to our donors.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Application Deadline 1st February, 2017.