JOB DETAILS

LOCATION:  Hanoi, Vietnam, with frequent travel.

CONTRACT TYPE:  fixed-term,  24 months with possible extension

INTERNAL JOB GRADE: D1                                                                 

DEPARTMENT and TEAM: GOAL 2

SALARY:  VND396,956,547 – VND 635,130,475 (annual gross)

HOURS (FTE): FTE 37.5 hours per week

FLEXIBLE WORKING

Full time, and follow OiV’s policy on working hours and working conditions

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE:  To empower citizens and promote responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making.

JOB PURPOSE:

To work directly with Oxfam’s beneficiaries and partners to overcome poverty and suffering; To advocate for policy, knowledge, attitude and practice change to help achieve Oxfam’s strategic change objectives.

Programme Officer is not attached to a single project or to a specific donor, the person should be ready to work for different projects at same or different times. He/she is expected to gain thematic expertise but this does not mean working on one single project or type of projects

ROLE REPORTS TO

Senior Programme Manager

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS POST

None

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

Review and monitor partner’s budgeting and planning

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)

• Contribute to the annual planning and budgeting of the programme.
• Support partners in program/project development and implementation through technical advice on participatory community engagement, develop and maintain relationship with local partners and authorities.
• Contribute to build capacities of partner organizations to conduct participatory analysis and planning.
• Work with partner organizations to assess training needs, develop training curriculum in line with Oxfam and other tested training materials, facilitate training sessions and follow up with impact of the training.
• Contribute to writing programme learning documents, case studies, blogs, video clips and take part in policy advocacy for good practices, lessons, processes of the programme.
• Actively contribute to fundraising activities of the programme.
• Implement and review Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) framework of the programme, and work with partners for conducting baseline surveys, progress monitoring events, producing progress reports and final reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

• University degree/postgraduate, preferably in social science or/and management
• Knowledge of development issues and familiarity with innovative approaches to address the related problems.
• Knowledge of governance issues and participation of people especially marginalized groups in development in related themes, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) from right-based perspectives.
• Sound experience in project management, project MEAL and negotiation with participatory approaches.
• Sound experience in resource management, e.g. finance, assets.
• Practical knowledge and experience of projects design, fund raising, report writing, developing training and IEC materials with experimental learning cycle methodology, advocacy and inter-agency networking and coordination.
• Sound experience in managing and monitoring development projects, including partnership management.
• Good analytical thinking skills and abilities to influence others.
• Good social and intercultural skills.
• Good written and spoken English and Vietnamese.
• Good computer skills (writing and spreadsheet programmes).
• Willingness to travel to remote areas of Vietnam.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam International Secretariat needs to be able to:

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (read more about these here)
• Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of Conduct):

1. Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning, with accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of their identities, such as their gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class, or LGBTQIA identity."

2. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES

ESSENTIAL

• Self-Awareness
• Mutual accountability
• Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity

In addition:

• Result orientation
• Cooperation
• Analysis
• Listening
• Relationship building

Desirable

• Strategic thinking and judgement
• System thinking