JOB DETAILS

LOCATION: < Gaza Strip >

CONTRACT TYPE: <Fixed Term >

JOB FAMILY: Programs

ONE OXFAM GRADE:  E1

DEPARTMENT                                                                    

TEAM:  Gaza Response – Protection Program  

SALARY:  66,239 ILS per annum

HOURS: Full time – 40 hours a week

FLEXIBLE WORKING

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. We think this role would work particularly well as a fully Office-based

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

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

TEAM PURPOSE: 

To ensure that people living in poverty in the Gaza Strip are able to exercise their rights to be healthy, educated and secure, with access to essential services including during times of crises and emergencies.

To act with partners and the community as a force for change in addressing the humanitarian causes and alleviating their symptoms and timely responding to emergencies and crises on different scales and magnitudes.

To ensure that Oxfam systems and procedures are in place, in accordance with local laws, to provide the required support to the country programme.

JOB PURPOSE:

As part of Oxfam’s Gaza response, this role will contribute to achieving the objectives of the Protection Program. It will involve coordinating with partners in the field to implement protection activities, as well as supporting the delivery of protection services and related research efforts.

JOB REPORTS TO

Protection Senior Officer

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS JOB

NA

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

NA

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE

Gaza

IMPACT

Internally & Externally focussed 

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

Partners, Beneficiaries and Clusters 

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

Project implementation [Field Focus] (60%)

• Provide day to day support and supervision to protection projects assigned under her/his responsibility.
• Contributes to protection monitoring and analysis with regular gathering and documentation of protection risks and timely feedback about protection incidents faced by affected populations through regular field visits, consultation with partners staff and target communities (including through key informant interviews, focus group discussions).
• Participates in developing and regularly updating the mapping of protection services in the areas of intervention in coordination with partners and other actors and liaising with service provides.
• Ensures widespread dissemination of updated and reliable information about services and referral systems available.
• Conducts assessment to identify vulnerable and at-risk individuals and families for assistance according to pre-defined criteria, including for determining eligibility for emergency cash assistance (ECA) for protection.
• Maintains regular contact and communication with community-based structures to understand the protection risks faced by affected communities, their copying mechanisms and identify in consultation with them possible solutions and recommendations to the response.
• Prepares written protection updates for Oxfam situation reports based on field monitoring and visits.
• Support the set-up of a data management system to monitor and keep track records of case referrals through Oxfam programs, ensuring responsible data management.
• Other responsibilities may be given by the Senior Protection Officer, Protection Support Officer and the CASH and Protection Coordinator as necessary.

Capacity Building of Staff and Partners (20%)

• Support Protection Support Officer in preparation and delivering of training, capacity-building, and technical support to partners, Oxfam staff, community-based protection structures and key stakeholders to ensure Oxfam’s approach to protection is implemented effectively and in line with key standards and principles.

MEAL Practice (20%)

• Contributes to the collection of protection information for multi-sectoral assessments, in coordination with the MEAL team to ensure that relevant information about protection concerns is collected to inform the response.
• Support the review and development of data collection and analysis tools to ensure reflecting protection considerations.
• Supports and coordinates with MEAL team for baseline survey, post-distribution and other monitoring activities.

General

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

Key Attributes:

• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work.
•  Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.

Job Dimensions

• Most tasks well defined within objectives set by the manager and include some routine reactive work in response to requests.
• Work patterns are mainly routine.
• Problems may vary but do not always need upward referral.
• Reactive work requires common sense to make judgments about basic adjustments to the jobholder’s own routine but also contributes to improvement of the programme or country’s services, procedures and systems.
• Some supervision of volunteers / other employees / small projects/processes.
• Job holder draws from a number of information sources to inform individual and group decisions.
• Communicates widely within the programme unit, with some wider contacts within the affiliate or with other Oxfams in-country and/or external contacts.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Most importantly, every individual in Oxfam 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

 Essential

• A university degree in social or political science, international relations, law or related fields, with a focus on humanitarian related fields or/and international human rights.
• Minimum of three years of professional experience in the area of protection/promotion of human rights, women’s and children’s, and/or rights under international humanitarian law and related areas
• Previous work experience -specifically in complex political and security environments; emergencies, preferably with international NGOs.
• Experience of community-based or community mobilisation work in a humanitarian context.
• Experience in the collection, analysis and interpretation of protection related information, including data base management tools.
• Proven ability to build effective, constructive working relationships with other agencies and national authorities and service providers.
• Good understanding of protection issues in Gaza.
• Good levels of spoken and written English and Arabic
• Commitment to a rights-based approach, and protection
• Proven analytical skills
• Understanding of monitoring processes, learning, adaptation and evaluation.
• Ability to work in multi-cultural team
• Willingness to work in insecure environments and a high level of adaptability and initiative

Desirable

• Knowledge of other sectors – CASH, WASH, food security, livelihoods, policy and advocacy.
• Experience in sensitive data ethics and management.