Food Security & Livelihood Field Officer

JOB DETAILS

LOCATION: < Gaza Strip >

CONTRACT TYPE: <Fixed Term > 6 months (Renewable based on funds)

JOB FAMILY: Programs

ONE OXFAM GRADE: E1     

DEPARTMENT:                                               

TEAM: Gaza Response Program – EFSVL program team

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 that might work for you. We think this role would work particularly well as a fully office-based one.

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.
• To act with partners and the community as a force for change in addressing humanitarian causes and alleviating their symptoms.
• 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:

Oxfam FSL Field officer will be the interface of Oxfam and its partners and suppliers with the community in implementing FSL interventions. He/she will manage and oversee field activities, including how the people we serve access assistance safely, dignifiedly, and timely. The FSL field officer is expected to coordinate with partner teams, suppliers, and cash actors as needed. Ensuring that projects follow their specific plans, they are expected to provide timely reporting when issues in the field arise and bring to attention risks and new needs as they arise.

JOB REPORTS TO

EFSVL Lead

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS JOB

NA

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

NA

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE

Gaza

IMPACT

Internally focussed

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

Partners – Beneficiaries – suppliers/ Vendors – Consultants

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

Project implementation and Delivery of Activities: (50 %)

• Day to day follow-up of the project implementation plan.
• Document daily/Weekly activities as requested and as needed.
• Identify issues requiring action for project management.
• Implement MEAL plan in accordance with agreed MEAL activities in coordination with Oxfam MEAL department and with the partner and or in direct implementation with the project team and related service providers/vendors

Partner Management and MEAL (25%)

• Ensure community awareness and accountability to the affected population is carried out by Oxfam and or by the partner in accordance with Oxfam's safe programming guidance
• Follow up feedback mechanisms embedded in the projects and manage responses in cooperation with MEAL team.
• Identify any community concerns and risks to project managers and FSL lead as they arise.
• Carry out community awareness, project orientation sessions, and distribution of project information, such as redemption of vouchers.
• Coordinate day to day activities with suppliers and service providers – such as traders, shops, others as relevant.

Support Needs assessments and other field surveys: (25%)

• Plan and lead enumerators and carry out field surveys with affected houses based on the assigned methodology.
• Provide feedback on piloted questionnaire to best adapt to culture, gender, and community context sensitivities.
• Manage data collected from the field and provide timely reports and sheets to project managers.

General

• Eager and required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values (click here) as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights (click here).
• • Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles.

Key Attributes:

• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities.
• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/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:

• Works systematically and with limited supervision.
• Shows evidence of proficient time management and organisational skills.
• Reliable team member.
• Assumes responsibility for the work of contractors/staff.
• Fast, efficient, and accurate.
• Fully capable of performing all aspects of job.

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

• Bachelor or Diploma degree in social science, or any other relevant studies.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in Agriculture projects, Assistance modalities in emergencies and in humanitarian programming, preferably in an international or local NGO, in similar role/with similar responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience in applying feedback mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple needs of affected population.
• Experience with cash actors – including using different mechanisms of cash.
• Working with local communities, local groups, women groups, and community leaders
• Experience in field reporting.
• Experiencing in managing conflict in community and managing tension between people we serve and partners/suppliers/vendors.
• Strong communication skills,
• Problem solving skills.
• Ability to act in emergency and be proactive.
• Sensitive to culture, and context

DESIRABLE:

• CVA Training
• Have a good understanding of vulnerability and how to conduct vulnerability assessments.
• Excellent command over written and spoken English and Arabic

SAFER RECRUITMENT

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct, and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us. Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.