Based: Hargeisa, Somaliland with travel within Somalia and
to Nairobi
One year fulltime with extension
possibility
Oxfam is looking for an outstanding individual who can provide technical
leadership and guidance in CBDRM to successfully support Somalia Resilience
Programme (SomReP) Consortium in promoting resilient households and communities
in Somalia.The Role:
- Provide strategic technical leadership in
developing SomReP best practice modules and implementation plans;
- Capacity building in CBDRM approach,
supporting innovation and learning between members;
- Initiate and promote research;
- Development of CBDRM related policy and
advocacy positions;
- Technical support in developing program
designs & proposals, M&E and project planning tools;
- Sharing of evaluation results with partners for
project redesign;
- Technical support and quality control in
project implementation;
- Develop and maintain partnerships,
coordination and harmonization of approaches with CBDRM stakeholders.
The Person:
- Bachelor’s degree in development studies,
economics, social sciences or related degree.
- Master’s degree in livelihoods or social
enterprise highly desirable;
- Five years minimum technical experience, in a
senior capacity, on food security and CBDRM programming in Horn of Africa-
Somalia experience preferred;
- Consortium, coalition or partnership working
experience highly desired;
- Proven ability to facilitate learning
&innovation and establishing effective working relations with multiple
stakeholders;
- Written and spoken English proficiency is
critical- proficiency in Somali desired;
- Strong proven experience and technical
capacity in monitoring, evaluation and measuring of impact of livelihoods
and/or resilience programming in Somalia context.
Project Officer - Resilience
Based: Hargeisa, Somaliland
One year fulltime with extension
possibility
Oxfam is looking for an outstanding
individual who can effectively and efficiently coordinate, facilitate planning,
implementation and monitoring of a resilience project targeting IDPs,
agropastoral and peri-urban populations in south central Somalia.
The Role:
- Provide technical input for design of
programme(s) and identify credible civil society organizations to partner
with in project implementation;
- Coordinate planning, implementation and
monitoring of programme activities;
- Deliver project results within time, budget,
quality, scope, risk and benefit constraints;
- Identifying potential risks and establishing
processes to address these risks;
- Provide technical support to partners in
implementation of activities and facilitate for external technical
support;
- Ensure narrative and financial reporting and
other donor reporting requirements are met;
- Prepare stories and materials for external
communication on the programme(s);
- Ensure (digital) archiving of project
activities;
- Assist in drafting country specific programme
proposals;
- Collect and present information for ON
management and planning cycle.
The Person:
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in development
studies, economics, social sciences or related degree;
- Two years minimum experience in food security,
community based disaster risk management and/or resilience projects in
Horn of Africa-preferably with Somalia experience;
- Good interpersonal and communication
skills;
- Written and spoken English proficiency is
critical proficiency in Somali desired;
- Technical capacity in monitoring and
evaluation of development projects in food security and
livelihood/resilience sector.
How to Apply:
If you have an exceptional
understanding of resilience projects, can work in Somalia-based environment,
with frequent travel to other Locations within Somalia and a passion for
achieving changes for the good, this is the perfect job for you.
Submit your application and detailing
how your experience prepares you for the post to somaliajobs@oxfam.org.uk
The closing date: 2nd September 2015.
We are committed to ensuring
diversity and gender equality within our organization.