Humanitarian Support Personnel – Food and Economic Security

The Role:

What is a Humanitarian Support Personnel (HSP)?

The Humanitarian Support Personnel (HSP) Team comprises of technical humanitarian experts from various fields across the globe who bring their skills and experience to Oxfam’s country teams to help them respond to conflicts and natural disasters.

HSPs are globally roving and work away from their home base continuously. Typically, they are deployed to a particular location from a few weeks up to six months’ duration per assignment. HSPs could expect to be deployed to country programmes up to nine months a year (pro-rata for part-time posts). Our current emergency programmes are in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.

When not deployed (or on annual leave), HSPs may be assigned project / proactive work. It may be possible to undertake such work from home or an Oxfam office, depending on circumstances.

What will you be doing as an HSP Food and Economic Security (FES)?

The prime purpose of this role will be to enable communities and people in crisis to cover their basic needs, including food, and to strengthen resilience to future crisis. Oxfam believes this can be achieved by facilitating the access of all members of society to financial support (cash), livelihoods, social protection, market, and economic opportunities.

This role will be responsible for scaling up cash and voucher assistance programming, providing technical leadership of vulnerable livelihoods and social protection interventions and ensuring strong and coherent work with existing markets in emergency humanitarian responses.

Key responsibilities:

Management

people, budgets, assets, projects and decision making

• Support the delivery of effective, high quality humanitarian programmes in line with Oxfam’s vision for humanitarian preparedness and response. Providing practical advice and support to key programme staff to implement programmes into effective adapted humanitarian programming, campaigning, recovery development adapted to specific contexts and supporting an enabling organisational environment.
• Provide support to the design and implementation of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) operations by working closely with the response team (EFSVL, WASH, Protection, Gender, logistics, finance and ICT). This may include the design of sectoral-specific or multi-purpose cash programs.
• Ensure that programme design and implementation is consistent with Oxfam’s humanitarian quality and accountability standards, emergency guidelines and protocols, the Core Humanitarian Standard and that work meets Sphere Standards and other external quality commitments.

Analysis and Problem Solving

information, complexity, creativity and forward planning

• Support and contribute to the development or adaptation of tools and templates to support the management and implementation interventions.
• Identify learning from country programmes by conducting reviews, monitoring and evaluation, capture the programme learning.
• Ensure that learning from programmes is integrated into global programme policy and guidance.

Impact

contacts, communication, advice, and consequences

• Support country and regional level advocacy work that is coherent with, and informs, Oxfam’s global advocacy work on hunger, food crises, Food & Economic Security, CVA, and social protection to promote good policy and practice in the humanitarian system.
• Advocate and influence key stakeholders at national/regional level on appropriate responses including making the case for cash and market-support when relevant.
• Raise understanding within Oxfam our work, especially with regard to innovative practices.

Other

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

What we are looking for:

An ideal candidate for the role will should have:

• Knowledge of and demonstrated commitment to Oxfam’s values, mission and work
• Experience in basic market food security, livelihoods and CVA assessments for example HEA, EMMA, PCMMA and/or similar. Experience in design and implementation of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programmes and EFSVL programmes.
• Management of a budget and ability to monitor programme spend over time.
• Understanding of gender dynamics within the household and community, experience in taking these into account when designing programmes.
• A basic understanding of social protection with experience in designing safety nets, working with government on developing social protection systems.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and delivering successful capacity building strategies and coaching teams, including the ability to effectively advise and support field staff and partners, using methods such as mentoring, coaching, shadowing, demonstration, accompaniment, training, written advice, verbal advice, research and development
• Ability to travel to the affected areas in short notice.
• Excellent written and spoken French and English

For complete details, please see the attached job description in the application link