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• Offer guidance and co-ordination of the entire Oxfam response (e.g. strategy, fundraising, information management), in co-ordination with the country leadership/management team.
• Offer technical guidance to the overall Oxfam humanitarian preparedness in-country, including co-ordinating the development, testing and regular updating of the Oxfam contingency plan in-country and ensuring timely decision-making by the country leadership team at the onset of an emergency.
• Provide leadership in Oxfam resilience programming agenda and ensure staff and partners are designing programmes and enhance resilience for communities and community organisations.
• Proactively co-ordinate Oxfam’s ongoing monitoring of the humanitarian situation and of (interim) results of humanitarian interventions and represent Oxfam internally and externally regarding humanitarian matters.
• Serve as the security focal point for Oxfam in country and assist the Country Director to update and maintain and security management plans.
• Monitor the security situation in country, prepare and disseminate security situation reports (SITREPS) regularly and as will have been determined by the Oxfam Country Director.
• Offer security briefing and relevant advice to Oxfam staff, visitors and partners in line with the approved Oxfam security plans and protocols.

• In the event of an Oxfam humanitarian response, manage effectively, Oxfam’s humanitarian response delivery and, in co-ordination with the Country Director, to offer guidance and direction to strategic and rapid decision-making about strategy, resources and staff deployment in a complex, stressful and changing environment. To ensure effective programme management, and financial and information management.
• Co-ordinate Oxfam’s ongoing monitoring of the humanitarian situation to ensure up-to-date knowledge and understanding of developments in-country which have (potentially) an effect on the humanitarian situation, as well as of interim results of ongoing humanitarian interventions.
• Develop, review and implement Oxfam’s humanitarian preparedness and resilience strategy and investment plan in-country in collaboration with Oxfam staff, and Oxfam partners.
• Co-ordinate the appraisal and monitoring of Oxfam’s and partners’ response capacity and co-ordinate capacity building activities for all parties involved in order to achieve the objectives set in the preparedness and resilience strategy.
• Develop Oxfam’s humanitarian profile and programme in-country and to identify opportunities for fundraising with funding agencies. To lead acquisition with (potential) donors of humanitarian response and preparedness in close co-ordination with the Country Funding Manager and the Saving Lives Now and In The Future program Team.
• Represent Oxfam Internally and externally regarding humanitarian matters, to generate exposure of Oxfam’s humanitarian profile and good practices; to increase Oxfam’s awareness of current humanitarian trends and ensure sound internal and external co-ordination during preparedness and response.
• Collect proactively all necessary information relevant for Oxfam humanitarian policy messaging and share this with the relevant Oxfam leads.

• The ideal candidate must have at least 10 years’ experience in management and participatory strategy development, preferably in Africa.
• Extensive knowledge of, and recent working experience in the region is a prerequisite;
• Past exposure and experience with managing emergency response delivery and preparedness programming including in Emergency Food Security/Vulnerable Livelihoods, Climate Change and Water Sanitation and Hygiene promotion;
• Excellent analytical skills and strategic thinking, including the ability to think beyond the programme context and to act within a regional and continental perspective;
• Past exposure and experience in representing an organisation at the level of local partners, local administration, ministries and donors at senior level;
• Project management and financial management skills to monitor the (operational) budget;
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of humanitarian standards and principles.
• Past work experience or additional training on gender, accountability, disaster management, food security and/or pastoralism would be an advantage;
• Significant experience and ability to work with and support local civil society organizations;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to report, motivate, influence, and negotiate;
• Excellent people management competencies
• Past exposure and experience in working in emergency contexts including on both preventive and responsive emergency interventions;
• Practical experience in security and risk management both in operations and in programmes.
• Excellent communication skills, written and spoken, in English;
• Willingness to travel to the field frequently and used to working and travelling in remote areas.

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