Humanitarian Programme Officer at Oxfam Nigeria - Adamawa

Oxfam in Nigeria is an international nonprofit organization committed to ridding the world of poverty. We have a conviction that once given the chance to do so people are well capable of building a livelihood without poverty on their own. To do this, we work with local organizations, build their capacity and provide strategic funding to local projects in developing countries. We also lobby governments and companies to take into account the interests of the poorest people, and campaign to involve men and women also in our work.

Oxfam Nigeria is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Humanitarian Programme Officer (Michika LGA Adamawa State)

Division / Departments / Location: Nigeria Country Office, Oxfam

Job Family: Programme
Duration: 6 months

OXFAM Purpose:
Oxfam, a confederation of 17 affiliate organisations, is committed to ridding the world of poverty. We have a conviction that people are well capable of building a livelihood without poverty on their own, once given the chance to do so. Which is why we support local projects in developing countries, why we lobby governments and companies to take into account the interests of the poorest people, and why we campaign to involve men and women also in our work. The confederation works together to increase the impact of its long term development and humanitarian responses.

Team Purpose:
To develop, co-ordinate and implement together with Oxfam affiliates and partners, the Oxfam humanitarian strategy and priority frameworks for the Nigeria at the country level; to ensure that Oxfam and partners have the capacity to respond rapidly and proportionately to humanitarian emergencies with a focus on health, WASH and EFS-VL, and in the event of an emergency, to coordinate Oxfam’s humanitarian response delivery with partners within the frameworks agreed in Oxfam and in co-ordination with the Country Director.

Job Purpose:
To effectively contribute to Oxfam’s emergency response delivery with local partners in North Eastern Nigeria through hands on support to the management, implementation, monitoring and reporting of timely and high quality humanitarian assistance to conflict affected people. This includes performing related administrative tasks.

Reporting Lines:
Post holder reports to:
Humanitarian and Security Coordinator

Key Responsibilities:

• Support HSC in the following roles
• Providing programmatic support and technical advise to field operations (specifically on WASH & EFSL) and ensure proper project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation including regular field visits, communications of progress and results and grant management.
• Coordinating between relevant staff and partner organsiations to ensure that the programme is implemented in a consultative, participative, gender- and conflict-sensitive way.Within the framework of the emergency response strategy for North East Nigeria contribute to develop high quality emergency response programmes and donor proposals;
• To ensure that narrative and financial reporting and other donor
• requirements are met in line with donor agreements and follow up with partners where necessary.
• Contribute to donor report writing, prepare SITREP’s, input and maintain the emergency report workplan, contribute to needs assessments, etc.
• Conduct administrative tasks related to the emergency response.

Skills and Competence:

• Experience with emergency response delivery in similar conflict situation preferably including WASH and EFSL , and an understanding of all aspects of humanitarian assistance.
• Demonstrated experience of integrating gender and diversity into emergency response programmes.
• Be familiar with and abide by the NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, Sphere standards, the People in Aid Code.
• Sensitivity to cultural differences, and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts and with staff and partners with variety of ethnic, gender, cultural backgrounds..
• Report Writing
• Cooperation and networking skills.
• Basic accounting and bookkeeping skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English and Hausa.

Required work experience: 5 years or more
Should reside in the North East preferably Adamawa State and willing and able to travel in Northern Adamawa on short notice

Other:
This job description is not incorporated into the employment contract. It is intended as a guide and should not be viewed as an inflexible specification as it may be varied from time to time in the light of strategic developments following discussions with the post holder. The post holder will be expected to work to agreed objectives, which should facilitate the achievements of the key responsibilities in accordance with the Performance Review process

Remuneration
Salary: Euro 4,000

Application Closing Date
21st August, 2014

Expected start date: September 2014

Method of Application
If you are interested, please send a motivational letter and curriculum vitae in English to: [email protected]

Further enquirers on this position can be sent to: Doris Nwankwo, Human Resource Officer, [email protected]

Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.