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ABOUT OXFAM
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OUR TEAM
Team Purpose
Responsible for implementation, technical assessments, coordination and reporting of the GIZ funded project in Baghdad and Baquba titled ‘Promoting Youth Employment’ as well as supporting other livelihoods program activities, as required.
JOB PURPOSE
Job Purpose - Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
• Implement and supervise livelihoods and economic development activities using different modalities that include vocational and skill trainings, job placement and micro grants to SEMS.
• Under the supervision of project manager, draft weekly, monthly implementation plan and ensure team is well equipped with all the information and resources to implement the plan.
• Supervise the overall process of beneficiary registration and selection process and ensure the right people are selected for inclusion in the program as per agreed and approved selection criteria and methodology.
• Work with selected service provider for vocational and skill training and monitor the service delivery in terms of quality, compliance to content, delivery and effective learning.
• Networking with private sector actors and regularly coordinate to explore the opportunities for project beneficiaries for technical trainings, apprenticeship and full-time job placement programs.
• Work closely with private sector and SEMs to promote linkages.
• Engage and establish strong linkages with private sector companies and other employers for emerging demands for skills and opportunities for employment.
• Ensure gender mainstreaming for all livelihoods and economic recovery activities with inclusion of women in all program support and facilitate the women group at different stages of program implementation.
• Work with youth groups and women groups to identify and address special needs of both for inclusion and support in livelihoods and economic recovery activities.
• In consultation with livelihoods and economic recovery technical team and project managers agree on the range of advice, support, training and/or other assistance required to facilitate operational aspects of the programme.
• As delegated to supervise the implementation of the livelihoods and economic recovery interventions for the programme ensuring achievement of the set objectives and milestones.

• Participate in assessments, collation and analysis of other primary and secondary information sources of relevance to contribute to contribute to agreed advocacy initiatives
• Participate in collaboration activities and joint planning with key partners including relevant ministries and NGOs working with Oxfam.
• Support the project manager to ensure that all project and donor requirements are met, including timely preparation of both weekly, monthly, quarterly and final narrative and financial reports.
• Ensure that Oxfam's gender policy and Code of Conduct are implemented at all levels and in all aspects
• Understand and follow relevant standard procedures for cash programming, including compliance with policies and criteria relating to EFSVL, Cash and Voucher programming, including best practices and donors’ policies.
• Work closely with MEAL staff to conduct monitoring of all post-distribution activities and collate information.

Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge
Essential
• Degree (from a recognised institution) in Economics, Business Administration, Agricultural, Development Studies, Social Science, or relevant discipline.
• Minimum of 2 years working experience in livelihoods, economic recovery programme with an NGO or similar organisation.
• Experience of working in livelihoods interventions like Vocational and Skill training (VST) program, apprenticeship and job placement program.
• Experience and skills in playing a supportive role, demonstrating ability to support field teams’ members to deliver results for operational work.
• Ability to communicate and support diverse teams in consortia Oxfam works with.
• Demonstrated understanding and experience in Cash and Voucher Programming in a humanitarian context.
• Experience of working with an NGO – especially in project implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• A good understanding of the Iraqi context and cultures.
• An understanding of gender, protection and diversity issues in livelihoods and economic development programs.
• Strong communication & interpersonal skills, community mobilisation experience and ability to work in teams.
• Ability to travel and to work in difficult circumstances.
• MS Office operating skills (Word, Excel, Power point)
Desirable
• Experience of engagement with private sector, government departments, and vocational training service providers.
• Working experience with private sector in Iraq and good enough understanding of private sector.

CORE DETAILS
Location:
Baghdad & Baquba
Salary:
According to Oxfam Iraq Salary Scale
Internal Grade:
D2
Division
EFSVL
Job Family:
Programme
Contract type:
Fixed term
Hours of work: 40 hours per week. This is a full-time role; however, Oxfam offers various flexible arrangements which candidates can discuss with the Recruiting Manager at interview stage
This role reports to:
Project Manager
Staff reporting to this post:
N/A
Annual budget for the post:
N/A
Key relationships/interactions:
Screening checks:
All successful candidates will be screened through Refinitiv World-Check One to comply with counter terrorism and financial sanctions regulations.
References:
Should you be successful and not already employed by Oxfam GB, we will require minimum of two references covering five years of employment history.
DBS checks (for roles based in the UK):
It is a requirement in the UK for a new DBS check at enhanced level for every new member of staff who works directly with, or has regular contact with, children or vulnerable adults in the UK (consistent with DBS guidance and relevant law).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Competencies Description
Relationship Building
We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organization. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organisation.
Listening
We are good listeners who can see where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions differ. Our messages to others are clear, and consider different preferences.
Mutual Accountability
We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organizational values. We are ready to be held to account for what we do and how we behave, as we are also holding others to account in a consistent manner.
Self-Awareness
We are able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviors to control and channel our impulses for good purposes.
Enabling
We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organizations goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job. We provide freedom; demonstrate belief and trust provide appropriate support. We give more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support.
Your commitment to Oxfam
• 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

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OXFAM LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK - For your information only. Please use criteria in the ‘Person Specification’ section to demonstrate your suitability for the role. Competencies Description
Decisiveness
We are comfortable to make transparent decisions and to adapt decision making modes to the context and needs.
Influencing
We have the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organization. We spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities we have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner.
Humility
We put ‘we’ before ‘me’ and place an emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team and play to the strengths of each individual. We are not concerned with hierarchical power, and we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of others across all levels of the organization.
Relationship Building
We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organization. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organization.
Listening
We are good listeners who can see where deeper levels of thought and tacit assumptions differ. Our messages to others are clear, and consider different preferences.
Mutual Accountability
We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organizational values. We are ready to be held to account for what we do and how we behave, as we are also holding others to account in a consistent manner.
Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity
We scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways.
Systems Thinking
We view problems as parts of an overall system and in their relation to the whole system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome or event in isolation. We focus on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing systems thinking we are aware of and manage well unintended consequences of organizational decisions and actions.
Strategic Thinking and Judgment
We use judgment, weighing risk against the imperative to act. We make decisions consistent with organizational strategies and values.
Vision Setting
We have the ability to identify and lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organization and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organization and diverse external stakeholders.
Self-Awareness
We are able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviors to control and channel our impulses for good purposes.
Enabling
We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organizations goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job. We provide freedom; demonstrate belief and trust provide appropriate support. We give more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support.

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and respond to three key questions related to your experience in EFSVL. Your application will be shortlisted based on your CV and your responses to the above questions. You need not comment on your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

Deadline for appltying to this role is: 05 July 2021

Due to the urgency of the position Oxfam reserves the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline.

For more details about this Vacancy, please visit the job advert using the below link:
https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/14159/description 

Application only should be WORD-PDF format.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.