Humanitarian Support Personnel – Public Health Promotion (INT10135)

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

Do you have demonstrable experience working on public health in emergencies: 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?

Do you have experience innovative strategic, planning and analytical skills, and experience of planning responses appropriate to context and community and at scale?

Do you have experience of task managing and performance management of small teams and of budget tracking?

Do you have working knowledge of English & French?

If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you.

The Role:

Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team (GHT) is looking for a Humanitarian Support Personnel – Public Health Promotion to work with country teams and national and international partners in providing leadership to Public Health Promotion (PHP) teams through a community engagement approach to ensure that women, men and children are involved in the management of WASH resources in a safe, equitable and culturally appropriate manner in order to maximise positive impacts for their communities.

The post holder will undertake a series of deployments lasting between six weeks and up to six months for which specific terms of reference will be negotiated and agreed with the country office or partner concerned, prior to deployment, or revised during the early stages of deployment.  Often these deployments will be in support of rapidly evolving emergencies and/or complex and challenging operational environments, where Oxfam needs to rapidly develop its programme and capacity.

Travailler avec les équipes pays et les partenaires nationaux et internationaux en assurant la direction des équipes de Promotion de la Santé Publique (PHP) à travers une approche d’engagement communautaire afin de s’assurer que les femmes, les hommes et les enfants sont impliqués dans la gestion des ressources WASH de manière sûre, équitable et culturellement appropriée afin de maximiser les impacts positifs pour leurs communautés. 

Le titulaire du poste effectuera une série de déploiements pour une durée entre six semaines et maximum six mois pour lesquels des termes de référence spécifiques seront négociés et convenus avec le bureau national ou le partenaire concerné, avant le déploiement, ou révisés au cours des premières phases du déploiement.  Souvent, ces déploiements seront destinés à soutenir des situations d’urgence à évolution rapide et/ou des environnements opérationnels complexes et difficiles, dans lesquels Oxfam a dû rapidement développer son programme et ses capacités.

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam’s mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

• Graduate qualification or equivalent in one of the following, or a related discipline: social sciences, environmental or public health, anthropology or community development.
• Substantial work experience in more than one type of emergency context and country location.
• Ability to work effectively under stress in emergency situations, in a leadership role.
• Ability to work in a participatory way with communities.
• A proven capacity to contribute to multi-disciplinary teams and to work with and influence people from diverse backgrounds.
• Strong assessment, analytical and planning skills.
• Strong influencing skills especially in dealing with country and regional management teams and advisers / managers within GHT.
• Ability to work collaboratively, supportively and respectfully with others in multi-cultural teams and strong networking skills with strong commitment to Oxfam and humanitarian values.
• Strong conceptual, analytical and critical thinking.   

Note: Good written and spoken English and French are essential, additional languages of Arabic or Spanish are desirable.

For more details, please see the attached Job Description.

We offer:

This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference in Humanitarian responses, to act as a key contributor to the team, to work with a group of passionate people that are specialists in their fields. On this role, Oxfam Offers a fair pay and competitive benefits package which include a Net GBP pay whereby Oxfam covers the tax obligation for the employee, and attractive pension package; 33 leave days(pro-rata to duration of contract); a 100% medical cover for all reimbursables and a 75% cover on optical and dental expenses for the employee.

A 6 month fixed term contract with strong probability of extension.

For more details, please see the attached Job Description available in FRENCH and ENGLISH.

Flexfam:

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. 

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile. This can be submitted in English or French.