MEAL OFFICER
Annual Salary and Benefits | According to Oxfam Salary Scale |
Internal Job Grade | National |
Contract type | Fixed Term |
Reporting to | Base Manager – ECHO Project |
Staff reporting to this post | None |
Locations | Warder, Dollo Zone |
Annual Budget | None |
BACKGROUND
The current country strategy (2015 – 2020) envisages “an Ethiopia free of poverty; where empowered women and other citizens influence and benefit from pro-poor and gender sensitive systemic changes that reduce their poverty and vulnerability and; an increase their socio-economic wellbeing”. In 2016-17, the organisation consolidated its efforts to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and has reached more than 1.2 million people across Ethiopia with life-saving humanitarian assistance and longer-term resilience, livelihoods and gender based programmes. Oxfam currently implements programmes directly and through partners across eight regions and one city administration including Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, Somali, Afar, Dire Dawa, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR) and Gambella. Oxfam currently has about 300 staff, working across eight field bases and the country coordination office in Addis Ababa.
The programmes in the Somali, Gedeo, and Gambella regions are dominantly humanitarian; drought, conflict and flood preparedness, response and recovery, and supporting refugees from South Sudan respectively though Oxfam is increasing its resilience-based programming throughout. The longer-term resilience-development programmes cover sustainable livelihoods, gender and climate change work. More specifically Oxfam in Ethiopia focus on rural economic development working all through the value chain cycle, promoting viable local and export markets while building the resilience of the local population to respond and adapt to the re-current natural and man-made disasters. Gender programming is at the center of our work, always taking into consideration local gender dynamics and prioritizing the most vulnerable population.
TEAM PURPOSE
The scope of this position involves managing and supervising resources within MEAL activities in Dollo zone implemented directly by Oxfam and partner. He/she will provide professional advice to the humanitarian team on areas of work covered in their remit. Other functions of this position include making complex technical information accessible and useable in a simple manner, influencing the development of humanitarian and ensuring support to operationalise this.
JOB PURPOSE
To support the effective and quality implementation of Oxfam Humanitarian Programme in Dollo zone, Somali Region ensuring its relevance to the local context, connectivity with regional initiatives and structures and compliance with internal and external quality standards with key focus on Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Implementation
Reporting & Communications
Learning
TECHNICAL SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE ESSENTIAL
BEHAVIORAL COMPETANCIES