KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

(Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)
Humanitarian Strategy
• Ensures a good level of analysis of the humanitarian situation on the continent, ensuring awareness
raising and clear communication on challenges faced and foreseen in the Sub-Sahara region.
• Ensure Preparedness Plans and Response strategies for OIA are available and regularly updated.
• Support SAF Cluster, Country Directors, and Humanitarian Programme Managers in their ongoing
analysis of humanitarian trends through the provision of research and data analysis tools.
• Lead on regional humanitarian response and preparedness, linking country, regional, affiliate, and
Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team (GHT) where needed.
• Work with Oxfam International’s GHT to lead in the development and implementation of the Sub Sahara region of Africa humanitarian strategy in alignment with the global strategy.

Provide active leadership to promote and support all aspects of preparedness planning, action and
systematic review at cluster, country and regional level.
• Contribute to relevant humanitarian policy debates and, as agreed with line manager and in coordination with GHT, to represent Oxfam on humanitarian issues.
• Manage the development of the Humanitarian capacity in Oxfam in Africa, working closely with the GHT, all concerned affiliates, cluster and countries to mobilise support and resources.
• Participate in humanitarian coordination bodies and support country teams with coordination and
lobbying at the Sub Sahara region of Africa and global level.
• Participate and represent Oxfam in key humanitarian forums in the Sub Sahara region of Africa with the Government, UN and other international agencies.
• Advocate and ensure that countries have humanitarian capacities and plans.
• Help review country humanitarian strategies.
• Identify and broker long-term and short term-support personnel from within the confederation and
external organisations as appropriate.
• In coordination with People and Culture team, support the humanitarian structure (roles and
responsibilities) and lead and manage the humanitarian team.
• Ensure resilience building and triple nexus thinking is part of response and preparedness planning for fragile countries and contexts.
Humanitarian Response
• Effectively delivering Humanitarian responses across regional work to meet standards, promote Oxfam work through lobbying and influencing to place Oxfam on the map as top 5 humanitarian INGOs across the Sub-Sahara region.
• Ensure all ongoing humanitarian responses and any future foreseen/unforeseen crises are delivering in line with Oxfam’s and sector-wide humanitarian standards or timely responses and connectedness to rights and resilience.
• Lead and ensure regional response strategies where regional responses are initiated and propose the
categorization/re-categorization process with GHT, Affiliates, COs etc. To ensure response at scale.
• Lead coordination with number of stakeholders to ensure all ongoing and new humanitarian responses are fully funded.
• In major unforeseen Sub Sahara regional emergencies requiring scaled-up response, lead process of
assessment, programme design and resourcing, preparation of concept papers and support to proposal
writing, in consultation with both the Program & Influencing Director and Global Humanitarian Team.
• In major emergencies, and in coordination with the country staff and the GHT, work with the country
staff to ensure that Oxfam has the necessary capacity to meet the management, logistical and technical
requirements of any humanitarian programme undertaken and to ensure effective coordination of
Oxfam’s response with UN agencies, the Red Cross and other NGOs as well as with government response mechanisms.
• Collaborate with Programmes & Influencing Director and the GHT to develop policy and advocacy
strategy and content.
Program Quality
• Ensure that Oxfam’s humanitarian work in the Sub Sahara region of Africa adheres to relevant policy
commitments and minimum standards and to promote these, including:
o The SPHERE Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards
o The Code of Conduct for Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in disaster response

Oxfam International Humanitarian Contract
o Oxfam gender standards in Humanitarian Response, in liaison with Gender Justice Team Lead.
o Core Humanitarian Standards
o The Charter for change
o Environmental charter
o Disability engagements
o WHS commitments
o Oxfam humanitarian approach (LHL, Feminist principles, community engagement, safe
programming)
• Ensure that humanitarian protection analysis, Safe programming risk analysis and management, conflict
analysis is conducted and mainstreamed in programming
• Ensure that gender analysis and understanding of HIV/Aids is a core component of all humanitarian
programme development.
• Review humanitarian proposals developed by country staff, according to the relevant policy commitment
and agreed minimum standards.
• Promote systematic programme review/evaluation to ensure that lessons learnt are documented and
shared for cross-programme learning in the region and inform future responses, through adequate
dissemination and inclusion in potential training.
• Play a key role in ensuring timely information flow to the confederation (GHT, program and influencing team, affiliates, secretariat, etc.) in the event of an emergency.
• Ensure clarity with countries and responses on the reporting mechanisms (sitreps, etc) to ensure updates and quality information is available.
• Facilitate cross-sector learning opportunities to share knowledge and best practices.
Management
• Maintain an advisory overview of Humanitarian Program finances, including: annual budgeting for
“plannable” humanitarian response work within regional budgets and liaison with Humanitarian
Department (GHT).
• Ensure that the OIA humanitarian team supports countries in preparedness plans and all relevant actions to ensure quality responses and related work.
• Develop, manage and monitor the Sub-Sahara regional Humanitarian program and associated Projects.
• Develop and manage the Humanitarian Team budget and ensure effective and efficient expenditure of the same, including recoveries from response budgets, where appropriate.
Technical Leadership
• Advise, with the support of the OIA humanitarian team team, country staff on the implementation of
existing programmes, with a view to ensuring that they take adequate account of the context and
required responses within Oxfam’s lead technical areas of WASH, Food & Economic Security (notably
Cash Transfer and Markets) and Protection.
• Assist in the design of new strategies at local, country and regional level to address issues related to
Oxfam’s core competencies. This should include specific programme initiatives as well as more broad-
ranging strategies aimed at influencing institutional agendas, policies and practices (governmental, UN,
donor, and others) in favour of effective WASH, Food and Economic Security, Protection and Gender,
implementation.
• Ensure shared work with the rest of OIA to unpack how other teams linked to the responses and work
across the Nexus

ESSENTIAL
• Proven strong experience of managing humanitarian response work in a range of environments – including field-level management of complex humanitarian response programmes and all phases of the project/programme cycle.
• Commitment to the Humanitarian Imperative with demonstrated abilities in crisis management and the coordination of rapid humanitarian responses.
• Demonstrable skills in gender analysis in humanitarian response or preparedness programming, and a clear understanding of the practical significance of gender issues in humanitarian environment.
• Demonstrable experience of policy development in relation to humanitarian response work.
• Experience of identifying training needs and coordinating training implementation.
• Demonstrated facilitation and coaching skills.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, a high level of analytical skills.
• Demonstrated financial management skills.
• Ability to manage competing demands and produce results under pressure.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently
• Strategic individual with the ability to engage with key stakeholders to develop a compelling vision, while at the same time a pioneer in setting up operations.
• Ability to strengthen and execute the vision with their own team of professionals, country teams and with other stakeholders (affiliates and partners in Africa and other Oxfam entities like the GHT) coordinating and overcoming barriers when things become ‘stuck’.
• Agile and engaged, with demonstrated strong and coordinated leadership.

Ability to handle complexity, unpack it, and dive deeper with positive enquiry skills to explore blockages.
• Ability to engage in the most appropriate way, demonstrating deep listening to facilitate understanding of messages.
• Strong influencing skills – engages and collaborates, with cultural and interpersonal sensitivity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across a range of audiences; fluency in English and French is required and other languages.
• Training in Disasters Preparedness/Emergency Response (desirable)
The most relevant Oxfam Leadership competences for this role:
• Self-Awareness
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment
• Decisiveness
• Influencing
• Mutual accountability