Overview
The Humanitarian Officer provides support to the project manager in defining and monitoring projects related to cash distribution, cash-for-work, income-generating activities, savings, water and sanitation, hygiene promotion, and protection. The role ensures regular reporting on activity progress and supports partner development.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure the implementation of cash transfer activities, voucher distributions, cash-for-work, income-generating activities, savings and credit support, and grain bank creation/supply.
- Monitor water point realization/rehabilitation activities and hygiene promotion.
- Oversee protection activities, including CPC establishment and functioning, sensitization, referral of protection cases, and socio-economic reintegration of victims.
- Contribute to activity improvement, planning, and execution with implementing partners.
- Analyze problems and propose solutions with a flexible operational strategy.
- Ensure the completion of logistical and administrative follow-up documents for operations.
- Monitor the humanitarian situation in the zones through key indicators and coordination with other actors.
- Be responsible for the development of project initiatives with partners and collaborators.
- Support the project manager in developing capacity-building plans and strategies for local partners and other actors.
- Contribute to the development and design of project implementation strategies.
- Coordinate and execute plans and strategies to ensure needs and demands are met efficiently and rapidly.
- Enhance the visibility and communication of humanitarian actions.
- Ensure organizational accountability to beneficiaries through participation in decision-making and an effective complaint management system.
- Identify and initiate staff replacement needs in collaboration with HR.
- Ensure staff are properly oriented, integrated, and supported.
- Manage performance management processes for supervised staff.
- Ensure supervised staff demonstrate good HR practices and comply with Oxfam policies.
- Ensure teams have good knowledge of and adhere to Humanitarian Principles.
- Facilitate dialogue and trust within the team.
- Actively promote the presence and participation of women in the operational team.
- Ensure all team staff know and understand the code of conduct and policies, including Oxfam's Safeguarding policy.
- Monitor and execute the project's humanitarian budget in line with program plans.
- Ensure material and financial resources are protected according to Oxfam and donor procedures.
- Produce a monthly report on activities.
- Regularly inform the humanitarian department of activity progress and encountered problems.
- Establish good relationships with field partners, administrative and customary authorities, and communities.
- Undertake joint missions with partners if necessary.
- Represent Oxfam in local humanitarian forums and promote a coordinated approach.
- Facilitate continuous learning through capitalization and experience sharing.
- Strengthen and foster local alliances and networks for increased sharing, learning, and collaboration.
- Contribute to the analysis of the situational context as a member of the base-level Program Team.
Required Experience
- 3 years of experience with NGOs in the field of food security.
- Diplomacy, tact, and negotiation techniques with local communities, partners, and authorities.
- Ability to communicate effectively, write reports, and facilitate meetings between different actors.
- Good command of monitoring and evaluation tools and techniques.
- Very good analytical and synthesis skills.
- Very good ability to integrate cross-cutting issues (water and sanitation, environmental protection, security, nutrition, gender, etc.).
- Ability to work on one's own initiative, manage a large and complex workload, with good performance and timely reporting.
- Ability to adapt to pressure and evolving needs.
- Good knowledge of basic computer software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Ability to take initiative to achieve results and to work and travel for long hours.
Qualifications
• Holder of a Bachelor's degree in Agroeconomics, Geography, Sociology, Animal Husbandry, or equivalent diploma.
