Public Health Promoter - Officer *2

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Public Health Promoter – Officer

Programmes

 

 

 

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

 

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

 

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

 

 

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

 

 

 

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About oxfam

 

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation Oxfam.

 

our team

To reduce public health risks and contribute to a life with dignity for Syrian refugees in Lebanon through working with poor people as a force for change in addressing the causes of poverty, suffering and injustice and alleviating their symptoms

job purpose

 

Oxfam in Lebanon is implementing emergency program to respond to the needs of the Internal Displaced People (IDPs) in Beirut, Mount Lebanon, Saida and North Lebanon.

This position will be part of an integrated Humanitarian programme in the Beirut and Mount Lebanon. The WASH component will include both public health engineering and public health promotion activities with the aim of providing comprehensive WASH assistance to vulnerable persons. This position will work in collective shelters and host communities to ensure community engagement with hygiene activities and practices.

 

 

 

 

core details

Location:

Beirut and Mount Lebanon

Internal Grade:

D2

Division

International

Job Family:

Programme

Contract type:

Fixed Term 3 months-renewable based on funding

This role reports to:

Field Project manager, with matrix management/ technical support from WASH Advisor based in Beirut

Staff reporting to this post:

 Assistant Public Health Promoters, as applicable. 

Annual budget           for the post:

No direct budget holder responsibility but contribute to budget planning and monitoring.

Key relationships/interactions:

Other Project Staffs, Partner Staffs

Screening checks:

All successful candidates will be screened through Refinitiv World-Check One to comply with counter terrorism and financial sanctions regulations.

 

key responsibilities

 

Programme Implementation:

• Support and conduct assessments and baseline studies to identify WaSH-related health risks and priorities.
• Provide direct management and oversight over the PHP activities executed by Oxfam directly and by the implementing partner.
• Implement PHP activities awareness activities and events in the collective shelters, including hygiene campaign, doing shows in schools and at community level distributions of non-food items and supporting the design, implementation and monitoring of Information, Education and Communications (IEC) materials.
• Together with the team, ensure regular contact with the beneficiaries is maintained in target areas including IDPs representatives, community members, with particular attention to vulnerable groups.
• Prepare and facilitate community consultations on project activities, and ensure this information is used to inform project activities and approaches.
• Provide technical resources and support needed to complete activities, including reviewing the quality of the hygiene promotion work and ensuring the activities stay within assigned schedules.
• Reflect on programme experience to contribute to PHP /WASH learning reviews and actively participate in the programme quality meetings.

 

 

Programme approach:

• NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures and ensure these are applied in the implementation of PHP activities, including raising awareness and building the capacity of Oxfam staff on these standards and how to action them.
• Ensure accountability to beneficiaries, designing and implementing regular, transparent and two-way communication with Oxfam’s beneficiaries and key stakeholders, including IDPs representative.
• To support the mainstreaming ofgender into all activities including the introduction of mechanisms to enable women to participate in decision making around public health engineering issues.
• To support Safe programming, Protection and MEAL mainstreaming across all interventions.

 

Management

• Directly manage assistant PH promoters and volunteers, as applicable,
• Provide overall management assistant PH Promoters and volunteers, where applicable.

 

Coordination

• As requested, participate in WaSH field based meetings with other stakeholders, and coordination and communication with municipalities.
• To report regularly, verbally and in writing to the Project Manager.
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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Person specification

How this will be assessed?[1]

Note to candidates: Shortlisted candidates will be assessed on our organisational values and attributes at the interview stage. The successful candidate(s) will be expected to adhere to our code of conduct. We encourage candidates to read and understand our code of conduct here.

 

 

Shortlisting

Interview

Technical Test

 

Key Organisational Attributes

 

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Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities.

Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work.

Commitment to undertake Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adherence of relevant policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible

Organisational Values

 

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Accountability – Our purpose-driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable. We believe that others should also be held accountable for their actions

Empowerment – Our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen

Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences

Essential - Experience, Knowledge, Qualifications & Competencies

 

 

 

 

 

Public health, health or hygiene promotion, community development, education, community water supply and sanitation (or other relevant fields).

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An experienced hygiene promoter (2 years +); experience in public and environmental health and experience in community engagement and mobilization

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Detailed knowledge of the project cycle, including drafting and monitoring activity plans and implementation of activities.

 

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Takes responsibility for own work and delegated project/processes.

 

 

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The ability to present concise reports, sometimes at short notice, reflecting the problems and possible solutions for particular situations.

 

 

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The post holder should be at ease in working with local communities.

 

 

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Well-developed interpersonal and team skills and proven ability to be flexible in demanding situations.

 

 

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Diplomacy, tact and administrative skills in order to work with people at managerial and, on occasions possibly senior government levels is important.

 

 

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Good written and spoken English and spoken Arabic is essential.

 

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Desirable

 

 

 

 

Resilience

 

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OXFAM LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK 

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 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.

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.