CV Pool – Protection Officers x2- South Lebanon(1) & Beqaa(1)

Together we can beat poverty for good. Will you join us?

 

 

Protection Officer

(EMERGENCY Response)

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.

 

 

 

Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty.

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

 

Oxfam in Lebanon works at local, national and international levels to improve the protection of civilian population in situation of insecurity and displacement. The protection officer will be part of Oxfam’s efforts to bring about improvements to the safety of civilians population in Lebanon, as well as local and national change in the protection framework applied to refugees and to civilian population.

job purpose

 

To lead in implementing gender-sensitive community-level protection activities in particular, including formation of peer support groups, as well as protection monitoring and information dissemination and referrals guided by Oxfam’s policies and guidelines for managing information and the ICRC professional standards in protection work. The officer contributes to the team through the supervision of the protection component of the programme, strengthening capacity of programme staff and supporting local partner organisations, where appropriate.

 

 

 

 

core details

Location:

Beirut

Internal Grade:

D2

Division

International

Job Family:

Programme

Contract type:

Fixed Term-3 Months

This role reports to:

Response Operations Lead

Staff reporting to this post:

NA

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

 

Technical

• Manage and join field protection assistants in field activities: Provision of humanitarian aids, delivery of information about services and entitlements, local –level advocacy and monitoring protection issues affecting target population.
• Contribute to project design, as well as to progress-reports, protection analysis reports, monitoring activities and other internal reporting.
• Monitor and report in a timely manner protection incidents, access and other issues and aid-related community-conflicts.
• Work with local partners, through counterparts in the organisations, to provide technical support for project delivery, and to maximise mutual learning and contribution to project design and implementation.
• Maintain regular contact with the community members in targeted locations with attention to vulnerable groups and people at heightened risk and ensure mentoring of community focal point sand community groups, providing regular accompaniment to their activities.
• Support the Protection team in the maintenance of an up-to-date service mapping of the service providers operating in the targeted area and ensure that team members are informed about the available services and feed into the updated service mapping.
• Act as inter-agency focal point of the protection cash component, receive, and respond to protection cash assistance referrals.
• Manage and update Protection Databases on daily basis;

   

• Participate in defining the methods of community participation that ensure the greatest possible participation of vulnerable groups and ensure correct implementation throughout all activities as appropriate.
• Deliver capacity development activities for community focal points and peer group members in coordination with partners and other stakeholders.
• Prepare and facilitate community consultations on project activities, encourage and collect feedback and suggestions from community members, and provide orientation sessions as necessary and on topics covered by the respective projects.
• Under the lead of the Response Operations Lead, participate in monitoring learning and developments of community focal points and groups, and the impact of activities and provide feedback accordingly.
• Support and contribute to the design and planning of programme-based research.
• Support and coordinate with MEAL Officers for baseline survey, post-distribution, and other monitoring activities, and ensure learning is captured.

 

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

 

x

 

 

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

 

x

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Demonstrable experience in working with communities in humanitarian or development contexts

X

 

 

 

Demonstrable experience in community mobilisation, as well as with local authorities and civil society engagement

X

 

 

 

Demonstrable experience in using participatory research and assessment methodologies

 

X

 

 

Good understanding of protection including some basic human rights and refugee rights, international humanitarian law, and first-hand experience of refugee issues

 

X

 

 

Good understanding and knowledge in application of do no harm, conflict sensitivity principles and ICRC standards and ethics for protection work

 

X

 

 

Good levels of spoken and written English and Arabic

X

 

 

 

Commitment to a rights-based approach, gender equality and protection

 

X

 

 

Proven analytical skills

 

X

 

 

Understanding of monitoring processes, learning, adaptation and evaluation

 

X

 

 

Ability to work in multi-cultural team

 

X

 

 

Willingness to work in insecure environments and a high level of adaptability and initiative

 

X

 

 

Desirable

 

 

 

 

Resilience

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

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OXFAM LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK - For your infortmation only. Please use criteria in the ‘Person Specification’ section to demonstrate your suitability for the role.

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.

 

 

[1] Whilst we make every effort to indicate how the candidates will be assessed against a criterion, this is subject to change and may be influenced by the quality of applications.