Senior Accountability Officer

SENIOR ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICER

LOCATION: Based in Beirut with frequent visits to the North, Bekaa and Chouf.

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term- 3 Months

JOB FAMILY:  Programmes

ONE OXFAM GRADE: D       ZONE: 1

DEPARTMENT: MEAL

TEAM: Programme

SALARY:  As per the Oxfam benefit package

HOURS: 40 hours per week.

FLEXIBLE WORKING

‘We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.

TEAM PURPOSE:

Oxfam in Lebanon is increasingly working at local, national and international levels to “ensure that women and men are protected and empowered to enjoy their basic rights and access services enabling them to live in dignity, within a more equitable society.” To achieve this vision, Oxfam in Lebanon implements activities under two main programmatic pillars: A Humanitarian Pillar and a Governance and Economic Justice Pillar.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Senior Accountability Officer is responsible for leading efforts to establish, maintain, and enhance a culture of accountability, transparency, and ethical compliance across Oxfam, specifically in Emergency settings. This role involves overseeing the development, implementation, and enforcement of accountability frameworks in emergencies and ensuring that Oxfam adheres to regulatory and legal obligations. The Senior Accountability Officer works closely with the Planning and MEAL Advisor, department heads, and external partners to ensure the highest standards of Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and ethical behavior are maintained.

JOB REPORTS TO

Planning and MEAL Advisor.

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS JOB

None

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

None

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE

Based in Beirut with frequent visits to the North, Bekaa and Chouf.

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

Internal and external stakeholders

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES  

Program Quality, Learning and Accountability

• Work closely with Planning and MEAL Advisor and other relevant colleagues to implement beneficiary compliance and feedback mechanism, collect beneficiary complaints, and feedback and communicate with field team.

• Collect and share monthly monitoring and accountability reports

• Support the team in the delivery of learning and reflection workshops and other programmatic learning processes and products.

• Collecting best practices, case studies which demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes over the period.

• Support the setup of a complaint and response mechanism based on the Internally Displace People (IDPs) and host community contexts.

• Promote and support monitoring, analysis and learning from assessments of internal standards (Quality Framework) and Core Humanitarian Standards, accountability and transparency standards, protection minimum standards, and others.

• Ensure that all Accountability work is carried out in a way that is sensitive to gender and protection issues.

Capacity Building, Networking and Representation

• Attend Coordination forums that includes humanitarian accountability.

• Facilitate capacity building for Oxfam program staffs on Accountability and safeguarding related topics.

• Assist to build capacity of partner staffs through training to ensure adoption of Accountability and safeguarding related topics.

• Ensure effective common understanding between Oxfam, other partners and Consortium members on Accountability objectives and frameworks and organize orientation / workshops / training.

• Represent Oxfam, internally and externally, as needed.

Most importantly, every individual in Oxfam needs to be able to:

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (read more about these here)
• Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of Conduct):

1. Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning, with accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of their identities, such as their gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class, or LGBTQIA identity."

2. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.

ESSENTIAL

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Development studies, Statistics/Management or similar fields.

• Proven ability and experience in Accountability & Safeguarding, with a minimum of 5 years.

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.

• Knowledge and practice of SAFE programming and international standards like Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), SPHERE, LEGS etc.

• Excellent computer skills and ability to work in a challenging and dynamic context.

• Ability to communicate in Local language would be an added advantage.

• Proven experience in integrating gender and safe programming (protection) into programmes.

• Ability to work well under pressure and in response to changing needs.

• Ability to travel and to work in difficult circumstances.

• Fluency in Arabic and English is essential.

Desirable

• Experience managing partners especially local NGOs.

• Experience of working effectively within a large international agency including, in an Emergency response setting.

• Good understanding of Food Security, WASH, Protection, Gender and EFSVL programming.

• Prior experience training/accompanying/learning in the field.

SAFER RECRUITMENT: 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 promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. 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. Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.