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Poland Country Team
In March 2022, Oxfam launched its response to the influx of refugees and other people forced to flee from Ukraine in Romania, Moldova, and Poland. A Country Team, which sits under a Program Management Unit for the region, has been established to provide leadership, oversee, support, and provide technical assistance to the response throughout Poland. The country team is comprised of no. of technical coordinators (WASH, Protection, Cash and Voucher, Partnership and MEAL) and operations personnel.
Poland Programmes
Oxfam is supporting a partner-led humanitarian response for the assistance and protection of refugees and other vulnerable people from Ukraine and the communities, organizations and authorities that are hosting and supporting them in neighbouring countries. The response is strongly driven by the protection needs of refugees and the need for national organizations and authorities to be supporting in scaling up for the refugee response, delivering quality protection support, as well as advocacy for the rights and protection of all refugees and people on the move needing protection.
Job Purpose
Cash & Emergency Food Security Vulnerable Livelihoods (C&EFSVL) Coordinator will provide overall leadership and technical oversight to the Cash programming, C&EFSVL along with team and responsible for Oxfam’s large-scale humanitarian intervention in Poland (Ukraine Crisis). Supporting MEAL team, to ensuring that programme quality is continuously monitored, documented and adjusted, and that highest quality is maintained throughout in C&EFSVL. The role will support the transition of Oxfam programming from humanitarian and emergency assistance to recovery and development interventions. The job holder will coordinate with other technical leads (WASH, Gender Justice, Protection) in the field to design and implement integrated programming and ensure the quality of interventions. C&EFSVL Coordinator will support on Oxfam’s response strategy and the transition from an emergency into a longer-term programme. You will be delivering strategic representation, coordination and strategy design at senior level.
Please see the attached job description for the full responsibilities that the Cash & Emergency Food Security Vulnerable Livelihoods (C&EFSVL) Coordinator will undertake and the required skills and competencies.
Location: Rzeszow-Poland
Job Type: fixed term 12 months
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The CASH and EFSVL Coordinator Will:
• Provide technical oversight and program management of the Cash & EFSVL Integration programs in Poland.
• Design the Cash & EFSVL strategy aligned with country strategy & implementation mechanisms in close coordination and integration of other sectors for implementation for cash modalities.
• Closely work with PMU and country team for assessments and processing the financial service providers for cash transfer.
• Manage a team of Cash Trainer and C&EFSVL Officer as required for the program.
• Collaborate with the Poland protection coordinator to ensure effective program management and delivery of the cash and protection program integration.
• Represent Oxfam within the Poland in the CWG, the FS Cluster, and within any country level RUCC (Regional Ukraine Cash Consortium) discussions.
• Support Oxfam’s partners to engage in CWG, FS Cluster, and other cash coordination discussions.
• Management commitments at the country level for any consortium RUCC collaborations, activities, and deliverables including the agenda on partnerships and CVA and referrals to the cash and protection program.
• Implement the CVA1 and Partnership approach for Oxfam and the RUCC members.
• In collaboration with the Programme Coordinator & Cash & EFSVL Advisor at PMU, integrate considerations related to social protection, share information, and work to the effective delivery of the response.
• Design and introduce innovative approaches in CASH & EFSVL programme in changing context of Ukriane refugees’ response for effectiveness and appropriateness.
• Ensure Oxfam programme quality & accountability standards.
• Ensure and design gender and conflict sensitive interventions.
• In collaboration with the Programme Coordinator & Advisor in the PMU to develop country specific guidance and SOPs for the cash program, and lead the selection, contracting, and monitoring of FSPs.
Management people, budgets, assets, projects and decision making:
• Line management of the Cash Trainer and EFSVL Officer roles etc.
• Provide technical support and leadership on the use of CVA, Livelihoods and MBP.
• Provide practical advice and support to key programme staff to develop and translate relevant documents and resources.
• Work closely with all sectors and crosscutting advisors in the team to provide support in integrated cash, livelihoods, and markets-based programming.
• Recruit and manage appropriately skilled Cash specialists as required. Analysis and Problem Solving
• Information, complexity, creativity and forward planning
• Monitor and analyse trends in the cash, EFSVL and markets sectors, with a particular focus on market-based programming, feminist approaches, community centric approaches and localisation.
• Monitor and evaluate the cash and EFSVL response in country.
• Contribute to learning and ensure it is applied across the region.
• Raising awareness within country line managements of the strategic and technical requirements for good design and implementation of Cash and EFSVL programs.
• As appropriate, identify and engage in the use of new and innovative methodologies, processes, or technologies that improve cash and EFSVL implementation and outcomes.
• Provide strategic leadership, coordination and support to the MBP capacity development plans and implementation.
• Support country teams and partners to build their humanitarian cash capacity, including assessing staff learning needs, innovative capacity development schemes i.e., peer learning and support networks, communities of practice and in country learning within Oxfam and beyond.
• Support the development, dissemination, monitoring, and analysis of Oxfam Cash and EFSVL standards, guidelines, policies, and tools.
• Promote the institutionalization and feedback process for the use of these throughout the organization and with partners.
• Ensure programmes are safe, are sensitive to gender and other power dynamics and ensure that they are informed by the community to benefit from the work. Impact, contacts, communication, advice, and consequences
• Represent Oxfam at external fora on areas of work, influence the sector and contribute to broader influence of humanitarian sector as a whole.
• Track humanitarian information, learning and knowledge developed in responses, research and global fora and ensure these are actively shared and managed internally and externally
• Represent Oxfam and/or ensure representation in coordinating with relevant government officials, UN agencies, other NGO staff, and relevant clusters during emergencies.
• Provide technical input to proposal development and review processes and support Affiliate Programme Funding Departments with proposal development.
• Foster an appropriate working culture built on Oxfam’s values, respectful and cognisant of power imbalances internally and between Oxfam, our partners and the communities we serve. Other
• Eager and 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
Experience, Knowledge & Competencies:
Essential:
• Knowledge of and demonstrated commitment to Oxfam’s values, mission and work
• Knowledge and understanding to global justice, social change, women’s rights and gender equality and commitment to delivering humanitarian work through feminist principles.
• Experience & knowledge of the international humanitarian sector and an understanding of development issues and humanitarian standards and guidelines including Sphere, Red Cross and Red Crescent Code of Conduct, Core Humanitarian Standards, IASC Gender in Humanitarian Action, GBV Guidelines, Oxfam GIE Minimum Standards.
• Graduate qualification in Finance, Humanitarian, Development, Economics, Sociology or any related field. Experience could substitute for a formal qualification, but not vice versa.
• Good knowledge of the humanitarian sector (including humanitarian principles, current policy and institutional thinking around CASH) with solid professional networks.
• Significant experience of designing, setting up, planning and carrying out Cash Programmes in a humanitarian and/or development context.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of CASH, Economic Integration, EFSVL and market-based programming (MBP) in humanitarian contexts, including experience in carrying out market assessments for different sectors and multi-sectoral assessments.
• Knowledge and experience of the opportunity presented by electronic cash transfer options.
• Demonstrated capacities in delivering MBP capacity building trainings and providing technical support in different formats.
• Demonstrable experience of assessing capacity needs and opportunities, designing and delivering training and learning programmes and initiatives with a desire to improve knowledge and performance, and an understanding of relevant learning & development methodologies.
• Proven ability to develop effective relationships at a distance and deliver high quality remote management, guidance and support.
• Experience in providing advisory support to both senior managers and programme staff, and well-developed ability to facilitate learning, knowledge management and innovative capacity development schemes.
• Enhanced collaboration and networking skills; representational, diplomatic and advocacy skills to enable the post holder to operate effectively within Oxfam and in external networks.
• Sensitivity to cultural differences, and the ability to work and communicate in a wide variety of cultural contexts. • Excellent teamwork and communication skills and the ability to build good relations both internally and externally.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English language.
Key Attributes:
• 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 Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.
Organisational Values:
• 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.
Desirable:
• Working knowledge of Polish or Ukrainian.
• Practical experience working in protection responses and social protection.
How to apply
As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.