Humanitarian Support Personnel – Food and Economic Security

Oxfam Global Humanitarian Team (GHT) is looking for Humanitarian Support Personnel – Food and Economic Security who is responsible to enable communities and people in crisis to cover their basic needs, including food, and to strengthen resilience to future crisis. Oxfam believes this can be achieved by facilitating the access of all members of society to financial support (cash), livelihoods, social protection, market, and economic opportunities.

This role will be responsible for scaling up cash and voucher assistance programming, providing technical leadership of vulnerable livelihoods and social protection interventions and ensuring strong and coherent work with existing markets in emergency humanitarian responses.

To, along with other response staff, advisors and managers, promote safe-programming in all humanitarian responses. In line with Oxfam’s humanitarian approach this role is accountable for ensuring community participation shapes programme decisions, actively seeking equitable partnerships and opportunities for local humanitarian leadership, following feminist principles including strong awareness of power dynamics, and adhering to all aspects of safe programming.

The post holder will undertake a series of deployments in a variety of contexts including first phase emergency response, scale up of country programmes to meet the needs of evolving slow onset crises, to build the resilience of the chronically vulnerable through designing long-term programmes, or influencing governments.

The Humanitarian Support Personnel will play a key role in institutionalizing Oxfam’s strategic approach to cash, markets, EFSVL and social protection including operationalizing market-based approaches and working across sectors to design and implement multi-purpose cash activities; and apply a social protection approach.