Oxfam Nigeria Recruitment 2022(3 Positions)

Persons Specification
Educational Qualification:

• Master’s Degree in Public Health, Psychology, Nursing or other relevant field
• Qualified member of a relevant professional body

Experience:

• Ability to work in close collaboration with managers/staff to provide capacity building support in community settings.
• Experience in providing well-developed conceptual, critical, and analytical thinking with the ability to convey complex information in a straightforward way and influencing this to a wider audience.
• Good organisational and personal management skills, with ability to prioritise work issues to meet deadlines with minimal supervision and adjust to constantly changing situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through
• Ability to demonstrate strong commitment to maintaining confidentiality.
• Proven experience as a team worker preferably able to liaise across country boundaries and demonstrably cooperative with members of other teams, responding quickly and accurately to queries and issues.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal English) and the ability to write clear, concise reports.
• Strong analytical skills and experience using a computerised information management system (Ms Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting women’s rights and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.

Key Behavioural Competencies:

• 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 behaviours 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.

Application Close Date
20th November, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Who We’re Looking for

• Post Graduate qualifications in Social Work, International Development or a similar field
• Safeguarding experience including working with children and adults who have witnessed or experienced exploitation and abuse.

Specifically:

• Experience in the delivery of programs in complex development contexts:
• Experience in the provision of SG technical advice in a complex large organization on SG in general and also on specific cases/investigations
• Ability to provide specific case management as well as general technical and strategic guidance and advice; demonstrating awareness of the complex operating contexts Oxfam works within
• Experience conducting awareness raising and training on sensitive issues such as sexual exploitation and abuse, and/or child abuse
• Experience supporting the design and implementation of humanitarian and/or development programming –including conducting risk assessment, developing risk mitigation plans, and development of complaints and feedback mechanisms.
• Experience in supervision and leadership, as well as project management
• Experience working within an international context with a NGO or UN
• Strong and clear communicator and public speaker, capable of delivering messages appropriately to a variety of audiences, building a sense of passion and engagement.
• Demonstrated experience in the development of strategies, policies and procedures, including some leadership or coordination role in relation to these
• Ability to display high levels of cultural and emotional intelligence in across cultural setting
• Demonstrated experience in coordinating and convening within a complex organization, especially on technical matters, and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent resilience, self-awareness and understanding of the need for self-care;
• Skilled in identifying and mitigating risks
• Able to work professionally and with a high degree of confidentiality at all times;
• Experience conducting/coordinating SG investigations
• Excellent written and spoken English and demonstrated ability to produce excellent written reports;
• Demonstrated attention to detail and accuracy, and ability to undertake simple interrogation of data for the purposes of reporting
• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to and model Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women’s rights
• High degree of organizational ability, working well under pressure and to deadlines.

Salary

• In line with Oxfam values.

Benefits:

• In line with Oxfam values.

Application Close Date
20th November, 2022 (23:59 GMT / BST / EAT).

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Upload an up-to-date CV and a Cover Letter, clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile
• Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted – usually within 2 weeks of the closing date.
• Flexible working: We believe flexible working is key to building the Secretariat of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of working arrangements that might work for you.
• Oxfam International is unable to guarantee the obtaining of a work permit for the role. Candidates must have and be able to retain the legal right to work in the location for the role.
• We are not able to support the relocation of a candidate to take up the position in an Oxfam location

Who We’re Looking for

• Effective negotiation abilities and informal leadership skills in a multi-stakeholder, networked environment.
• Experience in running governance processes, including excellent minute-taking skills.
• Ability to liaise with a wide range of people, both internally and externally and at many levels, with tact and diplomacy and the ability to influence and motivate others.
• Demonstrable organizational and project management skills.
• Competency in designing and delivering training, inductions, and written guides.
• Experience in developing and managing budgets.
• Fluent in spoken and written English required, with French, Spanish or Arabic an advantage.

Salary

• In line with Oxfam values and according to location.

Benefits:

• In line with Oxfam values and according to location.

Application Close Date
13th November, 2022 (23:59 GMT).

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Upload an up-to-date CV and a Cover Letter, clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile
• Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted – usually within 2 weeks of the closing date.
• This position is open to remote working from any location in which the candidate has the right to work and Oxfam is an employer.
• All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and may be subject to appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.
• Oxfam International Secretariat also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, if a job applicant has been employed by another member of the scheme, we will request information from that organization 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.