Oxfam International Country Director

Location: Nairobi; Kenya

Contract: Open Ended

Salary:Competitive salary with substantial Benefits

Background

Oxfam GB is part of Oxfam International (OI), an international confederation of 14 organizations working together in 99 countries and with partners and allies around the world to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. OI’s vision is a just world without poverty.

Kenya is currently a single affiliate country managed by Oxfam GB. Oxfam in Kenya is seeking a Country Director to take the lead in representing Oxfam and the programme within the country, the region and globally.

The role

The role is a senior management post reporting to the Deputy Regional Director. The Country Director will lead the development and delivery of the Kenya programme in ways that will have the greatest impact on poverty and consistent with Oxfam’s wider organisational principles and approaches and ensure adequate and cost effective resource management including people, budgets and funding. The role works with the Country Management Team (CMT) to ensure that minimum standards are met in the country for programme management, HR, finance, security, health and safety. The role co-ordinates with the CMT to identify new funding sources and negotiate funding opportunities to support programme implementation. The OI Country Director takes the lead in representing Oxfam and country programme within the country, the region and globally as well as build relationships and develops networks.

The Person

You should have indepth senior management experience in leading the development, and ensuring the delivery, of programme strategy, with partners and within a networked and interdependent approach, in one or more challenging locations. You should have proven analytical skills and ability to think strategically, including the ability to think beyond the country programme context and to act within a regional and global framework and have the ability to manage the development of, and contribute to, the high level analysis of factors driving poverty, marginalisation and vulnerability in developing country contexts, including the ability to ‘think politically’ by understanding motivations, pressures and challenges faced by colleagues, partners and other actors.

You will be actively committed to promoting gender equity and the interests of marginalised people in all aspects of an organisations work. You should have experience of design and delivery of an Influencing programme cycle, including proven ability in implementing all or aspects of a notable campaign and leading humanitarian responses, either directly implementing or through advocacy and communication strategies.

You should be experienced in leading and motivating multi disciplinary, geographically remote teams; have a high degree of self awareness and an understanding of how to drive and support excellent team performance and individual development. To be successful in this role you should have experience of managing complex change processes and relationships involving a wide range of both internal and external multi-cultural stakeholders across a variety of disciplines & geographical areas and experience in representing an organisation with partners, government agencies, private sector organisations, and donors at senior level: locally, regionally and globally and high level financial management skills to steer the operational budget

iversity The difference starts with you

If you believe you are the candidate we are looking for, please download the full job description and apply online at using this link: http://bit.ly/10EXu7l

The closing date is: 22nd November 2014. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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

Oxfam Consultancy: Research Study for SGBV ProjectRef: INT0931

Location: Nairobi

Division: International

Oxfam and partners are implementing a project entitled “Ensuring accountability for Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and increased participation of women in Africa”. 

The project is expected to increase state accountability for conflict related sexual and gender based violence. It is hoped that state accountability will in turn facilitate access to justice for survivors of sexual and gender based violence.
The project focus countries are Egypt, Nigeria and South Sudan with intention to carry out interventions at the continental level informed by the country level work and experiences. 
It is intended that both the country and continental level advocacy and project interventions be informed by good quality research. Oxfam and partners intend to use the evidence generated from the research to push for effective policy, legal and programmatic responses to sexual and gender based violence at national and continental levels. The research component of this project has the potential to inform on-going post conflict reconstruction and development initiatives within these countries and across the continent if leveraged successfully.

It is intended that the research be anchored on Article 10 of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa exploring the following;

The economic, social and political cost of SGBV in the 3 targeted countries.Providing an intersectional analysis on the level of military expenditure in the project countries and whether this contributes or undermines safety, security and social development for citizens particularly womenContrasting levels of military expenditure against the economic, social and political cost of conflict and impact of SGBV andOffering propositional scenarios the impact of redirected investments from the military and related security apparatus can have on social development and women’s rights in general and the reduction of sexual and gender based violence specifically

The business support functions in Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, Administration and IT, have been brought together into one independent, customer centric functional Centre known as the Shared Services Centre (SSC). Consequently, a Shared Services Centre was created to take over all the transactional work currently being carried out in each separate business unit. In the process, there has been significant changes and inevitably significant turnover. It is therefore of essence to create a solid and successful culture of teamwork in the Unit to establish trust, effective communication and maximization of teammate strengths. It is in this regard that the Oxfam SSC is keen to hold a team building training workshop to build on these objectives.

Oxfam Nairobi Shared Services Center (a business support function of Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, Administration and IT) is looking for a facilitator form/organization (maximum of 2 persons) that can facilitate a team building training with key deliverables as detailed in the attached Terms of Reference.

Proposal submission

Interested and qualified person(s) should submit their proposals no later than Friday, 17 October 2014. Click on the provided link for more details http://bit.ly/1CIqqsy

At Oxfam we are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equity within our organization

Only shortlisted persons will be contacted

Oxfam Exciting Career Opportunity: Shared Services Center Manager (Re-Advertised)
Level: National C1; Open Ended

Are you passionate about providing efficient and effective service with the customer in mind?

Do you have solid and demonstrable experience in establishing new business support units, leading, guiding and motivating technical and operational teams to achieve set targets in line with the corporate objectives?
If, yes we are looking for you!
Oxfam is one of the largest humanitarian organisations operating in over 90 countries.
We partner with others to alleviate poverty and our vision is “a just world without poverty”.
Reporting directly to the Regional Business Services Manager and indirectly to the Governance Board, the Shared Services Center Manager will provide leadership of the centre, driving process improvements and operational efficiencies, measuring and reporting on service delivery standards in the areas of finance, procurement, Human Resource and office administration. The Shared Services Center Manager will also be tasked with the management of the Shared Services Centre budget. 
The Shared Services Centre is a new internal service provider for transactional services to all the Nairobi based Oxfam business units. The role will act as an escalation point for unresolved queries and complaints as well as promoting and instilling effective partnership working with internal stakeholders.

To be successful in the role, you will have an MBA and hold professional qualification in either Finance, Logistics & Administration, Human Resources or IT and previous experience of establishing and leading an effective Shared Services Centre or equivalent in a large, complex and dynamic organisation. 

You have managed teams in Finance, Logistics & Administration, Human resources and IT and have a track record of achieving excellence through leading and guiding multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams and influencing stakeholders.
Your verbal and written communications skills are excellent so is your negotiations and influencing
skills.
We will in return offer you a fulfilling career with a global network organisation, a competitive salary and benefits and a conducive working environment.
The closing date for applications is close of business Friday, 27th June 2014.
At Oxfam we are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equity.

Vacancy: Country Funding Coordinator
Contract Type: National Fixed Term (1 Year)
Are you a fund raiser with extensive experience with major donors? Are you able to ensure quality and consistent relationships with institutional donors and support programme teams in the management of project funding? Oxfam is committed to ridding the world of poverty. We have a conviction that people are well capable of building a livelihood without poverty on their own, once given the chance to do so. Which is why we support local projects in developing countries, and why we lobby governments and companies to take into account the interests of the poorest people.
Support the Country Programme Develop and coordinate development of the country funding strategy according to agreed Oxfam processes, by assisting the country team in planning, development and submission of competitive, high quality concept papers, donor proposals, and coordinating with the finance team, on budgets. Oversee funding processes according to Oxfam Funding Guidelines, be responsible for quality control of the funding processes and communications, and advising on brand risk management. Provide professional support, advice and training to managers/budget holders/support services in funding processes. Assess and strengthens capacity of colleagues and partner staff across the country in the planning, securing and managing of unrestricted and restricted funds. Resolve diverse and sometimes complex problems related to funding and donor relationship management. Ensure, in close collaboration with the information coordinator, effective co-ordination between affiliates in country in relation to institutional funding and information flows with Global Program Funding team. Engage in peer networks of other country fundraising staff within region, between regions and globally as appropriate. Oversee a portfolio of existing donor contracts to ensure compliance with donor requirements; ensure reports are of good quality and submitted on time; Analyse and provide advice to staff on the funding policies and requirements of different donors, seek advice and input from, colleagues in country team, affiliate HQ (donor leads) for high risk donors.Bachelor or Masters Degree in relevant area. Required country related work experience 5 or more.Significant experience in managing donor contracts and fundraising activities, in particular from institutional donors, such as ECHO, DFID, AusAID, OFDA, CIDA, UN agencies etc. Sound understanding of Program Cycle Management in emergencies and/or development environments.Strong numeracy and financial skills, particularly in developing budgets, financial management / monitoring and reporting. Proven ability to develop and present proposals and donor reports, for both internal and external audiences. Ability to research, analyse, and report Ability to network and represent Oxfam to donors and external institutions;If you believe you fit the job and person profiles please send your application to somaliajobs@oxfam.org.uk or apply online at www.oxfam.org.uk/jobs. The closing date for applications is 9th May 2014