Project Officer Financing for Development Job Placement – Oxfam

Organisation: Oxfam
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Governance and Accountability Thematic Manager
About Oxfam:
Oxfam
is an international confederation of 17 affiliates networked together in more
than 90 countries committed to ridding the world of poverty and injustice. To
achieve this, we support local projects in developing countries, we lobby
governments and companies to take into account the interests of the poorest
people and we campaign to involve citizens in our work. We implement our
programs by working with local NGO partners and civil society organizations and
engaging with private sector and governments. Oxfam employs over 6,000 people
worldwide in more than 90 countries. In Uganda, our program is anchored on
three broad themes deliberately focused on Women’s Rights: Resilient
Livelihoods, Governance and Accountability and Humanitarian Preparedness and
Response.
Job Summary: The Project Officer Financing for Development
will be responsible for the strategic development and management of the country
program. The incumbent supports Oxfam’s impact locally, regionally,
continentally and globally through ensuring program alignment to the key
strategic objectives and program standards. The jobholder also provides support
in resource mobilisation, specifically for humanitarian/ resilience elements of
the strategy. The incumbent ensures that the promotion of women’s rights is at
the heart of all Oxfam in Uganda’s program work
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. Provide program
support: 40%
  • Work in close collaboration with both the
    Governance and Accountability Manager support processes and partner
    involvement in community based planning and citizen centered programming
    as well as in taking forward agreed influencing actions. 
  • Ensure the F4D project is implemented by
    partners as a single project.
  • Ensure F4D project is linked to the broader
    governance program as well as to 
    both resilient livelihoods and humanitarian work of Oxfam  and that Women’s rights is at the core.
  • Ensure sound analysis of current policy
    trends and support its inclusion in program choices.
  • Assist the Governance and accountability manager
    to develop and implement an effective governance program that engages
    citizens and CS especially  women as
    agents of change and influence.
  • The incumbent will gather information about
    different initiatives by CSOs and ensure they are captured in program
    implementation design as well as advising on how F4D interventions or any
    other Oxfam interventions can collaborate with such efforts.
  • Ensure close working relationship with Right
    to Food project and build synergies for complementarity, support and
    learning.
  • Identify and analyses relevant research
    products and recommend how the F4D project can utilize them.
  • Support Oxfam teams and partners in setting
    up a research agenda, conducting the research and dissemination of the
    research products.
  • Ensure that project reporting timelines and
    project benchmarks are adhered to.
  • Compile program narrative reports from
    partners and ensure it complies with Oxfam reporting standards.
  • Offer any other support to the program teams
    especially in areas of research, show casing, advocacy, campaigns, fund
    raising and  public engagements in
    the spirit of a one program approach
2. Support Partners: 40%
  • Ensure all the F4D partners are implementing
    the project as a single project and help coordinate the different
    activities of partners.
  • Ensure that all the partners produce activity
    reports and keep them in an organized manner.
  • Support partners in identifying capacity gaps
    and recommending capacity enhancement plans.
  • Ensure that partner organizations work in
    accordance with Oxfam  standards and
    objectives.
  • Support NGOs partners in program/project
    development through technical advice on participatory community
    engagement, district level consultation and project design
  • Conduct regular performance assessments and
    reviews of partner organisations, to ensure that the capacity building
    program is delivering agreed results, making necessary adjustments as
    circumstances change
  • Hold and/or participate in regular meetings
    with partner organisations, and stakeholders to ensure that the working
    relationship between them and Oxfam is positive, open and conducive to the
    successful achievement of agreed objectives.
  • Undertake regular and mutually agreed review
    visits to partners and other NGOs and provide guidance on enhancing the
    quality of programmes.
  • Ensure that all action points/
    recommendations agreed upon with partners during programme reviews are
    followed through during programme implementation.
  • Support Program Administrator on development
    and management of MoUs with Partners and ensure disbursement of funds is
    done in a timely manner.
3. Implement the MEAL
System: 20%
  • Work closely with PQ & L Coordinator and
    thematic manager to ensure that the MEL Framework is effectively adopted
    by the partners and that monitoring data is well managed and readily
    available for programme quality control
  • In charge of implementing systems and
    procedures for better management of partner organisations, especially for
    monitoring and reporting.
  • Work closely with the grant receiving NGO
    partners to mutually agree on detailed operational plans, budgets,
    indicators as well as monitoring, evaluation and learning framework in
    line with OCS plans and theory of change.
  • Ensure there is proper documentation of all
    monitoring and evaluation activities and actions taken to make redress
    where such actions are recommended.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The applicant for the Oxfam Project Officer
    Financing for Development job placement should have ideal qualifications
    to perform the aforementioned duties
  • Extensive knowledge of  advocacy, campaigns and lobbying in a
    diverse socio political set up.
  • Broad working knowledge of active citizenship
    and constraints to their participation in decision making processes.
  • Knowledge of the political economy and power
    dynamics.
  • Knowledge of Uganda’s fiscal systems and
    cycle especially government planning and budgeting process at both local
    and central level.
  • Good knowledge of international financial
    systems and advocacy platforms
  • Knowledge of Uganda’s civil society dynamics
    and key stakeholders in civil society.
  • Knowledge of programme development and
    delivery approaches, tools, methodologies and best practices
  • Proven knowledge of and experience with donor
    funding environment and good financial and project management skills;
  • Extensive knowledge of women’s rights
  • Excellent listening, communication and
    writing skills
  • Organisational and personal management
    skills, with ability to prioritise work issues to meet deadlines with
    minimal supervision and ability to adjust to constantly changing
    situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through;
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of a
    “Rights Based Approach”;
  • Proven capacity to ensure project
    implementation in accordance with agreed frameworks and timelines.
  • Excellent analytical and conceptual skills,
    commitment to “non-directive” styles of working and open minded.
  • Demonstrated ability to be results driven,
    have excellent prioritisation skills and be committed to meeting
    deadlines.
  • Willingness to work after working hours and
    ability to develop work plans.
  • Sharp analytical mind for external context
    analysis and ability to relate them to Oxfam and partner programs.
  • Ability to conduct gender analysis and apply
    a gender lenses in all program/project interventions
Behavioural Competencies:
  • 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 organisation.
  • 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.
  • 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
    behaviors 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. We give more freedom and
    demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support.
How to Apply:
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their applications in
writing, including a cover letter and curriculum vitae (Not exceeding 2MB) to
the HR and Admin Coordinator at oxfamuganda-jobs@oxfamnovib.nl.
Deadline: 10th June, 2016
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