LIVELIHOODS & RESILIENCE COORDINATOR

Job Description

ABOUT OXFAM Oxfam is a global movement of people who won?t live with the injustice of poverty. Together we save and rebuild lives in disasters. We help people build better lives for themselves. We speak out on the big issues that keep people poor, like inequality, discrimination against women and climate change. And we won?t stop until every person on the planet can live without poverty. Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation . Iraq Context Oxfam has been working in Iraq since the 1990s with both an expanding and contracting presence. In 2014, Oxfam established its first office in Kalar when the conflict with ISIS began and the country was thrown into a new humanitarian crisis, in an already fragile context. In 2021, Oxfam is amongst the largest NGOs operating in the country, with nine offices and almost 200 employees and an annual budget of 20 million USD. Oxfam in Iraq 2021-2026 country strategy articulates around 3 Goals: *Humanitarian Response: We envision all Iraqis who are conflict-affected and/or disaster-affected to have access to essential life-saving support in a timely, effective, accessible and appropriate manner.*Governance: We envision all Iraqis to have equal access to services and opportunities for all people, whereby equal distribution and control of resources and meaningful participation can build resilient and sustainable solutions for the future.*Equality: We envision an equitable and just society where Iraqis in all their diversity, live free from violence, enjoy ownership and control of resources and participate in decision-making processes across all spheres. Recognizing that Iraq is a fragile country prone to man-made and natural disasters, Oxfam in Iraq aims at continuing responding to humanitarian needs and offering durable solutions to internally displaced people, while supporting all Iraqis to recover sustainable and equitable access to basic services and income generating activities. As a feminist organization, Oxfam aims to strengthen the women?s empowerment movement by supporting Women?s Rights Organisations, with a focus on the Women, Peace and Security agenda, the prevention and response to Gender Based Violence and Women Economic Empowerment. In order to achieve the above, Oxfam work aims to integrate the following key sectors together for every intervention in a given location: * Water Sanitation and Hygiene* Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods* Protection & Social Cohesion* Gender Justice & Women Rights Supporting local leadership and transformative partnerships, influencing decision-makers to address the root causes of poverty and inequality, ensuring women?s rights are at the center of everything we do, integrating the impact of climate change in our programming, promoting innovative ways to address the challenges of humanitarian and development work are among the key approaches to Oxfam in Iraq. OUR Team Oxfam in Iraq aims to improve economic resilience of vulnerable Iraqi people, through the development of sustainable, equitable and gender-sensitive market systems, access to and control over economic resources, and contribution toward peaceful co-existence. Recognising economic recovery as a significant component to tackling poverty and inequalities, Oxfam?s EFSVL team delivers multi-purpose cash assistance, asset replacement schemes, business grants and vocational training initiatives to support economic recovery and create sustainable livelihoods opportunities for the most vulnerable, in particular women and youth. Working with the Durable Solution Technical Working Group, Area Based Coordination mechanisms, and other relevant coordination spaces, Oxfam contributes to providing Durable Solution to internally displaced people, while improving resilience to future shocks. The core areas of our EFSVL programming are: * Social Assistance, to ensure social protection for the most vulnerable women, men, girls and boys.* Women Economic Empowerment, based on a gender analysis and a gender-transformative approach integrated in every EFSVL intervention.* Green Economy, to promote the use of climate-smart solutions and ensure economic growth, market development along with environmental protection and better resources management.* Private Sector Partnership, through building programme partnership with ethical and eco-friendly private sector actors, lobbying for inclusive and safer work environments, and developing climate-smart business models. Job Purpose The Livelihoods and Resilience Coordinator will provide overall leadership and technical oversight to the EFSVL team across the whole of Iraq. 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) and with Program Managers in the field to design and implement integrated programming and ensure the quality of interventions. Job ResponsibilitiesStrategy & Programme Quality* Guide the implementation of EFSVL related outcomes of Oxfam Country Strategy* Review regularly the EFSVL related outcomes of Oxfam Country Strategy to propose adaptation to changes in needs and context.* Coordinate with country team and Oxfam?s regional and HQ technical advisors to implement, monitor, and adjust the EFSVL related outcomes of Oxfam Country Strategy.* Ensure new projects? objectives are in line with Oxfam Country Strategy, in view of the transition from humanitarian to development programming.* Explore opportunities of innovative EFSVL programming models through desk review and in country researches, including but not limited to climate change programming, sustainable water resources management, women economic empowerment, resilience, private sector partnership, and suggest/pilot innovative interventions in Iraq.* Develop and/or review tools and approaches for tracking the implementation for EFSVL activities to ensure that possible problems affecting the quality of programmes are flagged and resolved in due time.* Review existing tools, identify adjustments needed, develop new tools in view of the transition of the EFSVL programming from humanitarian to development.* Support Market and Cash-based programming adaptation to resilience and development interventions, ensuring harmonization and coordination standard, maintaining Oxfam relevance in the sector.* Provide technical support on developing new assessments and MEAL tools (including Market and Value Chain Assessments) to ensure that relevant information is being collected by the team to inform strategy and implementation, ensure accountability and learning as well as quality donor reporting.* Ensure mainstreamed quality standards are embedded into EFSVL programming, in close coordination with other sectors especially Gender, Protection and MEAL.* Support the implementation of evaluations of EFSVL interventions, in coordination with the MEAL team.* Ensure that ?lessons learned? from the EFSVL interventions are documented, become a team asset and are used to influence policies and future programme.Programme Development and Implementation* Conduct technical review of the new program opportunities, provide recommendations in terms of their relevance to Oxfam Country Strategy, including review of risks, value addition, existing capacities and other strategic links both internal across sectors and externally with relevant stakeholders.* Provide technical input to the development of concept notes and proposals, including drafting detailed activity description, logic framework, Theory Of Change and MEAL plans.* Provide technical review to operational/progress reports and donor reports.* Support Programme Managers and EFSVL team to unpack projects results related to EFSVL into detailed activities and implementation plans.* Oversee the quality and the time

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