Education Project Officer job at Oxfam
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Vacancy title:
Education Project Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Education ]

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Oxfam

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, May 05 2023 

Duty Station:
Within Uganda , Kampala, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 05 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can defeat poverty or any type of inequality or discrimination. We are an international confederation of 19 organizations (affiliates) working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development, and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

Annual Salary and Benefits Competitive Package in line with Oxfam Values
Internal Job Grade E1 DEV
Contract type Fixed Term
Reporting to Education Project Coordinator
Staff reporting directly to this post N/A
Key relationships/interactions Close engagement with the Governance and Accountability Team
Location Arua
Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty.

Essential Responsibilities
• Ensure project reporting timelines and project benchmarks are adhered to on GFS project.
• Ensure the project is implemented by partners as a single project.
• Develop quality concept notes and plan project activity implementation.
• Compile quality project narrative reports from partners and ensure they comply with Oxfam and donor reporting standards.
• Conduct analysis of projects reports in Oxfam SAP system and give feedback to partners.
• Liaise with MEAL staff to support project monitoring and evaluation actions.
• Effectively document all information including good practices and project success stories and share them.
• Ensure sound analysis of current policy trends and support its inclusion in programming choices.
• Identify and analyses relevant research products and recommend how the education project can utilize them.
• Hold reflection meetings on key education project activities and indicators.
• Conduct support supervision and mentoring to project stakeholders including partners.
• Support Oxfam teams and partners in setting up a research agenda, conducting the research and dissemination of the research products relevant to the project.
• Gather information about different initiatives by CSOs and ensure they are captured in project design and implementation.
• Ensure close working relationship with other thematic projects and build synergies for complementarity, support and learning.
• Gather information about different initiatives by CSOs and ensure they are captured in project design and implementation.
• Ensure close working relationship with other thematic initiatives and projects and build synergies for complementarity, support and learning.
• Ensure the project is linked to the broader education sub theme and governance and accountability program as well as to both resilient livelihoods, Gender Justice and humanitarian work of Oxfam and that Women’s rights is at the core of the project work.
• Support on research, show casing, advocacy, campaigns, fund raising and public engagements in the spirit of a triple nexus and one program approach.
• Any other duties provided by the supervisor.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:
• The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree and a postgraduate qualification in a relevant field. (e.g., Education, Public Administration, International Development, Law, etc.)
• Five years of experience working on education projects; Experience working in an international organization will be an added advantage.
• Excellent knowledge of programme development and delivery approaches, tools, methodologies, and best practices;
• Excellent Gender analytical lense and conversant with Feminist principles and inclusive approaches;
• Excellent research skills and demonstrated publications of opinions, blogs, articles in topical issues;
• Knowledge and practical experience on education project management in a diverse socio-political set up and ideally built on mature understanding of relevant issues.
• Good knowledge of active citizenship and constraints to citizens’ participation in decision making processes.
• Experience of and thorough understanding of a “Rights Based Approach”;
• Commitment to and good knowledge of working with a partnership approach across the spectrum of Oxfam’s work, including innovative approaches to capacity strengthening;
• Good knowledge of and experience with Education donor funding environment and good financial and project management skills;
• Excellent communication skills, in written and verbal English;


Key Attributes:
• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities.
• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, feminist principles and diversity for all aspects of development work.
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of self-awareness, initiative, sound judgment, personal energy and flexibility;
• Ability and willingness to travel and to work extra hours as necessary;


Competencies Description
• 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 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.
• Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us. Note: 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, or integrity screenings/references relating to misconduct and disciplinary actions in prior employment.

The deadline for the application is May 25, 2023



Job Experience:No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Education/ Academic/ Teaching jobs in Uganda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 25 may 2023
Duty Station: Kampala
Posted: 26-04-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 26-04-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 26-04-2056
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