Protection Assistant

at  Oxfam GB

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam’s mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.
An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

ABOUT US

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.
Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

TEAM PURPOSE:

The Yemen Protection Teamwork in close collaboration with Oxfam programme teams at the country office and field offices, as well with our local partners; to contribute to the effectiveness of Oxfam’ protection work and humanitarian response in the country.
Ensuring that Oxfam response is implemented in line with Oxfam’s policies and protection guidelines, that includes the ICRC professional standards, the IASC guidelines in protection, along with sphere protection principles and other relevant guidance notes from the clusters, in order to ensure high quality response and impact.

JOB PURPOSE:

To promote Oxfam’ role and capacity, to deliver first- and second-line protection response, ensuring that Oxfam is in a better place to respond to the protection needs of the conflict affected - host and IDP communities in a timely and appropriate manner.
This will be undertaken by following up Oxfam’ protection country strategy with main focus on; improving the centrality of protection and the integration of protection and safe programming in Oxfam humanitarian response of WaSH and EFSVL, that includes the implementation of community-based protection activities.

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE:

Maintain and manage the development of improvements to the department’s services, procedures and systems. Some limited line management or supervision of level E/F employees and volunteers. Draws from a variety of information sources to inform individual and group decisions. Solving problems of a varied nature and resolving day-to-day problems without upward referral. Impact of this role is significant within the department and may have wider, organizational impact. At Oxfam, our job profiles provide a guide to what might be expected in the role. Along with our strategy, the job profile is used to help to shape specific goals for employees. Employees are supported to deliver these goals and they are annually assessed against them as part of the Oxfam performance review process. This job profile is not incorporated into the employment contract.