Position: Senior Project Coordinator TROSA (Oxfam)__Deadline:20Sep

TROSA SENIOR PROJECT COORDINATOR

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Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty.

Position Title:	TROSA Senior Project Coordinator
Supervisor:	TROSA Project Manager
Location:	Project Management Unit, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Contract Type:	9 months
Category:	National Category, C1
Annual Salary and Benefit:	As per national pay scale
Starting Date:	1st Oct 2021

 

1. Background

Oxfam is an international confederation of 20 organizations networked together in 97 countries. As part of a global movement for change, we are working together to end world poverty and injustice. We work with thousands of partners in countries around the world and employ staff in a wide variety of posts. We work directly with communities, and we seek to influence the powerful to enable the most marginalized to improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.

Working at Oxfam is so much more than just a job. As an Oxfam employee, consultant, or volunteer, you will join a team of dedicated and passionate professionals working to save lives, help people overcome poverty, and fight for social justice.

Transboundary Rivers of South Asia (TROSA) is a five year (2017-2021) program aimed at reducing poverty of communities in the transboundary river basins of Ganges-Bramhaputra-Meghna (GBM) and Salween (Myanmar). The program will build on existing knowledge and programs of Oxfam teams, local partners and other regional partners in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar. The value of the program is USD 11.4 million  over five years Six months and is funded by the Government of Sweden.

Oxfam and partners envisage that poverty will be reduced for marginalised and vulnerable river basin communities through increased access to and control over river water resources.  TROSA program components are:

• Improve policies and practice of governments that protect the rights of communities along Ganges, the Brahmaputra-Meghna and the Salween River basins to water resources.
• Improve policies and practice of private sector and other actors that respect the rights of river basin communities to water resources.
• Strengthen capacity of river basin communities and civil society to influence trans-boundary water resource management.
• Strengthen women’s profile and influence in dialogues and decision-making on water management and water infrastructure.

 

2. Purpose

The position is a member of the TROSA PMU, based in Cambodia and reports to the TROSA Project Manager. The Senior Project Coordinator will:

1. Co-lead the overall project implementation, including some of the key planned activities like results consolidation, learning and the End of Project Evaluation.
2. Work closely with all the partners in the TROSA project basins and ensure timely coordination and communication on these activities.
3. Support the Project Manager and other stakeholders to ensure quality compliance with donor and Oxfam internal requirements.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Management

1. Overall co-lead for the management of the TROSA project, currently working with more than 15 different partners in four countries (Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar)
2. Overall management of the programme, ensure that the programme is implemented as planned, in compliance with donor contractual obligations
3. Work with the Finance lead to monitor programme budget, revising as necessary and advising the Project Manager and the Steering Committee of variance and/or deficits
4. Ensure ongoing relevance of the programme, adapting intervention approach/content associated with changes in the context.
5. In collaboration with the MEAL coordinator, monitor and evaluate programme work to maintain and/or improve the quality, incorporating learning in the programme and ensuring achievement of desired impact.
6. Lead the End of Project Evaluation and coordinate the overall process, including TOR finalization, consultant recruitment, partner coordination, report finalization and dissemination/use in future programming.

Representation, Networking and Communications:

1. Together with the Project Manger lead on existing partnerships, maintain strong relationships, and regular communication with all partners as part of the end of project evaluation.
2. Represent the project in external meetings and learning forums, as and when required.
3. Work with the Project Manager in Steering Committee discussions, donor coordination and communication, and regular discussions with various units in Oxfam Novib in the Hague.
4. Provide regular programme updates and early alerts to the Project Manager to respond to potential issues in time.

 

3. Required Skills and Experience

Skills and Competence:

1. The post requires advanced specialist knowledge in programme management (+ 5 years), preferably in multi-country and regional context.
2. High level of partnership and people management and leadership skills
3. Ability to prioritize, problem-solved and meet agreed deadlines
4. Ability to embed systematic, high-quality programme monitoring, learning, and coordination
5. Strong report writing, and presentation skills, including the ability to present complex issues clearly and concisely to a broad range of audiences
6. Demonstrated facilitation, coaching and mentoring skills
7. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate in English clearly both verbally and in writing and with all levels of staff
8. Sensitivity to cultural differences, and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural context
9. Working knowledge of Do No Harm approaches and at least basic knowledge of conflict sensitive approaches
10. Ability to represent Oxfam externally, with international and national actors
11. Familiarity with advocacy work at local and national level
12. Willingness to work at flexible hours

Desirable

1. Experience working in multi-country/regional context with multiple and diver partners.
2. Ability to work effectively independently with minimal support
3. Technical expertise in natural resources governance and human rights issues – with proven ability to embed gender justice into all programmes

 

4. Travel

Participation and support for partner meetings and workshops will require frequent travel within the project areas including Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Myanmar and occasional travel outside the region.

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, 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.

 

Organizational Values

• Accountability – Our purpose-driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable. We believe that others should also be held accountable for their actions.
• Empowerment – Our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen.

•  Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences.

 

Key Behavioral Competencies (based on Oxfam’s Leadership Model)

 

Competencies	Description
Decisiveness	We are comfortable to make transparent decisions and to adapt decision-making modes to the context and needs.
Influencing	We can 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 can 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 everyone. 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 relationships within and outside the organization. We can engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organization.
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 many 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 can 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 can 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.

Interested applicants should submit their application and CV to our recruitment website at Click here by September 20, 2021  at 23:59 ICT.

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