Overview
Position Oxfam as a Public Health Engineering (PHE) Lead in the WASH sector, ensuring knowledge sharing and driving innovation. The role aims to ensure high-quality PHE responses, strengthen accountability, and promote safe programming.
Tasks Summary
- - Position Oxfam as a Public Health Engineering (PHE) Lead in the WASH sector.
- - Ensure knowledge of sector standards and learning are shared widely and drive innovation.
- - Ensure high quality PHE responses by building on and adapting to new developments.
- - Strengthen accountability at all levels of response.
- - Ensure Oxfam’s Public health engineers get the basics of engineering right.
- - Ensure accountability for ensuring community participation shapes programme decisions.
- - Actively seek a partnership approach and work following feminist principles.
- - Promote safe programming in all humanitarian responses.
Experience Requirements
- Substantial humanitarian experience leading WASH or public health engineering in responses across multiple continents.
- Proven experience of managing and leading senior technical teams and strategies.
- Experience managing budget and project management for large-scale emergency WASH programs.
- Experience influencing the WASH sector in multi-agency forums.
- Experience in fundraising/ proposal writing.
- Substantial WASH experience in leading humanitarian emergencies on at least two continents, including coordination of large-scale WASH activities across a wide geographical area.
- Experience of leading the public health engineering component of a large-scale humanitarian response in collaboration with PHP.
- Proven experience of innovative thinking, and the ability to use own initiative to shape and define departmental strategies and initiatives for use in the field.
- Proven experience of managing and leading a senior team.
- Experience of fundraising and proposal writing.
- Good understanding of cross-cutting humanitarian issues such as diversity, HIV and AIDS, humanitarian protection and accountability, with proven commitment to incorporating these concepts in programme implementation.
- Sound understanding of the importance of and commitment to gender and participation in humanitarian work.
- Commitment to and familiarity with humanitarian principles and minimum standards for humanitarian response.
- Ability to travel to difficult and insecure environments for up to 12 weeks per year and at short notice if required to support rapid onset crises.
- Experience of advocacy and lobbying on public health and engineering issues to international forums (Desirable).
Qualification Requirements
• Post-graduate qualification relevant to the field of public health engineering.
