Overview
The role provides overall technical and strategic leadership for Oxfam’s food security, livelihoods, and resilience programming across the Cluster. It leads strategic design and technical direction of emergency food security, livelihoods, resilience, and economic recovery programming.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategic design and technical direction of emergency food security, livelihoods, resilience, and economic recovery programming.
- Ensure interventions are contextually relevant, technically sound, and aligned with regional strategic priorities.
- Develop and refine sector strategies across, emergency food security, livelihood restoration, climate adaptation, market systems, cash and voucher assistance, and social protection.
- Ensure programming addresses both immediate humanitarian needs and longer-term resilience and economic justice pathways.
- Lead or support food security assessments, market analyses, household economy analyses, vulnerability assessments, and livelihood diagnostics.
- Strengthen data-driven programme design through context analysis, scenario planning, and strategic forecasting.
- Develop and maintain systems for early warning, anticipatory action, disaster preparedness, and crisis forecasting.
- Support preparedness planning for both rapid-onset and protracted emergencies.
- Strengthen partner capacity in EFSL design, emergency programming, cash programming, market systems, compliance, and accountability.
- Provide structured technical accompaniment and mentoring to local partners and consortium members.
- Support localisation by shifting technical capacity and leadership closer to local actors.
- Develop tools, guidance, templates, and training systems that strengthen partner autonomy.
- Ensure technical quality across all phases of programme design and implementation.
- Strengthen sector-specific monitoring, evaluation, and accountability systems.
- Support development of indicators, frameworks, and quality assurance systems.
- Conduct technical reviews, programme audits, and quality assurance missions.
- Support emergency response teams in designing and delivering food assistance, cash programming, livelihood recovery, market support, and resilience interventions.
- Participate in surge deployments or remote emergency coordination as required.
- Coordinate with internal teams, partners, humanitarian clusters, governments, and technical working groups.
- Strengthen coherence and effectiveness of regional humanitarian responses.
- Provide technical leadership for concept notes, proposals, budgets, and donor engagement materials.
- Identify strategic funding opportunities linked to food security, resilience, and economic justice.
- Strengthen proposal competitiveness through strong technical design.
- Support donor confidence through clear articulation of Oxfam’s FES value proposition.
- Translate technical evidence into policy recommendations, advocacy priorities, and regional influencing agendas.
- Support regional and national advocacy on food systems, climate resilience, social protection, and economic justice.
- Represent Oxfam in technical and humanitarian coordination forums.
- Strengthen Oxfam’s thought leadership on locally led humanitarian response, food security resilience, and nexus programming.
- Ensure all programming aligns with safeguarding, humanitarian standards, ethical conduct, and donor compliance.
- Integrate safeguarding, gender, and protection into all FES interventions.
- Identify and mitigate technical, operational, fiduciary, and programmatic risks.
- Promote safe, ethical, and accountable programme delivery.
Required Experience
5 years of relevant experience in humanitarian response, food security, livelihoods, cash programming, and resilience programme. Proven experience in multi-country programming, emergency response, partner-led implementation, and technical programme leadership. Proven experience working with national or regional partners supporting programme implementation including working across multi-country or multi-stakeholder environment.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Food Security, Agriculture, Humanitarian Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences or related field.
