FOOD SECURITY & PEACE BUILDING COORDINATOR Full Time

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. 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.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organization.

Oxfam is a global community that believes poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s rights 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 the international confederation Oxfam.

Since the early 1970s, we have been working to address the underlying causes of poverty and marginalization by focusing on developing sustainable livelihoods, providing water and sanitation, agriculture, climate research, gender, and humanitarian issues.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)

A. Program Strategy and Technical Leadership (40%).

• The coordinator will lead the design and conflict-sensitive implementation of integrated Food Security and Livelihood (FSL) strategies for pastoral communities, focusing on climate-smart practices and market linkages.
• Driving women’s economic empowerment (e.g., VSLAs) to foster their leadership in peacebuilding.
• Ensuring FSL activities explicitly link to inclusive peace outcomes and the equitable, sustainable management of community WASH systems and rangelands to reduce resource conflict.
• The role oversees resilience building (e.g., fodder production), provides technical guidance, conducts market assessments, and ensures all programming promotes full and equal participation of women while addressing specific vulnerabilities.
• Ensure that programmes analyse and address specific vulnerabilities in FS, peace and conflict.
• Identify implementation challenges and risks, particularly those related to drought, security, and access, and propose mitigation measures.
• Promote accountability, protection, and safeguarding principles throughout project implementation.

B. Strategic Coordination, Partnership, and Representation (10%)

This classification involves connecting the program externally with key stakeholders and ensuring the organization’s approach is represented and influences the wider humanitarian/development context.

• External Coordination: Coordination and collaboration with UN-Agencies, (I)NGOs, Government offices, community leaders/structures, and other stakeholders at regional and local levels.
• Cluster/Forum Representation: Represent Oxfam on FSL & Peace issues at the Cluster meetings, and promote market-based programming, through cluster or working group participation or leadership and influencing other relevant external fora when context allows.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with Oxfam and partners’ field level stakeholders on FSL issues as well as external stakeholders at regional level, and community structures to ensure smooth project implementation.
• Support community mobilization and participation, ensuring inclusion of women, youth, and vulnerable groups.

C. Peacebuilding Integration (20%)

• The coordinator will serve as the lead technical liaison with the Somali Regional government and cluster groups (FSLC, Peacebuilding) and relevant cluster working groups (FSLC and Peacebuilding) at regional and zonal levels to broker strategic alliances and secure funding for relief and recovery.
• The role involves ensuring technical quality and standard compliance (SPHERE, LEGS) and managing partners to guarantee project objectives are met.
• Crucially, the coordinator must integrate FSL activities with community peace and WASH governance structures, while building the capacity of local CSOs (VSLAs, WUCs) for sustainability and local ownership.

D. Monitoring, Accountability, and Learning (30%)

• Contribute to the project’s monitoring framework by developing and tracking process and outcome indicators that specifically measure the impact of livelihood interventions on social cohesion and the equitable distribution of resources (e.g., perception of fairness, reduction in resource disputes).
• Ensure that data is rigorously collected and disaggregated by gender, age, and clan/location to monitor progress on inclusion and power dynamics, particularly concerning the empowerment of women, youth, and elders in conflict resolution.
• Lead the analysis of monitoring data to inform adaptive programming, ensuring the project adjusts its livelihood strategies in response to evolving conflict dynamics and water access challenges.
• Lead the drafting of high-quality, evidence-based sections for donor reports, highlighting how livelihood interventions contribute to the achievement of peace and sustainable resource management.
• Any other assignment given by the line manager.

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to:

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, SOLIDARITY, COURAGE, AND EQUALITY

Our Values

• Equality: We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities.
• Empowerment: We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them.
• Solidarity: We join hands, support, and collaborate across boundaries in working towards a just and sustainable world.
• Inclusiveness: We embrace diversity and difference and value the perspectives and contributions of all people and communities in their fight against poverty and injustice.
• Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions and inaction and hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with and for.
• Courage: We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes.
• Ensure you commit to our THREE ORGANISATIONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Ensure you actively ADOPT OXFAM’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP APPROACH and applying the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here:

SKILS, Experience, Knowledge & Competencies

Essential

• Master’s degree in food security, Rural Development, Agricultural Economics, Conflict Studies, or a closely related field.
• Minimum five (5) years of progressive professional experience managing integrated Food Security and Livelihood programs in fragile, complex, and/or pastoralist environments.
• Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing projects that explicitly link economic recovery to peacebuilding and conflict mitigation.
• In-depth technical knowledge of pastoral livelihood systems and experience working on resource-based conflicts, especially related to water and rangeland in the Somali Region of Ethiopia or a similar Horn of Africa context.
• Proven experience in gender-transformative programming, specifically empowering women economically and supporting their participation in governance and peace structures.
• Prior experience managing large-scale, donor-funded projects and working in coordination with government and civil society partners.
• Analytical skills for conducting and integrating conflict analysis (e.g., Do No Harm, Connectors and Dividers) into project implementation.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential.
• Proven ability in partnership management, mentor, and provide technical supervision to partner’s field teams in remote locations.
• Strong report writing, presentation, and financial management skills.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and organizational values.
• Computer literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)

Desirable

• Knowledge of Somali culture
• Proficiency in Somali and/or Amharic is a strong advantage.