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About Oxfam Pilipinas
We seek lasting change. We at Oxfam Pilipinas dream and work for a future where Filipinos are free from poverty. For more than 30 years, serving in a country where close to 27 million now live in poverty, we have relied on the power of people to carry out programs designed to achieve our shared vision. Central to our strategy is working with partners to transform the unequal power relations, structures, norms, and values that cause poverty and inequality, including gender-based violence and injustice.
We strive to apply a feminist lens to all our analyses and actions. We seek to save lives, provide access to services, and reduce the impact of disasters, particularly on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. We belong to the larger Oxfam family of over 20 organizations networked with partners and grassroots communities in all corners of the globe. We are part of a global movement for genuine change, seeking to rid the world of the scourge of poverty, with gender justice at the core of what we do.
Job Purpose
To work with Oxfam staff and partners in ensuring that effective and relevant monitoring and evaluation plans and systems are in place. The post will also ensure Oxfam’s accountability to all stakeholders are observed based on quality programme design. The role will support the delivery of Oxfam Pilipinas’ Climate Justice Portfolio based on agreed deliverables with donors and partners from civil society, private sectors, local government units and related agencies.
Key Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to, the following:
- The MELSA Officer will have overall responsibility of ensuring that quality systems and processes for project monitoring, evaluation, learning, and social accountability are in place for Climate Justice projects.
- Within the contract’s duration, the MELSA Officer may be asked to provide defined MELSA support to other projects within Climate Justice, based on their expertise and in accordance with partners’ needs.
- The post holder shall be under the supervision of and shall be directly accountable to the Oxfam Pilipinas’ Climate Justice Portfolio Manager.
- The MELSA Officer will support the Climate Justice Portfolio Manager and Project Leads in preparing donor report, concept notes preparation, oversight of identified research initiatives for just energy transition projects, and implementation of the core MELSA team’s cross-project system and capacity enhancement efforts including peer-to-peer support and learning.
Project Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Social Accountability (MELSA)
- Develop, enhance, and regularly update with Oxfam Pilipinas teams and implementing partners the projects’ context analyses and formative plans (i.e., risk mitigation, safeguarding, disability inclusion, learning, sustainability, etc.), and ensure monitoring of such plans;
- Facilitate preparation, deployment, and updating of MELSA work plans (including relevant MELSA capacity building plans) with Oxfam Pilipinas project teams and partners to ensure timely implementation of identified MELSA processes based on agreed MELSA framework;
- Provide assistance to the operationalization of MELSA team’s peer-to-peer support system, in accordance with the planned rollout of the MELSA toolkit and the MELSA capacity building program, and in close coordination with external consultant/s hired for such activities;
- Work with the relevant Oxfam Pilipinas project officers and implementing partners’ project MELSA focal persons in the preparation and dissemination of high quality MELSA outputs, including regular reports to donors, learning products, and research/evaluation reports;
- Regularly report to and alert the direct line manager, MELSA Manager, and the relevant project leads on any project-related risks, project implementation status, and emerging project opportunities and threats;
- Support relevant project teams and Oxfam Pilipinas’ Policy Advocacy and Communications (PAC) unit to plan for and deliver on agreed policy influencing, communications, and norms shifting initiatives by providing quality MELSA information from systems put in place;
- Ensure effective operationalization of the project’s complaints and feedback system (CFS), in line with Oxfam Pilipinas’ institutional CFS and the strategic partnership agreement, and of other agreed social accountability approaches integrated into project’s designs/plans;
- Actively contribute to the design and implementation of planned baseline studies, project learning reviews, periodic outcome tracking, project-related research activities, evaluations in line with facilitating reflections among stakeholders around project results and lessons.
Support to portfolio MELSA:
- Support Oxfam Pilipinas’ MELSA Manager and Officers in ensuring that any emerging knowledge from project implementation and learning under the Climate Justice portfolio are properly captured and shared via appropriate knowledge products and strategies.
- Support the Climate Justice Portfolio Manager and Climate Justice Policy Research Officer in overseeing the formulation of the portfolio’s learning agenda based on the agreed theory of change, and the design and implementation of relevant formative and programmatic researches, and standalone research projects, that could contribute to the portfolio’s efforts to address identified thematic concerns.
- As part of the country portfolio and the broader MELSA teams, actively engage in discussions and processes that are shaping Oxfam Pilipinas’ strategic directions, objectives, and ways of working by sharing relevant information and MELSA systems-generated outputs/lessons.
Support to portfolio MELSA:
- As assigned, represent Oxfam Pilipinas externally, and positively contribute to the promotion of women and girls’ empowerment, and taking a role to contribute to knowledge sharing and program development, where possible and relevant.
- In times of disasters, will be part of the potential humanitarian surge capacity as guided by the Country Humanitarian Team or Humanitarian Advocacy and Strategic Partner Relations Manager.
Perform priority organizational tasks related to his/her competencies, as may be assigned from time to time.
