JOB DETAILS

LOCATION: Sana’a

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term

INTERNAL JOB GRADE: C zone 1

DEPARTMENT and TEAM: Programme (technical and coordination)

SALARY: As per Oxfam Salary scale

Hours: <40 hours per week>

FLEXIBLE WORKING

We think this role would work particularly well as a full time in-person position.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE: To save lives and improve the health, dignity, and resilience of vulnerable populations by ensuring equitable access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services, while reducing the risks of disease outbreaks and strengthening communities' capacity to withstand and recover from humanitarian and climate-related shocks.

TEAM PURPOSE: The Yemen WASH Consortium (Oxfam, NRC, and YFCA) aims to deliver high-impact WASH programming to conflict-affected communities, ensuring timely, safe, and equitable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services

JOB PURPOSE: To serve as the primary leader of the Consortium Management Unit (CMU) and the secretariat for the Consortium Steering Committee (CSC). This role ensures strategic alignment, effective coordination between partners, and successful delivery of the ECHO HIP 2026 project deliverables and other potential funding

Background

Yemen continues to face one of the world's largest humanitarian crises after more than a decade of conflict. Damage to and disruption of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services have increased the risk of waterborne diseases, including cholera and acute watery diarrhoea (AWD), as well as malnutrition, particularly among children under five and other vulnerable populations.

To address these challenges, the Yemen WASH Consortium (YWC), composed of Oxfam, NRC, and YFCA, is planning to implement an integrated WASH interventions in eight districts across Hajjah, Al Hudaydah, Ibb, and Marib governorates. Building on the partners' extensive humanitarian experience and long-standing presence in Yemen, the consortium works to improve access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services for crisis-affected internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities.

The programme aims to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with waterborne diseases and malnutrition through sustainable, climate-resilient, and shock-responsive WASH interventions. It seeks to ensure equitable access to quality WASH services while strengthening community resilience to future emergencies and climate-related shocks.

ROLE REPORTS TO

Deputy Country Director - Programs (Oxfam) with a strategic accountability line to the Consortium Steering Committee (CSC)

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS POST

Health and Nutrition Specialist; MEAL Coordinator, Finance Assistant

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

Yes

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

Strategic Management

• Secretariat for the Consortium Steering Committee (CSC): Lead the secretariat functions for the CSC, including logistical arrangements, setting agendas with Country Directors, and documenting formal minutes and decision-logs.

• Governance Protocol Oversight: Ensure adherence to the CSC ToR decision-making processes, including the facilitation of consensus-building and the management of "casting vote" protocols for the Chair in the event of a tie.

• Strategic Access Unblocking: Lead the development and endorsement of the Consortium Access Strategy and Workplan (CSC ToR III.2). Leverage collective organizational influence to navigate major access constraints with authorities.

• Phase 2 Strategic Positioning: Positioning the partnership as a nationally recognized, full-scale consortium. Lead the development of a Consortium Fundraising Plan to secure additional donor support beyond ECHO, Engage with local authorities, MoW, national and international WASH actors, universities, donors, communities...

• Coordination: lead the coordination with other consortium including CCY, brightly, YJR, YDR, other consortiums and national WASH cluster, as well as relevant Health and Nutrition coordination mechanisms where appropriate, while and operationalizing strategic decisions, ensuring aligned implementation across partners, and monitoring progress, budgets, and results to achieve programme objectives.

• Learning and Evidence generation: Supporting the Consortium Management Unit (CMU) in drafting and implementing the Learning Plan, which focuses on evidence generation for integrated WASH programming and identify the long-term transformative objectives

• Advocacy and Transformative objectives: based on the evidence generated by the consortium and the long-term transformative objectives identified, develop proper Advocacy Plan to achieve these objectives jointly with the Advocacy & Media department.

• Risk Monitoring: Supporting the CSC in assessing and monitoring external risks, including political, security, and reputational challenges, and helping define mitigation measures.

Technical & Coordination

• Secretariat for the Program Development & Funding TWG: Lead the proposal co-design process, including the Theory of Change, Logical Framework, and implementation strategy.

• Consolidation & Quality Assurance: Serve as the primary writer and consolidator of the ECHO HIP 2026 narrative, ensuring technical excellence and compliance with ECHO HIP requirements and Oxfam’s quality standards.

• Donor Intelligence: Monitor donor funding trends and conduct opportunity analysis to inform long-term sustainability and the Phase 2 roadmap.

• Co-creation Facilitation: Ensuring that all partners (Oxfam, NRC, and YFCA) contribute to a single, coherent narrative that reflects technical complementarity and sound governance.

• Reporting: Reports to the Consortium Steering Committee (CSC). Collaborates closely with consortium partners and area-based coordination teams to ensure coherent implementation; -Donor Reporting & Coordination: Lead the consolidation of technical and financial inputs from all partners to produce high-quality, cohesive progress reports and the final report for ECHO; -

• Internal Oversight: Ensure that all communication leads are designated and that reporting platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Teams) are maintained with version-controlled documentation

• Technical Quality and Standards: Guide Technical Working Groups (TWGs) in developing Wash technical design and facilitate in integration with relevant public health and nutrition considerations where applicable; tools, SOPs, and implementation approach and ensure integration of Gender, Protection, Conflict Sensitivity, and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) across activities; Resolve technical and operational issues among partners and ensure adherence to quality standards.

• Operational Coordination and Access: Coordinate joint assessments, operational planning, and access to avoid duplication and improve efficiency and Promote resource sharing and operational synergies among consortium members.

• Timeline Adherence: Managing the proposal coordination timeline, ensuring that drafts, budget consolidations, and internal reviews are completed according to the agreed-upon roadmap.

• Archiving: Serving as the custodian of the final proposal package, ensuring all drafts and final versions are properly stored and archived.

Governance Participation:

• Consortium steering committee: Secretariat; strategic oversight; records minutes/protocols

• Programme lead consortium: Coordinator; ensures alignment; facilitates signoffs

• Funding TWG – Secretariat & lead writer; manages proposals; assures quality

• Technical TWGs (WASH/MEAL) – Oversight; coordination support; cross-TWG alignment

Liaison and Representation

• Internal Liaison: Facilitating communication between the Country Directors in the CSC, the Program Directors in the Program Lead Group (PLG), and the technical experts in the TWGs.

• External Liaison: Facilitate coordination with local authorities for the SA process and access constraint issues.

• External Representation: Representing the consortium in high-level coordination meetings with government officials, UN agencies, knowledge centers, private sector and donors (specifically ECHO) to showcase the value-add of the integrated consortium approach.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES

ESSENTIAL

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in international development, Social Sciences, or related field.

• Experience: From 3 to 5 years of humanitarian management, with proven international experience facilitating complex consortia and leading successful ECHO proposal developments in conflict settings, preferably WASH consortia.

• Proven technical knowledge and expertise in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), including public health engineering, public health promotion, and a sound understanding of the links between WASH, public health, and nutrition outcomes

• Coordination: A proven record of effective people management with strong competencies in multi-partner coordination. Excellent interpersonal skills, communication capacity and networking.

• Values: People oriented, with focus on beneficiaries, including women and girls, people with specific needs, and marginalized communities.Demonstrated commitment to humanitarian work, feminist principles, gender, inclusion, and safeguarding.

• Core Competencies: Systems Thinking, Strategic Thinking, and Mutual Accountability.

• Technical Skills: High-level representation, financial analysis, and fluency in English (Arabic is a significant advantage).

Desirable

• Education: Master’s degree in a relevant field.

• Regional Expertise: Prior experience working in Yemen or another Middle East conflict program.

• Technical Breadth: Knowledge of public health promotion, community water supply, or sanitation, health and nutrition.

How to apply

Please visit Oxfam careers: https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/jobs/vacancy/24772/description

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