Oxfam Liason Officer- Pan Africa Associate – Volunteering Opportunity

Oxfam Liaison Office to the African Union
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

Are you committed to fight poverty, inequality and related injustice in Africa? Are you ready to promote peace, security and good governance in Africa? Are you interested in contributing in the African Union mission to build an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven and managed by its own citizens? If your answers are yes to these questions, then this opportunity is for you.

Terms of Reference

In our effort to ever grow as an office and build the capacity of capable and motivated individuals who aspire to pan-African principles, we are looking to hire young volunteers, looking to start a career in international development, humanitarian law and International relations etc.

At Oxfam we give you the opportunity to get useful skills and hands-on experience about Oxfam’s Mission and Vision, our work and processes. We also invest in our people to ensure that they develop useful competencies related to the specific job and Oxfam in general.

Key Qualifications
Bachelors or Master’s degree particularly in international relations, political science, peace and security, governance, law, development studies, communication, administration management.

Key Competencies/skills
· Writing and presentation skills
· Effective inter-personal skills
· Knowledge of African development affairs
· Office management and admin skill
· Word processing and internet based skills
· Excellent proficiency in English, French highly is desirable

Key responsibilities
· Support to Oxfam’s Liaison Office to the African Union on various issues including research, analysis, capacity development, public relation, advocacy, campaign and communication with the African Union, Addis Ababa based Embassies and other partners
· Monitoring of daily activities of African Union organs
· Documentation gathering, management of events and calendars
· Reporting and general administrative and logistic support to the office
· Various support to Pan African partners within the continent
· Organize meetings and other events

Recruitment Procedures:
Applicants are invited to submit a motivation letter and CV by email only to the following to: recruitment.oiau@oxfaminternational.org with the subject “Pan Africa Associate”: Please do not send any other documents. No phone call please!

Only short-listed candidates will be called for interview and written test.
Deadline for Application: 22nd February 2015 at 17:00 GMT

Selected candidates will be appointed for a six-month period. Probation period will be one month.

Suggested Starting Date: 1st March 2015

Oxfam shall provide the volunteer with a small monthly stipend to cover expenses.

Other benefits: Medical coverage as per Oxfam Policy.