Country Experience: Afghanistan (remote), Argelia (Saharawi refugee camps), Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Haiti, Malawi, Maroc, Moldova, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine (oPt), Peru, Poland, Romania, Senegal, South Sudan.
Jose is a Programme Manager with more than 15 years of experience in humanitarian and development programmes; he forms part of the Humanitarian Support Personnel (HSP) in Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team (GHT). Jose serves in a roving position, where the main areas developed as manager are the quick set up and management of emergency response programmes, team and partner capacity building, strategic plan and contingency & preparedness planning, risk management, and the representation, advocacy/policy and internal/external communication of Oxfam programmes and values, and managing programmes with multiple donors.
As a consultant, Jose supported War Child UK for 10 months with the design and implementation of their emergency response in Afghanistan. The main areas developed were humanitarian response strategy design, surge capacities at implementation level, risk management, capacity building and programme monitoring. Jose also contributed to the set up and roll out of Oxfam Consults.
Jose has multi sector experience in projects and programs related to WASH, food security and livelihoods, shelter, health, protection, resilience and risk management. He has strong team-building skills, is highly adaptable, is a strategic thinker and possesses strong decision-making skills. Jose is currently interested in contributing toward assesses, designing and promoting initiatives that strengthen resilience capacities and coping strategies against the effects of climatic change.