JOB DETAILS
LOCATION: Global South preferred (location subject to OIS being able to establish a contract of employment via a hosting affiliate or directly)
CONTRACT TYPE: 6 months maternity cover
JOB FAMILY: Programme ONE OXFAM GRADE/ZONE: B2
DEPARTMENT Advocacy, campaigns & engagement TEAM Worldwide advocacy & campaigns
SALARY: HOURS (FTE) 35
FLEXIBLE WORKING
We believe flexible working is key to building the Secretariat of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. We think this role would work well as a job share, and/or home based.
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.
DEPARTMENT PURPOSE:
Achieving systemic change and impact using Oxfam’s presence at every level from local, to regional, to global, aligned with the vision of the global strategic framework: influencing and engaging audiences around the world – through action and by generating financial support – to fight inequality to end poverty and injustice.
TEAM PURPOSE:
• Ensuring that Oxfam’s influencing around the world including campaigns, advocacy, policy, research is
high impact, and achieves systemic change with a focus on inequality and gender, rights & justice.
• Leading, convening & managing Oxfam’s influencing work across the world. Consulting, co-creating and
setting vision and direction of travel for Oxfam’s worldwide influencing work. Embedding an
integrated people-powered approach in all Oxfam’s influencing work.
• Enabling a strategic approach to working with allies and partners for influencing, ensuring co-creation,
organisational humility, and support for partnerships and allyships.
• Responsible for leading policy and advocacy across the confederation on these thematic areas.
Ensuring high quality policy and research outputs, with a focus on decolonising how and where
knowledge is produced in the organisation and beyond in line with the confederations’ intersectional
anti-racist feminist principles priorities, commitments and influencing strategies.
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JOB PURPOSE:
• Thematic lead for the confederation on issues relating to the overall gender, rights and justice framing,
and setting the agenda for specific strands of policy, research and advocacy work within this
framework.
• Internal and external representation on specific areas of policy, research and advocacy agendas, in
partnership with OI Advocacy Offices, country and regional teams.
• Ensuring policy, research & advocacy is targeted, high-impact, and influential externally by leading &
collaborating across all levels: country, regional and affiliate level.
ROLE REPORTS TO Head of Gender, Rights & Justice advocacy & campaigns
ROLES REPORTING TO THIS POST TBC
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY No
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)
• Leading and overseeing policy development, research and advocacy work on key thematic areas
on behalf of the confederation, working with countries, regions and affiliates at all levels to ensure
consistency, quality, and effectiveness of this strand of work to achieve maximum impact.
• Managing on-going development of Oxfam’s policy platforms on gender, rights and justice,
including forecasting and leading strategic dialogue on emerging and/or evolving analysis and
debates related to priority campaign content.
• Managing research, intelligence gathering, and policy coordination and delivery for Oxfam’s
priority campaigns at key external political moments; as well as developing our understanding and
knowledge on key gender, rights and justice issues and embedding this into all advocacy, policy,
research and influencing work.
• Responsible for maintaining thematic expertise but works flexibly to embed gender, rights and
justice and inequality framing in everything we do.
• Joining prioritised project teams as necessary and as the theories of change for the project
dictate.
• Providing policy support, advocacy access, training and capacity building for country colleagues,
allies and partners.
• Representing Oxfam externally with senior policy makers and linking the confederation with
existing networks of expertise within and beyond the organisation., in partnership with OI
Advocacy Offices, country and regional teams as appropriate
• Providing briefing materials for OI Executive Director and other colleagues who are representing
the organisation externally.
• Ensuring that Oxfam’s policy and advocacy work is embedded in the experience of country
program, allies and partner work reflective the lived experience of people living in poverty, and
ensuring that knowledge is developed and presented in an inclusive, decolonised, and feminist
way.
• Dealing with problems that are highly diverse and complex requiring comprehensive analysis of
programme information from a wide variety of sources.
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PERSON SPECIFICATION
Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam International Secretariat needs to be able to:
• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and
EQUALITY (read more about these here)
• Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of
Conduct):
1. Be committed to our feminist principles, and to
applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and
your work. Be ready to keep learning, with
accountability to those who experience oppression
as a result of their identities, such as their gender,
race/ethnicity, disability, class, or LGBTQIA identity.
2. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s
safeguarding training and adhering to relevant
policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam
are as safe as possible.
EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES
ESSENTIAL
• Self-Awareness
• Systems Thinking
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment
• Mutual accountability
• Enabling
In addition:
• Experience enabling performance of others and helping people to develop, grow and achieve their
potential, including increasing diversity and inclusion in teams and / or workplaces
• Proven skills in developing, and leading successful political advocacy strategies focussed on influencing
international policy and practice.
• An understanding of policy development and experience at overseeing the integration of policy insights
and solutions into campaigns and advocacy, including sound political judgement and risk management,
based on experience of dealing with a wide range of political actors
• Very strong conceptual and analytical skills.
• Experience of working as an organisational spokesperson.
• Ability and willingness to continually learn, unlearn and relearn new practices, and apply that learning
in new and changing contexts.
• Excellent understanding of, commitment to and experience of embedding and continuously learning to
embed a decolonial, anti-racist, intersectional feminist and partner led approach in your work
• Ability to manage large amounts of work, outstanding prioritisation and time management skills.
• Familiarity with the thematic subject area of the role.
How to apply
Please Apply Here