Jobs at Oxfam

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

• Lead and support high-quality humanitarian responses, deploying staff and working with other senior 
• managers tensure appropriate quality and scale of programme in line with Oxfam’s role as a leading 
• humanitarian actor tagreed international and national standards.
• Ensure accountability tOxfam’s programme participants and partners for our behaviours and performance, 
• promoting a culture in line with Oxfam’s values and addressing any failings.
• Oversight of Oxfam’s implementation of corporate commitments including, but not limited to:
• maintenance of certification against the Core Humanitarian Standard, 
• SPHERE, 
• Grand Bargain, 
• Charter for Change, 
• Call tAction on Protection from Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies
• Humanitarian Disability Charter, 
• pledges made at the World Humanitarian Summit and future international conferences. 
• Accountable for incorporating gender and diversity issues consistently across the humanitarian programme, 
• meeting Oxfam’s Minimum Standards on Gender in Emergencies: including, gender analysis, gender 
• equality, promotion and protection of human rights, empowerment of women and girls, and gender balance of staff.
• Provide leadership and advise the Global Programmes Director, Management Team and Executive 
• Leadership Team on performance, risk, strategy, funding, architecture, systems and processes tenable an effective humanitarian capacity. 
• Network and coordinate within the Confederation tgarner the support of affiliates tinvest in and support 
• humanitarian work programmatically, and in their domestic markets. 
• Ensure and support the development of regional and country humanitarian capacity and appropriate 
• strategies, with a particular focus on local humanitarian actors, as well as 
• working with and supporting Africa and MENA regions in the work on Rights Resilience and Response in 
• fragile contexts including developing the appropriate strategies and capacities tlead in this area of work.
• Ensure Oxfam continues tinnovate in humanitarian practice, including in terms of the nexus approach, 
• using evidence tdevelop new solutions and approaches ttechnical, process and coordination problems. 

Analysis and Problem Solving 

• Responsible for horizon planning, anticipating upcoming emergencies, analysing trends in humanitarian 
• crises and the humanitarian sector tpropose solutions. 
• Responsible for anticipating and managing risks that could threaten the organization’s reputation, 
• operational viability and security. 
• Scan the environment, anticipate changes, be comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with a large number 
• of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways.
• Improve Knowledge management tbuild on Oxfam’s tremendous experience, learning and contribution t
• the humanitarian sector globally. 

Impact 

• Oversight and analysis of the Oxfam confederation’s total humanitarian programme and supporting 
• structures. Work closely with Public Engagement, Fundraising, media and other colleagues tensure the 
• effective working and resourcing of all aspects of Oxfam’s humanitarian programme. 
• Ensure excellent working relationships across OI and the Confederation network and with countries and 
• regions including in support of the effective categorisation of humanitarian responses. Manage and influence 
• significant external relationships, enabling Oxfam ttake a lead role in the humanitarian sector, and be a 
• credible voice and actor within the decolonisation of humanitarian aid debates.

Leadership and Management

• Lead and manage the Global Humanitarian Team, including staff, budget, assets and funding. Build, lead and inspire a team that can deliver excellent support tregions and deliver high quality, safe, large scale 
• humanitarian programs through a diverse range of partners or directly as appropriate tthe context.
• Ensure effective resource planning and full compliance with Oxfam financial management and reporting 
• standards of the Global Humanitarian Team budget, Catastrophe Fund and restricted grants under the
• OIHDs direct management. 
• Foster an appropriate working culture, built on Oxfam’s values, tdeliver our work in a way that is respectful 
• and cognisant of power imbalances internally, and between Oxfam, our partners and communities we serve.
• Accountable for ensuring an inclusive and diverse team, where all staff feel safe and able twork ttheir full 
• potential, and whin turn develop respectful relationships with countries, regions and partners.
• Ensure the professional development and talent management of humanitarian staff.
• Ensure compliance with relevant Oxfam policies, including but not limited tfinance, HR, security and safeguarding

ESSENTIAL

• Self-Awareness
• Humility
• Relationship building
• Systems Thinking
• Enabling 

In addition
Humanitarian and Program Knowledge

• Track record and field experience especially in the global South, at a senior level, of managing large 
• scale response strategies in a range of complex humanitarian crises (natural, conflict, slow onset etc.), ., 
• including managing and motivating multidisciplinary, multicultural, geographically dispersed teams. 
• Working knowledge and experience of the humanitarian rights framework, including international 
• humanitarian law (IHL) and protection issues. Good knowledge and experience with gender analysis 
• and partnership relations.

 
Management and Leadership

• Committed to a rights-based approach and active commitment to putting women’s rights at the heart of all we do as well as the rights of other marginalized people in all aspects of an organization’s work.
• Knowledge and understanding of global justice, decolonisation, social change, women’s rights and gender equality and commitment to delivering humanitarian work through feminist principles and in respectful partnerships.
• Strategic Analysis
• Ability to oversee the development of, and contribute to, high level analysis of factors driving poverty, 
• marginalization and vulnerability, including the ability to ‘think politically’ by understanding motivations, 
• pressures and challenges faced by colleagues, partners and other actors. 
• A track record of driving programme quality improvements through evidence-based learning. A focus on 
• outcomes and accountability enabling learning and effectively sharing and managing knowledge.

Finance and Funding

• Competent financial and asset management experience. Experience of managing multiple budgets of over $5m, mitigating and controlling financial risks.
• Experience of managing donor funding and relationships, across many countries and programs.

Risk Management

• Able to take calculated risks based on evidence-based assumptions, and make sound judgments in uncertain and pressurised situations, including experience of crisis management leadership.
• Ability to continually access and analyse the external context of the organization enabling the development of 
• realistic strategies to maximize adaptability and agility, encourage future thinking, innovation, new ideas and learning from experience, as well as sound judgment on when to stop as well as start new initiatives.

Representation and Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including fluency in English both written and oral, with 
• ability to motivate, influence, and negotiate in a multicultural environment and with a wide range of
• internal and external stakeholders at all levels, including media and donors.Travel
• Ability to travel away from home, 12 - 15 weeks per annum in a normal year, with ability to travel with 48 hours’ notice.Desirable
• Ideally able to operate in a second language, particularly French, Spanish or Arabic

Contract: 4 years fixed term.

Closing date: 15th April @ 23:59 GMT

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

• To contribute to and implement Oxfam’s Global strategy, by providing vision and strategic direction to all of Oxfam’s work in Africa. 
• Lead a significant change management process merging the current regional platforms in West Africa and the Horn East and Central Africa and the Pan Africa Programme into one Africa Oxfam regional 
• platform and team.
• Work with the OiA Leadership Team to lead Oxfam’s humanitarian responses, long term development 
• programme design and implementation, advocacy and policy and influencing, including through strengthened creative partnerships. 
• Work closely with the relevant affiliates involved within the Region in several different ways to ensure 
• productive relationships are maintained in order to develop and deliver all Country and Regional Programmes.
• Represent Oxfam in Africa within the Africa continent and globally, together with the OiA Leadership 
• Team. Working with external stakeholders such AU, ECD, ECOWAS, EAC, IGAD, SADC, at the most 
• senior level to influence and inform decision makers at the highest levels, to build alliances and 
• networks within to promote Africa interest and Oxfam agenda to the Poverty movement, civil society and other critical constituencies.
• Represent Oxfam in Africa within the confederation, working with internal stakeholders, and the Executive Leadership team to influence and inform decision makers on Oxfam work in Afric and 
• serving as a spokesperson with media and social media to expand Oxfam’s reach and influence.
• Ensure that Oxfam’s work in Africa is adequately funded, both internally within Oxfam and externally. 
• Build relationships with external donors and proactively identify new donors for Oxfam’s work in the region
• Accountable to the Oxfam International Global Programmes Director for the leadership, delivery, effective management and monitoring, evaluation and learning in respect of the programmes in Africa.
• Line management together with the deputy Africa directors, of the One Africa Oxfam platform team, the Country Directors, the cluster Director of the SAF cluster, and the Addis Advocacy Office, 
• implementing a plural and robust leadership team to ensure collective and distributed leadershipaligned with Oxfam values and principles.

ESSENTIAL

Oxfam Competencies 

• Self-Awareness
• Relationship Building 
• Influencing
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment

Knowledge 

• Geographical, Political and Regional Knowledge: A deep understanding and knowledge of the politics, 
• economics and political context within Africa enabling the effective management of strategy and 
• influencing key stakeholders. Ability to manage the development of, and contribute to, the high-level
• analysis of factors driving poverty, inequality and vulnerability in developing country contexts, 
• including the ability to ‘think politically’ by understanding motivations, pressures and challenges faced by colleagues, partners and other actors

Experience 

• Management and Leadership: Significant senior leadership experience of managing and motivating, multi-disciplinary, multicultural, geographically remote and matrix managed teams. Significant 
• experience of leading and managing complex change processes and relationships involving a wide 
• range of both internal and external multi-cultural stakeholders across a variety of disciplines and 
• geographical areas.
• Strategic Analysis: Ability to oversee the development of, and contribute to, high level analysis of 
• factors driving poverty, marginalization and vulnerability in developing country contexts, including the 
• ability to ‘think politically’ by understanding motivations, pressures and challenges faced by colleagues, 
• partners and other actors across the Africa Region. 
• Proven analytical skills, able to take and manage calculated risks based on evidence-based
• assumptions. Able to think strategically, to maximise adaptability and agility, encourage forward 
• thinking, new ideas and learning from experience beyond the country program context while acting within a global framework. 
• Finance and Funding: Competent financial and asset management experience. Able to oversee the 
• management of multiple budgets of up to £200 million, mitigating and controlling financial risks –
• including managing donor funding and relationships, across a large number of countries and programmes.
• Risk Management and Judgement: Able to take calculated risks based on evidence-based assumptions. 
• Ability to continually assess and analyze the external context of the organisation enabling the 
• development of realistic strategies to maximise adaptability and agility, encourage future thinking, 
• innovation, new ideas and learning from experience, as well as sound judgement on when to stop as 
• well as start new initiatives. Proven track record of making sound judgements in uncertain and 
• pressurised situations. Including experience of crisis management leadership, while faced with multiple possibilities but limited resources.
• Representation and Communication: Demonstrated ability to convey complex messages in an 
• appropriate manner to broad and diverse audiences via multiple channels. Proven track record of advocacy, and representation to the highest level including understanding of and experience with 
• media and an ability to represent the organisation externally at various forums and in the media 
• (including social media) if required. A commitment to maximise Oxfam’s influencing capability across 
• our programmes. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to motivate, influence, and 
• negotiate with in a multi-cultural environment which includes decision makers in government, media and pivotal figures in society. Able to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels, including and particularly with Oxfam’s partners

Desirable
Competencies 

• Fluently Bilingual (French and English) in written and Oral communication
• Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity
• Decision Making

Contract: 4 years fixed term.

Closing date: 28th April @ 23:59 GMT