JOB DETAILS LOCATION: Global South/Nairobi preferred: location subject to OIS being able to establish a contract of employment via a hosting affiliate or directly
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term 1 year (Maternity Cover)
INTERNAL JOB GRADE: C1
HUB : Influencing and Engagement
TEAM: Worldwide advocacy & campaigns team
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.
HUB 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, communications, media, digital work is high impact and achieves systemic change with an overall framing on inequality and gender, rights and justice.
• Leading, convening & managing Oxfam’s influencing work across the world. Working with countries, regions and affiliates, 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, organizational humility, and support for partnerships and allyships.
JOB PURPOSE: • Supporting co-creation and delivery of creative public facing approaches to engage audiences around the world on topics related to bodily autonomy, SRHR, and SOGIESC rights. Ensuring that people’s power is central to theories of change where power analysis suggests it should be. Job profile template– 23.09.20
• Working closely with countries, regions, and affiliates to ensure that people’s power is central to the confederation’s work.
• Working primarily in project teams within the priorities set by the confederation.
About Oxfam
At Oxfam we respond to emergencies and advocate for people in crisis, partnering with local organizations to deliver essentials and help rebuild communities. We work with activists and partners to fight poverty and injustice. We campaign for economic, gender, climate justice and accountable governance, striving for sustainable growth and transformation. We fight for a future that is equal, just and fair – one in which people have more equal opportunities and rights, and one in which we can all flourish, not just survive.
Click here to view Our Strategy and What We Believe.
ROLE REPORTS TO : Worldwide campaign strategist
ROLES REPORTING TO THIS POST: None
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY : No
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)
• Facilitating co-creation, development and delivery of impactful campaigns and campaigning activities under Oxfam’s priority to advance bodily autonomy, including SOGIESC rights influencing priorities that secure tactical and/or strategic objectives, including but not limited to public awareness, behaviour change campaigns, political and private sector influencing campaigns, activist and public engagement campaigns. Resulting in high impact popular campaigns which take an integrated audience-centric approach to engagement.
• Accompanying national and regional public campaigns development and delivery to ensure that campaign strategies and plans are focused on systemic change and are as engaging as possible.
• Supporting priority worldwide campaign projects, working as part of project teams, with specific responsibilities flexibly determined by project team, could include digital campaigning, public fundraising, allies coordination and engagement, or other key roles.
• Contributing to a creative campaigning culture, generating ideas on different issues and themes, as well as for partners and activists.
• Ensuring campaigns work is developed based on the experiences of country programs, allies and partners, and ensuring they are reflective of the lived experiences of people living poverty, and that they are delivered in a non-extractive, decolonized, anti-racist feminist way.
• Building and maintaining relationships with movements, partners and allies, providing support, ensuring Oxfam shows up in a collaborative and humble manner, including external representation.
• Supporting monitoring impact, evaluation and learning to ensure that public facing campaigns and engagement adapt to continue to achieve maximum effectiveness.
• Supporting fundraising efforts at national, regional and global levels.
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 • Enabling
In addition: • Ability to contribute creativity and work flexibly in project teams from across diverse teams, levels, skills and backgrounds to deliver on campaign objectives.
• Strong technical knowledge of SRHR, SOGIESC rights and bodily autonomy including relevant rights-based and feminist frameworks.
• 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.
• Experience in campaigning such as public engagement, awareness raising, political or private influencing and working with campaigning movements and partners, preferably on issues on which Oxfam campaigns.
• Understanding of different models and methods of achieving impact and change and the ability to develop plans and strategies to achieve campaigning objectives.
• Excellent communications skills. Desirable Lived experiences with intersecting systems of oppression, with knowledge and experience of how power and privilege play out in the countries we work with
SAFER RECRUITMENT: Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us. Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.
