Job Description
JOB PURPOSE
To be deployed to support country teams around the world to integrate advocacy into Oxfam’s emergency response. To drive change, deliver national and global advocacy, actively linking strategy and messaging to our humanitarian programme work with crisis-affected communities and partners.
Be accountable for ensuring community participation and that local humanitarian leadership shapes programme decisions, actively seek a partnership approach and work following feminist principles including strong awareness of power dynamics. To, along with other technical staff, advisors and managers, promote safe-programming in all humanitarian responses.
Experience, Knowledge & Competencies
For this role, we have selected the most relevant feminist leadership practices which we will use for assessment purposes
- Influencing
- Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity
- Relationship building
At interview, shortlisted candidates will also be assessed on our values and organisational attributes, as outlined above.
Essential - Experience, Knowledge, Qualifications & Competencies
- Knowledge of and demonstrated commitment to Oxfam’s values, mission and work
- Knowledge and understanding of global justice, social change, women’s rights and gender equality and commitment to delivering humanitarian work through feminist principles.
- Practical experience of humanitarian work with a good understanding of context, dilemmas, challenges and ways of working
- Proven track record in policy/advocacy, influencing government, donors or other organisations through advocacy at national and or international levels
- Good understanding of key global humanitarian issues and institutions.
- Strong analytical ability and ability to prioritise issues in complex situations
- Ability to think strategically and beyond the local/country context
- Excellent communication skills, oral and written
- Training and capacity building skills and ability to support programme staff to take on advocacy work
- Sensitivity to cultural differences, and the ability to work in a variety of cultural contexts.
- Excellent inter-personal and teamwork skills and an ability to build good relations both internally and externally
- Thorough understanding of and a commitment to promoting gender equity and the interests of marginalised people
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Willingness to travel at short notice and often to work in difficult circumstances, and an ability to manage workload and stress
Minimum requirements all HSPs are expected to fulfil:
- Ability to deploy at short notice to areas affected by crisis and support the rapid scale up of humanitarian programmes to meet lifesaving needs of affected people.
- Demonstrate Oxfam values and behavioural competencies.
- Management skills: HSP deployments usually involve managing a team to deliver the work, HSPs will need to demonstrate management competencies, of international and multi-cultural teams, in difficult and stressful environments.
- Behavioural skills; all HSP deployments require the individual to successfully work with and mentor others often under challenging circumstances. HSPs should demonstrate competencies around “listening and creating dialogue” and “working with others” as well as networking skills.
Other
- Eager and required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women’s rights.
- Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles.
Desirable
- Languages, particularly French, Spanish or Arabic
- Understanding of humanitarian policy debates.
Deadline: 29 August 2022
