Global South/Nairobi preferred (location subject to OIS beingable to establish a contract of employment via a hostingaffiliate or directly)

We believe flexible working is key to building the Secretariat of the future, so we’re open to talkingthrough 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.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.

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 audiencesaround 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, researchis

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

JOB PURPOSE:

·       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 theconfederations’ intersectional anti-racist feminist principles priorities, commitments and influencing strategies.

·       Internal and external representation on specific areas of policy, research and advocacyagendas, in partnership with OI Advocacy Offices, country and regional teams.

·       Ensuring policy, research & advocacy is targeted, high-impact, and influential externally byleading & collaborating across all levels: country, regional and affiliate level.

•               Leading and overseeing policy development, research and advocacy on key thematic areas related to humanitarian issues and the challenges facing communities in fragile and conflict affected contexts, on behalf of the confederation, working withcountries, 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 humanitarian policy platforms, includingforecasting and leading strategic dialogue on emerging and/or evolving analysis anddebates 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 developingour understanding and knowledge on key humanitarian and systemic issues and embedding this into all advocacy, policy, research and influencing work.

•               Responsible for maintaining thematic expertise on conflict, humanitarian systemand nexus issues but works flexibly to embed inequality, gender, rights and justice framing across all humanitarian policy, research and advocacy.

•               Joining prioritised project teams as necessary and as the theories of change forthe project dictate.

•               Providing policy support, advocacy access, training and capacity building forcountry 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 withOI Advocacy Offices, country and regional teams as appropriate.

•               Working with the deputy ACE director/Head of advocacy & campaigns, ACE director and humanitarian director to manage risk, and ensure that the safety and security Oxfamand partners’ in fragile and conflict-affected contexts is not compromised by policy/advocacy/campaigns work

•               Providing briefing materials for OI Executive Director and other colleagues who arerepresenting

the organisation externally.

·       Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE,SOLIDARITY and

EQUALITY (read more about these here)

·       Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adheringto the Code of Conduct):

·       Self-Awareness

·       Systems Thinking

·       Strategic Thinking and Judgment

·       Mutual accountability

·       Enabling In addition:

·       Experience enabling performance of others and helping people to develop, grow andachieve their potential, including increasing diversity and inclusion in teams and / or workplaces

·       Proven skills in developing, and leading successful political advocacy strategies focussed oninfluencing international policy and practice.

·       An understanding of policy development and experience at overseeing the integration of policyinsights 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.

·       Excellent understanding of, commitment to and experience of embedding and continuouslylearning 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.

·       Sound knowledge of the thematic subject area of the role.

·       Lived experiences with intersecting systems of oppression, with knowledge and experienceof how power and privilege play out in the countries we work with.