Oxfam International Careers

• In this role, you will support the Senior International HR Manager in the delivery of strategic and operational support to OGB countries. You will coordinate and support the delivery and implementation of complex projects working with a team of International HR Business Partners (HRBP), whilst delivering professional and consistent HR advice and support to senior managers and HR staff in countries. The Senior International HRBP drives and enables consistently high standards of HR support in line with Oxfam strategy and policy, and local legal and regulatory requirements. The role works collaboratively with a range of colleagues from HR centres of expertise in Oxfam GB (OGB) and Oxfam International, to ensure a range of expert and considered HR advice and solutions in place to meet the needs of OGB’s country operations.

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

• MCIPD or equivalent HR qualification/or commensurate level of demonstrable international HR experience
• Ability to prioritise/manage conflicting demands
• Flexible/adaptable to support working across different time zones/working weeks
• Experience managing performance of others and helping people to develop, grow and achieve their potential, including increasing diversity and inclusion in teams and / or workplaces
• Significant HR Business Partnership (HRBP) experience gained within a large international organisation and with multiple stakeholders
• Experience in contributing to medium term strategic and operational business planning and delivering outcomes aligned to business strategy
• Analytical skills, including using data to inform decision making, and being able to weigh up and take decisions when there are unknowns
• Demonstrable experience of managing and delivering complex change management projects
• Demonstrable experience delivering transition/country closure projects
• Excellent communication skills with fluency in English
• Ability to travel at short notice (deployment periods up to 3 months, this role requires flexibility to travel to support countries).

JOB PURPOSE:

• The Accountable Governance Lead will be a core member of the Governance and Accountability Programme. The role is part of Oxfam Kenya Development Programmes that works towards ensuring equitable raising, gender-responsive allocation and spending of financial resources at national and county level; and a vibrant and dynamic civil society that is maximises its space; effectively mobilising citizens, advocating for citizen’s rights and holding government to account on the management of public resources. The role contributes to national, regional and global advocacy and influencing efforts progressive taxation systems, gender responsive allocation and effective utilisation of resources for public services, in order to alleviate poverty and reducing inequality in Kenya.
• The Accountable Governance Lead has overall accountability for the Governance and Accountability programme, grounded in understanding that Tax revenues are the biggest source of long-term financing for sustainable development and the Kenyan constitution clearly specifies equity as an expected outcome. With a positive economic growth and investment opportunities, Kenya has a great potential to mobilise more tax revenues, provide public services to its people, and reduce inequality. In order to realise this, there is need to improve governance and accountability within civil society organisations so that they and citizens can influence progressive tax mobilisation, gender responsive allocation and effective utilisation of resources for public services. S/he contributes significantly to Oxfam’s thought leadership on Civic Space, Fiscal Justice, democratization, Active Citizenship and effective institutions. H/She ensures an integrated approach and connectedness (synergy) of all our programmes including cross-campaigns (ways of working and coordination). S/he leads in programme/project conceptualization, design, development and resource mobilization for the accountable governance projects; and connects them with the wider confederation Global Strategic Framework, country programme’s strategy and country programmes in a way that maximises resource acquisition efficiency and impactful delivery. S/he nurtures and supports a high performing team and partners to integrate and implement key influencing strategies and actions. S/he develops and pushes for joint influencing actions with Oxfam and partners in engaging the governments, corporates and regional bodies. S/he establishes/strengthens strategic partnerships Civil Society Organizations, Women’s Rights Organizations, Private Sector, Academia, Networks and coalitions to maximize the impact of Oxfam’s work in Kenya.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Programme Management, Implementation and Resourcing – 40%

• Leads in the conceptualization, design, implementation and coordination of the Accountable Governance Programme and projects.
• Ensures an integrated delivery of the Programmes and Projects in line with Oxfam’s One Programme Approach.
• Engages with other country Programmes, Oxfam in Africa, Oxfam International and affiliates to support effective implementation of campaigns and influencing programs on GJ & WR, Accountable Governance, Climate Justice and Humanitarian Systems Strengthening.
• Closely monitors country level and regional trends on Civic Space, Fiscal Justice and governance systems, and provides timely advise to the country team on ways to respond; and maximize positive impact from the country’s interventions including on Feminist leadership approaches.
• Provides technical support to the SMT, MEAL Advisor, Media and Communications Advisor and Technical Thematic Leads to effectively integrate accountable governance initiatives in their programmes.
• Ensures that agreed strategic objectives and operational plans relating to the Accountable Governance programme are implemented in a way that maximizes synergy and in line with Oxfam’s Strategic framework/vision.
• Leads in the designs of fundable projects and mobilization of resources for the Accountable Governance Programmes and Projects.
• Ensures donor compliance and leads in the delivery of donor reports that meet Oxfam program quality standards.
• Supports the M.E.AL Advisor in the delivery of quality internally reports in a timely manner.
• Supports program staff and leadership to review reports and relevant documents and adequately reflect Accountable Governance objectives in Oxfam in Kenya’s work.

Partnership management, coalition building and support – 30%

• Provides technical guidance and support to the implementation of key projects by working in collaboration with countries as well as Oxfam partners on Accountable Governance.
• Identify and Broker relationships with governance and active citizenship, national and regional institutions in support of accountable governance work and initiatives.
• Ensures Oxfam Program Influencing Standards and Partnership Principles are well integrated and constantly referenced by staff and partners to guide Oxfam’s work.
• Informs and influences CSO’s as appropriate and coordinates with the regional, affiliate and global colleagues.
• Supports partners and alliances/coalitions in resource mobilization efforts.
• Develops and maintains relationships with professional networks with partners and allies, think tanks/knowledge institutions, national legislative bodies and policy mechanisms (Parliamentarians, ministries, local governments,).
• Participates in relevant regional/continental/national/international events.

Research, knowledge generation, campaigns and policy influencing – 25%

• Provides thought leadership and adopts a political economy analysis to Accountable Governance work.
• Shares relevant information and tools such as briefing papers, internal documents and reports with relevant teams, partners, and allies, as necessary.
• Supports the convening of key stakeholders to shape correct and impactful narratives which in turn achieve design influence on issues of Accountable Governance in the country.
• Implementation of the projects under the Tax and Climate Justice Programme that include influencing tax and fiscal justice, Climate Financing, Domestic Resource Mobilization, public finance management including budget policies, legislation and decisions for the benefit of target beneficiaries.
• Through technical guidance, to support relevant research and policy analysis taking into consideration gender and inequality.
• Supports and strengthen coalitions and alliances on economic justice and inequality advocacy and campaigns targeting governments and institutions at relevant levels to enhance Oxfam’s work under the Accountable Governance Programme.
• Work collaboratively with the Media and Communications and the M.E.A.L Advisor to develop policy briefing papers, media briefs and opinion pieces for external use and on the documentation of the programme, learning and case stories for programme visibility and fundraising.
• Manage consultants and researchers as required, in accordance with Oxfam policy and procedures.

Human resource management – 5%

• Manage direct reports in in line with Oxfam’s HR policies and procedures.
• Manage direct reports in a way that enables them to achieve their objectives and empowers them to deliver to their full potential.
• With support from HR, manages the life cycle of individuals within their team from pre-recruitment to exit, including performance management processes, and working with HR on issues such as disciplinary matters.
• Models Oxfam values and principles.

Person specifications

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam 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).
• 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."
• 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.

JOB PURPOSE:

• The Gender Justice and Women’s Rights (GJ & WR) Lead will be a core member of the Gender Justice and Women’s Rights Programme. The role is part of Oxfam Kenya Development Programmes that facilitates mainstreaming of gender across all programmes and projects within the country programme; and contributes to national and global advocacy and influencing efforts on Gender Equality. The GJ & WR Lead has overall accountability for Gender Justice and Women’s Rights programme, which arises from the understanding that across the country, poverty and Injustice is rampant and has a disproportionate impact on women. That unless all our actions and analysis intentionally assume a gendered lens, we will not achieve lasting impact. S/he contributes significantly to Oxfam’s thought leadership including power and gender analyses and strategic direction on Gender Justice, Climate Justice, Accountable Governance and Humanitarian Systems Strengthening. H/She ensures an integrated approach and connectedness (synergy) of all our programmes including cross-campaigns (ways of working and coordination). S/he leads in programme/project conceptualization, design, development and resource mobilization for the Women Economic Empowerment, Ending Violence Against Women, Transformative Women Leadership and Youth Empowerment sub-themes; and connects them with the wider confederation Global Strategic Framework, country programme’s strategy, programmes in such a way as to maximise resource acquisition efficiency and impactful delivery. S/he nurtures and supports a high performing team and partners to integrate and implement key gender influencing strategies and actions. S/he develops and pushes for joint influencing actions with Oxfam and partners in engaging the governments, corporates and regional bodies. S/he strengthens strategic partnerships on gender and women’s rights organizations and coalitions to maximize the impact of Oxfam’s work in Kenya.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Programme Management, Implementation and Resourcing – 40%

• Leads in the conceptualization, design, implementation and coordination of the Gender Justice and Women’s Rights Programme and projects within the programme.
• Ensures an integrated delivery of the Programmes and Projects in line with Oxfam’s One Programme Approach.
• Engages with other country Programmes, Oxfam in Africa, Oxfam International and affiliates to support effective implementation of campaigns and influencing programs on GJ & WR, Accountable Governance, Climate Justice and Humanitarian Systems Strengthening.
• Closely monitors country level and regional trends on Women’s Rights and Gender Justice and provide timely advise to the country team on ways to respond; and maximize positive impact from the country’s interventions including on Feminist leadership approaches.
• Provides technical support to the SMT, MEAL Advisor, Media and Communications Advisor and Technical Thematic Leads to effectively integrate Gender Justice and Women’s Rights in their work and instutional systems and structures..
• Ensures that agreed strategic objectives and operational plans relating to the Gender Justice and Women’s rights programme are implemented in a way that maximizes synergy and in line with Oxfam’s Strategic framework/vision.
• Leads in the designs of fundable projects and mobilization of resources for the GJ & WR Programmes and Projects.
• Ensures donor compliance and leads in the delivery of donor reports that meet Oxfam program quality standards.
• Supports the M.E.AL Advisor in the delivery of quality internally reports in a timely manner.
• Supports program staff and leadership to review reports and relevant documents and adequately reflect GJ & WR perspectives in Oxfam in Kenya’s work.

Partnership management, coalition building and support – 30%

• Provides technical guidance and support to the implementation of key projects by working in collaboration with countries as well as Oxfam partners on GJ & WR.
• Leads and/or coordinates capacity building initiatives for partners on relevant approaches and tools including but not limited to the Care work, Feminist Principles and Approaches.
• Broker relationship and identify key partnerships with civil society organizations, the private sector, and governments, establish/strengthen coalitions/networks/alliances to enhance Oxfam’s work under the Gender Justice and Women’s Rights Programme
• Ensures Oxfam Program Influencing Standards and Partnership Principles are well integrated and constantly referenced by staff and partners to guide Oxfam’s work.
• Informs and influences wider Gender and Women’s rights working groups/teams as appropriate and coordinates with the regional, affiliate and global colleagues.
• Supports partners and alliances/coalitions resource mobilization efforts.
• S/he develops and maintains relationships with professional networks with partners and allies, think tanks/knowledge institutions, national legislative bodies and policy mechanisms (Parliamentarians, ministries, local governments,).
• S/he also participates in relevant regional/continental/national/international events.

Research, knowledge generation, campaigns and policy influencing – 25%

• Provides thought leadership and adopts a political economy analysis to Gender Justice and Women’s rights work.
• Shares relevant information and tools such as briefing papers, internal documents and reports with relevant teams, partners, and allies, as necessary.
• Supports the convening of key stakeholders to shape correct and impactful narratives which in turn achieve design influence on issues of gender justice and women’s rights work in the country.
• Implementation of the projects under the Tax and Climate Justice Programme that include influencing tax and fiscal justice, Climate Financing, Domestic Resource Mobilization, public finance management including budget policies, legislation and decisions for the benefit of target beneficiaries.
• Through technical guidance, to support relevant research and policy analysis taking into consideration gender and inequality.
• To support partners on their influencing and campaigning strategies and activities.
• To support the design and implementation of public offline and digital campaigns relevant to the programme.
• To coordinate with the Communications and MEAL advisors on the documentation of the programme and partner information, learning and case stories for programme visibility and fundraising.
• Manage consultants and researchers as required, in accordance with Oxfam policy and procedures.

Human resource management – 5%

• Manage direct reports in in line with Oxfam’s HR policies and procedures.
• Manage direct reports in a way that enables them to achieve their objectives and empowers them to deliver to their full potential.
• With support from HR, manages the life cycle of individuals within their team from pre-recruitment to exit, including performance management processes, and working with HR on issues such as disciplinary matters.
• Models Oxfam values and principles.

TEAM PURPOSE

• To raise funds for Oxfam's Kenya programme; To ensure quality and consistency in relationships with donors; To lead on contract management; To effectively support programme teams to develop and plan concept papers and proposals in accordance with country strategy and donor requirements and to manage and report on their funds.

JOB PURPOSE

• To work closely with the Funding team to ensure compliance to Oxfam’s and donor contract management requirements, monitoring and supporting in the management of restricted donor contracts and ensuring timely and high-quality management information systems and consistency of data between OPAL and CRIMSON. To strengthen the capacity of staff and partners on contract management for effective management of the Kenya funding portfolio. Learn other aspects of the funding portfolio e.g. fundraising in order to be able to support when needed.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

System and Contract Compliance

• Support and provide quality control of all aspects of contract management, particularly business rules compliance, of allocated contracts for high risk contracts.
• Coordinate and share contract management information with programme staff, regional funding team, regional finance as required.
• Monitor funding information systems and ensuring adequate donor intelligence.
• Establish a close working relationship with the regional compliance officer accountants to facilitate synergy in the contract management and reporting.
• Ensure all funding files both electronic and paper are complete and kept up to date.
• Contracts Quality Check (of all new signed contracts that month).
• Disseminate and share Kenya programme key performance indicators on a monthly basis; working with teams and country senior management to address any underperforming KPIs.
• Participate in funding team activities and contribute to development of team and shared objectives.
• Attend planning and training meetings and uphold standards developed by funding to ensure consistency across the programmes.
• Complete other tasks as requested by line manager.
• Ensure key information on new contracts is populated in PeopleSoft - follow-up on getting things right, ensuring the correct documents are uploaded.
• Advise Funding and Programme teams on a monthly basis on the status of Programme, Project & Contract information in the Peoplesoft system (OPAL), drawing attention to shortfalls, risks, inconsistencies and priorities for action using the OPAL management indicator reports.
• Act as the Peoplesoft (OPAL and Crimson) helpdesk for the Kenya Programme and support staff to understand and effectively use Oxfam systems to support their work.
• Work with Funding Coordinator, Crimson and OPAL leads in Oxford and in country offices to ensure that learning opportunities are provided for all necessary staff.
• Support, where necessary, the country teams to ensure CRIMSON compliance, through coaching, training and assisting relevant team members.
• Support the capacity building and induction activities for all relevant staff on good grant management & donor compliance from the programs teams.

Donor Reporting

• Review donor contracts and donor reports for compliance with Oxfam and donor.
• Prepare and disseminate the quarterly and monthly Donor Reporting Schedule (DRS) and work with individual programme units and managers and enforce compliance by working closely with each Programme Manager.
• Reports due or overdue - review of whether resources are in place, what issues are making them overdue, how to resolve and ensure good communications with donor.
• Extract donor reporting templates from all contracts and facilitate storage in a centralized location. Disseminate and share donor reporting guidelines and templates with programme teams.
• Reviewing donor reports to check for compliance before they are submitted to senior management for sign off and submission to donors.
• Maintain a contact list of key contacts for all donor contracts and ensure this is updated on a regular basis.

Capacity Building

• This includes supporting and building “restricted” fund-management capacity and knowledge of donor requirements within Programme, Finance and Logistics teams and partners.
• Training new staff and organizing refresher trainings for staff and managers on OPAL, CRIMSON
• Capacity building of partners on donor requirements and procedures.
• Support staff in the Kenya Programme to monitor and comply with the restricted funding monthly business cycle (debtors, outstanding income, contracts quality checklist, donor reporting schedule).

Proposal development

• Support in donor mapping and exploration of donors in line with Oxfam’s strategic fit, values, and principles.
• Support proposal development processes including adherence to donor and Oxfam compliance requirements.
• Participate in proposal development workshops and meetings.

PERSON SPECIFICATIONS

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam 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).
• Be committed to our feminist principle, 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."
• 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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• Professional/technical qualifications – a Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration, Social Sciences or related field.
• Excellent verbal communication and influencing skills, and ability to work effectively with a diverse range of people both in person and virtually.
• Influencing and directive skills on ensuring compliance and business rules are monitored and key risk areas are highlighted.
• Experience in working with both institutional and non-institutional donors in an international non-governmental organisation.
• Experience in donor contract management in an international non-governmental organisation.
• Good understanding of the cultural and political context of the country(/ies) and region.
• Experience of training and coaching skills and a willingness to support the development of others.
• Well-developed interpersonal and team skills and proven ability to be flexible in demanding situations.
• Proven computer literacy and analytical skills.
• Good negotiation, diplomacy, communication, analytical & advisory skills.
• Meeting deadlines/good planning, organisational and prioritising skills. Ability to think out of the box and provide/propose solutions to programme challenges.
• Responsible, flexible, and adaptable.
• Ability to travel to the field, as required.
• Ability to use and support people to use Management Information Systems (e.g. Peoplesoft) as well as sound proficiency using MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Demonstrated ability to use initiative, show tenacity, and adapt priorities to changing demands.
• Excellent general administrative skills and attention to detail.

Desirable

• Experience in proposal development and coordination, grant writing and project planning based on logical framework approach in an international non-governmental organisation.
• Understanding of NGO programming in emergencies and/or development.

JOB PURPOSE:

• The role will provide a bridge between programs and finance by providing leadership and direction for effective grants management. The Program Finance Officer will be responsible and accountable for the day-to-day financial programming; will work closely with the Programme teams, and Partner organisations to ensure that the Kenya Programme office maintains a high standard of grants management (budgeting, reporting, system compliance, contract closure) and financial control. S/he will provide essential support to the Finance Manager to ensure maximum impact of OiK programme.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Partnership Governance and support - 40%

S/he will provide financial management support to the partner organizations through capacity building, development of proper administrative systems and procedures and strengthening the structures of governance. The Officer will be involved in organizational assessment of partners and advising on possible management risks to Oxfam. Conducting audit procedures on partners’ financial accountability (returns) and ensuring compliance with Oxfam’s grant policies.

• Conduct risk assessments, due diligence assessments and capacity assessments for both potential and existing partners and work with programme team to develop improvement plans to address gaps identified during assessments.
• Provide contracting support: input into preparation of grant agreements. Collaborate with the MEAL team to design reporting templates for inclusion in partner grants and in-partner training that directly addresses Oxfam and donor MEAL requirements.
• Providing support and advise to the Programme team on the analysis of partner budget proposals.
• Grant monitoring: Compliance with donor and/or grant contracts (GAL). Track disbursements, financial audits/reviews and analysis of partner grant progress reports, feedback, and follow-up. Input into decisions, monitoring visits and general correspondence with grantees and other stakeholders.
• Prepare journals for partner expenditure and reconcile partner ledger on a monthly basis.
• Involvement in internal financial processes and donor reporting for grant programmes.
• Providing teams with the required technical support and guidance of programme teams grant management capacity, understanding of donor compliance and budget management through targeted training of staff.
• Coordinating the assistance to partners to resolve outstanding audit issues identified in donor/or statutory audits, follow up to ensure those issues have been addressed conclusively.
• Coordinate the investigation of suspected violation of proper application of grant funds. Make recommendations for next course of action once such investigations are completed.
• Buils the capacity and provide finance support to partners on donor contract management towards improving the efficiency and effectiveness of programme delivery.
• Support Programme team to coordinate funds transfers to the partners and ensure that any unspent funds and disallowance are promptly refunded back to Oxfam.

Grants Contract Management - 20%

Provide specialized financial support in relation to the effective attainment of programme objectives and work with managers/budget holders to compile and review donor financial reports as required. Ensure that reports are accurate, of high quality and meet donor requirements, and are prepared for timely submission to the donors. Monitor the donor reporting schedules to ensure reports are prepared in a timely manner.

• Support program teams in budgetary proposal development in line with the country strategic plan to ensure adherence to requirements and integrity of the content.
• Work with the Funding and Systems Officer to develop systems for tracking reporting dates, the submission of claims and income received locally and ensuring locally secured income is entered in Oxfam’s systems.
• Provide training to budget holders and partners in the preparation of, and reporting against donor budgets in the appropriate formats as required. Work with the Donor Accountant to provide training on donor compliance and contract management for staff and partners.
• Provide quality checks on all financial reports to ensure these comply with donor requirements.
• Liaise with external auditors for donor reports with the responsibility for follow up and resolution of audit queries and issues.
• Acquire and maintain detailed knowledge of all regional donor reporting requirements, and other financial and logistical requirements and advise programme staff as necessary when they are preparing budgets and reports.

Budget and expenditure monitoring - 20%

Work closely with the Finance Manager in the monitoring and management of OiK programme expenditure and budgets, especially donor-funded projects and transactions posted by other offices. This includes supporting the programme teams to help them use allocated budgets flexibly, supporting annual programme budget preparation, programme management meetings, and field visits as well as providing support to programme teams with project budget work and appraisal.

• Work with the logistics team and budget holders in project design and implementation as per donor requirements.
• Follow up with the respective managers/budget holders in ensuring that the grant budgets are uploaded into the Oxfam system on time.
• Prepare monthly financial monitoring reports in the required donor format and currency and discuss these reports with budget holders/program teams for proactive management of the contracts.
• Highlight key risks in relation to grants management (underspend, overspends, disallowances, compliance risks etc), and work with the finance manager and budget managers to provide solutions on how such risks can be mitigated.

Financial Management Information Systems & Procedures - 10%

Ensure proper use and maintenance of financial systems-Peoplesoft, for all financial matters relating specifically to the OiK program.

• Maintaining up to date financial records and managing grant balances including project budgets, as well as managing any unauthorized grant expenditure.
• Ensure that necessary financial information is promptly and accurately uploaded into the Peoplesoft system.
• Uploading forecast journal - work with Finance Manager, Funding team and Program team to ensure that country budget forecasts are accurate and up-to date.
• Ensuring that all grants that have ended are promptly reconciled and closed in the system; follow up to ensure any outstanding reconciliation issues that may hinder contract closure are addressed, and contracts closed thereafter.

Other administrative roles - 10%

• Support in both internal and external audits.

• Review of payment vouchers/invoices, payroll, staff claims etc before payments are made for completeness of documentation and compliance to organisation and statutory policies.

  PERSON SPECIFICATION

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam 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).
• Be committed to our feminist principle, 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."
• 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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Required

• A university degree in Finance.
• Professional qualification e.g. completed ACCA or CPA (K).
• Minimum of 3-5 years working experience in managing partner grants, audit, budgeting and donor reporting.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders and easily build relationship with team within and outside the organisation.
• Demonstrates a high level of initiative.
• Good communication and report writing skills.
• Passionate and demonstrates maturity and ability to deliver with minimum supervision.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a culturally diverse organisation.

Desired

• Knowledge and understanding of project cycle.
• Ability to communicate in Swahili language.
• A demonstrated commitment to gender equality and social justice.
• Demonstrated experience of staff management, coaching peers and junior staff.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Civic Space & Digital Rights Officer will be responsible for the implementation of the Re-centering the Civic Internet through Partner Engagement that looks to enhance digital freedom of expression and freedom of information. The role will be under the Governance and Accountability Programme which involves work to promote, protect and advocate for civic space freedoms as well as Tax Justice. The key areas of focus for this role will be to implement specific Civic Space projects through effective project management approaches, supporting partners to strengthen organizational capacity so as to deliver high quality and impactful civic space and digital rights projects/programmes, to establish and maintain linkages with other thematic and programmatic areas as well as with relevant state and non-state actors at national, regional and global level. The Civic Space & Digital Rights Officer will be required to implement campaigning and influencing strategies, support in the undertaking of research and monitoring, evaluation and learning as well as ensuring that the programme mainstreams gender and active citizenship. The Officer will also contribute to resource mobilization for financing of the projects to ensure that the Civic space programme is fully resourced and sustained.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Management, Implementation and Resourcing – 30%

• Ensure that plans and objectives contribute to the broader country programme strategy and particularly on Civic Space and Digital Rights, as well as involve collaboration with other programmes.
• Effective, timely and quality delivery of project activities and deliverables.
• Continuously monitoring implementation of the project activities including budget tracking and prepare monthly and periodic reports for sharing with Oxfam management, development partners and stakeholders.
• Ensure continuous coordination with the MEAL Advisor in implementing the monitoring and evaluation components of projects (for Oxfam and partners) and documenting the lessons learnt for their application, quality assurance and for adjustments to the project where necessary.
• Support in initiating new programme/project strategies that help achieve impact on the project activities in close collaboration with Oxfam staff and other stakeholders.
• Work with other Oxfam project/programme staff and partners in developing new programme/project interventions and fundraising for project or programme financing.
• Perform any other tasks related to the project which maybe advised by the management from time to time.

Partnership management, coalition building and support – 40%

• Brokering, networking and managing partner relations with project partners, strategic partners, coalitions, networks and Governments and Assemblies in the project areas.
• Support the partners in delivering the project targets and objectives including MEAL support, monitoring of partner project activities, review of work plans and budgets, facilitating linkages, learning as well as reporting.
• Maintain regular communication and positive relationships with other Oxfam staff, project partners, people we work with and stakeholders.
• Ensure and coordinate regular monitoring, quality, review and timely submission of partner narrative and financial reports.
• Ensure compliance of Oxfam and donor requirements on project delivery and reporting by partners.

Research, knowledge generation, campaigns and policy influencing – 25%

• Implementation of specified components of the project under the Governance and Accountability Programme that include Civic space protection, digital rights and freedoms, and active citizenship.
• Through technical guidance, to support relevant research, policy analysis, and lobbying on the realization of the rights to freedom of expression and information taking into consideration gender, inequality and active citizenship.
• Continuously scan the external environment and maintain a broad network with potential partners to identify project opportunities to expand support partners on the Civic space protection and influencing and campaigning strategies and activities.
• To support the design and implementation of public offline and digital campaigns relevant to the programme.
• To coordinate with the Communications and MEAL advisors on the documentation of the programme and partner information, learning and case stories for programme visibility and fundraising.

Human resource management – 5%

Manage consultants and researchers as required, in accordance with Oxfam policy and procedures.

Person Specification

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam 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).

• 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."

• 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.

  Technical skills, experience and knowledge

Skills

• Professional/technical qualifications – a bachelor’s degree in law, human rights, international relations, political science, media, communication, or other relevant field.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task between direct project implementation and partner management with positive outcomes.
• Proof of ability to work independently to deliver project outcomes and results as well as any other tasks that maybe delegated from time to time.
• Proven ability to analyse complex contexts, monitor change and translate this analysis into problem solving strategies that can be communicated in developing appropriate plans which have impact.
• Proven analytical and conceptual thinking, high level research, project management knowledge and skills and experience in using participatory tools and methodologies for assessment, programme identification, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including strong negotiation skills with diverse teams.
• Great partnership building skills including facilitation and networking skills.
• Fund raising, donor reporting and budget management skills.
• Ability to gather and apply lessons learnt and to communicate this learning effectively to influence others in action – both internal and external audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and sensitively with different value systems and cultures.
• A high level of self-awareness, initiative, sound judgement, personal energy and flexibility.

Knowledge

• Knowledge and/or experience in implementing human rights, freedom of expression and/or democratization issues in Kenya.
• Experience in national, regional and international mechanisms for promoting and protecting human rights.
• Good knowledge of and experience in developing advocacy and campaign strategies and plans and successfully achieving external impact and change.
• Strong programme management and quality knowledge, with the ability to ensure consistent quality against standards and to implement effective monitoring and evaluation systems to assess and adjust performance.
• A strong understanding of the civic space, gender, women’s rights, development issues and the political and economic context of Kenya.
• Commitment to and good knowledge of working with networks, coalitions, and a partnership approach across the spectrum of Oxfam’s work, including innovative approaches to capacity strengthening.
• Fluency in English with knowledge of Swahili an added advantage.

Experience

• At least 3 years’ experience in designing, managing, and delivering on civic space, digital rights or human rights programmes.
• Proven experience in working in complex, dispersed organizations with evidence of facilitating and integrating a specific area of expertise across a wide network, contributing to vision setting and implementation with impact, some level of decision-making and the delivery of agreed results.
• Politically astute, with high impact influencing and persuasive skills and personal gravitas to gain respect and build and maintain strong, credible relationships, with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong organizational and personal management skills, with ability to prioritize work issues to meet deadlines with minimal supervision and adjust to constantly changing situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through.
• Demonstrated experience in managing partners including effective oversight and capacity building as well as mobilizing and organizing marginalized communities and groups to influence positive change in their lives.
• Demonstrated experience in managing and working with researchers and consultants including developing strong terms of reference and effective supervision.

Essential

• Self-Awareness: Ability to develop a high degree of self-awareness around own strengths and weaknesses and impact on others.
• Agility, complexity and ambiguity: Ability to scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways
• Mutual accountability: Ability to explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on
  our organizational values.

How to apply

Please click on the link below to submit your application:

https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/civic-space-and-digital-rights-officer-int10061/20331/description/

The Role:

• Oxfam Great Britain is looking for an Adaptive MEAL and Impact Evaluation Advisor to provide strategic and technical advice to countries in HECA and SAF or the Asia region. The support is needed on MEAL in general, MEAL of systems change or innovation, and impact evaluation.
• Together with other AMEAL Advisors, the postholder will develop and implement adaptive and feminist MEAL and impact evaluation methodologies for OGB. The role ensures that MEAL practice is improved and drives decision-making around Oxfam’s values, technical standards, external influencing, and strengthens the quality of work. The postholder will be active in relevant learning spaces to ensure knowledge generation and use, contributing by facilitating learning and reflection, and providing tools, guidance, and practices.

What we are looking for:

• Our next Adaptive MEAL and Impact Evaluation Advisor will have an in-depth understanding of/training in feminist leadership.
• You will have a solid understanding, commitment to and, ideally, experience with embedding decolonial, safe, anti-racist, intersectional feminist, and partner-led approach in their work.
• You will have a strong track record of leading and implementing programmatic evidence generation and use, including for complex programme portfolios.
• You will be able to design and implement robust MEAL systems and to conduct qualitative and quantitative data analysis using statistical packages, such as STATA and SPSS.
• You have excellent cross-cultural communication skills and a high level of analytical and strategic thinking and are a team player.
• Knowledge of design and implementation of impact evaluation is desirable.

 

Objective:

Oxfam America is seeking a consultant to support the implementation of Oxfam’s advocacy and public campaign efforts implemented under the TAP 2 project, with a particular focus on leading the communications work. This includes taking a lead role in developing and implementing comprehensive communications, dissemination and influencing strategies and implementation plans for different key advocacy moments – this ranges from global meetings and events to the launch of Oxfam research and policy papers and other products. The approach to developing and implementing the communications strategies and plans will be both participatory and consultative. Key stakeholders, including internal Oxfam staff and external partners, will be engaged in the process.

Responsibilities:

• Support Oxfam’s global TAP 2 project team and Oxfam regional / country teams to develop project and campaigns communication strategy and implementation plans for key advocacy moments. Specific tasks include: identification of the target audiences; identification of the communication objective for each targeted audience; development of key messages; identification of main communication channels and strategies to reach the different audiences; identification of the communication products and activities tailored to each audience; development of work plans; and event planning and management.
• Manage, plan and produce high-quality communication print and digital communication content and products and follow Oxfam’s sign-off protocols.
• Lead TAP 2 engagement plans at key national, regional and global in-person events.
• Liaise with different Oxfam affiliates, regional and country teams to confederation members to deliver high-quality media projects and compelling story-gathering materials for national, regional and global media markets, and wider social media and communications needs.
• Advise on media and communication as part of advocacy issues together with relevant TAP 2 project staff.
• Ensure the use of brand tools including logos, fonts, writing style, templates and artwork is line with Oxfam regulation.

Required Qualifications:

Education:

A degree or post graduate qualification in media, communications, sociology, digital marketing, or social change related disciplines; or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.

Experience and Core Competencies:

• Five to seven years of work experience in public relations / communications field at national, regional or international level with specific experience in Africa required. At least five years spent in a similar role / doing similar work for an international organization.
• Direct experience with or demonstrated understanding of NGO global media / advocacy work in the context of international development.
• Demonstrated understanding of policy issues and global policy environment for aid effectiveness, agriculture development and climate justice issues.
• Ability to work effectively across different Oxfam teams from different country, regional and global offices, utilizing prioritization and multi-tasking skills.
• High level interpersonal and diplomatic skills along with awareness of political sensitivities in different settings.
• Creative thinking, developing, designing, or creating new ideas, relationships, systems, or products.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, fluency in English essential. French languages skills are desired.
• Some graphic design skills and ability to develop simple infographics is desirable.
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

• Self-Awareness - able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact on others.
• Self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviours to control and channel our impulses for good purposes.
• We self-moderate appropriately to different context thereby optimizing our ability to achieve goals.
• Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity - We scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways. We develop strategies to maximise adaptability and agility, encourage forward thinking, new ideas and learning from experience.
• Enabling - work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organisations goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job. We give more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support.

In addition:

• Significant and recent experience of leading the design and implementation of influencing, campaigning and advocacy programmes or initiatives, in more than one country in the Global South
• Excellent communication skills and confidence to articulate knowledge and ideas, influence, and advocate clearly and convincingly.
• Demonstrable training design and facilitation skills (both online and face to face)
• Strong ability to motivate, inspire and support others in learning and adopting new approaches and ways of working
• Good understanding and commitment to continuous learning in order to embed a decolonial, safe, anti-racist, intersectional feminist and partner-led approach in your work
• Experience of integrating a focus on women’s rights and gender justice, and support to feminist and youth movements into programme and influencing strategies