Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations working in approximately 94 countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty and what it considers injustice around the world. In all Oxfam’s actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives. Oxfam works directly with communities and seeks to influence the powerful, to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them. Each organization (affiliate) works together internationally to achieve a greater impact through collective efforts. With a population of over 160 million people, Nigeria is endowed with huge human and natural resources. However, in 2010, 52 percent of the population lived in rural areas and 64 percent of the population on less than US$ 1 per day. Oxfam’s work in Nigeria focuses primarily on improving livelihoods, women’s rights, and good governance. Our work in Nigeria focuses on: Economic justice and improving livelihoods. Gender justice and female leadership. Good governance and the Niger Delta. Disaster risk reduction and responding to humanitarian crises. Central to our work is the belief that power relations need to change to enable poor people to demand and claim their rights. Oxfam’s vision for Nigeria includes a transparent and accountable government, active citizens, and private sector that works toward shared growth that is equitable to meet the needs of the people, especially the vulnerable poor. To this achieve this we work with a wide variety of partner and allies, such as community organizations and regional groups at the local, state and national levels.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Location: Not specified
- Job Field: Project Management
Job Description
The Director of Programmes and Influencing will provide strategic leadership to the thematic leads in the programmes and influencing team that will lead in many of the areas like climate change, gender, economic justice, the emerging digital world among others and will have competencies in these specific thematic areaslinked to the global strategic goals and horizon themes
Leadership over Strategy Development & Execution and One Programme Approach
- Lead the development of OiA Programme, including Humanitarian, and Influencing Strategy and ensure effective execution
- Work with the Africa Deputies Directors, the Director will support leadership in the countries, the SAF Cluster and the OI-AU Liaison Office to develop appropriate ways of working
- Explore opportunities for regional and multi-country programmes, advocacy and campaigns engagement that add value to the achievement of the programme goals
Human Resource Management
- Have oversight responsibility of humanitarian strategy in Africa and be accountable and responsible for CAT One humanitarian response
- Manage the largest number of staff and teams within the one Oxfam in Africa structure, ensuring Oxfam’s People management practices are upheld such as goals setting, holding various check ins, performance management, team coordination, knowledge sharing, staff development and innovation and ensuring disciplinary procedures
Program Quality and Impact at Scale
- Ensure a proper implementation of programmes aligned with this Planning and contribute to develop the Strategy to achieve the GSF 2030
- Guide and support countries to develop programmes that show the leap that is expected in our programme ambition.
- Ensure adequate resourcing allocated within budgets to balance properly the long term humanitarian and influencing work including advocacy and campaigns regional level.
Strategic Partnership
- Lead the strategy development for Oxfam to initiate and maintain a wide range of strategic and transformative partnerships
- Build relationships with external stakeholders and allies including donors, government representatives and other civil society organisations to increase impact.
- Forge meaningful links between local to global (also south-south)
Knowledge Management and Learning
- Drive the development and implementation of Feminist Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning within national and regional long-term programmes and humanitarian in general and influencing and campaigning initiatives.
- Support capacity building across countries and at the regional level.
- Support regional networks to establish an environment of data driven and evidence-based decision making, learning, sharing, storytelling, such that a knowledge management culture is encouraged and implemented
Experience, Knowledge & Competences
- In-depth understanding of the economic, political, and social causes and dynamics of poverty, vulnerability and inequality and a familiarity with policy issues related to the creation or reduction of poverty, vulnerability and inequality.
- Clear understanding of what represents sustainable and effective development action.
- Multi-year work experience in more than one country in the region.
- Excellent inter-personal and collaboration skills, particularly in cross-cultural contexts
- Superb judgement that ensures the delivery of a coherent strategy and policy and grows Oxfam’s reputation across the region.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with experience of external representation strategies, lobbying, advocacy, and campaigning
- Strong influencing skills – engages and collaborates, with cultural and interpersonal sensitivity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication across a range of audiences.
- Fluency in English and other languages particularly French is highly desirable
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Oxfam on recruitment.oxfam.org to apply
