Background
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 is 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:
Coordinate Oxfam International’s policy and advocacy in Geneva, focused on local humanitarian leadership and humanitarian finance. The role will advocate for reforming the humanitarian system to improve donor, UN and INGO policies for localisation, and address barriers for funding diverse local organisations.
The role aims at achieving systemic change in the humanitarian system to make aid more equitable and locally led. Through a set of mutually reinforcing interventions, this program contributes to the Impact via the following three Outcomes: Impact: Crisis-affected people benefit from a more equal, risk-informed, and better funded locally-led humanitarian system.
• Outcome 1: More equitable and locally-led humanitarian system.
• Outcome 2: More risk-informed and safe humanitarian system.
• Outcome 3: Increased quality and quantity of humanitarian funding managed by local and national humanitarian actors.
This role is project donor funded and will require adhering and reporting to the grant objectives. It is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for Stability and Humanitarian Aid, under the Strengthening the Humanitarian System Grant Policy Framework. The key tasks of the successful applicant will include: • Support and coordination of advocacy towards UN Agencies and institutional donors on Localisation and Humanitarian Finance with Oxfam affiliate and UN Account colleagues: o Lead particular areas of work for Oxfam in Geneva on local humanitarian leadership and humanitarian finance, to identify and develop opportunities for advocacy together with local and national humanitarian organisations, including advocacy and campaigning as relevant. Identify gaps and needs regarding humanitarian finance, humanitarian system reform, local humanitarian leadership policy and contribute to policy development with the relevant teams;
The position will work with national/ local humanitarian organisations to identify and jointly address barriers to participation in humanitarian leadership. This will include working with national/ local NGOs on research for influencing, policy and advocacy products, launch and dissemination; and will engage with relevant Geneva-based advocacy targets. • Coordinate and provide support to relevant research and evidence production on Localisation and Humanitarian Finance with Development Initiatives and Overseas Development Insititute and other stakeholders. This including project management through the Oxfam publication process.
Engagement with stakeholders including SCHR, NEAR, Charter for Change, START, Development Initiatives, Overseas Development Insititute and others o Engage with relevant Geneva-based donors (e.g. UNDP), in liaison with Oxfam’s institutional fundraisers, to increase Oxfam’s humanitarian and nexus footprint. • Identify and represent Oxfam in policy discussions and coordinating spaces in Geneva on humanitarian finance, humanitarian system reform, local humanitarian leadership, inclusion and human rights issues when required.
Network, coordinating inputs and developing products for global policy processes such as the Grand Bargain o Develop advocacy to promote reform of the humanitarian system in line with grand bargain commitments for inclusion of local humanitarian organisations in key humanitarian spaces including in Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) and clusters, and in processes including Humanitarian Needs Overviews (HNOs) and Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs). • Act as the liaison with Oxfam’s country offices and affiliates – including those participating in the project – and national and local partners, to create space in policy dialogue in international forums. o This includes setting up bilateral meetings with policy-makers, organising events, supporting development of talking points and other products, coordinating media and social media for partners. o Provide technical advice and support to country programs and partners on how to engage in policy fora in Geneva. • Contributes to internal and external communications and fundraising of the work of Oxfam International in Geneva on humanitarian reform and funding.
How to apply
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