Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to:

Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, SOLIDARITY, COURAGE AND EQUALITY

Our Values

• Equality: We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities.
• Empowerment: We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them.
• Solidarity: We join hands, support, and collaborate across boundaries in working towards a just and sustainable world.
• Inclusiveness: We embrace diversity and difference and value the perspectives and contributions of all people and communities in their fight against poverty and injustice.
• Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions and inaction and hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with and for.
• Courage: We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes.

Ensure you commit to our THREE ORGANISATIONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Be committed to equal opportunities: demonstrating sensitivity to cultural differences and gender equality.
• Be willing to learn and apply gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity and inclusion across all aspects of your work.
• 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.
• Ensure you actively ADOPT OXFAM’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP APPROACH and apply the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here:

For this role, we have selected two of the most relevant feminist Leadership practices for this role (which you can read more about here.

• Self-Awareness
• Mutual accountability
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment

SKILS, Experience, Knowledge & Competencies

Essential

• Post-graduate academic qualification in Business Administration or related discipline with relevant experience, with 10 years international NGO managerial experience out of which 5 years should be supervisory/managerial experience.
• Demonstrated experience of successfully leading the implementation of operational improvements and the persistence to achieve change in a challenging environment
• Good understanding of information systems and information technology with a sound knowledge of their development and capabilities
• Leadership, management, negotiation, and coordination skills (of people and projects) in a complex multi-stakeholder, networked, global, and largely virtual environment
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors and ways of working within the program team that promotes value addition, non-duplication of roles across functions, empowerment and role enrichment of team, and culture of cost-effectiveness by all functional managers
• Excellent personal communication skills, in written and verbal English, with high impact influencing and persuasive skills. Able to use different approaches to achieve followership
• Development of customer service attitude within the program team and a focus on integrated teamwork
• Proactively address the interface between different functions and program teams in-country to ensure efficiency and accountability
• Demonstrated organizational awareness and understanding of knowledge management
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills; able to understand complex issues and translate them into simple, workable actions and plans
• Persuasive influencing, motivation, team building, and facilitation skills
• Good understanding of management roles and dynamics in organizations
• Developing organizational strategies and plans for financial management effectiveness and measuring the effectiveness
• Experience in managing and developing others, including direct line management
• Experience in leading and managing conflict resolution
• Ability to liaise with a wide range of people, both internally and externally at very senior levels (OI, Executing Affiliate, and other senior organizational leaders) with credibility, tact, and diplomacy
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with demonstrable ability to lead, influence and motivate others.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to explain complex technical/legal issues, and build a considered analysis of taking different approaches
• Excellent in the use of computers and Microsoft, especially spreadsheets (Excel), accounting packages, word processing (Word), and PowerPoint. Competent in the use of email packages 

Desirable

• Leadership qualities and people management expertise to provide direction and effective support to a multidisciplinary and multicultural team
• Strong commitment to Oxfam’s purpose, a broad understanding of the work culture in the “development” sector and its impact on key areas of responsibility, and a commitment to humanitarian principles and action 
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including high-level interpersonal and representational capabilities; fluency in written and spoken English and Amharic
• Ability to operate and think strategically, coupled with proven analytical skills and the use of these to problem solve and make firm decisions
• Understanding of gender and diversity considerations within key areas of responsibility and commitment to addressing inequalities in the workplace and the program
• Qualified member of an accountancy body or holder of an equivalent qualification
• Meet the requirement for a commercially astute, articulate, technically strong, dynamic, insightful, and influential leader with the ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels.
• Ability to operate and think strategically, coupled with proven analytical skills and the use of these to problem solve and make firm decisions
• Strong budget and personnel management skills
• Ability to handle high levels of pressure and critical decision-making.
• Strong IT skills, always being ahead of new technologies

Safer recruitment: All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records checks).

Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. 

 We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

DBS CHECK REQUIRED No

How to Apply

As part of your online application, please upload your up-to-date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile through CLICK HERE or using Oxfam's internal /External application portal on or before 05 January 2022.

Your application will be shortlisted based on your CV and your responses to the above questions. You need not comment on your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.