ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CHANGE LEAD – GENDER

JOB DETAILS

LOCATION: Global South preferred (any location where Oxfam has an office and is able to establish a contract of employment)

CONTRACT TYPE: 4 years

INTERNAL JOB GRADE: C2

DEPARTMENT and TEAM: Strategy and Feminist Futures | Gender Justice

SALARY: in line with Oxfam values & according to location

HOURS (FTE): full-time (hours subject to location)

FLEXIBLE WORKING

We believe flexible working is key to building the Secretariat of the future, so we are open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. This would also be dependent on the country in which you would be based in.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equity, inclusion, and representation within our organization. We believe in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group [including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins], religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, and paternity.

**DEPARTMENT PURPOSE:**The Strategy and Feminist Futures department is responsible for the integrity and coherence of Oxfam’s global strategic objectives, approaches and transformative choices into the future. It works to ensure that gender justice and a feminist lens are central to driving Oxfam’s vision, values and identity, both internally and externally. The Department positions the confederation as an inter-dependent and locally rooted network that is grounded in a feminist approach; and contributes thematic expertise, global outlook and feminist thought leadership with a focus on creating synergies between global and organizational strategy, governance, and confederation development.

TEAM PURPOSE: The SFF Gender Justice team drives Oxfam’s commitment to applying a feminist and intersectional lens to all analysis (research and knowledge), action (programs, influencing, communication, operations) and interaction (communication, relationships and decision making) in the delivery of the Oxfam Global Strategic Framework (2020-2030) and of agreed confederation-wide and OI Secretariat (internal and external) priorities. To build synergies in feminist approaches across all aspects of Oxfam’s work, the Team closely collaborates with other Gender Justice colleagues at the OI Secretariat and seeks to leverage gender justice capacity and expertise across the global Oxfam confederation.

JOB PURPOSE:

To scale for impact and expertise on gender justice, women’s rights, intersectional approaches – supporting anti-racism, decolonial models and LGBTQIA+ inclusion – in Oxfam as a diversified network, as per the commitments in the Oxfam Global Strategic Framework and the confederation’s Feminist Principles.

ROLE REPORTS TO: Gender Justice Director

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS POST: n/a

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY : As assigned by the Gender Justice Director

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The person holding this role will bring both a solid feminist, intersectional track record, and preferably international exposure, to:

• Support and coordinate Oxfam’s Gender Justice communities of practice especially in country and regional offices including by collating trends, plans and lessons from regional and country Gender Justice plans.
• In collaboration with regional Gender Justice leads, support the development of regional plans to reinforce gender justice voice and impact and ensure exchanges with Gender Justice leads of national Oxfam affiliates to advance the confederation’s strategic commitments to global balance and to being feminist in everything we do.
• Coordinate with and offer thematic and organisational development advice to confederation-wide work on Gender Justice and feminist principles, engaging with teams working on Safeguarding, Organisational Culture and Diversity and Inclusion.
• Offer thematic and network development advice to enhance organisation-wide capacities and synergies between Gender Justice, feminist principles and commitments to racial equity, decolonisation and LGBTQIA+ rights.
• Document, capture and share confederation learnings around Gender Justice and maintain effective online knowledge management systems that facilitate multistakeholder collaboration.
• Contribute to work across the 4 Strategy & Feminist Futures Department areas of focus (strategy, governance, gender justice/ feminist futures and confederation development) by providing input to the Department’s planning, reporting and ongoing collaborations, and to other relevant OI Secretariat initiatives.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES

ESSENTIAL

• In-depth expertise on gender justice and intersectional feminist approaches
• High level of self-awareness and reflection, with commitment to continuous development and learning
• Expertise on organizational/ network development, and knowledge management from an intersectional feminist perspective with experience in confederation structures, distributed models or other complex organizations
• Ability to engage with, advise and influence diverse stakeholders, including at senior level
• Autonomous in identifying trends and good practices, in recommending plans and actions and in anticipating/ managing risks and opportunities
• Ability to assimilate and process complex information, and to build collective ownership on workable solutions to complex challenge

Leadership and Management:

• Experience in designing, implementing, and measuring the effectiveness of organizational and network development strategies and plans
• Effective collaboration and negotiating skills and a participatory and empowering leadership style, with the ability to operate in a complex and continuously evolving multi-stakeholder network environment
• Ability to deliver results with demonstrated organisational and project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects to deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal and people skills with the ability to lead, motivate and capacitate others

Communication

• Strong analytical skills and ability to summarize and present complex concepts and information for different audiences
• Excellent communicator and influencer, capable of demonstrating credibility and gravitas
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of people, both internally and externally and at many levels, with credibility, tact and diplomacy
• Fluent spoken and written English

DESIRABLE

Spoken and written French and/ or Spanish – highly desirable