DEPUTY ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNS DIRECTOR - GLOBAL CAMPAIGNS

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1 DEPUTY ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNS DIRECTOR - GLOBAL CAMPAIGNS

2 Deputy Advocacy and Campaigns Director- Global Campaigns Version 1.0/ 5 May 2016 Annual Salary and Benefits - Salary and package in line with Oxfam values Internal Job Grade - A Contract type - Fixed term (4 years with relocation to Nairobi expected by March 2019) Reporting to - Director of Advocacy and Campaigns Staff reporting to this post - Heads of the GROW, Even it Up, Rights in Crisis and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Campaigns; Digital WIN Manager; Advocacy and Campaigns Administrative Assistant Locations - Flexible, with a strong preference for a location in the global south in which Oxfam International is able to establish a contract. In common with other key Oxfam International roles, it is expected that the post will move to Nairobi at the latest by March Annual Budget - Approx.GBP1.5m Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty. Team Purpose The Oxfam International Advocacy and Campaigns Team works with colleagues across the Oxfam confederation, and with partners and allies, to design and deliver Oxfam s Advocacy, Campaigns and influencing work throughout the world. Job Purpose - Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities Deputy to the Oxfam International (OI) Director of Advocacy and Campaigns; leads the development and implementation of Oxfam s public-facing campaigning through line management and oversight of our four worldwide public-facing campaigns (GROW, Even it Up, Rights in Crisis and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls). This post also oversees Oxfam s global digital campaigning and coordinates with the Global Program and Public Engagement Departments, including on private sector engagement. The position deputizes for the Director of Advocacy and Campaigns as required. 1. Worldwide Public-Facing Campaigns leadership and management Responsible for leadership of Oxfam s public-facing campaigns, including research, policy, advocacy, media (in conjunction with Public Engagement colleagues) and popular mobilization for all priority public-facing campaigns (ensuring that Oxfam maximizes our impact through clear models of change, smart objectives and priorities, linking local to global, contributing to our Worldwide Influencing Network (WIN) and the one-program approach, supporting southern leadership, ensuring political and financial viability, optimal use of limited resources, and good collaboration with partners and allies). Responsible for overseeing the implementation of agreed plans of public facing campaigns (resource allocation, risk management, dialogue with allies etc.) through the management of four Heads of Campaigns and the Digital WIN manager.

3 Chairs the cross-campaign management team that agrees cross-campaign strategies for strengthening Oxfam s public-facing campaigns (i.e. Resource allocation, training, gender mainstreaming, MEL etc.) Ensures key products (reports, papers, creative design, etc) are delivered. Responsible for OI global public-facing campaigns budgets. Coordinates with the Global Program and Public Engagement Departments, including on private sector engagement and media. Provides support to OI Advocacy and Campaigns Director and Executive Director as needed. 2. Support Worldwide Influencing Network (WIN) implementation through digital campaigning coordination and project management Responsible for developing Oxfam s global strategy on digital mobilization Responsible for implementation of this strategy, including: 1. Learn, share, and pilot best practices 2. Invest in building global capacity for rapid topical mobilization 3. Increase scale, reach and impact through topical mobilization 4. Enable our partners and networks 3. Management of OI Advocacy and Campaigns staff Manages the four Heads of Campaigns Manages Digital Campaign Manager Manages the advocacy and campaign administrative assistant 4. Strategic coordination of alliance/movement building and global events Ensures alliance building strategies and coordination are in place for each of Oxfam s global public-facing campaigns. Ensures that Oxfam has appropriate strategies, resource allocations, teams and risk management plans for priority global events such as the UNFCC. 5. Fundraising for Global Public-facing Campaigns Leads and coordinates the development of campaign fundraising strategies and actions for Oxfam s global campaigns, in cooperation with the Public Engagement and Global Programs Departments. Project management of the OI Campaign Fundraising manager. Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge Essential Strong advocacy and campaigns experience including digital campaigning. Strong strategic and analytical skills relevant to campaign design Good knowledge of international politics and political processes Demonstrated commitment to women s rights and gender justice

4 Deputy Advocacy and Campaigns Director- Global Campaigns Version 1.0/ 5 May 2016 Experience in working in campaign alliances Track record in process coordination in networks High people and process management skills including mediation/arbitration, and experience in the effective use of soft power Proven project design/management abilities. Proven management ability Involvement in leading or coordinating international campaigns at a senior level and/or national/regional campaigning in the global south. Familiar with policy development and campaigns working in an international context. Excellent working knowledge across a wide range of development issues. Multi-year experience of living and living and working in one or more countries in the global south. Sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues as well as commitment to the principles of equal opportunity. Fluent English. An affinity with the aims and objectives of Oxfam International. Desirable Knowledge and experience of working with and / or influencing private sector. Knowledge of French and/or Spanish. Key Behavioral Competencies (based on Oxfam s Leadership Model) Competencies Decisiveness Influencing Humility Relationship Building Listening Mutual Accountability Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity Description We are comfortable to make transparent decisions and to adapt decision making modes to the context and needs. We have the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organization. We spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities we have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner. We put we before me and place an emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team and play to the strengths of each individual. We are not concerned with hierarchical power, and we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of others across all levels of the organization. We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organization. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organization. We are good listeners who can see where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions differ. Our messages to others are clear, and consider different preferences. We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organizational values. We are ready to be held to account for what we do and how we behave, as we are also holding others to account in a consistent manner. 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.

5 Systems Thinking Strategic Thinking and Judgment Vision Setting Self- Awareness Enabling We view problems as parts of an overall system and in their relation to the whole system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome or event in isolation. We focus on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing systems thinking we are aware of and manage well unintended consequences of organizational decisions and actions. We use judgment, weighing risk against the imperative to act. We make decisions consistent with organizational strategies and values. We have the ability to identify and lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organization and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organization and diverse external stakeholders. We are able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviors to control and channel our impulses for good purposes. We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organizations goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job. We provide freedom; demonstrate belief and trust provide appropriate support. We give more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support.