KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Technical Support to Climate & Economic Justice Programming (25%)

The role provides hands-on technical leadership to partners and programme teams, ensuring that climate and economic justice interventions are strategically designed, technically sound, and effectively delivered.

• Provide technical support across Climate adaptation, Resilience, Livelihoods, Environmental governance, Economic justice and Inequality reduction
• Support application of systems-thinking approaches that address structural drivers of vulnerability and exclusion.
• Strengthen technical quality across programme design, implementation, and adaptive management.
• Support integration of climate and economic justice principles across broader thematic portfolios.
• Ensure interventions are evidence-based, partner-led, and responsive to changing contextual realities.
• Promote innovative and transformative approaches to climate and economic justice programming.

2. Partner Engagement, Relationship Management & Localisation (20%)

As the principal operational interface with partners, the role ensures strong partnerships, technical accompaniment, and locally led programme delivery.

• Maintain strong, strategic relationships with partner organisations and local actors.
• Support partners in programme design, delivery, problem-solving, adaptive management, and strategic positioning
• Facilitate communication between partners, country teams, and regional structures.
• Strengthen partner capacity in technical implementation, evidence generation, and compliance.
• Promote localisation, equitable partnerships, and decolonial approaches.
• Ensure partner voices and community realities inform strategic programming and influencing priorities.
• Support movement strengthening and long-term systems change.

3. Restricted Project Delivery, Coordination & Technical Implementation (15%)

The role contributes directly to the successful implementation of restricted projects and strategic programme portfolios.

• Support implementation of technical project activities, workplans, and deliverables.
• Ensure project activities align with donor commitments, technical standards, strategic objectives, and partner realities
• Strengthen project coordination across countries, teams, and stakeholders.
• Track progress against objectives and support adaptive management.
• Ensure project implementation supports broader programme coherence.
• Contribute to strategic problem-solving and programme responsiveness.

4. Evidence Generation, MEAL Integration, Research & Learning (15%)

The role strengthens integration between programme implementation, MEAL systems, and strategic learning.

• Support integration of robust MEAL systems into programme implementation.
• Contribute to research agendas, learning frameworks, outcome documentation, and technical analysis
• Ensure programme evidence is systematically captured, synthesised, and applied.
• Strengthen learning loops between implementation, strategic planning, and influencing.
• Support production of knowledge products and evidence outputs.
• Promote evidence-based adaptive management across programme portfolios.

5. Donor Reporting, Compliance & Accountability Support (10%)

The role strengthens donor confidence through strong technical reporting and compliance systems.

• Contribute to donor reporting processes by ensuring technical results are clearly articulated, evidence-based, and strategically positioned.
• Support compliance with donor standards, contractual obligations, and internal systems.
• Strengthen technical reporting quality across restricted portfolios.
• Ensure programme outputs and outcomes are accurately documented.
• Support accountability to donors, partners, and affected communities.
• Contribute to risk management and programme integrity.

6. Integration with Influencing, Policy & Advocacy (10%)

The role ensures programme implementation informs regional influencing and strategic advocacy.

• Synthesize technical evidence and field insights into policy-relevant analysis.
• Support translation of programme findings into advocacy messaging, policy recommendations, and regional positioning
• Strengthen integration between programme delivery and influencing systems.
• Support thematic leadership in external policy spaces where appropriate.
• Ensure programme realities inform broader climate and economic justice agendas.
• Contribute to Oxfam’s strategic role as a regional systems-change actor.

7. Internal Coordination, Technical Knowledge Sharing & Cross-Cluster Integration (5%)

The role supports broader organisational coherence and technical integration.

• Share technical insights, innovation, and learning across countries and thematic teams.
• Strengthen internal coordination on climate and economic justice priorities.
• Support consistency in programme methodologies and standards.
• Build technical capacity within wider Oxfam teams where relevant.
• Contribute to integrated nexus programming through strong thematic coordination.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Most importantly, every individual in Oxfam needs to be able to:

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (read more about these here)
• Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of Conduct):

1. Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning, with accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of their identities, such as their gender, race/ethnicity, disability, or class.”
2. 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.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES

Essential

• Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences or related field.
• Minimum 5–7 years of relevant experience in Climate justice, Economic justice, Livelihoods, Environmental governance, and Partner-led programme implementation
• Proven experience in multi-country or regional systems, partner coordination, programme quality, and technical advisory roles
• Strong technical expertise and ability to integrate programme design with influencing and policy work.
• Strong communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to build strong, credible relationships with internal and external individuals and organisations
• Excellent personal communication skills, in written and verbal English, with strong influencing and persuasive skills
• A high level of self-awareness, personal energy, stamina and flexibility.
• Proven experience as a team worker and demonstrably cooperative with members of other teams
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.

Desirable

• Portuguese language capability
• Southern Africa regional experience
• Experience in donor-funded restricted programming
• Knowledge of policy influencing systems
• Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting gender equity and diversity and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly, at times at short notice, locally and regionally.

• Provide technical support across Climate adaptation, Resilience, Livelihoods, Environmental governance, Economic justice and Inequality reduction
• Support application of systems-thinking approaches that address structural drivers of vulnerability and exclusion.
• Strengthen technical quality across programme design, implementation, and adaptive management.
• Support integration of climate and economic justice principles across broader thematic portfolios.
• Ensure interventions are evidence-based, partner-led, and responsive to changing contextual realities.
• Promote innovative and transformative approaches to climate and economic justice programming.
• Maintain strong, strategic relationships with partner organisations and local actors.
• Support partners in programme design, delivery, problem-solving, adaptive management, and strategic positioning
• Facilitate communication between partners, country teams, and regional structures.
• Strengthen partner capacity in technical implementation, evidence generation, and compliance.
• Promote localisation, equitable partnerships, and decolonial approaches.
• Ensure partner voices and community realities inform strategic programming and influencing priorities.
• Support movement strengthening and long-term systems change.
• Support implementation of technical project activities, workplans, and deliverables.
• Ensure project activities align with donor commitments, technical standards, strategic objectives, and partner realities
• Strengthen project coordination across countries, teams, and stakeholders.
• Track progress against objectives and support adaptive management.
• Ensure project implementation supports broader programme coherence.
• Contribute to strategic problem-solving and programme responsiveness.
• Support integration of robust MEAL systems into programme implementation.
• Contribute to research agendas, learning frameworks, outcome documentation, and technical analysis
• Ensure programme evidence is systematically captured, synthesised, and applied.
• Strengthen learning loops between implementation, strategic planning, and influencing.
• Support production of knowledge products and evidence outputs.
• Promote evidence-based adaptive management across programme portfolios.
• Contribute to donor reporting processes by ensuring technical results are clearly articulated, evidence-based, and strategically positioned.
• Support compliance with donor standards, contractual obligations, and internal systems.
• Strengthen technical reporting quality across restricted portfolios.
• Ensure programme outputs and outcomes are accurately documented.
• Support accountability to donors, partners, and affected communities.
• Contribute to risk management and programme integrity.
• Synthesize technical evidence and field insights into policy-relevant analysis.
• Support translation of programme findings into advocacy messaging, policy recommendations, and regional positioning
• Strengthen integration between programme delivery and influencing systems.
• Support thematic leadership in external policy spaces where appropriate.
• Ensure programme realities inform broader climate and economic justice agendas.
• Contribute to Oxfam’s strategic role as a regional systems-change actor.
• Share technical insights, innovation, and learning across countries and thematic teams.
• Strengthen internal coordination on climate and economic justice priorities.
• Support consistency in programme methodologies and standards.
• Build technical capacity within wider Oxfam teams where relevant.
• Contribute to integrated nexus programming through strong thematic coordination.

• Strong technical expertise and ability to integrate programme design with influencing and policy work.
• Strong communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to build strong, credible relationships with internal and external individuals and organisations
• Excellent personal communication skills, in written and verbal English, with strong influencing and persuasive skills
• A high level of self-awareness, personal energy, stamina and flexibility.
• Proven experience as a team worker and demonstrably cooperative with members of other teams

• Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences or related field.
• Minimum 5–7 years of relevant experience in Climate justice, Economic justice, Livelihoods, Environmental governance, and Partner-led programme implementation
• Proven experience in multi-country or regional systems, partner coordination, programme quality, and technical advisory roles
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.