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Campaign Lead - Climate Justice 🔥


Closing date: 9th July  @23:59 GMT

Location: Global South preferred (subject to being able to establish a contract of employment) 

Contract: 18-months fixed-term 

One Oxfam Grade: C1

Salary and benefits: in line with Oxfam values and according to location

Candidates must have and be able to retain the legal right to work in the location of the role. We are not able to support the relocation of a candidate to take up the position in an Oxfam location.

Flexible working: We believe flexible working is key to building the Secretariat of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of working arrangements that might work for you

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE:

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:

·       Works with others to ensure the effectiveness of climate justice influencing work around the world and across the confederation at every level – country, regional, affiliate and advocacy offices - embedding clear power analysis and theories of change, and delivering effective strategies for systemic change.

·       Facilitates alignment between climate justice related campaigns with programs fundraising, advocacy, research and policy, and media opportunities.

Ensures organisational influencing priorities on climate justice are clearly set and effective project teams are created in line with them. 

ROLE REPORTS TO

Worldwide Campaign Strategist: Inequality

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS POST

N/A

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

N/A

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)

• Connect and convene climate justice influencing work from across the confederation, engaging with country, regional, affiliate teams, the Advocacy Campaigns & Engagement Department, climate justice programs and the Oxfam Climate Initiative (OCI) to coordinate and create a shared vision, strategy, and plan for action on the topic.

• Working with others - including climate change advocacy lead and public campaigners - to develop priorities within the climate justice agenda, ensuring power analysis and theories of change are clear, and commissioning content from within OI and/or across countries, regions and affiliates for use in all parts of the world.

• Support key countries in developing their influencing work on climate justice, including resourcing, priorities, focus and delivery.

•  Ensuring that climate justice campaigns work is developed based on the experiences of country program, allies and partners, and ensuring they are reflective of the lived experiences of people living poverty, and that they are delivered in a non-extractive, decolonised, anti-racist feminist way.

• Working collaboratively across the confederation at every level – country, regional, affiliate and advocacy offices - to align, where possible, influencing, income and engagement objectives in influencing and campaigning activity.

• Building and maintaining movements with external climate justice campaigning partners and movements, providing support, building relationships, and securing partnerships, including undertaking external representation.

•  Managing campaigns in an anti-racist, intersectional feminist and supportive manner, in line with Oxfam’s values.

•  Dealing with problems that are highly diverse and complex requiring comprehensive analysis of management and programme information from a wide variety of sources. Decision making is both highly strategic and operational with judgement based on highly complex problem-solving experience, and a full understanding of a range of internal and external factors.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES

ESSENTIAL

· Self-Awareness

· Influencing

· Strategic Thinking and Judgment

· Decisiveness

In addition:

·       Excellent campaign management skills and experience.

·       A proven track record in leading successful campaigns that contributed to policy / practice / behavioural changes. Comfortable with complexity and the need for agility.

·       Strong experience and understanding of developing accurate power analysis, advocacy strategies, and models and theories of change, including awareness of political sensitivities.

·       Excellent communications and facilitation skills, with strong understanding of leadership in complex group dynamics.

·       Excellent understanding of, commitment to and experience of embedding and continuously learning to embed a decolonial, anti-racist, intersectional feminist and partner led approach in your work.

·       Ability to manage large amounts of work, outstanding prioritisation and time management skills.

Desirable

·       Experience of working across geographic boundaries.

·       Lived experiences with intersecting systems of oppression, with knowledge and experience of how power and privilege play out in the countries we work with.

·       Experience of working on climate justice.

SAFER RECRUITMENT: Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us. Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. 

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