Global Programs Director at Oxfam

Who we're looking for

We are looking for a leader who models our values, feminist principles and behaviours, representing Oxfam with integrity both internally and externally. You will have experience motivating, developing and managing multi-functional, diverse teams across the globe as well as keen financial and Project Management skills. You will demonstrate strong, multi-stakeholder engagement skills in order to build effective relationships and demonstrate the ability to influence and build trust across different levels of the organization. You will be able to demonstrate strategic and innovative leadership, management and coordination skills, preferably gained internationally. You will have senior program expertise, having managed complex programs and the Design and delivery of major Organizational Change programs.

RESPONSIBILITIES(Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)

• Driving one program approach including integrated advocacy, development and humanitarian work across all countries and regions.
• Shaping the Oxfam of the future through the alignment of all country and regional programs to the Oxfam Strategic Plan goals and global program investment framework.
• Managing the Humanitarian Director for delivery of the largest emergency responses and ensuring countries are capable of delivering the lower level emergency responses.
• Developing and facilitating an integrated network of Oxfam International teams working from local through to global levels to ensure coherence and synergy between advocacy, campaigns, humanitarian and long term development approaches and strategies, using matrix management approaches.
• Providing thought leadership internally within the Confederation and externally on Oxfam’s approach and added value in our rights-based development and humanitarian work.
• Ensuring good levels of affiliate engagement in programming through meeting affiliates’ needs in donor reporting, marketing, involvement in country strategy and making use of affiliate knowledge and subject expertise. 
• Leading, embedding and using Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and Social Accountability work.
• Working with the senior team to lead on Confederation effectiveness and efficiency, building strong operational and strategic linkages between affiliates and providing the leadership capability todrive change implementation across Oxfam and delivering the desired effectiveness and efficiency benefits.
• Working with the Executive Director, and Oxfam International Executive Team to lead and manage the Secretariat through a significant period of transition and to make transformation happen, 

Closing: 14th July 2022