Career Opportunities at Oxfam - 3 Positions

Job Purpose

The Tax Justice Programme Officer will be a core member of the Mobilising Progressive Domestic Resources for Quality Public Services (Tax Justice Programme) under the Governance and Accountability programme. The key areas of focus for this role will be to implement specific projects through effective programme management approaches, supporting partners to develop organisational capacity building to deliver high quality tax justice programmes and to establish and maintain linkages with other thematic and programmatic areas as well as with relevant state and non-state actors particularly at County level. The Tax Justice Programme Officer will be required to implement campaigning and influencing strategies, undertake research and monitoring, evaluation and learning as well as ensuring the programme takes into account gender and active citizenship.

The Programme Officer will also contribute to resource mobilization for co-financing of the projects to ensure that the programme is fully resourced.

Key Responsibilities

Programme management, implementation and resourcing 30%

· Ensure plans and objectives contribute to the broader country programme strategy and particularly on the Accountability and Governance theme, as well as involve collaboration with other programmes

· Effective, timely and quality delivery of project activities and deliverables.

· Continuously monitoring implementation of the project activities including budget tracking and prepare monthly and periodic report for sharing with Oxfam management, development partners and stakeholders

· Budget management oversight

· Ensure continuous coordination with the MEAL Advisor in implementing the monitoring and evaluation components of projects (for Oxfam and partners) and documenting the lessons learnt for their application, quality assurance and for adjustments to the project where necessary.

· Support in initiating new programme strategies which help achieve impact on the programme objectives in close collaboration with Oxfam staff and other stakeholders.

· Work with other Oxfam project/programme staff and partners in developing new program interventions and fundraising for project or programme financing.

· Perform any other tasks related to the project which may be advised by the management from time to time.

Partnership Management, coalition building and support 40%

· Brokering, networking and managing partner relations with project partners, strategic partners, coalitions, networks and County Governments and Assemblies in the project areas.

· Support the partners in delivering the project targets and objectives including MEAL support, monitoring of partner project activities, review of work plans and budgets, facilitating linkages and learning as well as reporting.

· Maintain regular communication and positive relationships with other Oxfam staff, the project partners and beneficiaries and stakeholders.

· Ensure and coordinate regular monitoring, quality, review and timely submission of partner narrative and financial reports and

· Ensure compliance of Oxfam and donor requirements on project delivery and reporting by partners.

Research, knowledge generation, campaigns and policy influencing 25%

· Implementation of specified components of the projects under the Tax Justice Programme that include influencing tax and fiscal justice, public finance management including budgets policies, legislations and decisions for the benefit of target beneficiaries.

· Through technical guidance, to support relevant research, policy analysis and lobbying on tax policy & practice issues taking into consideration gender, inequality, extractives and active citizenship.

· To support partners on their influencing and campaigning strategies and activities

· To support the design and implementation of public offline and digital campaigns relevant to the programme

· To coordinate with the Communications and MEAL advisor on the documentation of the programme and partner information, learning and case stories for programme visibility and fundraising.

Human resource management 5%

· Manage consultants and researchers as required, in accordance with Oxfam policy and procedures

Technical Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Skills

· Professional/Technical qualifications – a Bachelor Degree in Law, Economics, Development studies, Social sciences or governance-related field.

· Demonstrated ability to multi-task between direct programme implementation and partners’ management with positive outcomes.

· Proof of ability to work independently to deliver project outcomes and results as well as any other tasks that may be delegated from time to time.

· Proven ability to analyse complex contexts, monitor change and translate this analysis into problem solving strategies that can be communicated in developing appropriate plans which have impact.

· Proven analytical and conceptual thinking, high level research, project management knowledge and skills and experience using participatory tools and methodologies for assessment, programme identification, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

· Excellent oral and written communication skills including strong negotiation skills with diverse teams.

· Great Partnership building skills including facilitation and networking skills

· Fund raising, donor reporting and budget management skills

· Ability to gather and apply lessons learned and to communicate this learning effectively to influence others for action – both internal and external audiences.

· Demonstrated ability to work effectively and sensitively with different values systems and cultures.

· A high level of self-awareness, initiative, sound judgement, personal energy and flexibility.

Knowledge

· Knowledge and/or experience of implementing Tax Justice, Public Finance Management, Economic or Fiscal Justice programs and initiatives, with understanding of relevant County, National and Global issues

· Good knowledge of and experience in developing advocacy and campaign strategies and plans and successfully achieving external impact and change.

· Strong programme management and quality knowledge, with ability to ensure consistent quality against standards and to implement effective monitoring and evaluation systems to assess and adjust performance.

· A strong understanding of gender, women’s rights, development issues and the political and economic context in Kenya

· Commitment to and good knowledge of working with networks, coalitions and a partnership approach across the spectrum of Oxfam’s work, including innovative approaches to capacity strengthening.

· Fluency in English with knowledge of Swahili being an added advantage.

Experience

· At least five years experience in designing, managing and delivering on development projects management in a non-governmental (national or international) or similar institutional setting.

· Proven experience working in a complex, dispersed organisation with evidence of facilitating and integrating a specific area of expertise across a wide network, contributing to vision setting and implementation with impact, some level of decision making and the delivery of agreed results.

· Politically astute, with high impact influencing and persuasive skills and personal gravitas to gain respect and build and maintain strong, credible relationships, with internal and external stakeholders at all levels

· Strong organisational and personal management skills, with ability to prioritise work issues to meet deadlines with minimal supervision and adjust to constantly changing situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through.

· Demonstrated experience in managing partners including effective oversight and capacity building as well as mobilizing and organizing marginalized communities and groups to influence positive change to their lives.

· Demonstrated experience in managing and working with researchers and consultants including developing strong terms of reference and effective supervision.

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Job Purpose

The Tax Dialogue Programme Officer will be a core member of the Mobilising Progressive Domestic Resources for Quality Public Services (Tax Justice Programme) under the Governance and Accountability programme. The key areas of focus for this role will be to implement the Kenya Tax Dialogue project through piloting innovative programme approaches, building partnerships, coalitions and networks and delivering on relevant research for the project. The Tax Dialogue Programme Officer will also be required to lead on relevant research for the Tax Dialogue project as well as establish and maintain linkages with private sector, National Government, Government Institutions, the Legislature as and with other Oxfam teams working on tax dialogue, policy influencing, campaigning and advocacy. A key area of work will be to facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogue, generate and manage research and knowledge resources of the project through linkages with affiliates, knowledge hubs and other institutions or stakeholders. The Tax Dialogue is a concept that seeks to promote and enhance responsible corporate tax practices.

Key Responsibilities

Partnership and coalition building, networking and support 40%

· Brokering, networking, managing and building relations with strategic private sector institutions and membership organisations, CSOs, Trade Unions, coalitions, networks and relevant National Government Institutions particularly the National Treasury, Kenya Revenue Authority, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights as well as with the National Assembly and where necessary the Senate.

· Support national CSOs and project partners (if any) with capacity building and in delivering the project targets and objectives including MEAL support, monitoring of project activities, review of work plans and budgets, facilitating linkages and learning as well as reporting.

· Build and manage a multi-stakeholder platform with multi-national and national corporations, investors, government and CSOs on good corporate governance and responsible business and tax practices.

· Organise and facilitate tax dialogue roundtable forums with multi-national and national corporations, investors, CSOs and government where necessary.

· Maintain regular communication and positive relationships with other Oxfam staff, external stakeholders and project beneficiaries.

Research, knowledge generation, campaigns and policy influencing 35%

· Implementation of specified components of the Tax Dialogue Project including influencing tax and fiscal justice, Government and Company policies, legislations and decisions for the benefit of target beneficiaries.

· To undertake research and scoping on the possible issues to be addressed and corporations to take part in the tax dialogue project

· To support relevant research, policy analysis and lobbying on good corporate governance and responsible business and tax practices whilst taking into consideration gender, inequality and active citizenship.

· To support the design and implementation of public offline and digital campaigns relevant to the project.

· To coordinate with the Communications and MEAL advisor on the documentation of the project, learning and case stories for project visibility and fundraising.

Programme design, implementation and resourcing 20%

· Ensure plans and objectives contribute to the broader country programme strategy and particularly on the Accountability and Governance strategy, as well as involve collaboration with other programmes

· Effective, timely and quality delivery of project activities and deliverables.

· Continuously monitoring implementation of the project activities including budget tracking and prepare monthly and periodic report for sharing with Oxfam management, development partners and stakeholders

· Budget management oversight

· Support in initiating new programme strategies which help achieve impact on the programme objectives in close collaboration with Oxfam staff and other stakeholders.

· Ensure continuous coordination with the MEAL Advisor in implementing the monitoring and evaluation components of projects and documenting the lessons learnt for their application, quality assurance and for adjustments to the project where necessary.

· Work with other Oxfam project/programme staff and partners in developing new program interventions and fundraising for project or programme financing.

· Perform any other tasks related to the project which may be advised by the management from time to time.

Human resource management 5%

· Manage staff, consultants and researchers as required, in accordance with Oxfam policy and procedures

Technical Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Skills

· Professional/Technical qualifications – a Bachelor Degree in Law, Economics, Development studies, Social sciences, Communications or Business-related field.

· Demonstrated ability to multi-task between direct programme implementation and stakeholder management with positive outcomes.

· Proof of ability to work independently to deliver project outcomes and results as well as any other tasks that may be delegated from time to time.

· Proven ability to analyse complex contexts, monitor change and translate this analysis into problem solving strategies that can be communicated in developing appropriate plans which have impact.

· Proven analytical and conceptual thinking, high level research, project management knowledge and skills and experience using participatory tools and methodologies for assessment, programme identification, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

· Excellent oral and written communication skills including strong negotiation skills with diverse teams and stakeholders.

· Great Partnership building skills including facilitation and networking skills

· Fund raising, donor reporting and budget management skills

· Ability to gather and apply lessons learned and to communicate this learning effectively to influence others for action – both internal and external audiences.

· Demonstrated ability to work effectively and sensitively with different values systems and cultures.

· A high level of self-awareness, initiative, sound judgement, personal energy and flexibility.

Knowledge

· Knowledge and/or experience of working in or implementing Tax, Economic or Fiscal Justice programs and initiatives, with understanding of relevant County, National and Global issues

· Good knowledge and experience implementing development initiatives with private sector engagement.

· Good knowledge of and experience in developing advocacy and campaign strategies and plans and successfully achieving external impact and change.

· Strong programme management and quality knowledge, with ability to ensure consistent quality against standards and to implement effective monitoring and evaluation systems to assess and adjust performance.

· A strong understanding of gender, women’s rights, business, corporate governance and development issues and the political and economic context in Kenya

· Commitment to and good knowledge of working with and in multi-stakeholder forums, networks, coalitions and a partnership approach across the spectrum of Oxfam’s work, including innovative approaches to capacity strengthening.

· Fluency in English with knowledge of Swahili being an added advantage.

Experience

· At least five years experience in designing, managing and delivering on development projects management or business development in a non-governmental (national or international) or private sector institution.

· Proven experience working in private sector and business especially in a corporate tax environment is desirable.

· Demonstrated experience in working with or in multi-stakeholder forums, consortia or associations including effective oversight and capacity building as well as mobilizing and organizing multiple stakeholders and groups to influence positive change.

· Proven experience working in a complex, dispersed organisation with evidence of facilitating and integrating a specific area of expertise across a wide network, contributing to vision setting and implementation with impact, some level of decision making and the delivery of agreed results.

· Politically astute, with high impact influencing and persuasive skills and personal gravitas to gain respect and build and maintain strong, credible relationships, with internal and external stakeholders at all levels

· Strong organisational and personal management skills, with ability to prioritise work issues to meet deadlines with minimal supervision and adjust to constantly changing situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through.

· Demonstrated experience in managing and working with researchers and consultants including developing strong terms of reference and effective supervision.

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Job Purpose

Leads in the implementation of the Mobilising Progressive Domestic Resources for Quality Public Services (Tax Justice Programme) - piloting innovative programme approaches, building partnerships, coalitions and networks and supporting partners to develop organisational capacity building to deliver high quality women’s rights programmes. The Tax Justice Programme Strategist will establish and maintain linkages with other thematic areas and link with Oxfam campaigns, policy influencing and advocacy teams. Occasionally, as required by the programme design, the post holder will manage contracted programme staff. A key area of work will be to fundraise for the programme and to generate and manage knowledge resources through linkages with knowledge hubs and other institutions.

Key Responsibilities

Programme design, implementation and resourcing 40%

· Provides thought leadership on the programme focus and contributing to the thematic area, staying up to date with the latest thinking, undertaking and commissioning research and analysis and spending time to develop a comprehensive understanding of the theme how it contributes to poverty and Inequality in the country and across multiple locations.

· Leads on Tax Justice programme budget process by designing and effectively managing spend on a monthly basis including variance reporting and ensures corrective actions are taken on deviation.

• Plays a leadership role in ensuring that gender is applied to all programming, developing understanding of potential impacts (positive and negative) on gender and ensuring that programme interventions have been designed with gendered lens.
• Working closely with the Director – Programmes and the MEAL Advisor ensures that through a gender lens, an effective, transparent and robust monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability system and processes are in place to ensure that the program delivers on the OCS.
• Working closely with the Program Funding Relationship Manager, participates in relevant fundraising activities, through the development of fundable concepts (at all levels including programme development with partners) and by taking lead in the development of donor proposals, budget submissions and other necessary activities to secure funding for programme objectives
• Assesses and advises the Country Director and Director – Programmes on risk emerging from the programme.

Partnership and coalition building, networking and support 30%

· Provides technical support to staff and partners working on the programs with a specific focus on domestic resource mobilisation/tax justice and influencing.

• Develops a comprehensive understanding of Oxfam’s partnership approach, including work with coalitions and networks, adopting a strategic, proactive perspective on how to achieve partner led approaches to achieve sustainable change.

· Ensures compliance with donor requirements, managing internal and external relationships to minimise disallowances and deviations from plan.

• Develops and facilitates links with civil society, the private sector and governments, initiating contacts and building associations that can be used to enhance Oxfam’s work, and identifying key partners to collaborate with on the delivery of the program.
• Coordinates and mobilises technical support for the program partners, accompanying them and ensuring high quality of programming.
• Identifies and channels appropriate technical and material resources to the partners.
• Assesses and advises the Country Director and Director – Programmes on risk emerging from the programme.

Research, knowledge generation, campaigns and policy influencing 20%

· Collects and analyses programme information to produce timely, accurate progress reports for multiple audiences – partners, internal teams, donors and other external sudiences.

· Ensures that adequate monitoring and evaluation sytems, processes and tools are in place to manage programmes and to achieve the intended programme objectives.

• Support the development of a joint advocacy strategy and plan with allies and implement Oxfam’s role in the plan.
• Providing technical contribution, with campaigns and colleagues and through innovative approaches develop appropriate influencing materials for consumption by targeted groups.
• Source and analyse essential publications for relevant content, summary and distribution for internal, external audiences and donors.
• Provide regular information, briefings and publicity on the Tax Justice programm activities that also support relevant policy formulation.
• Develop written analysis and learning material for publication for the purpose of the platform, Oxfam and wider civil society analysis and learn.
• Ensures research, learning and advice is disseminated for maximum impact.

Human resource management 10%

· Manage staff, consultants and researchers as required, in accordance with Oxfam policy and procedures

Technical Skills, and Knowledge

Skills

· Professional/Technical qualifications – Undergraduate/Post Graduate in Development Studies, Law, Economics and related field.

• Ability to engage and influence both corporate direction, contributing to and following it as appropriate and the ongoing development of program policy and quality to enhance the impact of Oxfam’s work
• Proven analytical and conceptual thinking, high level research, project management knowledge and skills and experience using participatory tools and methodologies for assessment, programme identification, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Proven ability to analyse complex contexts, monitor change and translate into appropriate planning, while maximising impact.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with good report writing skills. Proven ability to analyse complex contexts, monitor change and translate this analysis into appropriate plans which have impact.

· Ability to gather and apply lessons learned and to communicate this learning effectively to influence others for action – both internal and external audiences.

· Demonstatred ability to work effectively and sensitively with different values systems and cultures.

Knowledge

· Comprehensive knowledge and experience of implementing Domestic Resource mobilisation/Tax Justice programs and initiatives, ideally built on mature understanding of relevant issues derived from field experience

· Good knowledge of and experience in developing advocacy and campaign strategies and plans and successfully achieving external impact and change.

· Strong programme management and quality knowledge, with ability to ensure consistent quality against standards and to implement effective monitoring and evaluation systems to assess and adjust performance.

· A strong understanding of gender, women’s rights, development issues and the political and economic context in Kenya

· Commitment to and good knowledge of working with networks, coalitions and a partnership approach across the spectrum of Oxfam’s work, including innovative approaches to capacity strengthening.

· Fluency in English with knowledge of Swahili being an added advantage.

Experience

· At least five years experience on project management in a non-governmental (national or international) or similar institutional setting.

· Proven management experience at a strategic level in a complex, dispersed organisation with evidence of leading, facilitating and integrating a specific area of expertise across a wide network, providing clarity and focus of vision and impact, strategic planning and decision making and the delivery of agreed results.

· Politically astute, with high impact influencing and persuasive skills and personal gravitas to gain respect and build and maintain strong, credible relationships, with internal and external stakeholders at all levels

· Strong organisational and personal management skills, with ability to prioritise work issues to meet deadlines with minimal supervision and adjust to constantly changing situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through

· Demonstrated experience of designing and implementing advocacy and campaigns programmes.

· Excellent personal communication skills.

· A high level of self-awareness, initiative, sound judgement, personal energy and flexibility.