Jobs at Oxfam

Job Summary

The ideal candidates will have experience in a multinational, complex, and diverse organization with planning, developing, and delivering a range of internal communications, including e-mails, newsletters, videos, podcasts, infographics, staff meetings, and events. They speak and write excellent English and will have the knowledge and hands-on experience with designing,  creating, and producing multimedia internal communications, experience with successful storytelling, and using digital conference tools (Zoom, Teams etc.) for internal communications events.

Responsibilities

Technical

• Collate, write, designand producemulti-media content for internal platforms to inform, engage and inspirestaff
• Plan, developand deliver a range of internal communications, including emails, newsletters, videos, podcasts, infographics, staff meetings and events
• Project manage internal communications projects, with support from the Head of Internal Communications and the Internal Communications Advisor
• Do community management for essential staff groups on global internal platforms
• Provide consultancy to Confederation and OI teams on effective internal communication practice.
• Work with teams from across the Confederation and OI to collate stories, materials and messaging on our campaigns, influencing, program, knowledge and emergency response work.
• Developinternal communications messages on key topics, aligned with external messages, and ensure consistent delivery across the confederation.
• Support the Head of Internal Communications with keeping a global internal communications calendar, which is aligned with external public priorities.
• Support the global Internal Communications Network with community management, sharing content and providing updates and an overview of upcoming events.
• Contribute to and support the delivery of the internal communications strategy.
• Support the collection of knowledge and insights,  among other ways through research,  to understand internal communications and staff engagement needs of the confederation and to monitor performance, and to steer on the use of the (research) insights for improvement.
• Provide practical communications advice and assistance to colleagues from across the confederation.

ESSENTIAL

• Self-Awareness
• Systems Thinking
• Relationship building
• Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity

Closing: 3rd July 2022

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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