Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)
• Supporting the head of advocacy & campaign in coordination and monitoring of the agreed priority
advocacy & campaigns work
• Maintaining the global strategic and operational plans and contributing to the overall calendar for
advocacy, campaigns and engagement
• Ensuring procedures are followed and consultation is adequate for appropriate and accountable
decisions.
• Ensuring countries working on the priority campaigns are supported to participate in worldwide
campaign activities
• Coordinating the advocacy and campaigns governance teams, including the campaign assemblies to
ensure maximum participation by countries, regions and affiliates in these bodies.
• Day-to-day financial monitoring of the budget for the advocacy and campaigns work in association
with colleagues from the operations teams.
• Monitoring evaluation and learning working with the MEAL lead/operations team. Ensuring
implementation and, where appropriate, recommending and implementing any necessary correction.
This may involve active support or project management of campaign areas that are not functioning
well, as determined by the head of the campaign.
• With the head of advocacy and campaigns and internal communications colleagues ensuring that
priority advocacy and campaigns work are front and centre of people’s mind across the
confederation.
• Ensuring advocacy and campaigns work has maximum involvement of country program, allies and
partners, and working with the head of advocacy and campaigns and other colleagues to ensure 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.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam International Secretariat 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):
Job profile template– 23.09.20

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, class, or LGBTQIA identity.
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
   • Self-Awareness
   • Listening
   • Enabling
   In addition:
   • Outstanding organisational skills with excellent time and process management ability.
   • Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
   • Ability to work independently and juggle high workloads.
   • Comfortable with highly complex organisations and processes.
   • Great interpersonal skills.
   • 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.
   Desirable
   • Lived experiences with intersecting systems of oppression, with knowledge and experience of how
   power and privilege play out in the countries we work with
   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.