Oxfam Recruitment 2021 Latest Job Vacancies

Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations (affiliates) committed to creating a just world without poverty. In Nigeria Oxfam works in the areas of Economic Justice/Sustainable Livelihoods, Humanitarian Programming to save lives, Advancing Gender Justice and Good Governance, adopting a right based approach.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Development Advisor

Requisition ID: 10361
Location: Abuja
Department: Programmes and Business
Reports To: Country Director
Internal grade: C1

Job Purpose

• The Business Development Advisor is responsible for identifying funding opportunities in line with Oxfam's program priorities, writing successful grant proposals in coordination with program colleagues in addition to strengthening our linkages with local donor missions and national offices.
• As the Business Development Advisor, you will develop and implement a business development and fundraising strategy and professionalize efforts to seek out funding opportunities, develop proposals, and successfully close funding through governmental and multilateral funders and partners.
• You will have a well-established network among the Partnership and funding coordinators of different donors as well as the Business Development forum of INGOs.
• The BDA will be the expert on relevant research to develop strategies and approaches that will be responsive to donor solicitations.
• The incumbent will manage the proposal process, drawing from and collaborating closely with the Institutional funding team in Oxfam alongside the country programme team.

Team Purpose

• The Business Development Advisor  works with the country Leadership team and have responsibility for supporting to mobilize resources for Oxfam's programme in Nigeria; to develop and maintain good quality and consistent relationships with donors; contract management; effectively support programme teams to develop and plan concept papers/notes and proposals in accordance with country strategy and donor requirements and planning, coordination, securing, management and reporting of restricted income to enable Oxfam in Nigeria to deliver on its Oxfam Country Strategy.
• Oxfam Nigeria is transitioning to an Influencing country status within the Oxfam Confederation and the role will be critical in assuring the necessary funding for this transformation.

Key Accountabilities
Strategy Implementation, Review and Resource Mobilization:

• Develop and implement an Oxfam's business development and fundraising strategy and processes
• Develop and implement a business development and fundraising strategy including establishing the infrastructure to grow the current annual revenue stream through e.g. solicitation, government   grants, competitive bids and corporate and foundations support for Oxfam.
• Produce regular reports for Country leadership on business development performance analysis
• Oversee overall coherence and quality of donor relationships in the country
• Conduct a new Donor mapping focused on Donors supporting influencing projects
• Research and analyze changing donor environment and strategies and advise on effective influencing of donors, linking in with affiliate HQ (donor leads) as appropriate
• Advise on donor priorities and identify specific opportunities. Identify, pursue and successfully capitalize on funding opportunities among major particularly bilateral and multilateral donors.
• Research, analyze and maintain regular register of donor calls for funding applications including tenders, expressions of interest and requests for proposals.
• Advise on potential partnerships with other organisations and agencies and identify specific opportunities:
  • Development of fact sheets on all Oxfam in Nigeria Programme pillar initiatives in coordination with relevant staff.
  • Strengthen the capacity of colleagues (Programme, Business Support and partners) across the Country Programme (through formal training delivery, coaching and accompaniment) in the planning, securing and managing of donor/restricted funds.
  • Ensure effective coordination and information flows with Global Programme Funding Team, Affiliates HQs as appropriate.
  • Ensure relevant internal approval processes at different levels are followed on making the decision whether or not to pursue a business opportunity.

Programme Development and Bid Development:

• Project design and document production: Lead the development and writing of successful funding proposals and budgets. This will involve leading or supporting proposal development teams across the organization and, where relevant, using outsourced consultancy services. This includes organizing pre-proposal strategy sessions (e.g. developing win themes, SWOTs, partnering assessments); working with technical, management and finance leads on strategy; and ensuring that log frames, budgets and narrative text are developed, reviewed and edited per donor requirements.
• Provide bid development support as well as specialist information about donors to programme staff in order to maintain levels of funding for the Country Programme and achieve the income targets of the overall funding strategy.
• Provide leadership in the development of concepts notes and long-term quality proposals and seek multi-year funding from potential donors.
• Management of information: Direct the development and maintenance of information required for proposal development including updating capability statements, descriptions of Oxfam's technical areas of expertise, country programme and/or project write-ups, development of graphics and presentations.
• Provide guidance and support to development of proactive concepts, converting ideas into sellable proposals and actively participate in identifying sources of support for such proposals.
• Deliver training and support country staff with project cycle management according to capacity building needs.
• Identify programming ideas and areas of technical excellence with which Oxfam can cultivate donor interest.
• Subscribe to and monitor regularly electronic notices for relevant funding opportunities, and monitor websites of potential donors for information on priorities, requirements and funding.
• Track calls for proposals and tenders as they are published, identify those relevant to Oxfam programmes; determine with Oxfam Country Leadership team when/whether to respond.

Donor and partner affiliates relationship Management:

• Ensure the highest possible level of service to donors: Ensure coordinated communication with donors and partner NGOs. This may involve managing relationships for a portfolio of donors. Ensure quality, consistency and continuity in Oxfam's approach with donors.
• Be responsible for developing good relationships with key potential donors in Nigeria and pro-actively identify funding potentials, including advising and guiding Oxfam colleagues on country funding plans and donor liaison.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with donor organizations, foundations, affiliate fundraising contracts at Executive affiliates and thereby maximize income from these sources.
• Support, build and maintain strong relationships with donors and host country government representatives: This could include representing Oxfam at meetings, conferences and workshops, networking with other NGOs, and working with Country Directors and their teams to access thematic working groups, as well as other Oxfam teams to support their external relations efforts
• Provide quality control on all donor solicitations, reports and communications.
• Ensure sign-off of donor proposals, reports and contracts according to agreed Oxfam processes.
• Support preparation for audits of donor funded programs as required.
• Represent Oxfam as required with donors.
• Monitor regulatory revisions, proposal guidelines and application requirements for priority donors together to ensure that new proposals adhere to them.
• Develop/cultivate relationships with for-profit and other organizations to increase Oxfam's opportunities for partnering for funding opportunities.
• Obtain any donor approvals, extensions and amendments in line with Oxfam standards

Grant Management:

• Provide programmatic support to the Country Director e.g. in relation to reporting to donors and affiliates.
• Support quality contract management, including donor reporting, in collaboration with Oxfam colleagues.
• Ensure that donor-reporting schedules are distributed to programme leads /budget holders and finance department to ensure that donor reports will be managed on time and with the quality needed.
• Work closely with colleagues in finance and programme to ensure the timely submission of high-quality reports.

Strengthen internal new business development capacity:

• Strengthen the capacity of Oxfam team members to participate  in technical and cost proposals and other business development efforts through mentoring, technical assistance visits and direct training. Support country programmes to develop fundraising strategies, develop and deliver trainings and on-the-job tools and aids as required.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Oxfam's systems by developing better tools, systems, techniques and strategies for identifying, tracking, and pursuing new business opportunities, developing proposals and budgets, and managing institutional knowledge.

Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge
Essential:

• Advanced qualification in relevant areas (Humanities, Business Administration, Economics) or proven experience at this level.
• At least seven (7) years of work experience in the field of development cooperation, preferably with INGOs.
• Successful track record of securing multiple high-value projects/contracts from bilateral and multilateral donors, trusts and foundations.
• High level of analytical skills and critical thinking.
• Ability to network and represent Oxfam to donors and external institutions.
• High level numeracy, budgeting, financial reporting and IT skills.
• Excellent research skills: knowledge of how to find new sources of funding for advocacy work.
• Good communication skills; both written and verbal; experience with writing proposals and reports.
• Experience with project cycle management (Planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, evaluation and learning).
• Excellent planning and budgeting skills.
• Self-motivated, target-driven and an entrepreneurial approach to fundraising opportunities.
• Strong sense of integrity and personal commitment to the goals of Oxfam, including Gender and Diversity.
• Three years (5) experience of raising funds, preparing project proposals for international organizations such , MoFA, DFID, EU, OFDA, DANIDA [TAH1] etc., foundations, Private corporate organizations as well as and UN Agencies and other institutional donors which are predominant in Nigeria.
• Experience with donors' rules and regulations.
• Knowledge of the landscape of Influencing in Senegal and West Africa and its stakeholders
• Significant capacity building and training experience.
• Good communication and facilitation skills.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of any or all of the key pillars of Oxfam country programme in Nigeria (Just economy, Accountable Governance, and Gender justice).

Key Behavioural Competencies:

• Decisiveness: We are comfortable to make transparent decisions and to adapt decision making modes to the context and needs.
• Influencing: We have the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organization We spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities, we have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner.
• Humility: We put ‘we' before ‘me' and place an emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team and play to the strengths of each individual. We are not concerned with hierarchical power, and we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of others across all levels of the organization.
• Relationship Building: We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organization. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organization.
• Listening: We are good listeners who can see where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions differ. Our messages to others are clear and consider different preferences.
• Mutual Accountability: We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organizational values. We are ready to be held to account for what we do and how we behave, as we are also holding others to account in a consistent manner.
• Vision Setting: We have the ability to identify and lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organization and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organization and diverse external stakeholders.
• Self-Awareness: We are able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviors to control and channel our impulses for good purposes.
• Enabling: We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organizations goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job.  We provide freedom; demonstrate belief and trust provide appropriate support.
• Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity: We scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways.
• Systems Thinking: We view problems as parts of an overall system and in their relation to the whole system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome or event in isolation. We focus on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing systems thinking we are aware of and manage well unintended consequences of organizational decisions and actions.
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment: We use judgment, weighing risk against the imperative to act. We make decisions consistent with organizational strategies and values.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply

Job Title: Communications Officer

Requisition ID: 10342
Location: Abuja
Internal Grade: D1
Contract Type: 1 Year Fixed Term
Department: Programme
Reports To: Country Director

Organizational Values

• Accountability – Our purpose-driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable. We believe that others should also be held accountable for their actions.
• Empowerment – Our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen.
• Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences

Team & Job Purpose

• To amplify Oxfam's programming for influencing in Nigeria and increase the impact and visibility of Oxfam's influencing footprints through leading, developing and delivering digital and conventional strategies and campaigns for promoting an active and engaged civil society; promoting the realization of full, equal rights and potential for women; and increasing the income and sustainable food systems for poor people.
• The role requires capacity to conduct power analysis of political terrain needed for developing advocacy and digital campaign plans, strategies and tactics. It demands creativity and proficiency in analysing and synthesizing information to understand issues, identify options and support the Oxfam country team in sound decision making.
• The role will be responsible for pushing decision-makers to take action and building public support through the use of digital and conventional campaigns strategies for ongoing influencing programmes.
• The job holder will work with technical program, media, campaigning and policy colleagues to develop digital and communication strategies that meet the objectives of our public campaigns, and responsible for ensuring projects are delivered and also integrate social media into our wider communications, programme and campaigning work.
• The jobholder will also regularly engage the conventional media outlets, build a comprehensive and strategic communication partnership for Oxfam's visibility and is expected to speak on behalf of the organisation.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement a comprehensive country media strategy that secures 3-4 high-impact media outlets in Abuja and across the country to help raise Oxfam's programming for influencing profile and visibility, in a bid to scale up positive evidence based models that will bring changes in the lives of the Nigerian people.
• Analyse performance of digital campaigns (google analytics, social media analytics) to ensure online policies and procedures are adhered to, to protect the OXFAM and the campaigners within its network: including social media policy/strategy, moderation policy for any campaign web presence, with the support of the digital, legal and data protection teams.
• Strengthen Oxfam Media Network and morph the group into “Journalists Against Inequality and poverty” to reflect our stand on strengthening our  programming for influencing drive for a Nigeria without inequality and poverty.
• Work with the country teams to develop and implement a high-quality story-gathering strategy to showcase Oxfam's work by generating compelling stories for use in media, social media, and wider communications in support of fundraising and influencing objectives
• Drive content and act as a moderator on public social media spaces (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Whatsapp etc) where there is an OXFAM campaigns presence, and respond accordingly, in conjunction with the relevant campaign
• Developing and delivering, with others, a strategy for communications to increase the impact and reach of our programme objectives and to ensure that Oxfam is accountable for our programme to a range of stakeholders including the general public and donors
• Managing and coordinating our communications while working with programme staff to ensure that communications, including situation reports, are produced, signed off and disseminated to agreed standards.
• Strong development of relationships with local and national policy makers to influence them and promote the change of policies and practices
• To work closely with the project officers to develop popular advocacy, influencing and campaigns materials
• Attending external coordination meetings and representing Oxfam if required – reporting back as relevant
• Managing the evaluation/impact assessment of communications from field teams, including the provision of feedback
• Relationship and capacity building on communications within the programme team and assessing and advising on their communications needs
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of both traditional and digital media projects, and provide regular reporting
• Update social media plans and channels (facebook, twitter, youtube, instagram)
• Ensuring adequate media coverage for all programme activities, functions   and press releases/press statements
• Document and publish Oxfam's learning in Nigeria by contributing articles for Oxfam's campaign Bulletin in West Africa, our bi-monthly site reps, and other relevant publications.
• Establish and strengthen INGO and local NGO networking and advocacy coordination
• Contribute with advocacy-related elements to project design and proposal development, as well as to internal reporting
• Support the development of Oxfam's profile with international development advocacy forums  and to establish and develop relationships with relevant high-profile influencers, including but not limited to Commissioners, Permanent Secretaries, Local Government Chairmen, civil servants, think tanks, etc.
• To perform any other duties that may be mutually agreed with manager

Job Requirements / Person Specification
Essential:

• First Degree in Mass Communications, Journalism and Media,  Public Relations, Digital Media and Strategic Communications or any other related field.
• 1-3 years previous experience would have been gained at a technical/specialist level in any sector.
• Ability to use various social media platforms to support Oxfam's campaigns and programmes
• Awareness of how a policy proposal moves from development to implementation.
• Experience of evaluating the impact of communications;
• Experience of providing advice on communications including excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, demonstrating experience at a wide range of levels to internal and external contacts;
• Commitment to Oxfam's values and an understanding of gender and diversity;
• Willingness to travel at short notice.
• Excellent communication skills with knowledge of both internal and external communications environments and a creative and innovative approach and with the ability to convey complex ideas in a straightforward way and fluency in English;
• Ability to conceptualize, design and deliver media, story-gathering and digital communication strategies
• Experience of leading complex projects across teams and divisions and the drive to achieve results;
• Access to key influencers in government, private sectors as well as in the media
• Excellent time management, organization, and prioritization skills, with the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines;
• Ability to develop creative ways to engage the public on  development work
• Ability to travel (30% of the time) to Oxfam's program locations to gather stories, provide capability building and strengthen Oxfam's visibility
• Ability to speak to the media on behalf of Oxfam if so nominated by the Country Director.

Desirable:

• Good numerical skills for compiling figures for newsletters and programme summaries.
•  Advanced computer skills in designing published material, editing photographs.
• Sound editorial judgement and ability to generate stories to further Oxfam's organisation objectives
• Good understanding of, and commitment to, gender equity (particularly around poor women's rights)

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply

Note

• 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 committed to 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

Application Deadline  26th October, 2021.

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