STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS AND EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT ADVISOR TO THE OXFAM INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
About The Role
Disclaimer: Candidates who have previously applied for this position are not required to reapply, as their applications will be considered during this recruitment process.
The Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED is responsible for managing the Oxfam International Executive Director’s external engagement, enabling him to support the power of people against poverty and inequality and champion Oxfam’s voice in influential external spaces.
The Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED is responsible for all aspects of the OIED’s external strategy, creating and managing opportunities to project his skills, status, and energy to the greatest advantage of Oxfam’s mission.
Job Dimensions
The Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED will work closely with the OIED and the Leadership Collective and lead the team – along with other stakeholders – on the OIED’s external “influencing and engagement” work.
The Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED is responsible for producing and delivering the OIED external strategy, underpinned by analytics, and responsive to a dynamic and changing external environment. The Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED works collaboratively with Oxfam advocacy and communications leaders, external allies and partners. Together they are
responsible to position the OIED as Oxfam’s leading influencer in target sectors, in line with advocacy and public engagement objectives and priorities.
The Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED-led work is responsible for messaging and for managing high-level executive engagements, including summits, events, speaking opportunities, external commissions, boards and committees, and, together with the media team, his presence in media and social media channels. In many cases, executive work is on behalf of the Confederation as a whole e.g. Davos. The Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED will help lead oversight of the effective management of his relationships with public figures and manage Oxfam’s relationships with key institutions the OIED works closely with.
Specifically, the Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED will work to deliver specific initiatives with other internal leaders, which report to the OIED. The Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED also works closely to input into internal priorities for advocacy and public engagement and be prepared to support during situations of crisis management. In some cases the Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED will represent the OIED, as delegated.
The Strategic Communications and External Engagement Advisor to the OIED requires:
- a strong understanding of high-level public engagement and influencing and communications strategies to ensure the OIED’s international public profile helps to achieve the aims of the Oxfam confederation;
- the ability to plan and influence strategically; to assimilate and process complex policy information in order to identify and implement advocacy and communications opportunities and actions;
excellent diplomacy and communications skills, and in particular to work in a hi-pressure hi-intensity environment.
About Oxfam
At Oxfam we respond to emergencies and advocate for people in crisis, partnering with local organizations to deliver essentials and help rebuild communities. We work with activists and partners to fight poverty and injustice. We campaign for economic, gender, climate justice and accountable governance, striving for sustainable growth and transformation. We fight for a future that is equal, just and fair – one in which people have more equal opportunities and rights, and one in which we can all flourish, not just survive.
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Testimonials
A Somali national, she works at the Burao base on water and sanitation projects.
Who is Hoda?
I am Hodan Mohamed, I work in Oxfam Somalia Somaliland as a Public Health Engineering. I was born in Hargeisa, Somaliland, and I study for this field of engineering because I would like to add for the new design or the new intervention for the future, for the building in Somalia, construction and building in Somaliland for new intervention and new design to create more beautiful and more cities.
Career, parents, challenges
Yes, there are little women with this field. But if you want to follow your career or your hobbies that is not a big challenge. Maybe you pass the challenge and you are the first person, the leader, who makes this way. So maybe is a small challenge, but not a lot of challenge First my parents they liked me to study for other fields like medicine or accounting or something else. So but my hobby was to study for engineer. So they allowed me after more negotiation and more... My mother, I said I like to study for this field and they allowed me to study. There is no more a lot of challenge for my parents but they allowed me finally.
For the community, there is a lot of challenge, including they do not believe in women engineer, so maybe they say you are a woman this is impossible. Sometimes they say like that. But in the last times the community they accepted.
Hodan Work
I am monitoring the activity done by Oxfam in this area. Oxfam Somalia concentrates on WASH, Food Security, and Health projects mostly in Somaliland, but also in Puntland, where we have a small Field Office (FO) Garowe City, but mostly work via implementing partners. Other programmes concern youth employment, resilience (SOMREP), cash programming, and inclusive civic expression. There is a vision of further scaling projects in Puntland and extending operations towards South-Central Somalia, for which purpose a FO was established in Mogadishu City in 2021.
The WASH work implemented by Oxfam in Somalia consists of:
- Clean water via cash for water, drilling boreholes and rehabilitating water sources
- Hygiene kits and menstrual hygiene management kits, hygiene promotion
- Construction of sanitation facilities (latrines)
- Multi-use of water sources, integrating with FSL and Protection interventions (SOMREP), triple nexus approach.
Oxfam Global Humanitarian Team outside the Centre for Humanitarian and Social Aid. Romania, August 2nd, 2022.
Khodeza Work
“I have the opportunity to work directly with vulnerable people from war and disaster-torn contexts through Oxfam. I can feel their emotions just by being with them. The value of the smile on their faces and the gleam in their eyes after receiving humanitarian assistance is immeasurable. It makes me especially proud when women are aware of their rights and are motivated to do something new, thanks to Oxfam interventions.”
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