Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

Division Purpose: Oxfam is a global community who believes poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s rights activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we will not stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation Oxfam.

Team Purpose: The Yemen Influencing Team covers advocacy, campaigns, policy, research, media and communications work with the Oxfam Country Programme. We work in close collaboration with programme teams to deliver high quality and high impact programming; and leverage our impact through influencing/advocacy in collaboration with our local partners and allies at national regional and international level.

Job Purpose: To deliver positive changes at scale for people who are poor and vulnerable. This will be achieved through leading the development and management of Oxfam’s influencing strategy in Yemen, covering advocacy, campaigns, policy, communications and media work, working with all programme teams as part of an integrated ‘one programme’ approach.

As a member of the Yemen Country Programme, the Advocacy, Campaigns and Media Manager (ACMM) leads Oxfam’s influencing work in Yemen, ensuring that the country programme develops and delivers a coherent policy and influencing strategy, built on programming, cognisant of risk and relevance to the country context.

The Role:

Oxfam work in Yemen addresses a spectrum of aspects that includes Humanitarian and Resiliency interventions and Civil Society Leadership. In Yemen, Oxfam is currently running its humanitarian response with food security, WASH and Protection as key sectoral focuses. We are leading the humanitarian sector in Yemen with our global advocacy and influencing programme, including high-profile media and campaigning around gender, inequalities, and the humanitarian situation (protection, conflict transformation and peace). We seek to integrate these components into a ‘one programme approach’ to maximise benefits for poor, marginalised and crisis-affected people in Yemen. 

Technical:

Provide strategic vision and leadership to develop and manage Yemen’s influencing strategy, encompassing advocacy, campaigns, policy, media and communications

• Work effectively with the Country Director, programme managers, advisors, regional and global policy teams and civil society partners (international and national), to lead the Yemen advocacy and campaign work and analyse policy and practice issues and on-the-ground realities, prioritising and devising innovative activities that will secure positive change for people in Yemen in both the short and long-term, as well as leveraging opportunities and issues that arise in real-time.
• Deliver timely intelligence and effective analysis of the policies, practices, communications and decisions relevant to Oxfam’s programme.
• Coordinate development of well-grounded policy positions across programme areas.
• Promote the localization agenda in all fora OXFAM participates, like HCT, AWG, HAWG and other. Give the voice to the local actors in high level events related to Yemen like UN SC meetings, SOM, etc..
• Work with the Gender Coordinator, Protection Coordinator, Regional and Global Gender Advisors and Protection Teams, to ensure women’s rights and gender justice is taken into account in Yemen policy, advocacy and campaign work.
• As a member of the Country Management Team, support the Yemen team to deliver an influencing strategy which is in line with Oxfam’s Country Strategy and programme and broader regional and global objectives to ensure a real impact.
• Work closely with Oxfam MENA teams, Oxfam International teams, and Oxfam affiliates to ensure coordinated approaches on advocacy that achieve the most impactful positive change.

Leadership and Management:

Leading a team of policy, campaigns, media and communication resources to deliver a comprehensive and effective campaigns and advocacy response to the crisis in Yemen and to address structural gaps in essential services.

• Manage a team and resources in country, and coordinate resources across the region and globally to influence impactful change in Yemen or which affects Yemen
• Coordinate and conduct systematic representation and lobbying at the national, regional and global levels, in line with agreed delegation and division of labour.
• Ensure Oxfam representation in key appropriate external policy and media forums based in Sana’a and other locations as appropriate and as agreed with the Yemen Country Director.
• Coordinate high level representation of Oxfam’s advocacy messages and programme in the national, regional and global media.

Contributing to developing Oxfam programmes

• Feed into in the development of the country strategy and programme design as needed
• Ensure capacity-building to deliver Oxfam’s model and theory of change, including advocacy and campaigns with programme staff
• In collaboration with the Humanitarian and Resiliency program team, engage with the communities to identify the main structural challenges they are facing related to our programs.
• Contribute to building Advocacy capacities among Partners, CSOs, WROs and Communities we are working with for them to be able to effectively advocate for their own rights and causes and achieve long term changes within OXFAM transformative approach.
• Engage with CSOs to enhance their voices in a context of shrinking civic space.
• Support Oxfam in Yemen to reflect Oxfam’s Southern campaigning principles including approaches to develop local ownership and national capacity for advocacy work.

Driving efforts in improving programme quality

• Ensure that programmes relevant to advocacy and campaigns are in compliance with donor contractual obligations and that all reporting is of good quality and is done in a timely manner.
• Ensure that programme learnings are included in advocacy and policy products
• Ensure that programme teams include advocacy in proposal design
• Ensure regular monitoring and evaluation of advocacy and policy work and that regular reflection and review is undertaken to continuously improve effectiveness and impact.

Active engagement in the Country Management Team

• Participate in and contribute to the Yemen Country Management Team (CMT).

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also have:

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in law, International Affairs, Development Studies, Humanitarian Affairs, Social Science, Journalism and any other relevant field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in managing campaigns, including use of local and regional media to achieve campaign outcomes
• At least 7 years of experience in advocacy and policy analysis in crisis context
• Ability to influence and liaise effectively with key stakeholders and representation in high profile environments
• Experience of building inter-agency coalitions for the purposes of policy influencing
• Ability to work with significant levels of autonomy and make prompt and sound decisions
• Proven analytical skills and ability to work with others to develop strategy into action and communicate this to a wider audience
• Experience of programme planning, and competent use of project management tools
• Knowledge and experience of promoting gender equity, and an active commitment to promoting the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of programme work
• Experience of managing staff: challenging, motivating, developing and inspiring team members
• Sensitivity to cultural differences, and the ability to work collaboratively in a wide variety of cultural contexts
• Very high-level of self-awareness, interpersonal and communications skills
• Ability to meet agreed deadlines in a stressful and fast paced environment will be critical
• Ability to travel, including to remote and difficult locations
• Excellent written and spoken skills in English are essential, Arabic would be an advantage
• Commitment to Oxfam’s vision and mandate
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and action.
  • Self-Awareness
  • Mutual accountability
  • Vision Setting

At interview, shortlisted candidates will also be assessed on our values and organisational attributes, as outlined above.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in both development programmes and complex humanitarian situations, and ability to integrate into one-programme-approach is highly desirable
• A sound understanding and experience of the possibilities and tactics for influencing governments and key stakeholders through evidence-based policy research, media and lobbying.
• Experience in media communications
• Knowledge of the Yemeni and Middle Eastern context.

We offer:

 We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up-to-date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.  

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. 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.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.