For Oxfam Pilipinas

Philippine Nationals Only

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

About Oxfam Pilipinas

We seek lasting change. We at Oxfam Pilipinas dream and work for a future where Filipinos are free from poverty. For more than 30 years, serving in a country where close to 27 million now live in poverty, we have relied on the power of people to carry out programs designed to achieve our shared vision. Central to our strategy is working with partners to transform the unequal power relations, structures, norms, and values that cause poverty and inequality, including gender-based violence and injustice.

We strive to apply a feminist lens to all our analyses and actions. We seek to save lives, provide access to services, and reduce the impact of disasters, particularly on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. We belong to the larger Oxfam family of over 20 organizations networked with partners and grassroots communities in all corners of the globe. We are part of a global movement for genuine change, seeking to rid the world of the scourge of poverty, with gender justice at the core of what we do.

Job Purpose

The AA Lead will provide technical, policy, and capacity-building support for Oxfam and local partners’ anticipatory action (AA) program systems strengthening. The role will be adaptable to evolving project priorities of the AA sector and Oxfam Pilipinas’ strategy targets. Specifically, the Lead will focus on the following key tasks and deliverables.

What we are looking for:  SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, ATTRIBUTES AND VALUES:

Essential 

The desired qualifications for the role are as follows:

• Bachelor’s degree in Disaster Management, International Development, Environmental Science, Community Development, or related field; demonstrated experience in AA, disaster risk financing, cash-based programming, preferably with an international NGO.
• Minimum 10 years’ professional experience in program/project management in an international development or humanitarian context at senior level.
• Proven experience in AA and disaster risk financing programming and implementation.
• Proven experience in partnership management and engagement with governments and institutional donors on AA and disaster risk financing, with the ability to convene diverse experts and stakeholders for DRRM and AA planning.
• Strong project management, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including planning, budgeting, forecasting, expenditure tracking, risk mitigation, communication, and coordination skills for effective cross-cultural collaboration.
• Familiarity and experience in capacity building, designing, training delivery, early warning systems, and anticipatory action principles.
• Understanding of NGO sector issues in both development and humanitarian contexts; ability to lobby, influence, and represent at multiple levels.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to foster cross-departmental and cross-sector collaboration.
• Commitment to organizational values, rights-based approaches, and principles of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Flexible, adaptable, and effective in multicultural environments; able to contribute across multiple activities and departments.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
• Previous Oxfam experience is an advantage.

Key Attributes

• Ability to demonstrate gender-sensitivity and feminist principles, collective leadership, program management, sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, and commitment to equal opportunities.
• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about applying feminist principles/ gender sensitivity, social inclusion, diversity, and flexibility in all aspects of development work.
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies and feminist principles to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.

Organizational Values:

• Equality -  We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities.

• Empowerment - We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them.

• Solidarity -  We join hands, support, and collaborate in working towards a just and sustainable world.

• Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences.

• 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

• Courage - We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. AA Program Development and Resource Mobilization

• Develop OPH’s overall AA strategy and program.
• Develop resource mobilization strategies, plans and partnerships for AA.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders in the implementation of the AA strategy.

2. High-Level Engagement and Policy Support

• Develop operational guidelines to link anticipatory action with local governance processes and funding mechanisms.
• Lead policy dialogues with key governing institutions to integrate anticipatory protocols into national disaster management and financial frameworks.
• Map potential implementing and financing partners to support anticipatory action programs.
• Identify and propose policy measures for a range of non-financial anticipatory interventions that align with government standards.
• Contribute to the design of financial instruments and risk financing mechanisms that serve as social protection for vulnerable communities.

3. System Strengthening – Localization of Triggers and Activation Protocols

• Develop multi-stakeholder coordination frameworks to enhance decision-making processes for early action.
• Support local partners in updating and contextualizing activation triggers, ensuring alignment with impact-based forecasting from meteorological agencies.
• Define clear activation modalities based on pre-agreed needs assessments and the availability of institutional resources.

4. Capacity Building

• Provide technical assistance for the development and updating of risk assessment tools and anticipatory triggers for various hazards, including:
  - Cyclonic and severe weather events.
  - Flooding
  - Public health emergencies.

Contract Length: One-year Fixed term, with possibility of extension

Your commitment to Oxfam

• Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights
• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles

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 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.

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

How to apply

Applications must include a curriculum vitae and a letter of intent in a single file. 

Applicants may also submit their applications to ophrecruitment@oxfam.org.ph. Please use the email subject format: Position Applied For - Surname, First Name.

Note: All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance check

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.