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

Do you have experience in developing and implementing business development strategies, including donor mapping, bid development, and building strategic partnerships?

Do you have experience in representing business development in senior management forums and providing leadership in strategic decision-making?

Do you have experience in managing donor compliance, ensuring high-quality proposals and reports, and strengthening capacity in business development and fundraising?

If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you.

The Role:

The Head of Business Development is a key member of the Country Management Team, providing strategic leadership on funding, donor mapping, and partnership development. This role is responsible for shaping and implementing the country’s business development and resource mobilization strategy, generating diverse funding opportunities, and strengthening donor relationships. The position involves fostering innovation in programme design, ensuring cost-effective interventions, and guiding teams to meet donor requirements with high-quality proposals and reports. The Head of Business Development will explore non-traditional funding streams, build strategic partnerships—including with the private sector and academia—and mobilize support across Oxfam affiliates. This role requires exceptional expertise in partnership building, grant management, and strategic planning to advance Oxfam’s funding aspirations and programme impact.

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 be/have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with a minimum of 10 years’ experience in programme design, fundraising, and contract management (Essential).
• Proven ability to devise and implement effective resource mobilization strategies (Essential).
• Demonstrated track record in identifying new business opportunities and building strategic partnerships (Essential).
• Experience in planning, securing, and managing funds from institutional donors such as FCDO, EU/ECHO, SIDA, SDC, DFAT/ANCP, KOICA, ADB, WB, and UN agencies for an international agency.
• Experience collaborating with and leading technical teams to develop donor-funded programme proposals.
• Strong networking, representation, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work effectively across teams, organisational boundaries, and cultures, utilising diverse expertise to achieve objectives.
• Adaptability to work in multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary environments.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills in English, with ability to analyse and synthesise complex issues.
• Proficient in office software, internet navigation, and related IT tools.
• Experience in capacity building, including coaching and delivering training to staff and partners in business development.
• Strong numeracy, financial, and IT skills with high attention to detail for donor budget preparation, reporting, and financial monitoring.
• Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively in a dynamic environment with tight deadlines across multiple time zones.
• Understanding of and commitment to mainstreaming crosscutting issues, such as gender and protection, with proven experience supporting gender mainstreaming in programme development.

We offer:

 We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff ,including flexible working options, generous gratuity 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.