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

Do you have significant experience leading large-scale humanitarian and development programmes at a senior management level?

Do you have experience developing programme strategies and leading high-performing, multidisciplinary teams in an INGO, UN agency, or similar organisation?

Do you have experience managing multi-million-dollar programme portfolios, including donor engagement, financial oversight, compliance, and risk management?

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

The Role:

Oxfam in Bangladesh is looking for a Head of Programmes to provide strategic leadership for its integrated humanitarian, development, and influencing portfolio. As a member of the Country Leadership Team, you will lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of high-quality, locally led, feminist, and partnership-based programmes. The role is responsible for driving programme quality, humanitarian preparedness and response, resource mobilisation, strategic partnerships, evidence-based influencing, and organisational learning while ensuring alignment with Oxfam's Global Strategic Framework 2030 and the Bangladesh Country Strategy. You will represent Oxfam with government, donors, UN agencies, civil society, and other key stakeholders to maximise programme impact and influence across Bangladesh.

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:

• Be a strategic and inspiring leader with extensive experience leading complex humanitarian and development programmes.
• Demonstrate exceptional leadership, partnership-building, negotiation, and influencing skills across diverse stakeholders.
• Have strong analytical and political acumen, with the ability to navigate complex environments, manage competing priorities, and make sound evidence-based decisions.
• Be an excellent communicator with outstanding written, reporting, and presentation skills in both English and Bangla.
• Have proven experience managing multi-million-dollar programme portfolios, donor relationships, compliance, safeguarding, security, and organisational risk.
• Thrive in fast-paced and challenging environments, demonstrating adaptability, resilience, and sound judgement under pressure.
• Be committed to localisation, gender justice, diversity, inclusion, safeguarding, and empowering partners and communities.
• Be innovative, forward-thinking, and committed to continuous learning and driving organisational improvement.
• Be willing and able to travel regularly to programme locations across Bangladesh and internationally as required.

We offer:

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

[ONLY BANGLADESHI NATIONALS ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY]

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.