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

Do you have a Master’s degree in Humanitarian Studies, Public Health, Development Studies, Environmental Studies or equivalent qualification. A Bachelor’s degree combined with relevant postgraduate or professional qualifications and significant experience of at least 10 years may be considered?

Do you have 6 years of relevant experience in in humanitarian programming, including emergency response, preparedness, and coordination. Strong technical knowledge of humanitarian standards and principles, including at least 3 years in a team leadership or management role?

Do you have experience Strong technical expertise and ability to integrate programme design with influencing and policy work or Proven experience in managing teams and working across multi-country or multi-stakeholder environments?

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

The Role:

Oxfam Humanitarian Action Programme Manager,

The Humanitarian Action Programme Manager provides strategic, technical, and operational leadership for emergency preparedness, anticipatory action, response, and recovery across the SAF Cluster. The role ensures that humanitarian interventions are timely, principled, and aligned with organisational standards.

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:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIE

Strategic Humanitarian Leadership & Positioning (15%)

The role provides strategic direction for humanitarian action across the Cluster, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities, humanitarian principles, and the triple nexus approach. It supports positioning Oxfam as a credible and effective humanitarian actor in the region.

• Define humanitarian priorities across preparedness, response, and recovery
• Support integration of humanitarian action within cluster strategy

People Management & Leadership of Humanitarian Function (20%)

A central responsibility of the role is the direct leadership and management of the humanitarian team across the Cluster, ensuring that the function operates effectively and is capable of responding to emergencies.

• Line manage humanitarian staff, including emergency response and programme roles
• Establish strong performance management systems, including objective setting, feedback, and accountability

Emergency Preparedness & Anticipatory Action (15%)

The role strengthens the Cluster’s ability to anticipate and prepare for crises, ensuring readiness across teams and partners.

• Develop and maintain preparedness plans and contingency frameworks
• Support anticipatory action approaches linked to early warning systems

Humanitarian Response & Multi-Country Coordination (15%)

The role ensures effective coordination and delivery of humanitarian responses across countries, particularly in complex or large-scale emergencies.

• Coordinate multi-country responses and ensure alignment across teams
• Provide technical guidance during emergencies

Humanitarian Standards, Quality & Accountability (10%)

The role ensures that all humanitarian interventions meet recognised standards and uphold accountability to affected populations.

• Promote adherence to humanitarian principles and standards
• Strengthen quality assurance and accountability mechanisms

. Partner Support & Localisation (10%)

The role works closely with partners to strengthen their capacity and leadership in humanitarian action.

• Support partners in preparedness, response, and recovery programming
• Promote localisation and equitable partnerships

Integration with Programme & Influencing (10%)

The role ensures that humanitarian action is integrated with development programming and influencing efforts.

• Support alignment with climate, economic, and gender justice programmes
• Contribute to nexus approaches linking humanitarian, development, and peace efforts

Experience, Knowledge and Competencies

The role strengthens learning and evidence generation to improve humanitarian effectiveness.

• Capture and document lessons learned from responses
• Support knowledge sharing across teams and partners

• Master’s degree in Humanitarian Studies, Public Health, Development Studies, Environmental Studies or equivalent qualification. A Bachelor’s degree combined with relevant postgraduate or professional qualifications and significant experience of at least 10 years may be considered.
• 6 years of relevant experience in in humanitarian programming, including emergency response, preparedness, and coordination. Strong technical knowledge of humanitarian standards and principles, including at least 3 years in a team leadership or management role.
• Strong technical expertise and ability to integrate programme design with influencing and policy work.
• Proven experience in managing teams and working across multi-country or multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.

• Ability to build strong, credible relationships with internal and external individuals and organisations
• Excellent personal communication skills, in written and verbal English, with strong influencing and persuasive skills
• A high level of self-awareness, personal energy, stamina and flexibility.
• Proven experience as a team worker and demonstrably cooperative with members of other teams
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.

Desirable

• Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting gender equity and diversity and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly, at times at short notice, locally and regionally.

• Excellent personal communication skills, in written and verbal English and ideally Portuguese.

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.