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POLICY, ADVOCACY AND INFLUENCING (PAI) MANAGER

TEAM PURPOSE

The Influencing function in Oxfam Jordan works to advance policy and practice change by linking programme evidence with strategic advocacy, alliance building, campaigning direct engagement, research analysis and other influencing methodologies. The team collaborates closely with programme teams, partners, and other stakeholders to promote systemic and lasting change aligned with Oxfam’s country strategy and confederation priorities.

JOB PURPOSE

To lead the development and implementation of Oxfam Jordan’s policy influencing work, ensuring strong alignment between programme evidence and influencing approaches.

The role focuses on translating policy analysis and programme learning into actionable influencing strategies, and positioning Oxfam as a credible and strategic actor at national, regional, and global levels.

The role independently drives policy and influencing initiatives within agreed strategic priorities, while ensuring close alignment and ongoing coordination with the relevant functions
in the team and with Country Director on overall strategic direction and organizational positioning.

The role is a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), contributing to overall strategic direction, organizational decision-making, and cross-functional alignment within the country programme.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Policy & Analysis:

• Lead the development and production of policy analysis, briefing notes, and position papers aligned with Oxfam’s thematic priorities (e.g. economic justice, gender justice, climate justice). Commission and manage outsourced studies where needed. Ensure research outputs are translated into actionable advocacy and influencing products.
• Monitor and analyses national policy, regulatory, and socio-economic developments relevant to Oxfam’s work.

• Provide contextual and policy analysis to inform programme design, influencing priorities, and senior management decision-making.
• Ensure programme evidence and learning are systematically captured and translated into policy and advocacy outputs.

 Influencing (Core Function)

• Lead the development, operationalization, and periodic review of Oxfam Jordan’s influencing strategy, ensuring its integration within overall country strategy and priorities.
• Translate influencing priorities into clear strategies, pathways, and approaches, identifying key stakeholders, decision-makers, and entry points for engagement. Work with programme teams to extract evidence and learning for influencing purposes. Ensure consistency and coherence of advocacy messaging and external positioning across all influencing outputs.
• Work with, through and by the partners in designing and delivering influencing.
• Develop and implement influencing plans, including engagement tactics (such as, but not limited to, policy dialogues, individual direct engagement, roundtables, and public discussions), coalition strategies, and advocacy actions, and prepare briefing materials, talking points, and policy positioning to support senior-level engagement.
• Lead and coordinate the implementation of influencing initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, timelines, and expected outcomes. Ensuring that influencing initiatives provide tangible result and are time-bound. The influencing initiatives shall be part of the existing projects, as appropriate, and stand-alone ones.
• Monitor and analyses stakeholder positions, policy developments, and external dynamics to inform influencing strategies, identify emerging opportunities and risks, and adapt approaches accordingly.
• Actively represent Oxfam Jordan in relevant regional and global influencing platforms (e.g. RICs, thematic working groups), contributing strategic inputs, ensuring alignment with confederation priorities, and translating regional and global directions into actionable national influencing approaches.
• Identify and develop new influencing concepts and initiatives aligned with programme and country priorities and proactively identify policy windows and opportunities for engagement and suggest them to the country management.
• Develop and contribute to concept notes and donor proposals for standalone influencing initiatives, working with programme and fundraising teams to position strategic influencing ideas for funding.
• Ensure that influencing priorities, messaging, and external engagement approaches are aligned with agreed country positioning and coordination processes.

Media & Communications

• Line manages the Media & Communications Officer.
• Provide strategic direction to ensure communications support advocacy and influencing priorities.
• Review and approve key messaging and outputs.
• Coordinate timing of communications outputs with influencing initiatives.

Internal Coordination, Capacity Strengthening & Learning

• Work closely with programme and funding teams to integrate advocacy and influencing into programme design and implementation, while ensuring programme evidence and learning are effectively captured, translated into advocacy outputs, and reflected in planning, proposals, and reporting processes.
• Strengthen the capacity of partners and allies to design and deliver effective influencing initiatives, including through guidance, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
• Track and review advocacy and influencing efforts, working closely with the MEAL team to apply monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches, capture lessons learned, and inform improvements in strategy and practice.
• Ensure delivery in line with agreed priorities, timelines, and internal sign-off processes.
• Contribute to internal planning processes, proposals, and reporting with policy and influencing inputs.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES

Essential

• Minimum 5–7 years of experience in policy, advocacy, influencing, or related fields.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing advocacy or influencing strategies.
• Strong experience in policy analysis and production of policy-related outputs.
• Demonstrated ability to translate evidence into influencing and advocacy approaches.
• Experience working with civil society, NGOs, or development/humanitarian actors.
• Strong inter-personal, analytical and strategic thinking skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; Arabic.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving
• Ability to work independently while maintaining strong coordination
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Commitment to Oxfam’s values and safeguarding principles.

Desirable

• Experience in the Jordanian policy and governance context.
• Experience in fundraising or developing concept notes/proposals.
• Familiarity with media and communications in advocacy contexts.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment

HOW WE INCORPORATE OUR VALUES, FEMINIST PRINCIPLES AND DECOLONIZATION 

For all our Transforming Business Support Human Resources Working Groups and Core Group. 

While this is our current stance, we are committed to continuous learning and improvement. We are dedicated to enhancing our understanding of integrating feminist principles and decolonization into our daily work. As we actively learn, we will update sections in this document to reflect our progress. 

All Oxfam Values, Equality, Solidarity, Courage, Inclusiveness, Empowerment, and Accountability are not just words but the very fabric of how we work. People & HR TBS are key in reflecting changes required in the harmonized procedures. All TBS HR WGs will verify that any update is consistent with our values, feminist principles, and the Oxfam Code of Conduct. When considering decolonial feminist principles in practice, Gender Justice Feminist Futures Strategy might also inspire us in this exercise. 

Equality: “We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and

We believe in treating everyone fairly with equal rights and opportunities. Equity goes further by recognizing diverse circumstances and providing tailored resources to achieve equal outcomes. The principle of equity helps us achieve equality.

Decolonial Feminist Leadership:

We aim to practice leadership that is aware of power dynamics and strives for collective decision-making. This approach empowers others by sharing power and enabling individuals to make decisions.

Accountability: The working groups will enable transparency by clearly documenting all processes, including Terms of Reference (ToRs), work plans, stakeholder feedback, approval processes, and final implementation plans. This ensures that all documentation is accessible to all involved.

Inclusivity: We commit to the principle of "Nothing about Us without Us," ensuring active participation from CCRs and historically marginalized groups. While improving policies, we will balance inclusivity with efficiency to avoid overburdening CCRs. This includes ensuring diverse representation within working groups (e.g., gender, geography, ethnicity) and allowing time for translation and asynchronous participation when needed. All final outputs (e.g., policies, guides) will be made available in the four official languages, with relevant webinars conducted in those languages.

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.

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.