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

Do you have experience managing institutional donor grants and ensuring full compliance?

Have you supported donor reporting, audits, and contract performance monitoring?

Are you confident in proactively identifying risks and supporting timely corrective actions across complex programmes?

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

The Role:

Oxfam in Bangladesh is looking for a Senior Officer – Grant, Compliance & Risk to strengthen donor compliance, contract management, risk monitoring, and reporting across a diverse portfolio of institutional grants. The role will ensure strong systems for contract performance monitoring, timely donor submissions, audit readiness, and effective documentation management. This position will also support capacity strengthening of staff and partners on compliance standards, donor rules, and reporting requirements, ensuring risk-aware programme delivery aligned with Oxfam’s internal standards and external legal and donor obligations.

The Senior Officer - Grant, Compliance & Risk will cover the following key responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end donor contract lifecycle, including negotiations, compliance, reporting, audits, and project closure.
• Ensure robust grant management systems and compliance monitoring across programmes and partners.
• Maintain accurate donor, contract, and financial data in Oxfam systems (CRIMSON, PeopleSoft, BOX).
• Track contract performance, budgets vs actuals, risk ratings, and provide timely corrective actions.
• Strengthen the capacity of Oxfam staff and partners on compliance, reporting, and donor rules.
• Serve as a focal point for donors, affiliates, and programme teams on grant compliance and risk.
• Ensure audit-ready documentation, timely reporting, and adherence to safeguarding and accountability 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 with our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability, and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be/have:

• Post-graduation in Finance/Accounting/Management (preferably CA course completed)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in financial reporting, budgeting, compliance, and risk management (preferably in an INGO context)
• Strong experience managing institutional donor grants (UN agencies, EU, DFAT, GAC, etc.)
• Proven capacity in donor reporting, compliance monitoring, and audit preparedness
• Strong understanding of donor rules, regulations, and government compliance requirements
• Ability to manage contract systems, documentation, and reporting calendars effectively
• Experience in complex and multi-partner programme environments
• Experience in emergency response and resilience programming

We offer:

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

[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.