Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations (affiliates) committed to creating a just world without poverty. In Nigeria Oxfam works in the areas of Economic Justice/Sustainable Livelihoods, Humanitarian Programming to save lives, Advancing Gender Justice and Good Governance, adopting a right based approach.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Tile: Grow Coordinator
Location: Abuja
Internal Job Grade: C2- national
Contract type: 1 year Fixed Term
Reporting to: Head of Public Engagement and Influencing
Staff Reporting to this post: No direct line report
Job Purpose
- The Grow Coordinator is responsible for the strategic development and day-to-day coordination and communications of the GROW Campaign.
- The post works closely with members of the Oxfam International (OI) core campaign coordination team, GROW Campaign Management Team and staff from various Oxfam country teams working on various aspects of the campaign.
- The postholder will report to and support the Head of Public Engagement and Influencing and assist in running the campaign effectively.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Strategy and Fundraising:
- Lead the strategy, development and implementation of the GROW campaign across the Confederation and act as the main GROW decision making body
- Lead (or provide strategic support to) multi-affiliate influencing initiatives including inequality and GROW campaigns, manage complex set of internal relationships, including, Oxfam International, Regional Platform and sign off procedures on policy and advocacy products, to support humanitarian advocacy, inequality in the food system and GROW campaigning
- Review and shape organisational objectives, making sure the campaign is delivered to the requirements of the region and generating good media coverage of our work.
- Lead the external facing element of the GROW campaign
- Advise GROW delivery groups on the implementation of the campaign strategy and operational plan
- Identify and address arising issues and high-risk situations
- Lead monitoring, evaluation & learning across the whole campaign
- Draft and manage funding as needed; providing support to for fundraising efforts -e.g. write concept notes.
Coordination, Budget Monitoring, Financial Management and Operational Planning:
- Direct responsibility for budget management of up to 2- million EUR project per year including significant donor funds.
- Works with the Programme Quality and Development Manager on design and implementation of the programme’s monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management and participates in the annual audits and external evaluations
- Accountable for Grow Campaigns, through the Head of Public Engagement and Influencing
- Ensure cross-campaign linkages are made
- Keep key documents up to date, including cross-campaign calendar and contact list
- Collaborate with Economic Justice Campaign Management Team (EJCMT) and EJ Core, including taking notes; support other team calls where appropriate / possible
- Track current budget, record and administer invoices and be point person for finance team
- Help to publicize and socialize GROW’s work plans
Project Monitoring & Reporting:
- Reports project’s progress and quality level, signals problems, opportunities and exceptions, and provides for solutions
- Leads the technical aspects of programme implementation including drawing up of annual plans from a perspective of expected results and activities develops the country framework for the programme design (action research, scaling up, and gender framework).
- Integrates and provides strategic technical coherence with project opportunities by potential donors
- Directs and monitors the coherence and supervises content-related management of the GROW programme; provides highly specific content related and scientific direction; leads the write-ups of global policy briefs and publications and engages with relevant global actors and international policy arena; stimulates innovation within and among all relevant stakeholders.
Internal and External Communication:
- Write external monthly external newsletter and coordinate with OI social media coordinator to send out
- In coordination with the Head of Public engagement and influencing, represents the programme from local to high level international meetings. Maintains a network in relevant international alliances, working groups.
- Build relations regions and OI staff to ensure excellent information flow via channels / updates including:
- Regular GROW newsletter
- FB@Work
- Oxfamily
- Manage periodic program updates
- Develop monthly departmental newsletter
Educational, Experience & Competence
Essential:
- First Degree in Economics, Business Administration or related disciplines
- Minimum of 7 years progressively responsible positions in an INGO
- Proven knowledge of funder regulations, including Global Fund, DFID and EU.
- Proven background in campaigns and advocacy work, with extensive knowledge of the industry and a solid understanding of agricultural policies and livelihoods issues - particularly those affecting West Africa
- Ability to think strategically means you’ll offer sound judgement across a far-reaching decisionmaking process and have influence over political agenda.
- Confident at liaising at country and regional level and even global scale
- Excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills with commitment to building collaborative relationships, both directly and indirectly, right across the organisation.
- Strong analytical skills. Strong working of Ms. Word, Excel, Access)
- Proven ability to influence activity at a senior level, taking initiative and working independently as well work as a team player; demonstrably cooperation with members of other teams, responding quickly and accurately to queries and issues.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal English) and the ability to write clear, concise reports.
- Proven leadership, project management and team building skills, including training, giving support and recognising expertise in others.
- Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting women’s rights and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.
- Knowledge or appreciation of Nigeria in terms of its political, economic and social trends plus a good understanding of the key development and humanitarian issues in the region.
Desirable:
- Knowledge and / or experience of common Oxfam norms objects, standards and tools
- Advanced University Degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Project Management or other relevant discipline.
- Qualified/certified/member of an Accounting or Audit professional body.
Key Behavioural Competencies:
- Decisiveness: We are comfortable to make transparent decisions and to adapt decision making modes to the context and needs.
- Influencing: We have the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organization We spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities we have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner.
- Relationship Building: We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organization. We have the ability to engage with traditional and nontraditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organisation.
- Vision Setting: We have the ability to identify and lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organization and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organization and diverse external stakeholders.
- Enabling: We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organizations goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job.
- We provide freedom; demonstrate belief and trust provide appropriate support. We give more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate support.
Application Closing Date
25th August, 2017.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application letters and CV's as one attachment to:
[email protected] with the position title as the subject of the email.
Note
- Please send your applications in the required format.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for assessment and interview.
- Candidates who applied previously need not to reapply as this is an extension of the previous application deadline.