About This Role
This is a field-facing role based in Gambella, focused on building and managing relationships with local government, community leaders, and partner organizations to advance Oxfam’s humanitarian and development goals. It suits a professional who thrives on negotiation, public representation, and influencing policy at the regional level, rather than on direct program delivery. Working for a major international NGO in a border region known for refugee influxes means the role likely involves coordinating around displacement, resource access, and protection issues.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The employer is seeking someone who can navigate complex stakeholder landscapes—not just list contacts, but actually move agendas forward through diplomacy and strategic communication. The implied profile is a mid-career professional with proven experience in coalition-building, policy analysis, and grassroots mobilization, likely in a humanitarian or development context. Fluency in local languages and familiarity with Gambella’s political and social dynamics will be significant unspoken advantages.
How to Approach This Application
Your cover letter and CV should highlight specific examples of successful advocacy campaigns or partnership agreements you have led or significantly influenced, especially in multi-stakeholder settings. Emphasize your ability to work under pressure in remote or insecure environments, and demonstrate understanding of Oxfam’s safeguarding and gender-justice frameworks. Employers will prioritize candidates who can show they have already built trust with government offices or community-based organizations in similar contexts.
Who This Role Suits
This role is best suited for an experienced advocacy or partnership professional with strong local knowledge of Gambella and a track record in conflict-sensitive programming. Competition will be moderate, as the location and specific focus narrow the applicant pool, but Oxfam’s brand will attract committed candidates.
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 organization.
About oxfam |
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 the international confederation Oxfam.
OUR WORK IN ETHIOPIA |
Since the early 1970s, we have been working to address the underlying causes of poverty and marginalization by focusing on developing sustainable livelihoods, providing water and sanitation, agriculture, climate research, gender, and humanitarian issues.
Job details |
| DIVISION: Operations | TEAM: Programme |
| LOCATION: Gambella, Ethiopia | CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term contract for one (1) year with possibilities of contract extension |
| GRADE: D2 National | JOB FAMILY: Programme |
| SALARY: As per Oxfam benefit package | HOURS: 37.5 per week |
FLEXIBILE WORKING We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. This is a full-time role; however, Oxfam offers various flexible arrangements which candidates can discuss with the Recruiting Manager at the interview stage | |
TEAM PURPOSE: The Humanitarian and resilience team is responsible for the strategic development, management and intervention of the country Humanitarian and resilience program. Supports Oxfam’s impact locally, regionally, continentally, and globally through ensuring Humanitarian program alignment to the key strategic objectives and program standards. Project Profile Since the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 the global humanitarian community has acknowledged the role and importance of local humanitarian actors and leadership. Commitments like those in the Grand Bargain and the Charter for Change have received global recognition from donors, the UN, and humanitarian organizations of all types. It is an essential moment to capitalize on these commitments and invest in structures which strengthen and shift power to local groups—particularly community-based committees and organizations, refugee-led organizations (RLOs) and refugee-led groups (RLGs). In both Ethiopia and Uganda, Oxfam is providing capacity strengthening support to RLOs and WLOs and their networks, in tandem with research, in-country learning, and cross-country learning. In Ethiopia Oxfam is supporting refugees from South Sudan living in Gambella Region with WASH, emergency livelihoods, and gender programming. We are also working with Gambella-based RLOs and WLOs and supporting them to build their institutional capacity and leadership, while also conducting research aimed at building the evidence base on refugee rights and representation. The objective of this work is that the RLOs and WLOs we partner with are represented more equitably in decision-making forums and have the necessary organizational abilities to lead advocacy and program delivery in their communities. This project draws learning from Oxfam’s experience with RLOs in Ethiopia and aims to strengthen RLOs & WLOs and RLO networks at the national level, while also supporting them to enter global LHL policy spaces and consolidating and socializing learning about facilitating refugee leadership among donors and international humanitarian actors. The Partnership and Advocacy Officer will support the core objectives of this refugee leadership project by working closely RR Program Manager, s/he will be responsible for implementing all partnership and advocacy-related activities of the project at the field level, including organizing trainings, advocacy workshops, meetings, campaigns, stakeholder consultation/dialogues etc. and support the other functions to deliver the project objectives. JOB PURPOSE: The Partnership and Advocacy Officer will be based in Gambella will support the organization's partnership, grant management, and advocacy initiatives, with a particular focus on strengthening collaboration with Refugee-Led and Women Lead Organizations and advancing localization commitments. The position will be responsible for managing sub-grants, ensuring partner compliance, building partner capacity, and supporting advocacy efforts that promote meaningful participation, leadership, and funding access for local and refugee-led actors with overall guidance and management of Refugee Response Program Manager. The post holder will collaborate closely with the Partnership Coordinator and work in continuous consultation with the Influencing, Policy, and Communication Manager. | |
| POST HOLDER REPORTS TO | Refugee Response Program Manager |
| JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST | |
| BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY | Yes |
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Partnership and Grant Management
Advocacy
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person specification |
Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to:
- Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, SOLIDARITY, COURAGE AND EQUALITY
Your commitment to Oxfam
- Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights
- Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles
Key Attributes:
Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities.
Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work.
Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who encounter Oxfam are as safe as possible.
Organisational Values
Our Values
- Equality: We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities.
- Empowerment: We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them.
- Solidarity: We join hands, support, and collaborate across boundaries in working towards a just and sustainable world.
- Inclusiveness: We embrace diversity and difference and value the perspectives and contributions of all people and communities in their fight against poverty and injustice.
- Accountability: We take responsibility for our action and inaction and hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with and for.
- Courage: We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes.
- Ensure you commit to our THREE ORGANISATIONAL ATTRIBUTES:
| 1. Be committed to equal opportunities: demonstrating sensitivity to culture differences and gender equality. | 2. Be willing to learn and apply gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity and inclusion across all aspects of your work. | 3. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible. |
- Ensure you actively ADOPT OXFAM’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP APPROACH and applying the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here:
For this role, we have selected two of the most relevant feminist Leadership practices for this role (which you can read more about here. 1 Self-Awareness 2 Mutual accountability 3 Strategic Thinking and Judgment |
Experience, Knowledge, Qualifications & Competencies |
Essential
BA/BSC/MA/MSC in Accounting/Finance, Business Administration, Development Studies, Business Management and Economics from recognized University.
At least 5 years (for Bachelor’s) or 3 years (for Master’s) and relevant work experience.
Experience working with local organizations, community-based organizations, and Refugee-Led Organizations (RLOs).
Demonstrated experience in project management, partnership development, grant administration, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement.
Experience supporting localization initiatives and capacity-strengthening programs.
Knowledge of local laws of the country including finance, tax, and procurement.
Flexibility and ability to stay effective and motivated in a fast-changing environment
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of team.
Demonstrated expertise in partner compliance and ensuring adherence to donor and organizational requirements.
Proven capability in advocacy, stakeholder engagement, and strategic networking with diverse actors.
Proficiency in report writing and effective communication across all functions.
Sound understanding of humanitarian principles, localization frameworks, and refugee protection systems.
Ability to work independently
Familiar with and abide by the NGO/Red Cross/Crescent Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, CHS and SPHERE principles
Languages
Fluency in written and spoken English and Amharic
Knowledge of local language is an asset
Safer recruitment: All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records 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.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.
How To Apply
Interested applicant can use the below links to apply
For Internal Applicant:
https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/internal/vacancy/24744/description
- For External Applicant:
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