Responsibilities
- Accountable to the Oxfam International Southwest Asia and North Africa Regional Director for the delivery, effective management and oversight of all aspects of the country programme monitoring, evaluation and learning from the OPT country program and for leading the OPT Country Program to deliver quality programming at scale in line with Oxfam’s policies and procedures.
- Lead the design and delivery of the Oxfam Country Strategy (OCS) for OPT in line with Oxfam’s Regional and Global strategies and Oxfam’s global approaches.
- Lead the delivery of the Gaza Emergency response and the West Bank emergency response programmes, ensuring that ongoing programmes and the responses are well integrated into the country strategy.
- Provide strategic leadership and management of Oxfam’s program in country, including integration between all development, advocacy and humanitarian programming to maximise influence and impact.
- Provide oversight and strategic leadership to the business development strategy for Oxfam in OPT, ensuring proactive business development and growth of the programme in financial size and scope and innovation.
- Lead and ensure funding proposals are of the highest quality, closely aligned with donor requirements, and represent Oxfam effectively to donors, UN agencies, NGOs, international and national government actors.
- Ensure gender justice, climate justice, women’s rights, international human rights and humanitarian law and civilian protection are reflected in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.
- Participate actively in the SWANA regional leadership team and regional strategic advisory groups, supporting regional planning and analysis.
- Ensure a comprehensive risk management approach is followed to manage strategic and operational risks, including compliance, financial, security and brand risks.
- Directly line manage the Country Management Team and their operations, ensuring staff, budgets, funding and programme compliance with Oxfam policies and local legislation.
- Safeguard a supportive culture that drives coordination, partnerships, influence, knowledge sharing, learning, staff development and innovation.
- Develop and deliver the country-level programmes, ensuring adherence to Oxfam quality standards, gender standards, safe programming, core humanitarian standards, GBV call to action, and global environmental commitments.
- Promote a culture of learning and ensure robust monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) across all Oxfam work in OPT.
- Manage relations with donors, ensuring contractual obligations are met and high-quality proposal and donor reporting is delivered.
- Support partners, including government authorities, in developing and delivering projects within agreed parameters where appropriate.
- Lead disaster preparedness, mitigation and management, including humanitarian response activities.
Qualifications
- Proven track record of leading and motivating multi‑disciplinary, geographically remote teams and operations across multiple locations.
- Experience leading large‑scale emergency response programmes in highly insecure environments, including responsibility for security management.
- Significant senior leadership and management experience in developing and delivering high‑quality programmes, influencing and development‑humanitarian
exus strategy with and through partners across challenging locations. - Experience managing complex change processes and relationships involving a wide range of internal and external multi‑cultural stakeholders.
- High self‑awareness and ability to drive excellent team performance and individual development in line with Oxfam values and policies.
- Demonstrated leadership in promoting women’s rights and gender equality.
- Proven success in representing an organization with partners, government agencies, UN, INGOs, private sector organizations, media and donors at senior level nationally and globally.
- Proven success in advocacy and influencing.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to motivate, influence and negotiate.
- Significant experience of optimising funds and effectively contract management from diverse institutions, both local and international.
- High‑level financial and asset management skills to steer and efficiently manage the operational budget across a number of locations.
- Experience managing security, risk and legal compliance within an INGO context.
- Ability to manage crisis situations and anticipate and mitigate risks threatening organisational reputation and operational viability.
- Strategic analytics and thinking: ability to manage and contribute to high‑level analysis of factors driving poverty, marginalisation and vulnerability.
- Ability to think politically, understand motivations, pressures and power dynamics, and generate effective strategies to influence stakeholders.
Education, Capacities and Experience
- Master’s degree in international development or related subject and at least 15 years of progressive experience in an INGO or relevant sector organisation, including significant leadership at the Country Director level of multi‑site, multi‑sectoral operations in a complex and fragile environment.
- OR, if no degree, at least 17–18 years of progressive experience in an INGO or relevant sector organisation, with significant leadership experience at the Country Director level.
- Experience working in conflict/post‑conflict or disaster response situations.
- Experience working in the SWANA region.
- Experience working in OPT/I.
- Demonstrated sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues; commitment to equal opportunities.
- Willingness to learn about the application of gender mainstreaming, women’s rights and diversity in all aspects of development work.
- Commitment to Oxfam safeguarding policies and ensuring all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.