AddressOxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
Do you have experience in designing, conducting, and managing high-quality, theory-based Impact Evaluations?
Do you have experience providing support to country teams to generate evidence through Impact Evaluations and supporting the use of emerging evidence?
Do you want to be part of integrating a feminist, anti-racist lens and shifting power in evaluation practice?
If your answer is yes, then would like to hear from you.
The Role:
Oxfam Great Britain is looking for an Impact Evaluation Advisor to provide strategic and technical advice on design and implementation of Impact Evaluations. The role plays a key role in supporting and enhancing our efforts to rigorously evaluate and evidence the impact of Oxfam’s work across the globe, while upholding our decolonial feminist values. The Impact Evaluation Advisor will support Impact Evaluation design and delivery, provide leadership in the development and strengthening of Impact Evaluation approaches, and maximize opportunities for Impact Evaluation results to inform decision-making and enhance programme learning. The postholder will co-facilitate learning and reflection bringing in experiences and lessons from Impact Evaluations.
What we are looking for:
Our nextImpact Evaluation Advisor will have excellent technical knowledge of Impact Evaluation methods and approaches, excellent cross-cultural communication skills and a high level of analytical and strategic thinking. The advisor will have in-depth experience delivering Impact Evaluations in partnership with teammates and colleagues around the world, appreciating and complementing their thematic, contextual and/ or programmatic expertise. The postholder will have solid experience with feminist leadership. They will have a good understanding, commitment to and ideally experience with embedding decolonial, safe, anti-racist, intersectional feminist, and partner-led approach in their work.
We offer:
This role will give you an opportunity to work on critical issues of our time that capture global attention globally, presented in fresh ways and influencing policy and programming. You will be able to innovate methodologically, particularly on impact evidence generation and use, and work across different geographies and organisations with passionate colleagues. You will be work as part of an evidence team in OGB, and work closely with global, regional and country colleagues, to impact critical global challenges. You will be able to model Impact Evaluations that support power shifts away from mainstream voices and approaches.
Flexfam:
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.
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.
