United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Humanitarian Funding Officer

Background

Oxfam has adopted an ambitious new resource mobilisation strategy that seeks to build more strategic partnerships with bilateral and multilateral donor agencies to increase our income, influence, and programme impact. Humanitarian emergencies account for a large proportion of Oxfam’s programme and income .

Through mutually beneficial relationships, we seek to create new opportunities for Oxfam to collaborate more effectively with donor partners in tackling poverty and inequality through a variety of different channels – including technical cooperation, learning exchanges, policy dialogue, or generating more resources – in order to improve development outcomes for people living in poverty.

A global leader in humanitarian response

Oxfam is one of the world’s leading providers of humanitarian aid in emergencies, operating since the 1940s. We have a global reputation for speed, scale and efficiency and have well-recognised technical expertise in several fields, including Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods, clean water, sanitation, public health and the protection of civilians. Oxfam responds directly wherever there is a widespread threat to life, health and livelihoods, with which it is beyond people’s capacity to cope, and where it can make a positive difference.

Team purpose

To design and implement strategies to mobilise resources for Oxfam’s humanitarian programmes.

Job purpose

§ To provide support to the Humanitarian Funding Team and lead on project specific pieces of work such as development of donor specific training materials and compliance guidance, donor analysis and research.

§ Support with general day-to-day tasks such as donor contract management, responding to support requests from country teams (help desk) and other tasks as may be required.

Reports to: Humanitarian Funding Advisor (ECHO Lead)

Humanitarian Funding Officer role overview

This role will assist the Humanitarian Funding Team and in particular the Humanitarian Funding Advisors, providing support on project specific pieces of work such that we better support the global funding function and also better target our strategic relationship building work.