Director, Climate Justice

Job Description

_PURPOSE OF POSITION & SUMMARY_:

The Director, Climate Justice, will be responsible for the overall Climate Justice leadership, management, outreach, and fundraising efforts of OUS. The position requires strong vision, a strategic mindset, interpersonal skills, fundraising talent and networks, and extensive knowledge of climate change issues and their intersection with inequality, human rights, exclusion, and human development. The role will work closely with members of the Climate Justice team to provide strategic, technical, policy, fundraising, and thought leadership for Oxfam Americas work on climate change. The position will oversee cross-divisional Climate Justice work at OUS, as well as climate work between OUS and the rest of the Oxfam International (OI) Confederation, and externally. The Director will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team and others to implement the OUS 2030 Strategic Framework, and will provide senior collaboration to the VP GPI in structuring, upgrading, and sustaining Oxfam Americas engagement and portfolio on climate. The position will lead the development, and oversee a portfolio, of high-quality Climate Justice program investments and impact, as well as policy, advocacy, and research initiatives. The role will be a key spokesperson for Oxfam America on Climate Justice issues, bringing our unique perspective on inequality and poverty including our systems approaches. Together with the Climate Justice team, the position will also cultivate external peer relationships and represent Oxfam Americas programs to stakeholders such as environmental and climate organizations, academic institutions, and the media, as well as in conjunction with the Advocacy, Alliances and Policy Division policy makers in the climate space.

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_COORDINATES WITH:_

Climate is a cross-cutting as well as stand-alone priority for Oxfam America. Therefore, the Director, Climate Justice will oversee the Climate Justice teams collaboration with other teams within GPI/the Global Programs Division, and with various Oxfam thematic leads, across Divisions. In addition, the position will oversee the teams engagement and collaboration within the OI Confederation, and with relevant affiliates, regional platforms, as well as country and cluster offices. The position will work closely with US domestic-facing programs, the private sector department, and with others in the Alliances, Advocacy and Policy Division, given the high significance and agency of the US government and private sector in the global climate change arena. It will also work closely with the Resource Development and Public Engagement Divisions to raise funding, strengthen climate justice campaigning, and increase brand awareness for Oxfam America on climate issues.

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_KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: _

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION

Inspire, facilitate, and lead cross-divisional commitments on Climate Justice across OUS, including on advocacy, campaigning, partnerships, grantmaking, and capacity building.

Lead the Climate Justice team in agenda setting, strategy development and execution of a body of work to achieve Oxfam Americas new Strategic Framework and Oxfams strategic goals.

* Inspire and support the research and learning agenda for Oxfams climate work, leveraging and clarifying Oxfams unique approach or added value in the broad climate space.

* Represent Oxfam externally, including with the media, influencing key external debates on climate change and related agendas such as the nexus of: climate change, gender justice and inequality; climate and food systems; climate financing, and aid effectiveness; climate and the private sector, etc.

* Oversee relationships development and cultivation with donors, Oxfam affiliates, and key country partners to support program development and implementation.

* Oversee the development of alliances, networks, and strategic partnerships with government, non-governmental, youth movement, academic institutions, media, think tanks, private sector actors, and donors to expand Oxfams influence and impact on Climate Justice issues.

STRATEGIC CONTRIBUTOR TO OXFAM INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENERGY INITIATIVES

Contribute, together with the Climate Justice team and other Oxfam America stakeholders, to the development of Oxfam International campaign strategies that integrate climate and energy issues, public engagement, and program implementation, and, conversely, link such strategies into Oxfam Americas strategic directions.

* Provide policy and strategic inputs to Oxfam International campaign teams, participate in campaign management and execution.

Contribute to, and where appropriate, lead, Oxfam International global teams responsible for delivering program interventions, including policy advocacy, aimed at influencing governments and other stakeholders in national, regional, and global spaces.

Appoint and oversee Oxfam Americas technical and other resources and contributions to the Oxfam Climate Initiative.

LEADERSHIP TOWARDS OVERALL COHERENCE AND MAINSTREAMING OF THE CLIMATE JUSTICE PORTFOLIO

Oversee and ensure coherence across various teams Oxfam country-level, regional, functional and thematic teams, relevant OUS staff and teams, Knowledge Hubs and affiliates in their co-designing of relevant and high impact projects that center-stage Climate Justice as foundational to OUSs work, and that are aligned with and supportive of Oxfam country and regional strategies.

Foster coherence and complementarity across OUS Climate Justice program investments, technical expertise, and other assets, to maximize influence and impact.

Ensure Climate Justice analysis, awareness, and objectives are integrated and mainstreamed in Oxfam Americas program efforts, in private sector influencing, and in project and program objectives and outcomes.

Establish program and project management processes and implementation in line with Oxfam Americas feminist principles, values, compliance, program quality standards, monitoring, evaluation and learning as well as communication.

Assume and effectively discharge overall responsibility for Climate Justice project expenditure, financial accountability, planning requirements, grant reporting and donor compliance.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND CULTURE

Clarify and, with the VP GPI, resolve roles, gaps and needs on the Climate Justice bench of Oxfam America, in particular ensuring that all roles are complementary and mutually supportive; that staffing gaps and needs are promptly and expertly identified and resolved; and that staff experts are supported and facilitated to add value to Oxfams Climate Justice ambitions.

Demonstrate in management style as well as ways of working Oxfams core values and culture in line with feminist principles, racial and gender justice, safeguarding standards, and other relevant policies and practices.

Lead, mentor and develop the Climate Justice team by setting clear goals and expectations, and ensuring they receive professional exposure, guidance, and development opportunities.

Set clear goals and expectations and manage execution within teams to enable and enhance performance and accountability.

FUNDRAISING

Provide inspiring, senior-level leadership, presence, and representation towards funders for the development and expansion of OUSs Climate Justice resources, collaborating with Resource Development on fundraising initiatives and ideas.

Identify, create, cultivate, and exploit fundraising opportunities, seeking to build a large, high-leverage program & policy portfolio that supports quality programming in priority countries and regions, and in the US.

Lead in the writing and development of fundable and effective program proposals for Climate Justice.

Coordinate the gathering and sharing of information on existing and emerging donor opportunities and liaise with appropriate Oxfam America teams to secure funding.