Overview
To lead the development and implementation of Oxfam Jordan’s policy influencing work, ensuring strong alignment between programme evidence and influencing approaches. The role focuses on translating policy analysis and programme learning into actionable influencing strategies.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and production of policy analysis, briefing notes, and position papers.
- Monitor and analyses national policy, regulatory, and socio-economic developments.
- Provide contextual and policy analysis to inform programme design.
- Ensure programme evidence and learning are systematically captured and translated into policy and advocacy outputs.
- Lead the development, operationalization, and periodic review of Oxfam Jordan’s influencing strategy.
- Translate influencing priorities into clear strategies, pathways, and approaches.
- Develop and implement influencing plans, including engagement tactics.
- Lead and coordinate the implementation of influencing initiatives.
- Monitor and analyses stakeholder positions, policy developments, and external dynamics.
- Represent Oxfam Jordan in relevant regional and global influencing platforms.
- Identify and develop new influencing concepts and initiatives.
- Develop and contribute to concept notes and donor proposals for standalone influencing initiatives.
- Ensure that influencing priorities, messaging, and external engagement approaches are aligned with agreed country positioning.
- Line manages the Media & Communications Officer.
- Provide strategic direction to ensure communications support advocacy and influencing priorities.
- Review and approve key messaging and outputs.
- Coordinate timing of communications outputs with influencing initiatives.
- Work closely with programme and funding teams to integrate advocacy and influencing into programme design.
- Strengthen the capacity of partners and allies to design and deliver effective influencing initiatives.
- Track and review advocacy and influencing efforts, working closely with the MEAL team.
- Ensure delivery in line with agreed priorities, timelines, and internal sign-off processes.
- Contribute to internal planning processes, proposals, and reporting with policy and influencing inputs.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5–7 years of experience in policy, advocacy, influencing, or related fields.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing advocacy or influencing strategies.
- Strong experience in policy analysis and production of policy-related outputs.
- Demonstrated ability to translate evidence into influencing and advocacy approaches.
- Experience working with civil society, NGOs, or development/humanitarian actors.
- Experience in the Jordanian policy and governance context (Desirable).
- Experience in fundraising or developing concept notes/proposals (Desirable).
- Familiarity with media and communications in advocacy contexts (Desirable).
