Overview
The role provides strategic leadership for Oxfam’s people agenda, ensuring workforce systems are aligned with strategic priorities and organisational transformation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of a cluster-wide People, Culture & Organisational Development Strategy aligned with SAF Strategy (2026–2030).
- Advise Cluster Leadership Team on organisational design, workforce risks, leadership decisions, and structural adaptation.
- Guide role profiling, restructuring, and workforce alignment.
- Lead cluster-wide workforce planning aligned to funding realities, programme priorities, and strategic transformation.
- Oversee recruitment, onboarding, deployment, and retention systems.
- Strengthen talent management, succession planning, leadership development, and career pathways.
- Lead complex change processes including restructuring, workforce transitions, organisational redesign, and leadership adaptation.
- Embed feminist leadership, decolonial approaches, inclusive organisational culture, and systems thinking.
- Support leaders and teams to navigate ambiguity, complexity, and change fatigue.
- Develop HR frameworks that strengthen partner-hosted and partner-led delivery systems.
- Support partner HR due diligence, partner safeguarding systems, workforce compliance, organisational development.
- Strengthen partner organisational capacity in HR systems, leadership, compliance, and safeguarding.
- Lead implementation of performance management systems across the Cluster.
- Strengthen competencies aligned with SAF’s strategic direction, including systems thinking, influencing, partnership management, and leadership.
- Promote continuous learning, coaching, and professional development.
- Design and implement staff wellbeing strategies.
- Monitor burnout risks, workload balance, morale, and duty of care systems.
- Harmonise HR policies, procedures, and systems across multiple countries and affiliates.
- Ensure compliance with national labour laws, donor requirements, Oxfam frameworks, and Safeguarding policies.
- Strengthen HR systems, digital tools, and people data management.
Required Experience
6 years progressive HR leadership experience in HR leadership, organisational development, or people strategy roles. Proven experience in organisational transformation, workforce planning, change management, multi-country labour systems, strategic HR leadership. Experience in working with and supporting multi located teams with a good understanding of the local labour laws.
Qualifications
Master or equivalent degree in Human Resources, Organisational Development, Psychology, or equivalent qualification. A Bachelor’s degree combined with relevant postgraduate or professional qualifications and significant experience of at least 10 years may be considered.
