REGIONAL CLIMATE JUSTICE ADVISOR SOUTH WEST ASIA & NORTH AFRICA

Oxfam

Oxfam is a global movement of people who won t live with the injustice of poverty. Together we save and rebuild lives in disasters. We help people build better lives for themselves. We speak out on the big issues that keep people poor, like inequality, discrimination against women and climate change. And we won t stop until every person on the planet can live without poverty.

The Regional Platform (RP) of Oxfam in the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) has a mandate to:

• Provide strategic leadership, management & accountability of and to Oxfam country programmes in SWANA.
• Deliver regional impact, developing partner relationships, brand, and impact in the region through relevant influencing and advocacy work, public engagement, and programming.
• Connect, coordinate, convene Connect practitioners to sources of expertise, convene people to share knowledge and learnings, and coordinate capacity building initiatives.
• Enable operational agility and efficiency Provide support to Oxfam country offices.

In SWANA, Oxfam works in development, humanitarian, and campaigning, with a large part of the current transformation focused on becoming a major influencing & advocacy, knowledge-for-impact global reach organization.

Job Responsibilities

Oxfam is seeking to hire a Regional Climate Justice Advisor, dedicated to advancing Oxfam s global Climate Justice strategy, in the SWANA region. S/he will focus on advancing climate justice priorities. In this role, the person will serve as a focal point for both programme and influencing colleagues across SWANA countries, the region and within the wider confederation on a broad range of topics, such as climate adaptation work, mitigation, climate finance, climate policy, green energy, climate smart agriculture, among others and to contribute to key regional policy discussions around climate policy transitions.

These are the main responsibilities under this position:

Programme Development and Fundraising, Implementation and Partnerships

• Work with country and regional teams, affiliates and other Oxfam stakeholders to develop concept notes and proposals for funding from donors including institutional donors, foundations, corporations, and UN agencies.
• Ensure Climate Justice is mainstreamed in major country and multi-country initiatives led by Oxfam in SWANA.
• Ensure the work around climate justice in the region contributes to and supports civil society across the region, in particular grass roots organizations that are aligned with our objectives
• Act as key focal point with civil society in the region on Climate Justice;
• In coordination and collaboration with SWANA RP colleagues, to co-lead on activities included in regional EU-funded programme Ecologies of Culture that are directly related to CJ.

Policy, Advocacy and Representation

• In close collaboration with Oxfam in SWANA influencing team, provide strategic support to country level influencing work that is focused on climate policies, or leveraging these at regional or global levels, linking to Oxfam campaigns.
• Support a targeted regional policy and advocacy agenda in close coordination with the Oxfam in SWANA influencing teams, that aims to both grow Oxfam s voice on climate issues in the region while advancing critical priorities.
• Ensure engagement with key stakeholders internally and externally working on Climate justice, identifying key messaging, and positioning for Oxam s work in SWANA.
• Act as SWANA focal point on climate policy processes such as COPs and inform and help in shaping Oxfam s global COP strategies;
• Represent Oxfam in SWANA in climate justice spaces across the confederation and externally as relevant.

Strategy, Leadership and Learning

• Advise and support CO's efforts to develop specific Climate Justice strategies, approaches, or components in their programmes, in line with the Oxfam priorities.
• Stay well-informed of global and regional conversations around this issue and linkages with other workstreams Oxfam is engaged in (inequalities, just economies, accountable governance, gender justice) and provide informed advice on these.
• Foster learning across country and regional Oxfam teams, as well as partners and allies through the development of a targeted learning agenda, research and evidence building initiatives.
• Support the integration of climate justice and resilience approaches into humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery programming across the region