OXFAM IN THE PACIFIC VACANCY

• Applications for this role will close on: Tuesday 9 April 2024
• See full Job Description here: Climate Finance Advisor
• Location of role: Flexible - Where Oxfam Offices are located in the Region.
• Salary Level: C1
• Fixed Term contract ending: Fixed term to 30 June 2026
• Please contact People and Culture Team for any questions: peopleandculture@oxfampacific.org
• Application cover letter can be addressed to: People & Culture Manager, Oxfam in the Pacific, Level 3, FNPF Building, Dolphin Plaza, P.O Box 1318, Suva, Fiji Islands.
• All applications must be submitted on line via Bamboo HR: https://oxfampacific.bamboohr.com/careers

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Job Purpose

International climate finance is vital to global cooperation on climate change, and nowhere more so than in the Pacific. The Climate Finance Advisor will play a key role in shaping Oxfam’s climate finance analysis, advocacy, and programming across the Pacific, and have strategic input to Oxfam’s global climate advocacy. The Climate Finance Advisor will lead the development of Oxfam’s climate finance programmes and strategies and provide technical advice to climate finance in the region. A significant proportion of the Advisor’s time will be dedicated to two regional/multi-country climate change initiatives: the Pacific Climate Change Collaboration, Influencing and Learning (PACCCIL) project, and the Kōtui: Negotiating Resilience programme.

Context

Oxfam is a world-wide aid and development organisation that mobilises the power of people against poverty. In the Pacific, we work with our partners to ensure that Pacific Islander women and men (specifically those that are poor, marginalised or excluded) are leading and shaping their development, so that their voices are heard and acted on by those in power. Oxfam in the Pacific has offices in Suva, Honiara, Port Vila, Port Moresby and Goroka, and works in partnership with civil society organisations (CSOs) and networks in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, Niue, Kiribati, Palau, Nauru, Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Oxfam in the Pacific’s $15m p.a. portfolio of programmes and humanitarian action falls under two thematic pillars: Gender and Citizen Justice, and Climate Justice. The Climate Finance Advisor role will report to the Climate Justice lead.

Our work is guided by Oxfam’s global values and by Pacific values and culture, including openness, flexibility, respect, equity, justice, solidarity, collaboration, sharing and humility. We are committed to local ownership and leadership of change processes.

Essential Skills, Competencies and Experience

• Bachelor level or (preferably) postgraduate qualification in climate finance, climate change or development studies. Higher level study in climate finance an advantage.
• At least two years’ work or research experience in a climate finance related field (four years for those without postgraduate qualifications).
• Well-developed understanding of global, regional and national climate finance architecture and processes relevant to the Pacific.
• Demonstrated conceptual thinking and analytical expertise and (preferably) policy analysis.
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of financial management.
• Experience and understanding of a broad range of development, humanitarian, and poverty issues, including gender and inclusion.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain collegial and collaborative relationships with stakeholders and partners.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and to foster teamwork and collaboration across disciplines, and preferably across geographically dispersed locations.
• Demonstrated ability to build the capacity of individuals and organisations.
• Sound political judgement and sensitivity.
• Good time management, including managing complex workloads and delivering work to tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including cross cultural communication.

Desirable Skills, Competencies and Experience

• Experience and expertise in managing or contributing to complex, multi-country, multi-partner development projects.
• Demonstrated ability to design and undertake methodologically rigorous research.
• Demonstrated experience and expertise in organisational representation and in developing and effectively managing, brokering and leveraging strategic relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including partner organisations, governments and donors.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, including the ability to prioritise and sequence actions toward long-term outcomes; and to analyse the context and the political economy and propose consequent adjustments to interventions.
• Experience in project monitoring, evaluation, reflection, reporting and learning, and in evidence-supported adaptive programme management.